In this essay I will analyse all the characteristics that make Bicycles Thieves a realistic film, and all the non-realistic elements that, in some ways, determine its realism as well. ... However, despite Bicycle Thieves at first sight seems to have been created through a direct approach to reality without any cinematographic artefact, there are some non-realistic elements that contest the pure realism of the film. ... Quite the opposite, it is used to portray the realism of the situation and, even more importantly, to distance itself from conventional cinema. ... Consequently I do not believ...

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Their differences may even draw comparisons to the difference between Classical realism and Neo-Realism as Spinoza's of human nature resembles that of classical realism in which all men are driven by the pursuit of power for the sake of it an nothing else, whereas Hobbes more akin to the view that the reason for men's action is the absence of a more powerful, overarching power. ...

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By presenting the reader with the anxious experience of extended mental uncertainty in a mode akin to realism, he calls into question the reader's ability to perceive their world with clarity and confidence, undermining certainty with the suggestion that experience itself is unreliable. ... Just as the narrator deprived us of commentary in paratactic style, so he also forays into realism in limiting our awareness of his world to mirror the limited awareness we perpetually have of our own world. ...

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Despite the many other factors that constitute a film, such as the success of the narrative, as well as the level of realism in the performance of the characters in the setting they are placed in, through her writing, Mulvey accentuates the importance of the visual element of film, and how it is undoubtedly crucial to producing a pleasurable viewing experience for the audience. ...

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Assignment Compare the ways in which texts offer insights into the human experience. Respond to this statement in relation to the pair of texts that you have studied. Response Texts in time embody ideological concerns of their period, expressing the impact of influential values and human experienc...

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Yet beyond his well-documented understanding of religious writings and in direct contradiction to Jerome's own anti-Ciceronian vision, Jerome demonstrated an appreciation, familiarity, and skill with secular literature; some critics have claimed that he deserves the title of the "Christian Cicero" for the clarity and realism of his prose. ...

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A hint of this pessimism/realism is suggested in his inclusion in "City Trenches" of a quote by Engels, writing in 1893 why there was "No Large Socialist Party in America" as follows: "Then and more especially, immigration, which divides the workers into two groups: The native born and the foreigners, and the latter into the Irish, the Germans, the many small groups, each of which understands only itself: Czechs, Poles, Italians, Scandinavians, etc. ...

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Judging other cultures is not the first step down a road that leads to genocide; it is the necessary preliminary to coming to the aid of the victims of injustice' Objective moral realism appears to be a much more convincing argument for me because it allows us to pursue the idea of moral development, reinforces our ability to provide necessary criticise and provides accountability. ...

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