Elements like economics, politics, war, aesthetics, art, literature and culture also played a big role within these movements and will also be touched on. ... After the war, avant-garde experiments liberally punctuated French cinema, and theorists began to treat the medium more seriously, as coequal with literature and the fine arts. ... Writer Carl Mayer, designer/painter Hermann Warm, Walter Roehrig, and Walter Reimann played significant roles in the movement, as did Directors Robert Wiene (The Cabinet of Dr.Caligari, 1919), Fritz Lang (Dr.Mabuse, 1922; Metropolis, 1927), Murna...

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For literature, Tragedy was considered the most important in Aristotle's Poetics, Musical genres were composed of classical sonatas and symphonies, and genre painting depicting domestic life and daily social encounters began to surface in the 17th century and were then followed by genre painting that came to suggest an image of a "slice of life. ... Film Genres are made up of many elements with the most dominant dimensions Conventions, Formulas, and Expectation, which are uses to identify certain genres and distinguish them from others. ...

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One of the most important elements of social stratification is class. Class is defined as a category or group of persons having a definite status in society which permanently determines their relation to other persons or groups. Social class is very significant as it can provide a sense of belonging...

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THE ARTS IN CONTEXT HISTORY OF The Arts covers a wide verity of professions from Theatre, Music to Literature and the of it goes as far back to the cave men in preastoric times to modern day and even now new ways are being thought of and old ideas have been changed. ... This outgrowth of post-graduate English literature studies Became an industry in itself (certainly with respect to the book trade, which spawned a halcyon period of auteur-oriented film titles in the early '70s) and was undoubtedly a boon to the programmers of the revival houses that flourished through the 1970s. ....

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Most such films have been adaptations of science-fiction literature and comic strips. ... Part of the success of the film the Matrix may also be due to the way in which it combines elements of science fiction, martial arts and action movie genres as well as featuring a strong female lead, Carrie Ann Moss as Trinity and the way in which it draws upon cyberpunk and style. ...

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Alfred Hitchcock is among the few directors to combine a strong reputation for high-art film-making with great audience popularity. Throughout his career he gave his audiences more pleasure than could be asked for. The consistency of quality plot-lines and technical ingenuity earned him the recognition of being one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. His films earned him the reputation of being the "master of suspense", and after viewing two of his more popular films, Psycho and The Birds, it is evident why. There is a distinction between surprise, which lasts only a few second...

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