Based on the Robert Wiene silent horror film" The Cabinet of dr.Caligari" from 1920, today Arcola Theatre staged their own version of the movie. ... As a "poor-theatre", the Simple8 staged this scene as simple as possible in a way in which even though you know nothing about the German Expressionism, you are still able to understand this play because the Theatre Company Simple8 staged their own version of the movie not a replay of it. ... Also load noises fill the stage as the actors prepare for the next scene. ... The anxiety increases more and more with each stage and th...

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The Lineup On Sunday January 26, 2003, I visited a place they call the Cathedral of Cinema. The Castro Theatre, an ornate Spanish Colonial confection that dominates the corner of Castro and Market, turned 75 last year, is the City's most enduring and eclectic landmarks. The Castro is much more than...

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This was quickly followed by Dance Hall a large-scale musical event staged at Sydney Opera house. ... This is where he first devised, staged and directed a thirty minute play entitled "Strictly Ballroom" later to become the basis for his first hit film. ... In Strictly Ballroom the lovers kiss in front of the large sign, in Romeo and Juliet, Leonardo Dicaprio walks past the sign and in Moulin Rouge it appears as L"amour Fou, as in the French for "mad love". ... This immediately draws in the audience, as they are shocked to hear that the story has a tragic ending (grabbing their attention and...

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1 In this paper, I will be talking about the film Dancer in the Dark. This film stars BjÖrk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Peter Stormare and Cara Seymour. It was directed and written by Lars von Trier. This film was distributed by Fine Line Features and it was released in the US in cinemas ...

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At different age stages of their development, children watch and understand television programs in different ways, many of those factors depend on the length of their attention, the way in which they process information and the amount of mental effort they invest interacting with those programs, and it is up to parents to minimize and reduce those effects. ... Therefore it is very important for parents to keep track of what kinds of programs and how much time their children spend in front of an operating TV set. ...

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At different age stages of their development, children watch and understand television programs in different ways, many of those factors depend on the length of their attention, the way in which they process information and the amount of mental effort they invest interacting with those programs, and it is up to parents to minimize and reduce those effects. ... Therefore it is very important for parents to keep track of what kinds of programs and how much time their children spend in front of an operating TV set. ...

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Gunning worries that adopting an evolutionary view of cinema will categorize pre-WWI film and cinema of attractions, as he puts it, "as [a] primitive [] early stage in which later potentials are sketched out but imperfectly realized" However, Gunning's definition of cinema of attractions frees it from this imperfect characterization: By its reference to the curiosity-arousing devices of the fairground, the term denoted early cinema's fascination with novelty and its foregrounding of the new act of display. ... While the Impressionists used camerawork to achieve this effect,...

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In The Barkleys of Broadway, Astaire and Rogers' characters are a married couple, together performing in musicals on stage. Rogers leaves the comedic musical stage for that of theatre, only to return to musical after disastrous results in theatre lead her to desiring "nothing but fun set to music". ... 'Musical numbers can be shot from the point of view of a front-row theatrical spectator and then move into filmic space - combining the immediate contact of the theatre with the mobility of perspective of the camera (Feuer ibid.). ...

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Within the context of film industry, the film Titanic by James Cameron belongs to epic romance/ disaster genre. The film, released in 1997, was a global box office hit because the director provided equal importance to history, fiction and romance. To be specific, one can see that the film's plot is ...

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Because the concept of stardom is synonymous with film, it is convenient to believe that the American film industry has been creating stars for as long as that industry has been in existence. This is not the case. For many years, pre 1910, actors were not even given a name. Producers feared right...

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From dog-fighting in Mexico to issues of transsexuality in Cuba, contemporary Latin American cinema covers a diverse array of topics. Lauren Mulvey, British feminist film theorist, uses pyschoanaylitics to offer a feminist critique of all classical narrative cinema. She establishes that narrative ci...

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