Focusing principally, though not exclusively, on the film, television and music industries, in this course we will study literary and cinematic narratives dealing with fame and notoriety alongside academic and popular studies of celebrity in America in order to relate these many functions to each other in terms of both historical continuity and historical change over the course of the last century. ... They are also profoundly effective marketing tools, enabling audiences to know in broad but accurate terms what films are about, long before they actually see them. ...

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The term 'genre' has been historically referred to as the classification of literary texts and forms. In modernity and postmodernity it has been extended beyond literary boundaries to encapsulate (among other 'art forms') the classification of film/cinema. ... In establishing notions of genre in terms of the classification of film, one must highlight the historical processes of film production in order to assess how these processes have contributed to the emergence of genre(s) itself. ... Ensuing vertical integration of the industry emerged and films that were successful...

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Often academic's criticisms are aimed more to film as a communication medium, than to the merits of the films in terms of genre and script. ... Perhaps it is the fact that Holocaust film's depictions of World War Two, in terms of the American psyche is that it is the good war' - the war where the opposition was so unquestionably evil. ... In these terms, the depiction or subtle insinuation as America as the Hero' could explain American society's acceptance and indeed, embracing of the Holocaust genre. ... A poignant feature of the literary version of Anne Frank&...

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Adaptation: the phenomenon Literary texts provide a vein of raw material which is already tested: stories which work and are popular, as well as offering the 'respectability' conferred by the notion of 'literature' in itself, as well as the cache of certain writers. ... Film makers are not known for offering such blunty commerical reasons for making particular adaptations, and, while the writing of the adaptation is itself is a creative undertaking, writers of adaptations rarely announce innovative or bold approaches to their subject matter, tending instead toward cau...

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However, the message later seemed to be that an uprising by the workers was in no uncertain terms doomed to fail, and that to revolt is to be killed. ... Metropolis also seems to borrow from other sources, some biblical, and others literary. ...

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