The common element in both book and film versions of the story is the use of satire, making fun of the fairytale genre. ... Appearances are one of the most influential satirical devices in both book and film; however this is approached very differently in each medium. ... Dialogue remains one of the most important devices in both film and book, many excerpts remaining identical in both mediums. ... Indeed, combined with the use of music to set the scene, the importance of sound to the effect of a film tends to increase the reliance on dialogue as opposed to description, such as how Inigo tells...

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Direct sound and long takes are used. ... Physically, in certain scenes, Robert Crumb is present, guiding the spectator along the pages of his comic book, although he remains unseen. ... The nondiegetic sound of the antiquated music is heard at times during the film successfully drowning out any nostalgic sigh Robert Crumb makes. ... An example of this is in the comic book store when he is conversing with the young man with long black hair. ... Watching it without sound I felt that it was not as poetic as it was with the music. ...

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The three films that we viewed in class were all without sound. All we saw were moving images; as Professor Ewen stated we were listening to the "sound of silence". ... Watching these films I found myself paying even closer attention to what was going on because there was no sound to back up the story. ... "Words, sounds, and pictures accomplish little unless they are tools of a soundly thought-out plan and carefully organized methods" (p.256). ... Alger's book is all about self-improvement, he gives us a sense of how you can transform from rags to riches without presenting himself as...

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It was the era of short silent films that were backed by organists who could play a variety of famous composers such as Beethoven, and Sousa, and who mastered other sound affects for further enhancement of the movie. ... As the film industry began introducing sound to the cinema, Hitchcock continued to progress with the times. ... Although the film originally begun as a silent one, Hitchcock immediately re-shot certain portions of it after he learned of the ability of sound. ... First, the long awaited English edition of Truffaut's influential book on Hitchcock was published in 1967. ...

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The coming of sound in 1927, and the knawing effects of the Great Depression of 1929, threw the American film industry into a slump, which, had it not been for the financial backing of wealthy New York banks, and the intervention of President Roosevelt, may well have sunk, or, at least, seriously set back the industry irretrievably. Studios and theatres needed to be re-furbished to accommodate sound systems; the large cost of these ventures, together with the expansion into theatre acquisition, sapped the resources built up from the silent era. ...

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Film Scoring In the world of music writing, there are many types of authors and many types of genres. One of the most difficult genres to be a music writer in is film scoring. Being independant in the music industry is alone and in itself a hard place to survive. But being limited to writing ...

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Sight and sound magazine- Article on the making of Panic Room 11. www.slantmagazine.com/film/features/postmodernism 12. www.geocities.com/postmoderismincinema 13. www.the-buzz.com/fight.htm 14. ... Richard Dyre in his book on Seven (item 14) describes the look of the film as oilgochromatic "that is, composed of a very limited, closely related range of colours: white, cream grey, slate, ochre, beige, brown, black, and dirty, acidic greens." ...

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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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