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Select a movie from AFI’s 10 Top 10 (attached),  lists and explain how three cinematic techniques and/or design elements have helped establish a major theme in that film. Key terms attached as well.


In 800 to 1200 words

Describe a major theme of the movie you have selected using evidence from the movie itself as well as course resources and other scholarly sources to support your position.
Identify at least three techniques (cinematography, lighting, acting style, or direction) and/or design elements (set design, costuming, or hair and makeup), and explain how these techniques and/or design elements contribute to the establishment of the theme. Reference particular scenes or sequences in your explanations.
State your opinion regarding the mise en scène, including
How the elements work together.
How congruent the design elements are with the theme of the movie.
Whether or not other techniques would be as effective (Explain your reasoning).
Note: Remember that a theme is an overarching idea that recurs throughout the plot of a film. It is the distilled essence of what the film is about, the main design which the specific scenes and actions lead a viewer to understand.

Your paper should be organized around a thesis statement that focuses on how the elements of your chosen feature-length film both establish and maintain one of its major themes.

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Write about the film  Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Fellow the instructions. This is a research project. The writer only needs to do the first and second part.  Please cite the sources.

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i want to do a movie analysis for Gone baby Gone

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It is a film and it is called "What Black Men Think" which needs to be critiqued. The writer should watch or should've watched the film to critique it. Please don's miss any thing of the instructions on the two files that I have posted.

there is a small part of it to make sure we are on the same boat.

link: http://whatblackmenthink.com/what-black-men-think/

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Discussing the two plays Rachel and Aftermath and the essay Redefining Black Theatre."(Koritha Mitchell, Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship 1890-1930) I have also added a short essay, "Never Born" by Robin Bernstein. 

The essay should have a thesis statement and discuss a convention, character, or theme of lynching dramas. In addition, discuss how Angelina Weld Grimke's play Rachel "continued the process of redefining "black Theatre" (Mitchell, 53). You must read the article and plays to write this essay!

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Prompt: Opera is often the expression of complex social, political, and cultural issues, especially gender roles. Choose either Donna Anna or Donna Elvira and analyze her role in the context of the whole opera. Does she exert force in the narrative? How does she fulfill and/or challenge 18th-century gender stereotypes for nobles? Use musical and textual examples to support your argument.

Rubric:
Argument: Are you giving us an interpretation of your character? 30%
Evidence: Do you have textual and musical examples to support it?  50%
How is your character portrayed musically? Key elements that may be relevant are: text setting, phrase structure, melodic shape, harmony, texture, instrumentation.
Organization: Is the argument clearly presented in the introduction and the evidence  clearly is related to it throughout the paper? 10%
Style: Is it readable? Does it have grammatically complete sentences of varying lengths? 5%
Proofreading: Best way to catch errors is to read the paper outloud. 5%
I am most interested in how you handle evidence to support an argument. Your paper should include at least one detailed musical example (maybe two if you are talking about how your character changes over the course of the opera). 

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READ Ntozake Shanges  "for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf" and write a critical analysis on the piece. Questions you may consider how does shange show black womanhood also the way she portrays the rite of passage: girlhood and innocence, through adolescence and the beginnings of self discovery through love and finally self acceptance

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How has Burlesque evolved since it first began compared to the present day in the  musical theater arena? Be sure to start it off from when it began in the 1800's and emphasize the changes that have occurred in the theatrical experiences of today. Be very detailed about the history and how burlesque began in the theater and be clear on how it is in todays world.  you may also give your personal opinion to this question.. if you are premiering a burlesque show on broadway, would you produce it as it was back in the eayly 1900's or would you rather produce a more modern to todays society.

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VIDEO LINK:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egnB3teYiPQ




Writing Your Post/Reviews
You will include on your site three posts that are essentially your responses (in the form of an essay with embedded media and hyperlinks) to an online video or article, in the context of the major key topics of this course (the creation of interactive sound, visual, or text media; performance using digital media; cultural or aesthetic 'pulses' that incorporate or prefigure digital media; emerging technologies, aesthetics, or cultural practices; existing works of art or culture that have impacted contemporary digital media; etc.)

In these posts:

Select one or more videos from OffBook, Idea Channel, BigThink, TED Talks, UBU.com, Nerdwriter, and OpenCulture. These videos should be relevant to the topics in the course and help address major concerns of the topic (see online web resources for sample links and Additional Resources below).
Embed the central video of your post at the top of the page. Copy the 'embed' code on YouTube or Vimeo, and past it within paragraph (<p> </p>) tags on the reviews.html (or reviews2 or reviews3) page.
Summarize what the topic is examining, and provide a context for it.
Summarize (briefly!) your reaction or connection to the material—why you were moved or affected by it, why it meant something to you, or not
Include at least 3 additional live, working links that would help us further understand the topic. Try to find links that are very relevant to the topic, but try to discover new material that’s not already linked in the Course Resources. Material produced by PBS, NPR, or the BBC are usually good places to start. You can include the links separately under the Sidebar part of the page, or you can refer and link to them in the body text.
Include 15-20 really focused tags for the page (and tags need to be rather specific, for example “Lego Art” or “Call of Duty”, not “choice”, “influence”, “newer”, “interesting”, etc.). For now, just include a paragraph at the bottom of the page labeled 'Tags' and list them, separated by commas. If you want to include them in the <head> tag of the page, follow guidelines here (Links to an external site.). 
Your review/post should be between 300 – 500 words. Spelling, grammar, and effective writing are taken into account in your grading. 
Use the FREE version of Grammarly (https://www.grammarly.com/ (Links to an external site.)) to PROOFREAD your article. You may also want to read your article out loud to a friend or roommate. Between these two methods, you should have near perfect spelling and grammar! (Style and structure are your responsibility—Grammarly doesn't always know what's best here.)
When you've completed your essay, publish/update the page on your Wordpress site, and submit the URL on your Assignment page. Late assignments have 5% reduced from the assignment grade. 



Additional Resources

Below are more topics from Nerdwriter and School of Life:

Nerdwriter Art Case Studies (Links to an external site.):

Melancholia: Depression on Film
The Prestige: Hiding in Plain Sight
In Bruges: Morality in Dialogue
Harry Potter: The Prisoner of Azkaban: Why It’s The Best
Heat: The Perfect Blend of Realism and Style
Neil Gaiman’s Sandman: What Dreams Cost
Inside Out: Emotional Theory Comes Alive
Eastern Promises: A Study of Bodies
Breathless: How World War II Changed Cinema
Pan’s Labyrinth: Disobedient Fairy Tale
Hopper’s Nighthawks: Look Through The Window
Ghost In The Shell: Identity in Space
Children of Men: Don’t Ignore The Background
What is The Treachery of Images?
A Serious Man: Can Life Be Understood?
Yeats’s Leda and the Swan: The Power of Poetry
In the Mood For Love: Frames Within Frames
Cezanne’s Large Bathers: Painting Raw Experience
The Death of Socrates: How To Read A Painting
The Wolf of Wall Street: Cinema of Excess
Blade Runner: The Other Side of Modernity
Snowpiercer: The Artist As Historian
Under The Skin: The Pain of Art House Films
Nerdwriter Art Essays: (Links to an external site.)

How Steely Dan Composes A Song
The Serial: From Dickens To Star Wars
How Alfred Hitchcock Blocks A Scene
Ansel Adams: Photography With Intention
Ren & Stimpy: Never The Same Face Twice
How E.E. Cummings Writes A Poem
Lord Of The Rings: How Music Elevates Story
Rihanna’s ‘Work’ Is Not Tropical House
How Art Can Transform The Internet
The Evolution of Batman’s Gotham City
Middle Earth and The Perils of Worldbuilding
Craig Ferguson: A Late Night Revolutionary
The Unique Art of Video Games
Kintsugi: The Art of Embracing Damage
The Mythic Potential of Comic Book Films
Lawrence Durrell: Relativity in Literature
Vlog #53 – Did Shakespeare Invent Love?
Vlog #40 – Cyberpunk
Vlog #37 – 3D Movies
Vlog #28 – Independent Filmmaking
Vlog #26 – Ode to Nightingale
Clark Kent is Superman’s True Identity (V25)
(Links to an external site.)

School Of Life Literature, Philosphy, and Arts: (Links to an external site.)

History of Ideas – Rituals
History of Ideas – Manners
History of Ideas – Failure
History of Ideas – Religion
History of Ideas – French & English Gardens
History of Ideas – Art
History of Ideas – The Renaissance
History of Ideas – Ancient Greece
History of Ideas – Monasticism
History of Ideas – Wabi-sabi
History of Ideas – Love
History of Ideas – Work
History of Ideas – Capitalism
History of Ideas – Romanticism
Literature – Voltaire
Literature – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Literature – Franz Kafka
Literature – Jane Austen
Literature – Goethe
Literature – Charles Dickens
Literature – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Literature – Leo Tolstoy
Literature – Marcel Proust
Literature – Virginia Woolf
Art/Architecture – Andrea Palladio
Art/Architecture – Dieter Rams
Art/Architecture – Johannes Vermeer
Art/Architecture – Henri Matisse
Art/Architecture – Edward Hopper
Art/Architecture – Caspar David Friedrich
Art/Architecture – Cy Twombly
Art/Architecture – Andy Warhol
What is Art For?

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The concept of this paper is based on movie called inside job 2010

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I am sure most of you have already seen the video below called the Evolution of Dance posted to YouTube back in 2006 (if you haven't, view it now). It became one of the most watched videos on the internet generating 70 million views in the first eight months. Today, over ten years later, it has nearly 300 million views. If you have seen this video I want you to go back and watch it again, but this time watching it through a different lens -- as a phenomenon of the Postmodern condition.

As you watch the video think back to the ideas we have discussed in regard to Postmodernism: hard truth vs. soft truth, pluralism, references to the past, varied stylistic approaches, varied artistic media, the conflation of high/low culture, and Postmodern's paradoxical nature. Think about the differences we discussed in regard to Modernism and Postmodernism -- how modernists attempted to operate outside of culture while postmodernists were happy to work within it. Also, think about the Postmodern dilemma we discussed where forms of mass media have the potential to engage diverse modes of thought while simultaneously having the potential of standardizing thought among diverse groups of people.

After viewing the video I want you to discuss possible ways in which this video represents the Postmodern condition. To help get you started you may want to approach the question from one of two ways.

For the first option, you can focus your analysis on the content of the video and how it relates to aspects of Postmodernism like references to the past.
For the second option, you can focus your analysis on the nature of YouTube in general discussing how the fact that anyone can post and disseminate content. How does the viral nature of YouTube and the internet in general relate to the concepts we discussed in regard to Postmodernism and mass media.

Your response should be specifically describing how the video relates to key aspects of Postmodernism.

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Write a paper about a Firm analysis of NETFLIX