Essays on Viewers

Pygmalion is one of the most famous plays created by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. The play is named after a character of Greek mythology, which, according to the legend, fell in love with the statue he created with his own hands. The name symbolically reflects the plot and the main argument of the play with some difference. The events described in the text take place in England at the beginning of the XX century. Henry Higgins, professor of phonetics, once meets a poor flower girl, Eliza, who sells flowers on the street. Her manners and speech are far ...

The Exorcist is a 1973 horror film, directed by William Friedkin. A potent adaptation of William Peter Blatty’s novel, The Exorcist tells the story of a young girl who is possessed by a demon. The film caused a great deal of controversy when it was released as many people felt that the violence, blasphemy and young protagonist were inappropriate and damaging for audiences and for society. Admittedly, the film does not have the same shock value today as it did in 1973, partly because the cinematography and special affects now look dated and unrealistic, and partly because many ...

Film Studies

In this essay, we are going to talk about a movie ‘Tape’ directed by Richard Linklater. In order to reveal the main idea of the movie, we are going to analyze it due to the list of following aspects: setting, characterization, plot, structure, a point of view, theme, etc. As there only three characters in the movie, we are going to choose one and provide his full analyses. In order to achieve the best result, we will provide a complete wide picture of characters’ relations with each other. 1. Setting The first scene of the film as all the ...

The politics in the real world and the TV series is based on two different plot although they can sound a bit similar. The article mentioned a lot of similarities with the role played by women in TV Series and Hillary Clinton. The roles played in the TV series are directed as like the director wanted but in the real life many things make the difference. The TV shows can easily show someone as the hero in the eye of the viewers with some powerful personalities and work. They can put them into the crown or make them the ...

Details of the Documentary

Sustainability is one of the major issues in ecology and environmental science. Theoretically, any development initiative should be sustainable, which means that it accomplishes its intended purpose without causing problems in the future. One of such development initiatives was the creation of the suburban landscape that was conceptualized from the 1950s to 1960s. The documentary film “Suburban America: Problems & Promise” provides a general history of the development of the suburban landscape in the Unites States (US). This documentary film was intended as an educational tool for students 12 years and above.

Purpose of the Documentary

The film basically shows that the suburban landscape ...

Introduction

Shark Tank is a reality television show, which entails entrepreneurship and investment. The program features some of the richest people in the world in matters regarding investment and businesses funding. It was first aired on August 9, 2009, on ABC. During the show, entrepreneurs are in some form of a contest to win the favor of the investors, who are referred to as ‘sharks’ in the show. After presenting their business ideas and products, the entrepreneurs hope that the investors would take an interest in the presentation and offer to invest in their companies. The program has been a ...

DESCRIPTION OF FOODIE’S WORLD WEBSITE

The website provides collection of recipes about different kinds of food across cultures worldwide. The world has become like a village and people from all walks of life are intermingling and sharing their cultures. It further leads to adoption and acceptance of certain cultures that were never aligned to a particular. Consequently, many people have developed appetite for foods from other cultures. However, they experience serious challenges in preparing the foodstuffs. Based on the above assertions, it is important to create avenues to help such people understand how to prepare foods from other cultures. Foodie’s World comes in ...

A) Is there any value left in the big-screen movie experience?

It is hard to speak about a value of big-screen movies when we have Netflix and online streaming. Nowadays, you can see all the newest movies on the screen of your laptop. Of course, it will not provide you with the experience of a big screen. Still, it is more convenient and you are not supposed to leave your house and spend additional money. Moreover, it is not a fault of people that they gradually stop visiting cinemas. It was big companies, which provided them with this opportunity. Major studios sell their content to whoever buys it. The movie ...

A native citizen of Spain and a recognized king of bohemian Paris, Pablo Picasso was a bright example of versatile talent and fantastic commitment to his lifework. He continuously tried new styles and forms, looked for new color compositions, used unusual materials, and, when two-dimensional images started to seem him boring, founded cubism to give them a new dimension. Together with Georges Braque, Picasso massively determined art development of the twentieth century. The widely recognized ancestor of Picasso’s cubism is his painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon) created in 1907 during the African period of ...

Discuss the meaning and characteristics of different monetization strategies in the digital economy. How can content and user-generated content be monetized? Critically evaluate these strategies by referring to specific examples

Introduction

The traditional balance between entrepreneurs and customers has changed due to the development of the global economy accelerated by new communication and computing technologies that have created an open global trading regime. Organizations, especially the macro enterprises have to deal with the growing demand for digital marketing and distribution strategies irrespective of the amount of revenue they generate. According to Capgemini Consulting (2014), extracting value from the connectivity opportunity ...

Introduction

Numerous types of color processes in film has been witnessed throughout time. It is evident that some color has been more successful in film than others. As a matter of fact, some colors have remained dominant for an extended period while others fade away quickly if not required. In the future, the film industry will go ahead to experience advanced technology that will enable filmmakers to use more attractive and sophisticated colors. Probably an essential point to remember is that the evolution in film has been undergoing a gradual transformation since time immemorial. Like a century ago, people thought ...

Overview

Technology has both positive and negative implications on the lives of the people. The proliferation and advancement of technology tools have enormous effects on the lives of the people with respect to the odds of space and time thereby influencing the nature of social interactions. In particular, the technological advancements have direct effects on social evolution and social interaction across the globe, especially on the internet. The relationship between technology and social development results in the new realities of the individuals and the society. In particular, the relation between the society and technology encompasses the social networks sites, modern ...

Any person can acknowledge that sex sells, particularly Carl Jr. Considering the commercials done by Mr. Carl Jr., it is clear that he uses models that are extremely sexualized for more than ten years. There is no exception to the advert where Charlotte McKinney, a model was the center of everybody’s attention for the approximately 50 second commercial. After a closer look at the advert, this essay is to give its presentation more into what goes in the commercial rather than just boobs and burgers. Consideration is given to the distribution of characters (femininity versus masculinity), text and ...

Pseudoscience is a belief or the process that attempts to trap the ideas, methodology and techniques from science, but it is not able to achieve them on its terms. On a wider note, the pursuits of the knowledge about in Pseudoscience involve considerable elements of guesswork, intuitions, and the experiments which do not adequately test the theory. Further, in pseudoscience, the results may be incorrectly interpreted or sometimes entirely wrong. The movie “The Chariots of the Gods” by Erich von Daniken uses considerable descriptions and the pseudoscience to the support the thematic ideas as depicted. Von Daniken describes being ...

Con-Cret Creatine is a supplement used in bodybuilding in order to enhance the effect of training and to assist muscular development. The advertisment to Con-Cret which is analysed in this paper tries to persuade clients to choose the product for its superior quality and purity. The advertisement effectively presents the most important characteristics of the product and provides enough information to be useful for the interested audience. Also, the advertisers base their marketing strategy on brand recognition and the desire of the clients to have perfect bodies. The advertisement tries to convince the audience that the Con-Cret Creatine is ...

Introduction

Perhaps one of the most influential forms of media proliferating nowadays is the television. Many households nowadays use television as a form of entertainment, due to the extensive range of programs that it can offer. For example, children and the youth can enjoy animations that are geared specifically to them, while older people can either enjoy drama or variety shows depending on their tastes and preferences. All in all, it can be said that television can provide a wide variety of shows from audiences from all over, thus contributing to its popularity among modern society. One of the shows ...

Product placement is a non-traditional method of promoting brands through making them appear in media such as films and videos in a way that looks unplanned. In the early 19th-century cinemas were popular among most of the Americans. In their free time, people will crowd the cinema halls to watch their favorite plays. With the technological advances, people were able to afford personal TVs to watch movies from the comfort of their homes. More movies and films got into the market attracting million of viewers from all over the world. In the mid-1930s, TVs started to outdo radios in ...

Film Studies Portfolio

Xavier Dolan’s “Laurence Anyways” Film Review

An extremely ambitious project from a very young director, Xavier Dolan, the romantic drama “Laurence Anyways” follows the love story between Fred (Suzanne Clement) and Laurence (Melvin Poupad). Ironically, although they both have masculine names, Fred and Laurence are women. A transgender who had lived as a man, Laurence comes out with the revelation that he has always felt as a woman inside, and continuing his fake male life would kill him. The filmmaker situates this unique love story in the 1990s, a time when transsexuality was still considered an illness, and ...

Overview

Media violence is considered complex. Therefore, its meaning is explained in different ways according to how one views the whole perception. According to David & Hertz, (2007) one of the simple definitions of media violence is the exposure of fights, murder, and forms of injustices through the televisions to the public. When defining media violence, one should keep in mind the ideas like; the aims of media violence that are; do they point at passion or retaliation? The being consequences: whether financial benefits or death and finally, the techniques in media violence like handful fights or shootouts. When watching the ...

Analysis of the Showtime Series Shameless

Analysis of the Showtime Series Shameless Over the decades, there have been a lot of television shows that attempted to reveal the inner workings of American working-class families. Shows like All in the Family, Good Times, Roseanne, Malcolm in the Middle and many others have portrayed ordinary people (and mostly ordinary families) and their struggles just to get by. Virtually all of them have done this using comedic elements. A few years ago, a new series appeared on Showtime called Shameless. At first glance, Shameless appears to have a good deal in common with all of these other sitcoms ...

MANAGEMENT

Today, the world of sports has an immense number of fans following with subsequent industrial growth. According to Schlesinger (2016), the American population was recorded more than 320 million and Jones (2015) claimed that more than 60% of American population is a diehard fan of sports. Among innumerable sports, the National Basketball Association (NBA) has 17.7 million viewers; the Major League Baseball (MLB) World Series has 14.9 million viewers, and the National Football League (NFL) Super Bowl had record-breaking 108.7 million viewers throughout United States of America (USA; Thompson, 2014). Surprisingly, more than half a million viewers of each ...

Introduction

Photographs save moments. The most efficacious and optimum images provided in the news capture the viewer. The viewer not only sees the news moment, but also feels it through the presentation of the image. These images are seen as reality by viewers. Viewers hold the news images as truths. This was the case before video and digital photographer and it still applies today with the exponential advances. Advances in technology and the image on news photography has been both advantages and disadvantages to newspapers and electronic news sources. The way in which the news captured images prior to the ...

Introduction

If an individual were to compare and analyze the film “Othello” written by Allen Parker with the film “O” which was directed by Tim Blake Nelson, they would find a variety of similarities and differences amongst the two pieces of works. Though both the film “O” and the film “Othello” is based off of the original play done by William Shakespeare, there are distinct differences between the two films in context and basic thematic elements. There is also an array of similarities correlating to social context that are prominent throughout both films. Whereas; most viewers will notice right away ...

Authors

The three digital texts are also similar in that; they are all dedicated to audiences with similar characteristics. For instance, the literary content of the texts is only completely accessible online, and may not serve its initial intended purpose if read as plain text. In addition, the audience to whom the texts are meant for, are also expected to possess some kind of computer literacy by for instance understanding the behaviour of hyperlinked texts like those featured in ‘Twelve Blue’, or an understanding of the need for visual speed and close attention while encoding the intended message from the ...

Stage 1: Analysis

Ms. Biglow indicates film as the interchange where different ideas intersect (Dargis, 2009). Each film is a creative work of a big team and, while analyzing a movie, we must realize that it is all a huge team work. The aim of the paper is to give the analysis of the science fiction film Back to the Future. It gives contextual information, describes the difference between the story and the plot in the movie, and explains aesthetic choices, social and personal impact of the film. Film theory explores the backbone of the cinema and provides methods for understanding not ...

Modern Trends in Dance

It is quite difficult to characterize by few words such an artistically expressive phenomenon as dance. However, it is possible to depict several novice trends relevant for the dance today. Nowadays, modern dance is infused with the interpretive messages, where the performers are trying to incorporate a specific concept. The idea behind a specific performance may encapsulate a social, emotional, or artistic message that will be relevant for the contemporary viewers. For instance, the performance created by Alvin Ailey Dance Theater “Revelations” managed to explore the African-American history and incorporate a vivid expressive message into dance, which is still ...

Introduction

The primary objective of a copyright law is to protect the ideas, time and imaginations of the producer of a particular work including the effort contributed towards the individual work. The owner of the concrete work is assured of individual rights such as:

Produce other works established on the original work

Duplicate or imitate his or her work Circulate original copies and any other copies through sale or charter Live performances of the work in public Public exhibition of the work The owner of the work can assign individuals to accomplish any of the rights provided by the law. If the copyright owner decides to transfer the ...

Introduction

This paper summarizes the two movies; A Million Dollar Baby and the Legally Blonde 2001. The paper also proceeds to compare the protagonists giving their personal traits, physical characteristics and other behaviours unique to them. In making a comparison, the paper also provides specific actions performed by actors from both movies and how they assist in building the plot of the story. In its furthest, the paper is biased as it considers the protagonist from either of the stories, gives the challenges that he goes through, conflicts generated and how they assist escalate and develop the story. It finally ...

Compare and Contrast Classic Horror Movies to the Type of Horror Movies We See Today

Compare and Contrast Classic Horror Movies to the Type of Horror Movies We See Today

Introduction

Horror movies encompass a genre of films that are geared towards eliciting and provoking an emotional response from viewers by preying on their fear of the unknown inclined on the primal emotions. The genre of films has been in existence for an extended period estimated to more than one century (Jones, 2005). Horror movies just like any other kind in the entertainment industry have changed and evolved over time. The paper focuses on the similarities and differences of the classical horror films vs. the ...

Batman: The History of Origin

Created by the artist-writer duo of Bob Kane and Bill Finge, the superhero character of Batman first made an appearance in Issue Number 27 of the popular DC Comics’ series Detective Comics in May 1939. So instant was the popularity of the orphan boy who uses his intelligence and ingenuity to develop cutting-edge gadgets to fight crime in his native Gotham city, that DC Comics launched an entire new comic book series dedicated to the new character that was titled ‘Batman’ in 1940 . The secret identity of the superhero was that of the heir Bruce Wayne, who witnessed the ...

Social Media Marketing

The emergence of social media technology has made it possible for an individual to communicate with a large number of people related to products and companies that offer them. It indicates the positive impact of consumer to consumer marketing in the diversified market. Social media is considered a hybrid tool for promotional activities. The main reason is that in the context of traditional advertising, it enables the companies to communicate with their customers and in the context to non-traditional advertising it enables customers to communicate with each other directly (Mangold & Faulds, 2009). Various companies use social media as the ...

“The Little Mermaid,” the 1989 animated film directed by Ron Clements and John Musker and released by Buena Vista Pictures, delves on the story of a mermaid who falls in love with a human being. This film is likewise a cartoon adaptation of the original version of the novel of the same title written by Hans Christian Andersen and first published in 1837. With regards to the Disney version, it is observable that the film incorporates several techniques that seem to diminish the innate animalistic nature of the aquatic creatures, such as the crabs, lobsters, octopus, the tropical fish, ...

Genre theory explanation, genre conventions and attributes

A genre helps people classify films according to its category or type. It is convenient as viewers know what to expect when they see certain iconography at the advertising bill for instance. Different film genres possess familiar story formulas, character types, settings, and iconography etc. (Goodykoontz & & Jacobs, 2014). Main film genres are: westerns, gangster films, mysteries, film noir, horror, fantasy, science fiction, romantic comedy, musicals and documentaries. In this paper, the fantasy genre will be discussed on an example. Fantasy genre is always a story which lets its characters escape from reality, experience situations where they act beyond the ...

Among the greatest TV show that ever graced the screens in the mid-20th century, The Andy Griffith show and I love Lucy can be considered as among the biggest shows of their times. The two television shows offered great memorable times to the viewers of those early days and gave the society a platform on which to reflect upon their daily challenges. In fact, the two shows still remain to be popular and bring nostalgia to the older generations that were wowed by the sheer adventures the characters. Indeed, the importance of these two TV shows cannot be underrated ...

Children have been implemented in literature for a long time. Artists have used them in many different ways, from fantasies and folk tales, to myths and science fiction. The Others is a supernatural horror film, where a mother and her two children form part of the main characters of the story. It is based in an isolated, dark mansion. The children also form a very important part in the story, as they inspire both sympathy and fear throughout the movie, the first progressively decreasing as the movie develops. They also add a surge of gothic sensibility to the film, ...

Introductory Remarks

At this point, it is no secret the American society shows a degree of tolerance lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered individuals never enjoyed in the 20th century. The question emerges of why it is that people have grown more tolerant towards and supportive of LGBT individuals. Media categories, such as television and films considered the carriers of culture, influence people’s perception, as does the culture itself shaping it. Thus, the way such phenomenon as same-sex relationships along with their participants are depicted in television and movies determines how tolerantly the society will perceive such people. The major research ...

It has been a long time since movies have become an unalienable part of entertainment. Nowadays, going to the cinema is more a social event that cultural one. People become huge fans of their favorite movies and actors, keep track of all the news and become obsessed with them. Whomever you ask, every person must have at least one favorite film, which touches this person’s heart and makes him or her experience great feelings while watching. There are many people, who became so depended on movies that they cannot imagine their lives without them and organize different events ...

Each and every single day people come across pictorial advertisements that endeavor to influence one’s opinions and activities in definite ways. Whether the purpose is to obtain a product or back a cause, many various corporations and organizations continuously solicit for the public’s consideration, and they recognize that the finest method of attaining it is through capturing advertising. However, in a culture surrounded by commercial advertisement, businesses have to be resourceful to stand out and stay ahead of the competition (Tag 120). Some creators use the suspense dynamic to create an impression to their audience, whereas others ...

Using the five concepts of representation, sexual, content, media and free speech, my definition of pornography is that is a representation of free speech using sexual content through different media. The history of pornography and its struggle to be included in mainstream entertainment has revolved around these five words. My understanding of these five concepts is as under. Representation is the basic concept of displaying and conveying the information from the point of enactment to the point of viewing. In context of pornography, this representation can be in different forms and styles. Also, I think that pornography as a ...

Final Essay: Robert Bresson’s Dictum & Film Analysis of “A Man Escaped”

Introduction The modern film-viewer may anticipate feeling abashed, or risk feeling bored when scrutinizing an old, black-and-white movie that lacks an action package. However, Robert Bresson’s film made in 1956, A Man Escaped, offers a compelling example of filmmaking skills which captivate the attention of its audience. One of Director Robert Bresson’s favorite dictums asserts that “What is for the eye must not duplicate what is for the ear” (“Notes on Sound”). Control of narrative space, and command of sound perspective strategies in the film demonstrate an exercise of the filmmaker’s philosophy. The film analysis herein, ...

1. Project Proposal 1.1. Research Background Media campaign has always been central consideration for any marketing plan. Trends of communication using different media have been undergoing steady evolution for the past several decades. Today’s marketing plan involves much more sophistications than ever before requiring companies to adopt state-of-the-art approach to it to maximize their chances of success (Napoli, 2011; Noll, 2007). The proposed research is going to revolve around the assessment of effective ways of collecting the required data for STA (a traveling agency) helping it develop its new marketing plan aligning to existing and emerging trends of ...

Literature Review

In the article, ‘Online Stars and the New Audience: How YouTube Creators Curate and Maintain Communities’, author and researcher Hector Postigo highlights the participatory culture of YouTube and how it manages to capitalize on bringing in valuable funding that is needed to help it not only be more visible but the choice for many successful entrepreneurs and businesses alike . Smith has defined the participatory culture of YouTube by explaining that content creators connect directly with their followers and thus the videos that are shared on the platform are a more personalized communication than mass information broadcast. Not only that, ...

How YouTube is Changing the World

McLuhan writes, “Subliminal and docile acceptance of media impact has made them prisons without walls for their human users” (McLuhan 208). Each of us knows that the twenty-first century is the age of information, and that information is the main weapon that influences people’s minds and opinions. Indeed, the news we are able to watch on TV is told from the perspective the government need us to know it, and this perspective is not always true. YouTube allows every user to upload and watch videos free. It provides a lot of opinions and lets people escape from the ...

Manga and anime are two of the most defining parts of the Japanese culture that are known worldwide. Considered as Japan’s authentic forms of animation, manga and anime play a big role in propelling the Japanese culture further into worldwide recognition. Manga is defined as the Japanese comic animation or the animation that the Japanese produce in print while anime refers to the Japanese digital animation or the animation that the Japanese produce digitally through multimedia. These two distinct forms of Japanese animation have been an integral part of popular culture for years in Japan and have played ...

The film is a one-woman show performed by the American actress Whoopi Goldberg, who is a well-known comedian in the American history. The performer tried to seek the attention of people towards a scenario in which a lady realized while living in the popular culture. The film was presented to forward a message that it is difficult for a new person to survive in the popular culture due to the difference in norms, heritage, and values (Goldberg). All the actions and styles can be seen in this play due to the involvement of entertaining characters in this film. The ...

Introduction

The basic principle of soccer is rather simple: two teams, composed of eleven players each, compete on a rectangular court for control of a spherical ball, with the objective of kicking it into the opposite teams’ goal. The history of soccer goes back to the 2nd and 3rd centuries BC, as evidence of the sport being played in ancient China during those periods has been found. In modern times, soccer is undoubtedly one of the most popular sports in the world, if not the most prevalent, particularly in Europe and the Americas. According to Fifa, the 2014 World Cup ...

Art Appropriation and its Influences

The idea of art appropriation deals with the way in which people look at images surrounding them, and the immediate connections that are made with the visuals. For the works to be effective, whether it is in advertising, art, or mass media the concepts have to adhere to the essence of art, but more so to be relevant to current issues of the day. This would include making use of art elements such as line, form, light, and color in order for the “reading” to be effective. Thus, any person who is involved in creating visuals ...

Introduction

The world of art has always been driven by an immortal tradition where the sole artist worked as the creative force and his relationship with the art was way more influential than the traditional author-art relation. In the case of films, the concept of the ‘Auteur’ explains one of the most significant styles of cinematic direction in which the director becomes too dominant over the entire film that he is being ranked as the author for the film. Some directors in the world cinema are reckoned to have such a strong authorial presence in their films that is very ...

Part One

Evaluation of Martin Barker’s Research The portrayal of rape on screen is a complex issue for a number of reasons. The cinematographers need to be aware of the effect of these scenes on the audience, and ensure that it is included in the film for a purpose that befits the film and the plot. Barker, as part of a BBFC report on sexual violence on screen, assessed the reaction of natural audiences of films with scenes of sexual violence - A Ma Soeur, Baise-Moi, The House on the Edge of the Park, Ichi the Killer, and Irreversible (2013). ...

The video “Slum Cities: A Shifting World” is among the most viewed films on YouTube, given its ability to provide real information regarding some of the world’s largest slums. Fundamentally, the film looks at the move of masses from the rural settings to urban centres and the manner in which such cities deal with the transitions. Directed by CBC News Canada, the film “Slum Cities: A Shifting World” provides a report of two mega slums; the Dharavi in India, and another one in Rio de Janeiro. As noted in the film, millions of people across the world often ...

There are movies that enthral viewers’ hearts from the very first episode and can keep them interested and intrigued right to the end. The Lord of the Rings is surely one of the perfect examples of such films that are really hard to pause watching. If you are looking for three hours of fabulous adventures and the journey full of mysteries, this movie is definitely the best choice ever. Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film trilogy became a worldwide phenomenon in the beginning of the 21st century and had a deep effect on the universal screen ...

One of the oldest sports is considered a fistfight. Even in ancient history in the era of the ancient Greeks during the Olympics athletes competed in the pankration, which is how they called their fist fighting competitions. Fist fights in a modern understanding are mixed martial arts or MMA (Mix Martial Arts), and not boxing, as the two are often confused.

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Since the antique times MMA lost its glory and popularity. Is place was taken by what e now perceive a traditional boxing, kick-boxing, judo, taekwondo, and other types of martial arts. For a long time MMA was in ...

Introduction

Many people think that there may not be any rhetoric in a movie. The movie is an object of entertainment. That is why many researchers do not take it for serious. The thing is, the main objective of the movie is to transmit a certain information. And we can only measure the success of the movie by measuring the success of transmitting. We do not always comprehend it, but in most cases we are touched and influenced by the rhetoric means and technique used in the movie. Our task is to research the key characteristics of rhetorical principles applied ...

The government has two primary means to exploit the media, namely access and control. In terms of access, the government’s ability to exploit and manipulate the media is based on two facts of life. First, government actions are acutely important to almost every facet of life. Accordingly, people, business, and society have normal interest in knowing what the government, and people in government are saying and thinking. Second, the vast majority of society learns about what the government is thinking and saying from the media. As a consequence, the government can influence the media by providing or denying ...

The article “Self Making as Public Spectacle: Bodies, Bodily Training and Reality TV” is written by Bree Hadley, from Queensland University of Technology, Australia. It is published in “Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Media Studies” in Issue 24, October 2012. The article starts with the commentary on how reality TV shows has penetrated the media and its definitions of what real people are like has taken the society by a storm. Reality TV has recently exploded into the mainstream media and has taken over our televisions. It has already been written about extensively how these reality TVs ...

Dte

The Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is a popular, interesting and entertaining science fiction film. Its popularity even to this day can be attributed to how the makers of the film portrayed the mythic characters, especially of Luke Skywalker who is the main hero in the epic story. For one, the Star Wars (1977) was considered as a groundbreaking movie, and much of its success can be credited to how George Lucas introduced Luke, his family background and ultimately the events that leads him to take the central role in the story. Just like most movie heroes, ...

A key issue within photographic practice and culture is the establishment of perspective regarding the influence that the self and the underlying aesthetic preferences and expectations that are brought to the art. These preferences demonstrate an essential aspect of valuation in regards to not only the perceptions that are held by those viewing the art and their understanding of beauty but also the level of awareness or unawareness that the photographer has in their composition and viewpoint at the point of the photograph's creation. The idea of the unawareness about the self-knowing as a common phenomenon in our society, ...

Roadhouse

Literature Review In older reviews, professional critics believed that the plot and the acting in the movie were simply unbearable. The biggest issue is that the ailing plot line, established early on and never fully developed, is just too campy and lackluster. Professional critics went on to state that Road House suffered largely for its bad acting, which is considered juvenile and not worthy of cinema. In an article published by Caryn James (1989) the author focuses largely on the plot of the movie as his target. He went on to state that the star of Road House, Patrick ...

Jane Doe

Autism is a disease that begins to show signs in early childhood and continues throughout the individual’s life. There are wide arrays of signs, symptoms, and behaviors that can be seen among those who are diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), which can make proper diagnosis challenging at times. To better understand the complex nature of ASD, several videos are observed and correlated with the diagnosis criteria from the American Psychological Association’s DSM-V. The following six videos each display a variety of autistic individuals of various ages that show the different symptoms common to ASD.

Video 1: Two Year Old Boy

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Who creates better Advertising Campaigns?

Who creates better Advertising Campaigns? In the field of online marketing, Google and Facebook are the key players. The million dollar question facing any web advertiser is whether to go with Google Adwords or Facebook Ads. Both services have their own advantages and drawbacks. Let us analyse some crucial features of both services and arrive at a conclusion as to which one is better in getting the businesses what they want.

Targeting

Targeting means selecting a particular set of people among the wider audience to view our ads based on certain criteria like their age, gender, etc. Using Facebook Ads, ...