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The film Gladiator is famous for Russell Crowe’s Academy award-winning performance as well as its camerawork and cinematography. Director Ridley Scott employs significant formalism in the movie to convey Maximus’ message. Camera angles, such as low-angle or high-angle shots, are frequently used to depict power in various scenes. These types of angles are noticeable throughout…

Ridley Scott’s epic “Gladiator” is a movie which, roughly, could be described using one word only: a spectacle. Nevertheless, this “spectacle” is not purely fictitious; it is not serving the sole purpose of entertaining and stirring an audience who may long for a good movie with gorgeous scenery, impressive set design and gripping performance. It…

Culture, being a way of life, also involves among many other things, how a society appropriates for itself certain conceptions regarding the distinctions of class, ethnicity, or race. This characterization of culture makes it difficult for a society to immediately integrate ‘changes’ which would involve changing previously established social conceptions. Racism is one such social…

Both the poems “Once upon a Time” by Gabriel Okara and “A Contemplation Upon Flowers” by Henry King express the speakers’ longing for personal growth and spiritual rejuvenation. In “A Contemplation Upon Flowers,” the speaker contemplates his own nature, drawing parallels between the lives of flowers and humans. The speaker admires the flowers’ acceptance of…

This story is about a young main character who’s name is Bruno, he is a young boy who is the age of nine and is a German. This story gives an impression to the reader of how life for the Jewish people must have been during the Second World War. The author of this story…

The world of the “exotic” and strangeness is an inherently interesting subject matter among people. Fascinations with the “other” world are depicted in poems, novels, literary descriptions and art as an attempt to understand, romanticise or exploit another culture. The Napoleonic expedition to Egypt from 1798 to 1799 brought forth a heightened interest among artists…

Gasland is a documentary that was produced and directed by Josh Fox. It centers around the effects of natural gas drilling on American communities, specifically focusing on the process known as fracking. Fracking involves extracting natural gas by horizontally drilling into deep rock formations. As a resident of Pennsylvania, Josh Fox turned down an offer…

One of the more obvious cultural myths threaded through the movie “Fight Club” concerns the notions surrounding the definition of what is masculine. A part of American cultural mythology that is palpable in “Fight Club” is the myth of masculinity, with its attendant misconceptions and twists. The movie portrays the “demasculinization” of the American male…

           The Castle movie is a comedy film set at the backdrop of a major airport with the main characters, the Kerrigan family living in a house right next to the airport. Despite of all the hassles and noise from the taking off jumbo jets, the Kirregans consider the location of…

George Martin – Being for the Benefit of Popular Music This essay will present the argument that George Martin’s production techniques and approaches, specifically of the Beatles catalogue of material from 1967 onwards, have made a significant impact upon the development of popular music. This impact has principally been in the areas of technical innovation,…