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Entertainment > Movie Genres Best musicals of all time

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Since the advent of sound, the Hollywood Musical is a genre that has gained great popularity in offering its audience entertainment and a sense of escapism reminiscent of Broadway, with its use of popular songs and the notion of spectacle. Although the genre was at it's peak in the 1930's most notably staring Fred Astaire an... More..

Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: The Wicker Man (2006)

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Plot- A letter from an old flame lures Cop Edward Malus (Nicholas Cage) to Summerisle, to investigate the disappearance of a missing girl. Malus finds the island community unwilling to cooperate with his enquiries and suspects the girl is going to be scarified. As he races against time to save her, he becomes perilously enta... More..

Entertainment > Movie Analysis Movie analysis: Postmodernism in Blade Runner

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In 1985 Ihab Hassan noted that the term [postmodernism] is an oxymoron'(1)and like the term itself, any attempt to pin down its meaning is problematic. However although Cristina Degli-Esposti points out that the debate over the conception of that which may be considered postmodern [] is far from being exhausted', she goes on... More..

Entertainment > Movie Analysis Movie analysis: Underlying myths in The Searchers

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'The Searchers' was directed by John Ford in 1956, the film is classified as a western and its ideas were very much a product of its time, yet even recently many of its themes have been revisited in such highly acclaimed films as Martin Scorsese's 'Taxi Driver' and 'The Deer Hunter' by Michael Cimino. The film critic, John F... More..

Entertainment > Movie Genres Art films: Breathless' and Alphaville, by Jean-Luc Godard

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"The art cinema defines itself explicitly against the classical narrative mode, and especially against the cause-effect linkage of events." (David Bordwell) The classical narrative mode refers to the narrative style common in films of the classical Hollywood period from the 1940's to the 1960's. These films came from the stu... More..

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