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Setting in 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Raven' and 'The Oval Portrait' by Edgar Allan Poe

tales. While "The Oval Portrait" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" are distinctive in setting they share certain simil...

Spectator in Alfred Hitchcock's Film Rear Window

action shot at a car race. To rely on an old clich?, he is "bored to tears." He spends most of his convalescent time sitting at th...

Stephen King's 1981 Essay 'Why We Crave Horror Movies'

we are all insane, than sanity becomes a matter of degree." The difference is, according to King, is that those who are completely...

Film Scream and Editing

other horror films. For example, in many subtle ways there is the age old suspense that we often saw in Hitchcock films as subtle ...

Moral Dilemmas in Menken's Musical, The Little Shop of Horrors

Circumstances come to a crossroads for Seymour when he discovers an odd looking plant after a total eclipse of...

Reviews of Broadway's Little Shop of Horrors Compared

Zaks experience that the challenge of using outdated and outmoded expressions in a musical were too much for Zaks. He says, "The s...

Child Labor and William Blake's Poetry

As Tom was a sleeping he had such a sight!/ That thousands of sweepers Dick, Joe, Ned, & Jack,/ Were all of them lockd up in coffi...

Nationalism and War's Horrors in All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

survival were still slim. Background information on Baumer and his comrades is filled in through flashbacks. In this fashion, th...

An Analysis of Giovanni's A Memoir Of War

of violence and vengeance. The author explains that it was when she was in Maglaj that she came to a full understanding of war; t...

Dracula by Bram Stoker

emphasized. Harker is clearly in foreign territory. This point is even emphasized by the Count who tells Harker, "We are in Trans...

Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the Building of Mystery, Suspense, and Horror

quiet sense of mystery introduces us to the events. We gain a sense of suspense and a bit of mystery in the fact that Mr. Utter...

Horrors of War in 2 Poems by Wilfred Owen

obviously take the most tragic of subjects and place the words in a way that would make us, the reader, want more, and yet cause u...

Monster Threat in the 1987 Horror Movie Near Dark

This report analyzed the Near Dark horror movie within the context of critic Robin Wood's observation that 'normality is threatene...

Overview of the Holocaust

of these individuals were dispatched into labor camps by the Nazis, where many died shortly thereafter of various causes including...

Shirley Jackson's Subtle Use of Horror

this a model of an extremely traditional patriarchal society, with the men in charge and the women and children following them obe...

Freeze Frame: Photographer Philip Jones Griffiths' Depiction of the Vietnam War

the war as manufactured by federal government propaganda, and significantly altered public perceptions of the war (Miller 211). A...

Blood Diamond - Paying for Death with Luxury

horrifying story of the evil of greed, set against the backdrop of the Sierra Leone civil war. This paper explores the messages of...

The Lottery, A Classic Horror Story

anthologized works in literature and for good reason. The story is simple, follows a linear structure, and within that basic frame...

Women in Rock and Country Genres

direct attacks at those who scorn them (e.g. Taylor Swift). Instead, todays country music stars talk to magazines about diet, exer...

The Novel - Everyone’s Favorite Literary Genre

novels are superior to plays, lets take a well-known play and consider how much more it could have done if it were a novel. Since ...

Film Genres Thriller and Comedy

An analysis of these cinematic genres and how they are used are considered in an examination of Andrew Davies' A Perfect Murder an...

Romantic Fiction's Gothic Genre

are generally seen as common to the Gothic novel, including a medieval or pseudo-medieval setting, a solitary protagonist and a se...

British Film Genre Classifications of Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and East and Lock

both can be considered comedic films. Definition of film comedy Although East is East is a slice of life film that can...

Sam Spade and the Film Genre Represented by The Maltese Falcon

role after years as a Warner contract player" (Galloway, 2002; maltesefalcon.shtml). As we can see from this simple description...

A Genre-Based Analysis of the Film, Erin Brockovich

which pokes fun at what might otherwise be regarded as a very unfunny subject, such as death. There is also the romantic comedy, ...

Latino Music Genre Known as Salsa

year later Alegre Records released Charlie Palmieris charanga LP "Salsa Na Ma." In 1964, the Cal Tjader Quintet plus 5 got the i...

Author Stephen Crane and the Naturalist Literary Genre

(Naturalism in American Literature, 2002). In Donald Pizers text on Realism and Naturalism in Nineteenth-Century American F...

Film Marketing by Genre

the whole trilogy and uses a heavily layered story that involves high action sequences that are purely designed to attract those w...

Film Noir Genre

be made about film noir and its enduring popularity is that it strikes a chord at the depth of nearly every viewer. Film noir focu...

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen and Genre

normal and average. Nora is a woman who is seen as nothing more than a simple creature. Her husband often refers to her in cond...