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The Wizard of Oz Film as Categorized by Rick Altman

adventure" would seem to fit those films in which were not sure of the way the two leads feel about each other, but which hold out...

Relationship Between Society and Art

In this paper, well present sources that prove that Mr. Greenbergs philosophies are little more than elitist snobbery and that art...

Blues Music History

The blues, in all its glory, is truly a black American phenomenon but it is also an American phenomenon. Davis (2003) writes: "The...

Music School Application Letter Sample

know from personal experience if my training has had this result, but there is no denying that musical scales are very close to be...

Images II by Debussy

and II, said that it was rather like staring fixedly at an object for a long period of time, so that the pupils dilate and the pic...

Comparing Two Ancient Civilizations

Crete ("Barbarians," 1999). The region was very peaceful. In fact, there has been only scant evidence of a military force ("Barbar...

Black Church's Musical Dynamics

further nurture African American gospel music through training and a more focused perspective on the elements of their unique gosp...

Pop Art, Surrealism, and Dada Artistic Movements

of the connection between dissenting forces inherent in this kind of simplicity. Rather than creating a facade of art, one that i...

Art Aspects of 3 Impressionist Works

is characterized by a way of seeing-by the attempt to capture the fleeting effects of light by applying paint in small, quick stro...

Impressionism Crisis Impact Upon the Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin

with Monet perhaps remaining the one true Impressionist for much of its popularity (Abbeville Press). Gauguin and Van Gogh In t...

Horton Hears a Who

what is "proper." How well have they done it? All aspects of this delightful childrens film are done extremely well. The animatio...

Sublime and Subjective Romanticism in William Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey”:

natural sublime."2 As is common in the thematic development of the sublime in Romanticism, the sensation is one of rapture and on...

Friendship in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

between Hobbits Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin is the primary focus of the trilogy, but there is also an interesting dynamic of thei...

Prospero in Shakespeare’s The Tempest

relates to issues of magic and creation, and the identity of Prospero/Shakespeare. In examining this perspective the opinions and...

Three Men Walking and Kouros

notes that Noguchis Kouros was created shortly after his release from the internment camp, and quotes him as saying that the const...

Beat Goes on for Cuba's Rhythmic Culture of Music

blending of West African rhythms with melodies from southern Spain (Roberts 4). This created the clave, which is typically a 3-2 ...

Political and Religious Aspects of the Seated Gudea

exist before the establishment of literary historical records, are of immense value. Like all art, one can enjoy these works on a ...

Overview of Art Career of Tahir Salahov

Salahovs Repair Workers (1960, Baku Museum of the Visual Arts).10 This orientation is also clear in Oil Rocks in the Caspian, w...

The Sociological Importance of Timba

the significant cultural role played by the timba musical genre in Cuban society, it is firstly important to understand the politi...

Political Theme in Zhang's Hero

film Hero, released in 2002 and costing $30 million to produce, is the most expensive film in the history of the Chinese film indu...

Prelude in C Minor/Chopin

the dominant, using G augmented (V), modulates to G7 on the sixteenth note transition, which returns the melody to Cm (I). Throu...

Scott Joplin/Maple Leaf Rag

moved to St. Louis in 1901, which is when he produced a string of hits, such as The Entertainer, which was featured in the 1973 fi...

Oral Sex in Advertising and the Dehumanization of Women

of Sprite protruding somewhat horizontally at the womans mouth from somewhere off screen. The bottle, of course, is the phallic r...

Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanual Leutze

damaged state, the work won a gold medal in Berlin and was "much celebrated in Europe."9 It was part of the permanent collection o...

"Coastal Scene with Shipping and Cattle" by Thomas Gainsborough

This essay provides analysis of Thomas Gainsborough's "Coastal Scene with Shipping and Cattle." describing its artistic characteri...

Greek God Apollo's Influence on Ancient Greece

This 5 page paper gives an overview of the Greek god Apollo. This paper includes what areas of life Apollo ruled over and how he w...

Comparative Analysis of Works by Franz Liszt and Franz Schubert

extending it, varying it. Schubert accomplishes extending the rhythmic motif by added extra beats at both the beginning and the en...

Artistic Mood, Manic Depression and Touched with Fire by Kay Redfield Jamison

one in which her "periods of high enthusiasms, [were] ... short-lived and quickly burned itself out" (PG). In Touched with Fire...

Fan Culture Ideology and Music

dominant and subordinate ideologies, cultural ideology as a whole is something which exists in a multiplicity and its disparate el...

Moulin Rouge (2001) and Setting a Cinematic Mood

Berkeleys choreography book, he creates mood through unusual camera angles, and heightens the films pace through "speeded-up, step...