Cultural transformations of Elitist discourse in the modern public sphere
Essay - 17 pages - Medias
In his essay entitled ?the communist manifesto' Marx noted that the Bourgeois and the Proletarians form antagonistic classes in society. The history of society hitherto is the history of class struggles. IN my opinion, it marks the beginning of conflict in modern society. This conflict is the...
Articles about Riots in France
Essay - 2 pages - Medias
This presentation deals with the recent French riots that occurred during October and November 2005. These French riots began on October 27 in a Paris suburb and then spread nationwide. We have chosen three articles from the television address of November 8, about the Prime Minister of France,...
The Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood
Essay - 10 pages - Arts and art history
A considerable number of women were active in every phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Some, as was the case for Elizabeth Siddal and Lucy Madox Brown, incorporated the ideas of their husbands and fathers into their own art. Others were deeply influenced by the freshness of the Pre-Raphaelite...
Rear Window as an example of Panopticism - publié le 10/05/2007
Essay - 2 pages - Film studies
Panopticism is a concept that stems from the work of an eighteenth century philosopher, Jeremy Bentham. He was trying to figure out how to build a prison in which the guards could see the prisoners in such a way that the prisoners could never come to know they were being watched upon. Although...
Does the press prior to elections manipulate the general public?
Essay - 2 pages - Medias
Does the response of the general public change due to the influence of the press? We often observe a difference in the opinion (polls) of the general public where press plays a major role in publicizing a particular event. One can assume the Royal's partisans and their reaction when the press...
France's Lost Jewel
Essay - 2 pages - Film studies
Unlike Great Britain, France's colonial wars tended to involve a great deal of violence on the part of the colonizers. Britain generally extricated itself from its colonies with relatively little immediate violence involving British soldiers. The differing ways in which the two countries...
Heavenly Creatures - publié le 02/05/2007
Worksheets - 2 pages - Film studies
Heavenly Creatures is a film that dates back to the year 1994 and was set in the 1950s which revolves around the story of a relationship between two young school girls. The film was an example of postmodernism and will be analysed in depth showing how this film can be defined as a pastiche.
The influence of Socrealism in Poland
Essay - 7 pages - Arts and art history
Socrealism is „an attempt to translate Marxism into the sphere of art” . This term appeared first in 1932 in the soviet press. It is, more formally, an artistic current; it was indeed the official art trend imposed by the Communist regimes. It originates in the Union of Socialist and...
Film review : 'The Devil wears Prada'
Worksheets - 2 pages - Film studies
The Devil wears Prada is a refreshing provocative fairytale. This screen adaptation of Lauren's Weisberger's 2003 novel, which happens to be a best-seller worldwide, is produced by Wendy Finerman, directed by David Frankel and distributed by 20th Century Fox. This Award-nominated 2006...
The Rise of Choral Polyphony in Burgundy
Essay - 7 pages - Arts and art history
In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, there was a flourishing of culture in the Netherlands with the rise of humanism and the patronage of the Dukes of Burgundy. With the advances in trade and commerce, there was also a general prosperity which contributed to the wealth of artistic...
George Lois - America's master communicator
Presentation - 26 pages - Medias
George Lois triggered the innovative and populist changes in American culture along with the concept and prototype design for the New York supplement for the Herald Tribune. MTV was an abject failure and people were laughing at the idea of a 24 hour rock and roll station talking to kids. Music...
The African-American cinema: Between protest and integration
Essay - 4 pages - Film studies
The invention of cinema happened at the very same time as the establishment of the segregation in the South. This social and political system, which advocated prejudices and inequality of races, is definitely going to stigmatize the nature of the relationships between the American cinema and the...
The Distribution of French Cinema to the United States
Essay - 68 pages - Film studies
In regard to the past of French Cinema and the global Cinema Market, is it possible for French Cinema to distribute profitably to the American Market? French cinema sees itself as being the great innovator in style, treating movies like a cultural heritage. The United States has always considered...
The French reality TV programme landscape and the Star Academy programme
Essay - 8 pages - Television
The television landscape has changed years ago with the incredible growth of new programmes. Indeed, reality TV knows a huge development among TV viewers raising key issues around ethics, politics, truth-telling and realist representation. Even if reality television is totally a new genre of TV...
Ambiguity of the term "objectivity" in the media
Essay - 3 pages - Medias
The importance of the concept of objectivity in the media is well attested. Since the beginning of the newspaper press in the early nineteenth Century in the United States and in Europe, rising democracy in the Society has produced various economic, political and technological factors which have...
The Daily Mail's electronic version, United Kingdom
Essay - 6 pages - Medias
The news outlet I have chosen to analyze is the internet version of “The Daily Mail “, a newspaper based in the United Kingdom, very famous especially in England. It includes the daily version of this newspaper as well as “The Mail on Sunday”, its week-end's edition. Gate...
Sound in two Hollywood films: 'singin' in the rain' and Thelma & Louise
Essay - 3 pages - Film studies
Singin' in the Rain is a musical created in 1951 by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, Thelma & Louise a road movie created in 1991 by Ridley Scott. These two works could sound different; nevertheless they have a common point, which is the important role of sound, and especially music, within the...
Comparison between 'Nighthawks' by Hopper and Mystery and 'Melancholy of a Street' by de Chirico - publié le 20/02/2007
Essay - 4 pages - Arts and art history
The success of the Melancholy show demonstrated that existential issues are a productive source of inspiration for artists. Universal melancholy affects both painters and spectators. Hopper's Nighthawks and De Chirico's Mystery and Melancholy of a Street represent human metaphysical concern,...
Olivia Ruiz in concert at the Bataclan on 3 and 10 of April 2006: From "the real TV" to "the real artist performer"
Essay - 4 pages - Music and dance
In France, the Loft Story TV programme paves the way for the real television. Now, lots of viewers watch “ordinary” people eating, sleeping, and arguing… Overnight these stage actors become famous just having talent to be on television. Andy Warhol was right when he said “In...
Anna Politkovskaya: A woman, journalist and human rights activist in contemporary Russia
Essay - 3 pages - Medias
am a pariah”. This is how Anna Politkovskaya defines herself in the beginning of a posthumous article published by The Guardian on October 14th, 2006. Seven days before, on October 7th, around 5 pm, she was murdered in her flat in still non-clarified circumstances. Her death occurred while...
William Hogarth (1697-1764)
Essay - 5 pages - Arts and art history
The exhibition about William Hogarth at the Louvre museum is an essential one for many reasons. First of all, it is the first time that such a retrospect is held in France to honor the British painter. Besides, it is the occasion to discover or rediscover this genius artist admired by the...
Schubert's piano trio in e flat in Barry Lyndon, Stanley Kubrick, 1975
Essay - 3 pages - Music and dance
In this paper, I will analyze the use of Schubert's piano trio in e flat op. 100 in Barry Lyndon, a 1975 Stanley Kubrick's film. First, I will consider the music independently of its original context. In a second part, I will see how Kubrick uses it in its film, and whether the music fits in the...
Individual identity and global information. The global village (Mac Luhan)
Essay - 7 pages - Medias
This paper will discuss how individual identity is constructed in an environment of global information and media flows, and will examine how valid Marshall Mac Luhan's global village concept is, in this environment. The pattern of our everyday lives has made us aware of the numerous changes...
Individual identity and global information. The global village (Mac Luhan) - publié le 25/01/2007
Essay - 7 pages - Journalism
How is individual identity constructed in the environment of global information and media flows? How valid is Marshall Mac Luhan's global village concept in this environment? Nowadays, each of us is aware from the pattern of our everyday lives that there have been lots of changes linked with...
Critical Theory: theatre and post-structuralism
Essay - 6 pages - Arts and art history
The idea of Post-structuralism derives from philosophy. It is a discipline which has always tended to emphasize the difficulty of achieving secure knowledge about things (Barry;1995:63) .Philosophical writing, although following the structure thesis, followed by anti-thesis, then a synthesis of...
Representations of gender and sexuality in films
Essay - 7 pages - Film studies
‘The street's getting worse everyday here. The whores were bad enough but the drags are wiping us out. I can't stand the drags. (…). They confuse transvestism with a circus. Worse, with mime'. In All About My Mother (Almodovar; 1999), the character Agrado stresses the importance of...
The X-files (1993-2002) - A cult text
Essay - 8 pages - Film studies
The X-Files (1993-2002), about two government agents investigating unsolved cases relating to paranormal activities, was a quality drama which became a cult hit with audiences and subsequently an international cultural phenomenon, generating vast amounts of secondary texts including merchandise...
Choderlos de Laclos's : Les Liaisons Dangereuses - publié le 22/01/2007
Essay - 5 pages - Film studies
Choderlos de Laclos's novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses has been the object of four main cinematic adaptations, all very different from one another or from the source text itself. These films are Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (1959) by Roger Vadim, Dangerous Liaisons (1988) by Stephen Frears,...
Critical Theory: theatre and post-structuralism - publié le 22/01/2007
Essay - 6 pages - Arts and art history
Post-structuralism derives from philosophy , ‘ a discipline which has always tended to emphasise the difficulty of achieving secure knowledge about things' (Barry;1995:63) .Philosophical writing, although following the structure thesis, anti-thesis then a synthesis of both, always comes...
Film studies: signs and postmodernism
Essay - 4 pages - Film studies
‘L.I.E: Long Island Expressway. You got the lanes going east; you got the lane going west. You also got the lanes going straight to hell...' Thus opens L.I.E., a film about a fifteen-year-old boy who becomes involved in an unusual relationship with a much older man. Here, the first words of...
