Course: Film and Television Production BA Name of Module: Story‚ Structure and Style Module Code: 2FTP514.1 Name of Student: Ashwin Arvind Email Address Of Student: Arvind.Ashwin@gmail.com Assignment: How can Vladimir Propp’s analysis of fairytale or folktale narratives help in understanding how film stories work? Word Count: 1526 Essay It’s interesting to see how the work of Vladimir Propp and his study of the Russian folktales has provided such rich and diverse grounds for analyzing
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The Use of Symbolic Language in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House: A Feministic Perspective Abdul Baseer‚ Ph.D. Candidate Sofia Dildar Alvi Fareha Zafran‚ M.Phil. English Candidate ==================================================================== Language in India www.languageinindia.com ISSN 1930-2940 Vol. 13:3 March 2013 ==================================================================== Abstract This paper is a feministic analysis of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House in Julia Kristeva’s perspective of semiotic
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In the introduction to the American and Society Since 1945‚ Leonard Quart and Albert Auster discusses the importance of films as it relates to our society and the way we think. Quart and Auster uses different forms of critiques to highlight the importance of films in our modern society. They argue that films connect with society in a manner that literature and other art forms fail to do. As Arthur Schlensinger Jr. has said‚ “American imagination suggests all the more strongly that movies have
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The relationship between language and literature This essay explores‚ the implications Saussure’s statement‚ “language is a social institution”‚ has in the study of literature‚ and a study of literature with other kinds of language and communication. In order to achieve this‚ two of the theorists‚ Ferdinand de Saussure and Jacques Derrida‚ from the Norton anthology of Critical Theory are going to be examined closely. Moreover‚ a brief encounter of Bakhtin’s essay‚ “Discourse in the Novel”‚ is
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The Maasai Culture The group in cultural anthropology that I would like to study as a cultural anthropologist is the Maasai. From prior knowledge‚ I have learned that the Maasai are a cultural group that resides in vast open spaces in the Great Rift Valley of East Africa. The Maasai are found in countries such as Kenya and Tanzania‚ and their lifestyles are a reflection of the environment in which they live. One of the aspects that I find the most interesting about the Maasai is that they
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Wednesday‚ October 16‚ 2002 Elements of Semiology by Roland Barthes Page: 1 Roland Barthes (1964) Elements of Semiology Source: Elements of Semiology ‚ 1964‚ publ. Hill and Wang‚ 1968. The first half of the book is reproduced here. INTRODUCTION In his Course in General Linguistics‚ first published in 1916‚ Saussure postulated the existence of a general science of signs‚ or Semiology‚ of which linguistics would form only one part. Semiology therefore aims to take in any system of
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A sense of belonging can be created from the connections people make throughout their lives. Belonging can also allow for people to form positive connections; however there are also many barriers to belonging. Some of these barriers are explored in peter Skrzynecki’s poem “Ancestors”. The poem shows Skrzynecki’s failure to comprehend his own cultural identity. Skrzynecki uses the idea of ancestors and ghosts to show familial‚ cultural and historical belonging. In “Ancestors” the narrator experiences
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New Historicism is a literary theory based on the idea that literature should be studied and intrepreted within the context of both the history of the author and the history of the critic. Based on the literary criticism of Stephen Greenblatt and influenced by the philosophy of Michel Foucault‚ New Historicism acknowledges not only that a work of literature is influenced by its author’s times and circumstances‚ but that the critic’s response to that work is also influenced by his environment‚ beliefs
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popular culture ‘text’ utlising relevant theories and debates In sociological theory there are many concepts discussed that are utilized in the analyses of society and culture. Some of the main concepts are Postmodernism‚ Historical Materialism‚ Structuralism‚ Interpretive Sociology and Poststructuralism to name a few. These theories are relevant to the research of understanding certain or specific cultural texts. These concepts provide problems and solutions associated with some of the research approaches
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Cultural and Linguistic Differences Cultural and Linguistic Differences Shabana P. Siddiqui ECE 405: Children and Families in a Diverse Society Inst. Lammert-Arndt 6/14/12 Linguistic Differences 01 People from all walks of life have gathered in the United States to live their lives. What follows is a flood of cultural and linguistic differences. The way one person from a particular culture would say” hi” could be another
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