But he will stand on their shoulders if he can. Conclusion In conclusion, the crime film genre was born out of the type of real-life characters of the 19th century: men who "blamed capitalism, religion, the army, and the state for the plight of the underclass, who struggled to get by as the rich lived it up…[Who] felt dislocated, alienated, and angry" -- men like Emile Henry who threw a bomb into Paris' Hotel Terminus in 1894 (Merriman 4)
¶ … Crime Film Genre and the Heroic Paradigm The American crime film genre has been used throughout the 20th century as a vehicle for a variety of themes: from explorations of social degradation (White Heat) to social injustice and Christian allegory (On the Waterfront) to moral ambiguity (The Maltese Falcon, Touch of Evil) to action spectacle and car chases (The French Connection, Bullitt) to analyses of lost innocence and media corruption (Badlands, Natural Born Killers) to the film noir homage (Miller's Crossing)
But this theme is met at the same time with selfishness on the part of the people. The two worlds -- one of transcendental virtue (of which the "angel" shows one -- "patience" (Marquez, 1968, p
Victoria Toliver attempts to emphasize the role of spirituality in the postmodern: for her it is a matter of spiritualizing the world without limitation. Harris' work, she tells us, is concerned with "the womb of space: the cross-cultural imagination" (Toliver 173)
Clearly, such music cannot be made without the use of instruments, and though the instruments used in rhythm and blues vary widely from artist to artist, several have made a predominant mark in the genre's entirety. Author Ryan Jerving notes, "the most common types of instruments used in this type of music are drums, bass, piano, and guitar, with a horn section often featuring saxophones, trumpets and sometimes trombones" (Jerving 650)
In viewing rhythm and blues as a genre with distinct cultural implications as well, one must understand certain key terminology that has stayed with the genre over the years. Rhythm and blues is a genre that has long acted as a melting pot for other genres, and has been often referred to as a "super-genre" due to its stylistic inclusion of other forms of popular music such as religious, soul, ragtime, jazz, country, gospel, and rock and roll (Lee 12)
American Musical Genres: Rhythm and Blues Rhythm and Blues, or R&B, is an American musical genre largely attributed to the African-American community. Originating in the 1940s, the term was first used by record companies to describe recordings "marketed predominantly to urban African-Americans," at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz-based music with a heavy, insistent beat" was becoming increasingly popular (Palmer 5)
R&B encapsulates music from artists with such a wide range as Johnny Lee Hooker, Ray Charles, James Brown, Earth, Wind and Fire, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Public Enemy, and Usher. As author Richard Ripani notes, "R&B has not only retained its traditional core styles, but has also experienced a 're-Africanization' over time," which allows so many varying artists to become a part of the collective (Ripani 17)
¶ … Science Fiction Film Genre Defining the Science Fiction Genre The genre of science fiction has been defined saying that it describes, The probable consequences of some improbable or impossible transformation of the basic conditions of human (or intelligent non-human) existence. This transformation need not be brought about by a technological invention, but may involve some mutation of known biological or physical reality" (Baldick 1991, p
Another source says that: Sci-fi tales have a prophetic nature (they often attempt to figure out the future) and are often set in a future time. They are usually visualized through fanciful settings and advanced technology gadgets, scientific developments, or by fantastic special effects" (Dirks 2002)
If visual appeal were all that was necessary, Spielberg would be creating art, not films. Several authors describes Close Encounters of the Third Kind, along with Star Wars, as marking a turning point in films, based on the sudden acceptance of special effects in films (Gross 1995, p
The important point is that a science fiction film needs to have a plot. In one source the author notes the error made by directors who believe that a film will be "magically transformed into sf by the addition of sf furniture" (Harrison 1978, p
This is especially seen towards the end of the film where Ellie travels through a wormhole to other planets. One author describes special effects as being used to "show us things which are immediately known to be untrue, but show them to us with such conviction that we believe them to be real" (La Valley 1985, p
With many of the early shows between the 1930's to the 1960's involving: the police doing all of the investigating and the crimes often happening to upper middle class families, usually involving a white male. (Cheatwood, 2010) Then, as the views and attitudes of society would change, so would the overall format
Yet, when you look beyond this fact, the use of these different lay outs have meant, that the truth can be stretched. (Collins, 2009) In some cases, real life criminals will often attempt to imitate what they saw on a television program or movies
A good example of this can be seen with the crime drama CSI, where it would focus on the same theme, only with an emphasis on the technology and forensics. (Duetsch, 2008) This is significant, because it shows how the format of the shows, are constantly evolving, to adapt to the changes that are occurring in opinions and tastes
With the victims, having a sense of personal responsibility for what happened to them; while, the offenders are often portrayed in more negative light. (Rader, 2009) In most cases, the victims are more often, females and are usually attacked by complete strangers
While the criminals did not get away, the fact that the attempted to use the same kind of tactics that they saw in the crime drama are obvious. (Sapprkuhl, 2010) This is significant, because it shows how the ripped from the headlines format has become increasingly popular in addressing the interests of the general public
Likewise, the researchers operationalize the term "Form" to describe various observable, structural and linguistic aspects of the communication process (Yates & Orlikowski, 2008). Significance of the Study Because all organizations run on good communications (Day, Halpin & Zaccaro, 2004), the significance of the study by Yates and Orlikowski (2008) demonstrate that the types of framework (genre) that is established within an organization can be used to better understand how team members collaborate and formulate their solutions and achieve their collective goals in computer-mediated forums and other online collaborative media
14). Such genres are increasingly including a computer-mediated component (Dennis & Harris, 2002; Whittaker, 2004; Bell, Davis & Linn, 2004)