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  2. Beer Street and Gin Lane - Wikipedia

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    Charles Knight said that in Beer Street Hogarth had been "rapt beyond himself" and given the characters depicted in the scene an air of "tipsy jollity". [29] Charles Lamb considered Gin Lane sublime, and focused on the almost invisible funeral procession that Hogarth had added beyond the broken-down wall at the rear of the scene as mark of his ...

  3. Film-poem - Wikipedia

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    The film-poem (also called the poetic avant-garde film, verse-film or verse-documentary or film poem without the hyphen) [1] is a label first applied to American avant-garde films released after World War II. [2] During this time, the relationship between film and poetry was debated.

  4. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the ...

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    On March 25, 2009, the film industry magazine Variety reported that Nzingha Stewart, a black female director, had acquired the feature film rights to for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf from Shange and that Lionsgate had signed Stewart to create a screenplay adaptation and direct the film version of the play. [42]

  5. List of films based on poems - Wikipedia

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    Poem Film(s) "Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic, Sung in the Year 1888" (1888), Ernest Thayer: Casey at the Bat (1916) Casey at the Bat (1927) Make Mine Music (1946) "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1854), Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Balaclava (1928) The Charge of the Light Brigade (1912) The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)

  6. V (poem) - Wikipedia

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    Holbeck Cemetery in Beeston, the setting for the poem. "V" (sometimes styled "v." [1]) is a poem by Tony Harrison written in 1985. The poem aroused much controversy when broadcast in film version on British public-service television's Channel 4 due to its extensive use of profanity and racial epithets. [2]

  7. If We Must Die - Wikipedia

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    "If We Must Die" is a poem by Jamaican-American writer Claude McKay (1890–1948) published in the July 1919 issue of The Liberator magazine. McKay wrote the poem in response to mob attacks by white Americans upon African-American communities during the Red Summer. The poem does not specifically reference any group of people, and has been used ...

  8. Beer (film) - Wikipedia

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    Beer (also known as The Selling of America) is a 1985 American comedy film produced by Orion Pictures that satirizes the advertising industry, specifically the TV commercial industry. Plot [ edit ]

  9. Moloch in literature and popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Also from Marvel, Molek was the name of an Arabic spirit of vengeance in Jason Aaron's run on Ghost Rider. In Yondemasu yo, Azazel-san, Moloch is the demon of violence, and is implied to be the strongest demon summoned; however, in all of his incarnations, he is exorcized or killed before he can display any of his power. His appearance is that ...