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  2. Paratext - Wikipedia

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    In literary interpretation, paratext is material that surrounds a published main text (e.g., the story, non-fiction description, poems, etc.) supplied by the authors ...

  3. Themes and plot devices in Hitchcock films - Wikipedia

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    Although there is a commonly held view that Hitchcock treated women poorly, there is little evidence of this beyond the examples given by Tippi Hedren in The Birds. On the contrary, Hitchcock had many strong female characters within his movies, career women, who often triumphed over men and subverted sexual stereotypes.

  4. List of catchphrases in American and British mass media

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    Movie First appearance Notes "I'll be back" Terminator: The Terminator: 1984 [note 6] [note 7] "Hasta la vista, baby" Terminator: Terminator 2: Judgment Day: 1991 [note 8] "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore: Apocalypse Now: 1979 [note 6] [note 7] "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" Rhett Butler: Gone ...

  5. Video essay - Wikipedia

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    Häxan (1922), a horror essay film about the historical roots and superstitions surrounding witchcraft. A film essay (also essay film or cinematic essay) consists of the evolution of a theme or an idea rather than a plot per se, or the film literally being a cinematic accompaniment to a narrator reading an essay. [9]

  6. List of film manifestos - Wikipedia

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    Manifesto Author/s Defining features Example films Antonioni Manifesta, The: Davell Swan Given that Michelangelo Antonioni expresses the maximum cinema data through the most minimal means, and that in cinema, as in architecture, interior and industrial design, less is more, Antonioni is postmodernism's incipient master.

  7. MacGuffin - Wikipedia

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    The use of a MacGuffin as a plot device predates the name MacGuffin. The Holy Grail of Arthurian legend has been cited as an early example of a MacGuffin. The Holy Grail is the desired object that is essential to initiate and advance the plot, but the final disposition of the Grail is never revealed, suggesting that the object is not of significance in itself. [8]

  8. Style and Medium in the Motion Pictures - Wikipedia

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    Panofsky begins his essay by identifying two features that distinguish “film art” (see : art cinema) from preceding forms of art: first, film art was the only art whose beginnings were witnessed by people alive at the time of the essay’s composition (1934); second, whereas preceding arts were formed by “an artistic urge that gave rise to the discovery and gradual perfection of a new ...

  9. Rhetorical modes - Wikipedia

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    Examples are the satiric mode, the ironic, the comic, the pastoral, and the didactic. [2] Frederick Crews uses the term to mean a type of essay and categorizes essays as falling into four types, corresponding to four basic functions of prose: narration, or telling; description, or picturing; exposition, or explaining; and argument, or ...