The document discusses the key aspects that determine a film's genre, specifically focusing on conventions in horror films. It identifies several conventions commonly found in horror films, including the use of frightening settings that isolate characters, iconic weapons and masks used by killers, and point-of-view camera shots that place the audience in the killer or victim's perspective. Examples are provided of how these conventions are employed in well-known horror films like Scream, Halloween, and The Blair Witch Project.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
The Roman Empire A Historical Colossus.pdfkaushalkr1407
The Roman Empire, a vast and enduring power, stands as one of history's most remarkable civilizations, leaving an indelible imprint on the world. It emerged from the Roman Republic, transitioning into an imperial powerhouse under the leadership of Augustus Caesar in 27 BCE. This transformation marked the beginning of an era defined by unprecedented territorial expansion, architectural marvels, and profound cultural influence.
The empire's roots lie in the city of Rome, founded, according to legend, by Romulus in 753 BCE. Over centuries, Rome evolved from a small settlement to a formidable republic, characterized by a complex political system with elected officials and checks on power. However, internal strife, class conflicts, and military ambitions paved the way for the end of the Republic. Julius Caesar’s dictatorship and subsequent assassination in 44 BCE created a power vacuum, leading to a civil war. Octavian, later Augustus, emerged victorious, heralding the Roman Empire’s birth.
Under Augustus, the empire experienced the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of relative peace and stability. Augustus reformed the military, established efficient administrative systems, and initiated grand construction projects. The empire's borders expanded, encompassing territories from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to the Euphrates. Roman legions, renowned for their discipline and engineering prowess, secured and maintained these vast territories, building roads, fortifications, and cities that facilitated control and integration.
The Roman Empire’s society was hierarchical, with a rigid class system. At the top were the patricians, wealthy elites who held significant political power. Below them were the plebeians, free citizens with limited political influence, and the vast numbers of slaves who formed the backbone of the economy. The family unit was central, governed by the paterfamilias, the male head who held absolute authority.
Culturally, the Romans were eclectic, absorbing and adapting elements from the civilizations they encountered, particularly the Greeks. Roman art, literature, and philosophy reflected this synthesis, creating a rich cultural tapestry. Latin, the Roman language, became the lingua franca of the Western world, influencing numerous modern languages.
Roman architecture and engineering achievements were monumental. They perfected the arch, vault, and dome, constructing enduring structures like the Colosseum, Pantheon, and aqueducts. These engineering marvels not only showcased Roman ingenuity but also served practical purposes, from public entertainment to water supply.
Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
Phyto-Pharmacological Screening, New Strategies for evaluating
Natural Products, In vitro evaluation techniques for Antioxidants, Antimicrobial and Anticancer drugs. In vivo evaluation techniques
for Anti-inflammatory, Antiulcer, Anticancer, Wound healing, Antidiabetic, Hepatoprotective, Cardio protective, Diuretics and
Antifertility, Toxicity studies as per OECD guidelines
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Welcome to TechSoup New Member Orientation and Q&A (May 2024).pdfTechSoup
In this webinar you will learn how your organization can access TechSoup's wide variety of product discount and donation programs. From hardware to software, we'll give you a tour of the tools available to help your nonprofit with productivity, collaboration, financial management, donor tracking, security, and more.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
1. Ms Taylor-Williams
What aspects of a film determine its genre? Refer to at least two films in
your answer
The main aspects that determine the genre of a film would be the
conventions, these are the constitute parts that are necessary in order for
films to be mass produced by the industry and in turn understood by the
audience. Conventions serve as a blueprint for genre films they are the
foundation for all genre films they can be adapted or deviated from
innovatively to add to a genres scope, or they can be stuck to rigidly in order
to guarantee financial success.
The horror genre is one as old as time, horror films are unsettling films
designed to frighten and panic, cause dread and alarm, and to invoke our
hidden worst fears, often in a terrifying, shocking finale, while captivating and
entertaining us at the same time in a cathartic experience. The main way that
horror films set out to do this is by utilising the conventions of horror. The
audience are familiar with these conventions and they expect to see them if a
film is classed as a horror.
Conventions that are used in a horror would be the use of a frightening place
the main setting of a horror film is set up as being a frightening place be, they
can sometimes be familiar place to both the characters and the audience
which makes them all the more unsettling. For example in the film Scream
(Craven, 1996) the film is set in a quiet American suburban town, the
characters probably walk the streets of the town daily without a care in the
world. This scene of tranquillity is shattered from the opening of the film when
the killer invades the home of the victim (Casey) the ‘home’ is supposed to be
somewhere where you feel safe, it’s not a place that should be invaded by
strangers. The opening of Scream is made more disconcerting by the fact that
the house is isolated and distanced from help. This sense of isolation and
secluded setting is often used in horror films, and the audience can relate to
this. It can also be found in films such as the Blair Witch Project (Sanchez,
1999), here the woods are the main settings and the characters are fearful of
what may be lurking in the darkness of the woods. Another film that creates a
sense of a frightening place and isolation would be Creep (Smith, 2004), it
takes the familiar public settings of a tube station and turns it into a lonely,
sinister place to be, a place where ‘things go bump in night’. Within this film
there is a sense of being trapped, a tube station to the audience is a transient
location you go in and you come out, but what happens if you can’t escape?
Another convention used to help the audience recognise a horror film would
be the use of iconography in a horror film this would most likely be the
weapons that are used to seal a victim’s fate by the killer. Although
iconography can also be religious symbols such as crosses, and related
Christian imagery, these images or iconic elements are usually immediately
recognisable to the audience and utilised again and again by the film industry.
Masks are quite frequently used in horror films for the sole purpose of hiding
the identity of the killer, this is used in films like Halloween (Carpenter, 1978),
where the killer Michael Myers wears a white mask to keep his face hidden
2. Ms Taylor-Williams
from his victims. The use of the mask is again seen in the Scream trilogy, the
scream mask influenced by the painting of the same name became an iconic
image of the 90s. Masks serve the purpose of disorienting the audience and
keeping the killers identity a secret until the climatic end. Knifes, and related
weapons are used by killers because they are intimate violent weapons. The
killers must attack from close quarters and often stabs many times,
heightening the fear and pain of the victim.
In addition to the conventions already mentioned the style of camerawork can
add to the recognition of the horror genre. The most popular shot being the
point of view shot, favoured in films such as Halloween, as well films such as
SAW, and Psycho (Hitchcock, 1960) these films utilised the point of view shot
by placing the audience in a voyeuristic position. In Halloween not only are
audience placed in the position of the killer (Michael Myers), but the point of
view shot serves to also hide the identity of the child killer. In Psycho the point
of view shot is use when Norman Bates uses a peep hole to spy on Marion
Crane as she undresses in the room next to his parlour. In the contemporary
horror film SAW the point of view shot is utilised though the use of CCTV,
possible adding to the contemporary ideology that in this day and age
everyone is being watched. The sole purpose of the point of view shot is to
place the audience in the characters shoes, whether it is the victims and in
this case the purpose is empathy or the killers where it serves as being either
shocking to the audience or to some it can be cathartic.
867 words (intro, and 3 conventions discussed)
I would continue in this same vain so that I have systematically gone
through all the conventions (genre elements) and provides sufficient
textual examples, not just sticking to 2 films but trying to utilise all case
studies as well as other horror films that I can draw on.
In a penultimate paragraph I would then bring in the discussion of
problematising some things that I have said possibly by saying –
‘although there are many elements and conventions that are utilised in
order to make a genre film such as horror recognisable to the
audience, sometime it can be hard to define a horror film as horror by
these elements alone…’
To conclude why we need conventions relating to audience and
industry and summarising that sometimes it can be hard to classify
genre films… but they all have a firm foundation etc.