martes, 4 de junio de 2013

Movies of 1920's

The 1920s saw a vast expansion of Hollywood film making and worldwide film going.throughout the decade, film production increasingly focused on the feature film rather than the "short" or "two-reeler". Paramount was the highest-grossing studios During the period, With Fox, Universal, United Artists, and Warner Brothers making up a large part of the remaining market.

Stylistically, the Influence of German Expressionism, Soviet Montage Editing, and Realism aesthetic made ​​profound changes to film over the course of the decade. A more artistic approach to composition on the screen shifted Earlier filmmaking away from its obsession with showing the world "as it is." By the mid-to-late-1920s, the silent "art film" was on the rise With Some of the greatest silent film achievements.


With sound, the concept of the musical Appeared time immediately, as in The Jazz Singer of 1927, Because silent films had been Accompanied by music for years When Projected in theaters. Also Sound Greatly changed the Hollywood approach to storytelling, With more dependence on dialogue and less creative use of the visual element.
Also, in 1927, the International Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was formed. Later, "International" was removed from the name. Today, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is Most Famous for its annual presentation of The Academy Awards, Also known as the Oscars.




lunes, 3 de junio de 2013

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Fitzgerald


Widely Regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is Considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. He finished four novels: Ris Side of Paradise, The beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, Tender Night and fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon.









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Zelda Sayre
Fitzgerald was commissioned a second lieutenant in the infantry and Assigned to Camp Sheridan outside of Montogomery, Alabama. While at a country club, Fitzgerald met and fell in love with Zelda Sayre the daughter of an Alabama Supreme Court justice and the "golden girl," in Fitzgerald's terms, of Montgomery youth society.Zelda accepted his marriage proposal, but after some time and DESPITE working at an advertising firm and writing short stories, I was unable to convince her That I would Be Able to support her, leading her to break off the engagement.





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Hemingway


Paris in the 1920s proved Please The most influential decade of Fitzgerald's development. Fitzgerald made several excursions to Europe, mostly Paris and the French Rivera and Became friends with many members of the American expatriate community in Paris, Ernest Hemingway Notably. Fitzgerald's friendship with Hemingway was quite vigorous, as many of Fitzgerald's relationships would prove to be. Hemingway did not get on well with Zelda. In Addition to Describing her as "insane" I Claimed That She "Encouraged her husband to drink so as to distract Fitzgerald from his work on his novel.






Although Fitzgerald's passion lay in writing novels, only his first novel sold well enough to support the opulent lifestyle ADOPTED That He and Zelda as New York celebrities. (The Great Gatsby, now Considered to be his masterpiece, did not Become popular until after Fitzgerald's death.) Because of this lifestyle, as well as the bills from Zelda's medical care When They came, Fitzgerald was Constantly in financial trouble and Often required loans from his literary agents .. The book went through many versions, the first of Which was to be a story of matricide. Some critics Have Seen the book as a thinly-veiled autobiagraphical novel recounting Fitzgerald's problems with his wife, the corrosive effects of wealth and a decadent lifestyle, his own egoism and self-confidence, and his Continuing alcoholism. Indeed, Fitzgerald was extremely protective of his "material" (ie, Their life together). When Zelda wrote and sent to Scribner's her own fictional version of Their Lives in Europe, Save Me The Waltz Fitzgerald was angry and was Able to make some changes prior to the novel's publication, and convince her doctors to keep her from writing any more about what I called his "material of" which included relationship.schizophrenia Their struck Zelda in 1930. Remained Her fragile emotional health for the rest of her life.



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Graham
In 1937, Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood, and I made his highest annual income Malthus far of $ 29757.87 Fitzgerald had been an alcoholic since his college days, and Became notorious During the 1920s for his extraordinarily heavy drinking, leaving him in poor health by the late 1930s . According To Zelda's biographer,



Fitzgerald experienced a dizzy spell and had trouble leaving the theater; upset, I said to Graham, "They think I am drunk, do not they?"
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Culver 
The Following day, as Fitzgerald ate a candy bar and made notes in his newly arrived Princeton Alumni Weekly, Graham saw him jump from his armchair, grab the mantelpiece, gasp, and fall to the floor. She ran to the manager of the building, Harry Culver, founder of Culver City. Upon entering the apartment to assist Fitzgerald, I Stated, "I'm afraid he's dead." Fitzgerald had died of a heart attack. His body was moved to the Pierce Brothers Mortuary.







MY OPINION:
Scott was one of the greates writers of his era because he describe in exact words what the 20's were. Fitzgerald was part of the "Lost Generation" movement and the way wrote was ver exact of what you will expect a writer of that movement to be. In his stories you can sense the great he was by narrating so peculiar the events and that makes him a great writter.




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._Scott_Fitzgerald

viernes, 31 de mayo de 2013

Music and Culture

Music has influence my life in a lot of terms. For example, when im doing my homework I have to listen to music to ve more efficient. There is no place where I go without listening to my music with my headphones. Music can make me feel motivated, energetic, happy, inspired, sad , or even more creative. It has influece me by dicovering many diferent styles of rythms and beats from all around the world.

This influence my culture by choosing what music I like and having the groups of people Im going to be around with. The styles that i listen will determine my culture and preferences. Thats how music determine your culture ;).

viernes, 3 de mayo de 2013

My simbol- OTAKU SIMBOL





OTAKU
Clannad (from left to right-Okasaki
Tomoya and Nagisa Furukawa)

The term is a loanword from the Japanese language. In Inglés, Typically it is used to refer to an obsessive fan of anime / manga, Japanese video games, and / or Japanese culture in general. Term used to refer to People with obsessive interests, Particularly (but not limited to) anime and manga, also as playing video games and sci-fi generate: such as in movies and books. Otaku is derived from a Japanese term for another person's house or family in japanese the word is written --- ,
Vocaloids(Japanese music group)

It has a meaning for me because i `ma huge fan of anime series, for me its looking very entretaining working at the japanese art of manga, transforming into a series with great music, efects and animetion. There are a lot of stereotypes for the People that watches them but many of them are true, They are as ordinary as everyone else can be They are as fun as everyone else, and They are learning a new language by watching anime, So They Become more capable in learning new things. They even have Which Their international day is on december the 15th