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The Good, The Bad Or The Ideal And ‘The Other':

Faheem Abrahams
204021480
LMC410-semiotics and film
1st October 2007
Lecturer: Wozniak. J

The Good, The Bad or The Ideal and ‘The Other':
An essay on Hollywood cinema and its representations of Western or American social ideologies as mainstream culture while portraying the abject ‘other' as deviant or evil.

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"Since ancient times, people have been intrigued by the seductive powers of story-telling. In The Poetics, Aristotle distinguished between two types of fictional narratives: mimesis (showing) and diegesis (telling). Mimesis is the province of the live theatre, where the events "tell themselves." Diegisis, the province of the literary epic and the novel, is a story told by a narrator who is sometimes reliable, sometimes not. Cinema combines both forms of storytelling and......


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Approximate Word Count: 4465
Approximate Pages: 18 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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