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In 1994 Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman teamed together in Frank Darabont's The Shawshank Redemption making one of the best duos since Robert Redford and Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Based on Stephen King's short story Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption the film, although not popular in the box office, made its profits when released on VHS and DVD (Haviland). It is now listed as second in the top 250 films according to the Internet Movie Database. In this paper, I am going to examine The Shawshank Redemption to see if its rhetorical significance rests in its genre. The film falls into four major genres: escape film, prison film, social-drama film, and period piece. I will give a definition for each genre and examples showing that it does fit into each category.
Escape films are those which,
… involve the audience in the plight of either a wrongly accused man or an attractive criminal… (and) some of them, managed to combine an escape plot with bigger......

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