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Camille Paglia - Influences on Paglia's work. Scholars, critics and other writers whose work has strongly influenced Paglia's thought included: Gaston Bachelard Simone de Beauvoir Harold Bloom Brigid Brophy Norman O. Brown Kenneth Clark Patrick Dennis Leslie Fiedler James George Frazer Sigmund Freud Germaine Greer Jane Ellen Harrison Carl Jung G. Wilson Knight D. H. LawrenceSee also:

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Debussy's music has been used countless times in film and television. Clair de lune is especially popular. The piece was used in The Right Stuff, Philip Kaufman's film about a NASA space program. Recently Ocean's Eleven featured Clair de lune during the final minutes of the film, accompanying the graceful fountains in front of the Bellagio hotel and casino. The British horror movie Dog Soldiers used Clair de lune for comical effect; in the film the light of the moon ('clair de lune' in French) is to ...

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Claude Debussy, Claude Debussy - Life and Work, Claude Debussy - Early life and studies, Claude Debussy - The first masterpieces, Claude Debussy - Pelléas et Mélisande, Claude Debussy - Orchestral music: Les nocturnes La Mer Images, Claude Debussy - Music for piano, Claude Debussy - Le martyre de St. Sébastien Jeux and a second volume of Preludes, Claude Debussy - Late music: En blanc et noir the Etudes and the three Sonatas, Claude Debussy - Musical style, Claude Debussy - Debussy in film and pop culture, Claude Debussy - Notable compositions, Claude Debussy - Piano, Claude Debussy - Two pianos or piano four hands, Claude Debussy - Opera, Claude Debussy - Cantatas, Claude Debussy - Orchestral, Claude Debussy - Music for solo instruments and orchestra, Claude Debussy - Chamber music, Claude Debussy - Media, Claude Debussy - References and links, Claude Debussy - References, Claude Debussy - Further Reading, Claude Debussy - External links

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Camille Paglia - Sexual Personae. The two-volume manuscript of Sexual Personae was completed in February 1981 and then rejected by seven publishers and five agents throughout the 1980s before its final acceptance by Ellen Graham for Yale University Press in 1985. For the next few years, she continued to teach while perfecting volume one of the book for its eventual publication in February 1990 and releasing a few additional por ...

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Main article: Electronic art music Technological advances in the 20th century enabled composers to use electronic means of producing sound. This took several forms: some composers simply incorporated electronic instruments into relatively conventional pieces. Olivier Messiaen, for example, used the ondes martenot in a number of works. Other composers abandoned conventional instruments and used magnetic tape to create music, recording sounds and then manipulating them in some way. Pierre Schaeffer was the pioneer of such ...

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Particularly in the early part of the century, many composers wrote music which was an extension of 19th century Romantic music. Harmony, though sometimes complex, was tonal, and traditional instrumental groupings such as the orchestra and string quartet remained the most usual. Traditional forms such as the symphony and concerto remained in use. (See Romantic Music) Many prominent composers — among them Dmitri Kabalevsky, Dmitri Shostakovich and Benjamin Britten — made significant advances in style and technique while still emplo ...

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20th century classical music - Post-modernity's birth. Post-modernity can be said to be a response to modernism which asserts that the products of human activity — particularly manufactured or created by artifice — are the central subject for art itself, and that the purpose of art is to focus people's attention on objects for contemplation, as composer-critic Steve Hicken explained it. This strain of modernism looks backward to the dada school of art exemplified by Duchamp, and to the collage of "concrete" m ...

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20th century classical music, 20th century classical music - Romantic style, 20th century classical music - Modernism, 20th century classical music - The Second Viennese School atonality and serialism, 20th century classical music - Free dissonance and experimentalism, 20th century classical music - Neoclassicism, 20th century classical music - Post-modern music, 20th century classical music - Post-modernity's birth, 20th century classical music - Minimalism, 20th century classical music - Electronic music, 20th century classical music - Jazz-influenced composition, 20th century classical music - Other

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Sometimes a hen will stop laying and instead will focus on the incubation of eggs, a state that is commonly known as going broody. A broody chicken will sit fast on the nest, and protest if disturbed or removed, and will rarely leave the nest to eat, drink, or dust bathe. While broody, the hen keeps the eggs at a constant temperature and humidity, as well as turning the eggs regularly. At the end of the incubation period, which is an average of 21 days, the eggs (if fertilized) will hatch, and the broody hen will take care of h ...

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Male chickens are known as roosters (in the U.S., Canada and Australia), cockerels, or cocks. Female chickens are known as hens, or 'chooks' in Australasian English. Roosters can be differentiated from hens by their striking plumage, marked by long flowing tails and bright pointed feathers on their necks. Both the male and female have distinctive wattles and combs. These organs help to cool the bird by redirecting bloodflow to the skin. In males, the combs are often more p ...

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Hitchcock was in his mid-twenties, and a professional film director, before he'd ever drunk alcohol or been on a date. His films sometimes feature male characters struggling in their relationships with their mothers. In North by Northwest (1959), Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant's character) is an innocent man ridiculed by his mother for insisting that shadowy, murderous men are after him (in this case, they are). In The Birds (1963), the Rod Taylor character, an innocent man, finds his world under attack by vicious birds, and strug ...

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Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred Hitchcock - Biography, Alfred Hitchcock - Early life, Alfred Hitchcock - Pre-war British career, Alfred Hitchcock - Hollywood, Alfred Hitchcock - Peak years and decline, Alfred Hitchcock - Themes and devices, Alfred Hitchcock - His character and its effects on his films, Alfred Hitchcock - His style of working, Alfred Hitchcock - Awards, Alfred Hitchcock - Quotations, Alfred Hitchcock - Other notes, Alfred Hitchcock - Filmography, Alfred Hitchcock - Silent films, Alfred Hitchcock - Sound films, Alfred Hitchcock - Television episodes, Alfred Hitchcock - Frequent collaborators

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Hitchcock had trouble giving proper credit to the screenwriters who did so much to make his visions come to life on the screen. Gifted writers worked with him, including Raymond Chandler and John Michael Hayes, but rarely felt they had been treated as equals. Hitchcock once commented, "The writer and I plan out the entire script down to the smallest detail, and when we're finished all that's left to do is to shoot the film. Actually, it's only when one enters the studio that one enters the area of compromise. Really, the novelist has ...

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded Hitchcock the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, in 1967. However, despite 6 earlier nominations, he never won an Oscar in a contested category. His unsuccessful Oscar nominations were: for Best Director: Rebecca (1940), Lifeboat (1944), Spellbound (1945), Rear Window, and Psycho; and as a producer, for Best Picture: Suspicion (1941). However Rebecca, which Hitchcock did direct, won the 1940 Best Picture Oscar for its producer David O. Selznick. Three other films Hitchcock directed were ...

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Hitchcock preferred the use of suspense over surprise in his films. In surprise, the director assaults the viewer with frightening things. In suspense, the director tells or shows things to the audience which the characters in the film do not know, and then artfully builds tension around what will happen when the characters finally learn the truth. Further blurring the moral distinction between the innocent and the guilty, occasionally making this indictment clear, Hitchcock also makes voyeurs of his "respectable" audience. In Rear ...

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Plato, Xenophon, and Aristotle are the main sources for the historical Socrates; however, Xenophon and Plato, were direct disciples of Socrates, and presumably, they idealize him; however, they wrote the only continuous descriptions of Socrates that have come down to us. Aristotle refers frequently, but in passing, to Socrates in his writings. Socrates - The Socratic Dialogues. The Socratic dialogues are a series of dialogues written by Plato and Xenophon in the form of discussions between Socrates ...

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Socrates lived during the time of the transition from the height of the Athenian Empire to its decline after its defeat by Sparta and its allies in the Peloponnesian War. At a time when Athens was seeking to stabilize and recover from its humiliating defeat, the Athenian public court was induced by three leading public figures to try Socrates for impiety and for corrupting the youth of Athens. This was a time in culture when the Greeks thought of gods and goddesses as being associated with protecting particular cities. Athens, for instance, ...

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From 1955 to 1965, Hitchcock was the host and producer of a long-running television series entitled Alfred Hitchcock Presents. While his films had made Hitchcock's name strongly associated with suspense, the TV series made Hitchcock a celebrity himself. His irony-tinged voice, image, and mannerisms became instantly recognizable and were often the subject of parody. He directed a few episodes of the TV series himself and he upset a number of movie production companies when he insisted on using his TV production crew to produce his moti ...

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(all dates are for release) Alfred Hitchcock - Silent films. No. 13 (Unfinished, also known as Mrs. Peabody) (1922) Always Tell Your Wife (Uncredited) (1923) The Pleasure Garden (1925) The Mountain Eagle (1926) The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) Downhill (1927) Easy Virtue (1928), based on a Noel Coward play The Ring (1927), an original story by Hitchcock. The Farmer's ...

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The Second British Invasion began around 1982, and peaked in 1985. A decade following the first invasion, the UK based Punk movement resulted in another influx of raw, iconoclastic UK bands and artists, such as the Sex Pistols, the Clash, and Elvis Costello. As in 1963, the mainstream music market of 1975 had become heavily commercialized and formulaic, and the Punk movement was a strong rebellion against this trend. Punk had a huge and lasting artistic influence on the popular music scene, but it never matched the broad commercial im ...

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The Britpop movement of the middle 1990s can be seen as a direct continuation of the original British Invasion of the 1960s, mixed with music of the 70s and 80s, although unlike the Invasion, Britpop never achieved the same degree of international popularity. Most of the bands weren't as popular outside as they were in Britain. Nevertheless a few like Oasis, Radiohead, Pulp and Blur have managed to break through into ...

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Herrmann is still a prominent figure in the world of film music today, despite his passing 30 years ago. As such, his career has been studied extensively by biographers and documentarians. In 1992 a documentary, Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann, was made about him. In 1991, Steven C. Smith wrote a Herrmann biography entiteled A Heart at Fire's Center, a quote from a favorite Stephen Spender poem of Herrmann's. His music continues to be used in films and recordings after his death; his score for the 1968 film Twi ...

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Bernard Herrmann, Bernard Herrmann - Early Life and Career, Bernard Herrmann - Collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock, Bernard Herrmann - Other Works, Bernard Herrmann - Use of Electronic Instruments, Bernard Herrmann - Compositional Style and Philosophy, Bernard Herrmann - Legacy, Bernard Herrmann - Film scores, Bernard Herrmann - External link

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Herrmann's music is typified by frequent use of ostinati (short repeating patterns), novel orchestration and, in his film scores, an ability to portray character traits not altogether obvious from other elements of the film. In the last years of Herrmann's life he did much to create interest in film scores as a form of music worthy of appreciation and performance. He subscribed to the belief since held by many that movie music can stand on its own legs when detached from the film for which it was originally written. To this end he made several well-known recordings for Decca of arrangemen ...

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Hermann is most closely associated with the director Alfred Hitchcock. He wrote the scores for every Hitchcock film from The Trouble with Harry (1956) to Marnie (1964), a period which included Vertigo and North by Northwest. He oversaw the sound design in The Birds (1963), although there was no actual music in the film as such, just electronically created bird sounds. The music for the remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) was only partly by Herrmann. The two most significant pieces of mu ...

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From the late 1950s into the 1960s, Herrmann scored a series of fantasy films, including Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, Jason & the Argonauts, Mysterious Island, and The Three Worlds of Gulliver. During the same period, Herrmann turned his talents to writing scores for television shows. Perhaps most notably, he wrote the scores for several well-known episodes of the original "Twilight Zone" series, including the lesser k ...

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