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CULTURE
CINEMA
COMICS
CULTURE
The culture of the United States of America is a Western
culture, having been originally influenced by European
cultures. It has been developed since long before the United
States became a country with its own unique social and
cultural characteristics such as dialect, music, arts, social
habits, cuisine, and folklore. Today the United States of
America is an ethnically and racially diverse country as result
of large-scale immigration from many different countries
throughout its history.
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COMICS
An American comic book is a small magazine originating in the United
States and containing a narrative in the form of comics. Since 1975 the
dimensions have standardized at 6 ⅝" x 10 ¼" (17 x 26 cm), down from 6
¾" x 10 ¼" in the Silver Age, although larger formats appeared in the past.
Since the invention of the modern comic book format in 1933, the
United States has produced the most examples, with only the British comic
(during the inter-war period and up until the 1970s), the Italian fumetti and
the Japanese manga as close competitors in terms of quantity.
Fumetti
Manga
British Comic
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CINEMA
The cinema of the United States, also known as Hollywood, has had
a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th
century. Its history is sometimes separated into four main periods: the
silent film era, classical Hollywood cinema and the New Hollywood.
Since the 1920s, the American film industry has grossed more money
every year than that of any other country.
New Hollywood
Silent film
Classical Hollywood
Cinema
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Fumetti
An italian word which refers to all comics.
In English, the term refers specifically to
photonovels or photographic comics, a
genre
of
comics
illustrated
with
photographs rather than drawings.
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Manga
Is the Japanese word for "comics" and
consists of comics and print cartoons. In
the west, the term "Manga" has been
appropriated to refer specifically to comics
created in Japan, or by Japanese auteurs,
in the Japanesse language and conforming
to the style developed in Japan in the late
19th century.
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British Comic
A British comic is a periodical published
in the United Kingdom that contains
comic strips. It is generally referred to as
a comic or a comic magazine, and
historically as a comic paper.
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Silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized
recorded sound, especially spoken dialogue. In
silent films for entertainment the dialogue is
transmitted
through
muted
gestures,
pantomime and title cards. The idea of
combining motion pictures
with recorded
sound is nearly as old as film itself, but
because of the technical challenges involved,
synchronized dialogue was only made practical
in the late 1920s.
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New Hollywood
New Hollywood or post-classical
Hollywood, sometimes referred to as the
"American New Wave", refers to the
time from roughly the mid-1960s to the
early 1980s when a new generation of
young filmmakers came to prominence
in America, influencing the types of films
produced, their production and
marketing, and impacted the way major
studios approached filmmaking.
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Classical Hollywood Cinema
Classical
Hollywood
cinema
or
the classical Hollywood narrative, are
terms used in film history which
designates both a visual and sound style
for making motion pictures and a mode
of production used in the American film
industry between roughly the 1910s and
the 1960s.
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QUESTION #1
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Which are the unique social and cultural
characteristics of the United States?
Dialect, music, arts, social habits, cuisine, and folklore
Paint, cars, animals, people and cd’s
Balloons, circus, clowns, and hot dogs
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QUESTION # 2
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The fumetti are from:
Japan
Italy
France
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Wrong!
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QUESTION # 3
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manga consists on:
Tales and images
Comics and print cartoons
Stories and pictures
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Wrong!
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QUESTION #4
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The British Comics are published in:
United States
United Kingdom
United Nations
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Wrong!
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