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⇑English - Modernities - American & British Literature & Film at UCC

Language: English Studies in English

Subject area: languages

Qualification: Level 9 NFQ

Degree - Masters (Level 9 NFQ)

University website: www.ucc.ie/

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Film

A film, also called a movie, motion picture, theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still images that, when shown on a screen, create the illusion of moving images. (See the glossary of motion picture terms.)

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Literature

Literature, most generically, is any body of written works. More restrictively, literature writing is considered to be an art form, or any single writing deemed to have artistic or intellectual value, often due to deploying language in ways that differ from ordinary usage.

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Not even the church is so powerfully equipped to serve the public psychologically as is the motion picture company.

William Moulton Marston as quoted in Henry W. Levy's, "Professor to Cure Scenarios with Wrong Emotional Content: Dabbled in Movies While at Harvard; Now Sought By Hollywood with Offer of Favorable Contract", New York University News January 1929; The Secret History of Wonder Woman (2014) by Jill Lepore, p. 137.

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Literature

We cultivate literature on a little oat-meal.

Sydney Smith, Lady Holland's Memoir (1855), Volume I, p. 23.

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Literature

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.

Isaac D'Israeli, [The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius (1795-1822), Chapter XXIV.

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