Filippo Tommaso Marinetti was an important Italian writer and political activist, and he is considered one of the founders of the Futurism Movement. Born on the 22nd December 1876, Filippo spent his childhood in Alexandria, in Egypt, together with his parents Enrico Marinetti and Amalia Grolli, who were consultants in Law for foreign companies in […]

A metaphor is a figure of speech mostly used to make a comparison by using figurative elements that allows readers to apprehend the conveyed meaning. A metaphor can be easily distinguished of a comparison by the lack of the use of direct comparative term (for example, “like” or “as”), and also because it establishes a […]

Like there are countless definitions for the term “music”, there is also various ways to subdivide this concept. Music genres are, above wall, a form to group several kinds of music according to their main characteristics. However, this divisions are not clear and closed, and they depend mostly of the chosen criteria and subjective opinion […]

“Notes from Underground” is one of the books written by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. In some translations, the title of the book can appear as “Letters from the Underworld”, since there isn’t one title defined as official. Published for the first time in 1864, the is the 7th book of the writer, and the […]

The plot, or storyline, can be generally described as the total of facts that form a story, being because of that an inherent part of any narrative, whether in literature, theatre or cinema. The plot is therefore the development of the action, the story being told, the connection between all of the parts that constitute […]

Prolepsis, or flash forward, is a narrative technique to which an author resorts to describe events that occur in a period of time that corresponds to the future of the present time of the story. The utilization of this technique is very common both in literature and cinema, and it can be used in theatre […]

Within the audiovisual and show industry, a prop can be defined as an object that is used in movies, series or theatre plays, and that is an essential part of the set, making it more real; sometimes a prop can even have an important role for the narrative. The props are essential and indispensable for […]

Raccord is a cinematic technique that ensures the continuity between different scenes, so it can be described as a form of connection between the last images of a shot and the first images of the next shot[1]. The term raccord is French, but it is also used in many different languages to transmit the idea […]

Joanne Rowling, best known as J. K. Rowling, is an English writer who became internationally famous by the “Harry Potter” saga. The author was born in 1965 in Yate, England. Coming from a middle-class family, Rowling has revealed an interest in writing from an early age, and she started to write some short stories during […]

Cinema is widely known since its beginning as “the movement image”, and in fact movement in one of the main foundations for every movie filmed. In cinema, there are two types of crucial movements that are present in each single movie there is, namely scene movements and camera movements.   Scene movements In a movie, […]