In the opening minutes of the PBS Frontline documentary abou…

In the opening minutes of the PBS Frontline documentary about the protests and subsequent violent conflict in Charlottesville, Virginia, the narrator states that the film seeks to investigate hate groups in the U.S. This indicates that the film has a(n) _____ rhetorical position.

In The Graduate, the scenes in which Mrs. Robinson seduces B…

In The Graduate, the scenes in which Mrs. Robinson seduces Benjamin at her home and they first meet at the hotel include every action and line of dialogue. However, their subsequent affair is condensed to convey how routine it becomes. This is an example of how _____ helps to tell a film’s story.

As evidenced by Daniel Day Lewis’ win for My Left Foot (1989…

As evidenced by Daniel Day Lewis’ win for My Left Foot (1989), Jamie Foxx’s win for Ray (2004), Natalie Portman’s win for Black Swan (2010), and Eddie Redmayne’s win for The Theory of Everything (2015), to name only a few, the Motion Picture Academy loves to give Oscars to starring performances in _____ melodramas.

When characters are separated from each other and involved i…

When characters are separated from each other and involved in their own adventures before ultimately reuniting – in, for example, epics such as The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) and Avengers: Endgame (2019) – this is a temporal pattern called _____.