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In this article, the writer discusses that Celine Dion has spent her lifetime making music. She has been a successful performer who has, somehow, not lost sight of her responsibilities in her stardom. The writer maintains that although not the superstar she once was, her work has matured. The writer discusses that Celine has remained popular and admired by her fans, perhaps because of her image, rather than despite it. This paper examines her work through two of her videos and two of her songs.

From the Paper
"Celine Dion wanted to be a singer from early childhood, when she started her career by singing in her parents' piano bar. She has recorded music both in French and in English, she has undergone changes in her physical style and in her musical genres. And yet, through all of the changes that she has made, she has managed to remain true to her origins. She remains a primarily francophone (French-speaking) performer, who retains her Canadian identity. Celine has not been entirely without criticism. She has frequently been criticized for the musical themes of her albums, which have sometimes been ..."

Abstract
This paper examines performer, Celine Dion's career from 1990 to the present day. It begins by discussing a brief biography of her life and the beginning of her career. It then addresses the songs, styles and lyrics, as well as the videography that have characterized her music over this period. It particularly makes note of how women are represented in her music videos.

Table of Contents:
Biography
Songs, Style, and Lyrics
Videography
Conclusion

From the Paper
"These cut-away shots, in addition to telling the story, serve a purpose in the video-making process. Continuity editing, often seen in television and movies to establish fluidity of motion through an entire world, can be seen in some of the shots of people walking toward the store where people are gathering. However, the rest of the video seems to use brief clips consisting of only a few seconds at a time. This process, Carol Vernallis explains, is a music video technique used to keep the video story from overtaking the importance of the song (28). Vernallis explains that the most frequently seen setting for a woman in a music video is a domestic one (82). These videos do not place the singer in such a role; however, some of the dissatisfied women in the second video are seen in this setting."

Tags:videography, music, performer, clips

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"The character of Bardamu in Celine's novel Journey to the End of the Night takes a spiritual journey in the course of the novel, and the title indicates the direction in which this journey is directed. In the context of the novel, the author holds civilization in a variety of manifestations up to scrutiny and finds it rotten to the core. His hero lives in a world that is itself insane, and when he ends in an asylum, it is truly that--an asylum protecting him from the insane world on the outside, a world far more insane than anything found on the inside. Different aspects of Western civilization are represented in the novel, and in each the author shows through Bardamu's experiences how corrupt the system is at heart and how necessary it is to flee from it. The values held up as vital and paramount by the system are values the author does not prize and..."

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The paper illustrates how in Louis-Ferdinand Celine's book "Journey to the End of the Night", Ferdinand Bardamu travels the world and participates in delusions about it because he wishes to escape from the stupidity and hypocrisy of a moribund society. The paper explains how Bardamu's life has been filled with hallucinations and dreams since his memories of life are filled with the brutal cruelty that he finds unlivable. The paper then shows how ultimately, Bardamu comes to terms with life and death not through the escapism that has become so familiar to him, but through actually participating in life.

From the Paper
"In Louis-Ferdinand Celine's book Journey to the End of the Night, Ferdinand Bardamu travels the world and participates in delusions about it because he wishes to escape from the stupidity and hypocrisy of a moribund society. It's not that Ferdinand Bardamu's objective is to rid himself of society, its just that as Bardamu, as Havelock Ellis points out, is attempting to find stability and harmony as he compulsively moves towards a "schizoid tendency," finds himself losing "contact with reality" (431). In the process of finding himself, Bardamu is confronted with the oppressive disadvantages of his attitude toward life, and thus, he battles off romantic idealism and falls pry to an escapism of hallucinations and dreams that he experiences as psychic truth. Amidst these delusions, Bardamu struggles with the overwhelming facts of violence and death as the one true reality that exists in a decadent society."

Tags:Bardamu, delusions, hallucinations, reality

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In this paper, the author argues that, contrary to what is often assumed, Broadway has become more populist, not less. The author argues that, in spite of the spiraling cost of tickets to Broadway shows, the shows pander to the least demanding, most pedestrian of artistic sensibilities.

From the Paper
"It might be logical to surmise that because Broadway ticket prices have reached the dizzying heights of, say, tickets for major league baseball and football's better seats-in the neighborhood of $100 a ticket-the Broadway stage is becoming less populist, pricing theatergoers out of the velveteen seats. However, the opposite is closer to the truth. The higher those ticket prices go, the more populist the Broadway theater becomes."

Tags:populist, disney, studios, celine, dion, new, york, city, east, forties, feeder, houses