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The Function of the "Gaze" in "Vertigo"

dizziness and dislocation. For most of the first 45 minutes of the film, Scottie (James Stewart) gazes at Madeleine (Kim Novak) f...

Film Analysis

In order to offer thorough analysis, Boggs and Petrie (2004) recommend seeing a movie at least twice. The first viewing can be dev...

Filmmaker Vittorio de Sica's The Bicycle Thief

influential example of neo-realism in the holistic sense and then examine this with reference to particular scenes and frames in t...

Russian Cinema Development

and entertainment for the evening. The entertainment was the cinematograph. Unfortunately, they severely misjudged the turn out fo...

Film and Sociology

and though it was assumed that there was corruption in the government, the optimism of the time suggested that it could be reverse...

Modern Literature, Films, and the 'Courage to Be'

calls affirming the power of being. The movie brings to mind the unanswered questions of where faith and belief are one in the sam...

Twentieth Century Leisure and Social Change in Great Britain

agriculture is a priority and employment patterns are dependent upon it, leisure is not only constrained by the amount of "spare t...

Globalization and Pop Culture

has with the spread and popularity of American movies. Hollywoods influence and reach has long extended beyond its own shores and...

Early American Cinema, 'The Other,' and Social Tensions

makes constitutes the "others" uniqueness. "The Other" inFilm The existence of "the other" has figured prominently throughout the...

Paranoia, McCarthyism, and Film Noir

in the destructive power of nuclear energy. Osteen (1994) points out that few events have affected the American psyche in a manne...

Feminist Cinema and Psychology

political insights that can be gleaned from any motion picture. The major differences between a journalistic approach to a movie c...

'Writing in Images' and Cinema

In three pages cinema is defined as 'writing in images' with differences between visual and written texts considered along with fi...

Cinema Persuasiveness

G-1). While such anecdotal evidence certainly suggests that films affect how we behave, the empirical evidence on this subject is ...

Contemporary Cinema and the Use of Cyborgs

twentieth century, people are all chimeras, or mythic hybrids of machine and organism, or cyborgs (Haraway, 1991). In Western sci...

Frame Concept and Cinematic Representation

surprise twist at the end - the camera, representing the subjective perspective of the audience, is "run over" by a car rather tha...

Architecture and Film Connection

only when the heart is wakened in this picture that buildings are destroyed and the human element is reintroduced. A later film ...

Object v. Spectator Types of Cinematic Gaze

is completely unique and no two are alike. Therefore, what takes place is a kind of power struggle between the subject and the ob...

Cinematic Depiction of Aliens

depicts the aliens as beings who represent communism and the fear of being consumed by such "thought." The aliens in this film ...

Stage Objections During the 1700s

film had prompted someone to commit heinous crimes. The other side claims that the society is violent and people want to see viole...

Robert Drew and the Development of Cinema Vérité (Direct Cinema) in America by P.J. O'Connell

In five pages this paper provides a textual overview of Robert Drew's life and career as a documentary filmmaker with his influenc...

Art of Cinema from 1948 to 1965

In nine pages the ways in which cinematic art changed surprisingly little during this time period despite some avant garde detours...

Cinema and Military Technology

In five pages this paper discusses the portrayal of nuclear warfare as it has evolved in films including Braveheart, Godzilla, Dr...

American Cinema, Historical and Education Ideology

In seven pages historical comparisons are made between the ways in which education is depicted in such films as Stand and Deliver,...

European Cinema and the Impact of Ingmar Bergman

the experience had a profound effect on him. At the theater, Bergman could immerse himself in the characters and the action and f...

Cinema Motif in The Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig

In 5 pages this paper examines how Molina and Valentin's relationship is enhanced by the author's use of motif in Manuel Puig's Th...

British Cinema and 'Otherness'

In eight pages this paper examines how 1980s and 1990s' British movies depicted 'otherness' with such films as Cold Fish, Blood, a...

Cinema and U.S. Immigration

In five pages the film El Norte's portrayal of immigration to the United States is presented in this overview. There is 1 source ...

Cinema and Heroes

typically be defined as a teacher, lawyer, politician, farmer, or family man who represents American ideas relative to collective...

Black Cinema in the 1940s

For example, one review, that is typical of those produced by white critics, described the typical Hollywood musical of the 1930s ...

Cinema and Sexuality

crisis of Lester Burnham, a subplot provides a telling commentary on way that homosexuality has been perceived in this culture. Th...