Airplane! - Film Log
... A bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved all intersect aboard an airplane. The movie also helped define some of the genre’s tropes as several stories weaved together against the backdrop of a plane in trouble. Earthquake ...
... A bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved all intersect aboard an airplane. The movie also helped define some of the genre’s tropes as several stories weaved together against the backdrop of a plane in trouble. Earthquake ...
film reviews - The University of Nottingham
... learning -- "It's useless" -- insolently dismisses his questions about where the village is -"Here, there, this way, that way" -- and ignites a disturbingly antagonistic relationship between helpless teacher and cocksure child. Then Reeboir comes across a whole group of boys, packs of contraband on ...
... learning -- "It's useless" -- insolently dismisses his questions about where the village is -"Here, there, this way, that way" -- and ignites a disturbingly antagonistic relationship between helpless teacher and cocksure child. Then Reeboir comes across a whole group of boys, packs of contraband on ...
Mulvey, Laura. 1997. "Visual pleasure and narrative cinema
... imaginary, but its point of reference continually returns to the traumatic moment of its birth: the castration complex. Hence the look, pleasurable in form, can be threatening in content, and it is woman as representation/image that crystallises this paradox. III. Woman as Image, Man as Bearer of th ...
... imaginary, but its point of reference continually returns to the traumatic moment of its birth: the castration complex. Hence the look, pleasurable in form, can be threatening in content, and it is woman as representation/image that crystallises this paradox. III. Woman as Image, Man as Bearer of th ...
McCarthyism and the Id: "Forbidden Planet" (1956) as a Veiled
... “monster,” which is a convention that extended into post-war science fiction films, having mostly a single “monster” (or some form of a monster) as antagonist. It is during the post-war era that science fiction began to take shape as an entirely new genre. William Johnson in his essay “Journey Into ...
... “monster,” which is a convention that extended into post-war science fiction films, having mostly a single “monster” (or some form of a monster) as antagonist. It is during the post-war era that science fiction began to take shape as an entirely new genre. William Johnson in his essay “Journey Into ...
"So Very," "So Fetch" - ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University
... academic study, the persistence of the category in both biological and discursive analysis suggests it is worthy of academic attention. The construction of this category is paradoxical. It is at once premeditated and unconscious, reflexively ironic and cruelly pejorative. The unstable nature of this ...
... academic study, the persistence of the category in both biological and discursive analysis suggests it is worthy of academic attention. The construction of this category is paradoxical. It is at once premeditated and unconscious, reflexively ironic and cruelly pejorative. The unstable nature of this ...
Excerpt taken from: Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides
... military pride. Such was the atmosphere in which the chorus sang lyrically of the greatness and beauty of Athens, and in which Medea declared that she would rather “stand three times behind/a shield in war than give birth to one child” (250-51). These words offer a startling challenge to contemporar ...
... military pride. Such was the atmosphere in which the chorus sang lyrically of the greatness and beauty of Athens, and in which Medea declared that she would rather “stand three times behind/a shield in war than give birth to one child” (250-51). These words offer a startling challenge to contemporar ...
The representation of the Colonial past in French and Australian
... The modern colonial period was officially closed on the 14th of December 1960, when the member states of the United Nations voted on a resolution intended to end colonisation in all its forms.12 The last countries remaining under the authority of a Western power and desiring independence gained it i ...
... The modern colonial period was officially closed on the 14th of December 1960, when the member states of the United Nations voted on a resolution intended to end colonisation in all its forms.12 The last countries remaining under the authority of a Western power and desiring independence gained it i ...
Jane Demmen_MA thesis_ word clusters in Shakespeare`s plays
... commentary on language and gender in the plays. Mine is a corpus-based stylistics study, i.e. one which utilises quantitative data derived by electronic means to address linguistic description in literary texts. Touching on all the areas mentioned by Crystal (2003:62), above, I will investigate how ...
... commentary on language and gender in the plays. Mine is a corpus-based stylistics study, i.e. one which utilises quantitative data derived by electronic means to address linguistic description in literary texts. Touching on all the areas mentioned by Crystal (2003:62), above, I will investigate how ...
AA 2006/2007 – AA 2008 - DSpace Home
... that they have always been depicted either as docile, subservient characters, or as threatening characters trying to harm white characters (such as, for instance, in Wide Sargasso Sea6) – and thus, in the latter case, condemned to annihilation by the white characters themselves. Obedience or annihil ...
... that they have always been depicted either as docile, subservient characters, or as threatening characters trying to harm white characters (such as, for instance, in Wide Sargasso Sea6) – and thus, in the latter case, condemned to annihilation by the white characters themselves. Obedience or annihil ...
Ennis_oregon_0171A_10300 - Scholars` Bank
... functions melodramatically to acknowledge these wounds. Gangster films are narratives in which moral legibility, a shared understanding of justice, simplifies a complex and confusing world, allowing an imaginative—but not imaginary—engagement with questions of self and other. This genre employs tro ...
... functions melodramatically to acknowledge these wounds. Gangster films are narratives in which moral legibility, a shared understanding of justice, simplifies a complex and confusing world, allowing an imaginative—but not imaginary—engagement with questions of self and other. This genre employs tro ...
Globalization and Hybridization
... assorted non-national cinemas with their specific aesthetic elements, audience formations and economies, Sarkar signals the possibility of “transnational cine-communities and media assemblages that displace an all-encompassing hegemonic mode” with the United States/Hollywood as its center. It is ver ...
... assorted non-national cinemas with their specific aesthetic elements, audience formations and economies, Sarkar signals the possibility of “transnational cine-communities and media assemblages that displace an all-encompassing hegemonic mode” with the United States/Hollywood as its center. It is ver ...
THE RECYCLING OF FILTH - Acumen
... manifests via allusions Almodóvar and Waters make to classical Hollywood movies and works created outside the Hollywood industry. This chapter defines what classical Hollywood films are as well as traces the references Almodóvar and Waters make to such works as Douglas Sirk’s melodramas and Michael ...
... manifests via allusions Almodóvar and Waters make to classical Hollywood movies and works created outside the Hollywood industry. This chapter defines what classical Hollywood films are as well as traces the references Almodóvar and Waters make to such works as Douglas Sirk’s melodramas and Michael ...
