Rear Window DIRECTOR: Alfred Hitchcock YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 1954 COUNTRY: USA LANGUAGE: English Week 1: Discuss the relationship between spectators and cinema in relation to the film style of Rear Window by Alfred Hitchcock. Stam‚ Robert and Roberta Pearson‚ “Hitchcock’s Rear Window: Reflexivity and the Critique of Voyeurism‚” in Deutelbaum and Poague‚ eds‚ A Hitchcock Reader‚ 2nd ed‚ Chichester‚ UK. & Malden‚ MA: Wiley-Blackwell‚ 2009. Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear
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the Head and Artistic Amnesia in the Underworld John-James Ford’s Bonk on the Head illustrates the outlandish and exhausting journey of an ordinary man‚ which culminates in an ironic and irrecoverable downward spiral. The purpose of structuring a narrative in the symbolic framework of a descent is to emphasize its theme‚ which is very direct: “The general theme of descent‚ we say‚ was that of a growing confusion of identity and of restrictions to action” (Frye as per Hurley’s handout). This loss of
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Unreliable Memory in Memento Thesis: The unique narrative structure of the film and the leading role‚ Leonard Shelby in Memento prove that memory is unreliable. . In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies‚ Samneric saw something moving‚ something large‚ which in reality was the dead body of a parachutist. But in the darkness and out of fear‚ in Samneric’s memory‚ the parachutist became a beast with leathery wings‚ teeth‚ and claws. He even claimed that he ’saw it slinking behind the trees’. In
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Psychoanalytically‚ Anarchically‚ Socially and Self Consciously (as a audience member). I remember watching the film for the first time and being totally blown away with the overall concept. I fell right into all the right traps laid out within the narrative and every viewing thereafter just hasn’t been the same. However‚ watching this film again you start to spot all the clever little things that happen from the start to the finish; cinematic gestures‚ the timing of writing with mise en scene.. all
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McKay 1. Write an essay on ‘When Dawn Comes to the City’ Your answer should (a) briefly summarise the argument of the poem; and (b) comment on the form and language employed and the way they reflect the poem’s argument. 2. Write an essay on ‘Subway Wind’ Your answer should (a) briefly summarise the argument of the poem; and (b) comment on the form and language employed and the way they reflect the poem’s argument. 3. Write an essay on ‘The Tropics in New York’ Your answer should (a) briefly
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written narratives due to the added illustration‚ easily followed dialogue‚ foreign dialect‚ and its thought-provoking story line. Although graphic novels are frequently considered a form of pleasure reading‚ they are “slowly escaping the stereotype that they are picture books with no value to literacy instruction” (Watts). V for Vendetta managed to preserve the significance of a written narrative in addition to maintaining a fascinating story line. Day after day people read narratives‚ sometimes
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Narrative Research Storyboards A storyboard is a way of visually telling a story through the use of pictures in a panel like view. Story boards are usually created once a concept or script is written. A storyboard can also be used to plan and decide for the use of films and animations to decide what is going to be in each frame. This shows the theme of narrative through the use of connection of the frames. Story board can also be used in photography as a way to show a narrative or a story through
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to either James’ The Turn of the Screw or Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. As this is a short paper‚ be sure to narrow the theoretical focus of your application. For example‚ if you use narratology‚ you might choose to apply Chatman’s concepts of how narrative “records thought and feeling” or Bahktin’s ideas of “heteroglossia” but not both; if you work on postmodernism‚ you might focus on Lyotard’s theory of “metanarratives” or Baudrillard’s theory of “the simulacrum” but not both. The main purpose
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This essay will explore two of the characteristics of the classical Hollywood style‚ which is the narrative form(story telling) and the realism and formalism. The narrative form is the overall dominant style in cinema. It follows a set of parameters on how films should be put together. These rules are just basic common sense to the film creators and are what the viewer expects to see. The narrative form usually consists of many basic building blocks or elements. These elements will usually include
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to truly ‘become’ another individual. It follows the story of Craig Schwartz (John Cusack) and his experience of finding a portal that allows the user to ‘become’ the celebrity actor John Horatio Malkovich (played by John Malkovich). Within this narrative‚ the film also address ideas relating to cinema theory‚ especially in response to the appeal of film spectatorship as a mode of escapism through becoming someone else‚ and therefore the film can be classified as metacinematic. The appeal of cinema
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