Cutting the Body: Representing Woman in Baudelaire’s Poetry‚ Truffaut’s Cinema‚ and Freud’s Psychoanalysis. Eliane Françoise DalMolin. University of Michigen Press‚ 2006 Her riddle at the beginning…lures its listeners into the darkness of her femininity (60) The audience…become the infant-subject trapped by a maternal voice…a vocal fantasy for the blinded spectators (60) The narrator in the song‚ the ‘I’ is male (63) the narrator (voice-off) is also male! She is the female voice singing
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Gangster Auteurs In order to be a great author‚ you have to be able to show your originality from the other creators. Here‚ in the cinema field‚ more specifically in the Gangster genre you have to be able to impress the viewers‚ you have to make them entering a world that they never seen before and they have to believe that world. The atmosphere in a Gangster genre film is really interesting to analyze due to the author capacity to place an environment of fear‚ excitation‚ violence and inhumanity
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This essay will take an in-depth look at the history of Hollywood during the late 60s and early 70s. This period of time is considered to have been a renaissance for American cinema‚ and was titled the ‘New Hollywood’ by cotemporary critics of the time. In order to understand the changes that Hollywood went through the late ‘60s‚ you first have to examine the preceding era of Hollywood filmmaking during the 30s and 40s. This was a period that is commonly referred to as Hollywood’s Golden Age; when
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"The normal is the good smile in a child’s eyes—all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults. It both sustains and kills—like a God" (Shaffer 62). Normality exists in a medical textbook; weight of this number‚ intelligence quotient of this quantity‚ social functioning of this quality. Alan Strang and Victor of Aveyron fail to meet standards of normality. In Peter Shaffer’s Equus‚ Dr. Martin Dysart attempts to normalize his patient Alan. In François Truffaut’s L’Enfant Sauvage (1970)‚
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appreciate the freedom to read books. It explores the theme of having a negative dystopian society that is controlled by a ruling government and the censorship of books. Fourteen years later the book was adapted into a movie version directed by Francois Truffaut. The movie was made so that readers have a visual way to look at it rather than reading it. There were major differences in the movie which excluded important details provided by the book‚ concerning the characters‚ and the advanced technology. Even
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of people who have lost touch with their humanity and history while allowing themselves to become victims of propaganda and censorship. These people have become mindless and naïve. The science fiction film Fahrenheit 451 was directed by François Truffaut. This film predicted that the future is to become greatly dependent on technology implications for immediate happiness. The fact that the growth of television and technology has driven the people not to read has become a deficit to society. Seeing
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French Film Noir: Touchez pas au Grisbi and Ascenseur pour l’échafaud Azaria Wassyihun Film Noir is often regarded as a uniquely American phenomenon. The particular context these films were produced in‚ marked by the post-war period‚ infused these films with a unique style Hollywood had never encountered before. America might have been the adequate setting for this unique phenomenon to occur‚ but film noir would not be the same without it’s international aspects. Famous Austrian born directors
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turned into disappointing movies by changing the great meaningful story the original author had written into a shallow script. Fahrenheit 451 is a book written by Ray Bradbury in 1953‚ which was turned into a movie adapted and directed by François Truffaut in 1966. The story revolves around a fireman named Guy Montag that lives in a society that censors books. Firemen in the book are peopling that burn books and houses with books in them‚ which is the complete opposite of what firemen really do. During
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From the diaries of Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard‚ The Wild Child is a movie made in 1970‚ with a setting in France from the18th century‚ and based on a child who had lived in nature his whole life without any human contact. Itard‚ a well known French doctor for working with deaf-mutes‚ had taken in this feral child under his care for the purposes of his studies on the child’s intellectual and social education. Given the time period of the movie Itard had taken the "wild-child" in under his own care‚
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400 BLOWS The movie 400 BLOWS is about a young boy named Antoine who was very unfortunate. The movie was directed by Francios Truffaut‚ and takes place in France and was released on May 4‚ 1959. The boy‚ Antoine‚ was raised in a very unstable home and after being treated poorly for so long‚ runs away and gets into lots of trouble. In the beginning of the film Antoine’s parents were not very supportive and very inconsistent. Antoine was very independent and was perhaps trying to grow up too fast
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