Rear Window Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: James Stewart‚ Grace Kelley‚ Wendell Corey‚ Thelma Ritter‚ Raymond Burr Screenplay: John Michael Hayes based on a short story “It Had to be Murder” by Cornell Woolrich published 1942 Cinematography: Robert Burks Music: Franz Waxman Paramount Pictures Use of Subjective point of view. Someone said there are two kinds of people in the world‚ there are people who
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The critically acclaimed‚ private eye‚ "blaxploitation" film Shaft‚ directed by Gordon Parks‚ can be described as a "fresh"‚ "hip"‚ and described by the New York Times one of the best 1‚000 movies made. The movie opens with private eye John Shaft walking around New York city ’s Time Square‚ only to visit a shoe shine parlor where he is informed that two armed thugs from Uptown are looking for him. The police Lieutenant Vic Androzzi is also informed about the thugs and comes to question Shaft at the
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Hitchcock’s Rear Window is often remembered due to its stark display of voyeurism and the moral ambiguities it provides. The main character‚ Jeff‚ is immobilized for the summer and in order to pass the time begins to follow the lives of his neighbors by spying on them. The obvious response is that this is spying and is thus immoral‚ however through his voyeurism Jeff is able to catch a murderer who would have otherwise gone free. However‚ beyond the voyeur exterior‚ Rear Window depicts the growth
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To: Professor Kandil From: Brittany Tucci RE: Bob v. Uncle- Defenses for Uncle Date: April 29‚ 2015 Question Presented What defenses may Uncle assert and with what chances of winning? Short Answer Uncle can assert defenses such as: (1) No consideration was present; (2) a conditional gift was intended; and (3) intent. Statement of Facts Bob was working as a bartender when he was accepted into a two year program at NYU. Bob’s Uncle stated that if Bob survived his first year of grad school he would
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Cas : « Paul Hardy » Question analyse : « Est-ce que Paul a été une victime ou est-ce que l’entreprise a été victime de Paul » ? À mon avis‚ on ne peut pas accepter la supposition que l’entreprise a été la victime de Paul. Il aurait du être vire y avait longtemps‚ mais ils peuvent pas faire ça parce que il y a des règlements qui doivent être suivis. La faute appartient probablement à son ancien directeur de Coventry‚ qui n’avait pas fait aucune inscription dans son dossier‚ préférant de le
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The insistent realism of Don DeLillo’s ‘Falling Man’ and Paul Auster’s ‘Man in the Dark’ by Ugo Panzani During the last decade‚ many theorists and writers have remarked the peculiar fictionalisation of the facts of 9/11. For instance‚ as Salman Rushdie explains‚ “we all crossed a frontier that day‚ an invisible boundary between the imaginable and the unimaginable‚ and it turned out to be the unimaginable that was real” (Rushdie 2002: 436-437). Martin Amis pointed out that September 11
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Assess contribution of Prime Minister Paul Keating to the development of Australia and it’s society Prime Minister Paul Keating’s legislations and leadership has led to the development of Australia and it’s society. Keating’s vision was to create a republic of equal citizens. He aimed to achieve this through legislations reconciling our relationship with Indigenous Australians‚ building economic ties with Asia-Pacific region and improving the workforce. Ultimately‚ Keating’s vision led to significant
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Topic: State the main points of Marcuse ’s critique of Sartre‚ and consider the grounds on which Sartre might defend himself. Could Sartre succeed? Herbert Marcuse ’s critique of Sartre in Existentialism: Remarks on Jean-Paul Sartre ’sL ’Etre et le Neant is based on the claim that Sartre ’s method is ontologically impure‚ in that its account of the nature of consciousness is in fact abstracted from historical factors. This criticism was not specific to Sartre. Marcuse ’s approach is rooted firmly
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English Speech Goodmorning. Today I will be talking to you about how history and memory are depicted in Peter Carey’s True History of the Kelly Gang‚ and James Cameron’s 1997 film Titanic. Both texts depend heavily on fictionalised historical figures to tell their stories through memory. And both leave us with suspicions about their historical accuracy. In this speech I will be exploring these two texts through five main points * The difference in believability between a novel and a film
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NKEM PAUL ANUAOBONG 12 Ayodele street Abule-oja‚ Akoka ‚ Yaba Lagos State. Tel: 08068250426‚ and 08023642375 ❖ Nationality: Nigerian ❖ Date of Birth: 12th June.‚ 1982 ❖ Place of Birth: Yaba‚ Lagos State ❖ Sex: Male ❖ State of Origin: Akwa-Ibom ❖ Local Government Area: Uruan ❖ Marital Status: Single LA/08B/5569 IGNATZ NIGERIA LIMITED Engineer 44‚ King George V Onikan‚ Lagos. (PLACE OF PRIMARY ASSIGNMENT)
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