determined and stare intensely towards the camera. Through this black-and-white image‚ the viewer can see a set of symbols it contains that represent the Muslim culture: veil‚ rifle‚ calligraphy and gaze‚ and all of them are able to convey ambivalent attitudes. Denotative meanings: veil‚ rifle‚ calligraphy and gaze In the case of the veil and the text‚ both are typical symbols of Muslim culture. The veil‚ which is required to be worn by Muslim women in public‚ can be viewed as a religious sign of them
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Megan Buxton Professor Stockton Communications 297 11 May 2012 The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo In Stieg Larsson ’s novel‚ The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo‚ his first novel in the Millennium series‚ and a number one national best seller‚ danger and suspense lurk around every corner as Larsson portrays a dark and mysterious crime thriller that differs from most. Mikael Blomkvist‚ a recently discredited journalist‚ is enlisted to the aid of Henrik Vanger‚ an influential business mogul‚ to find his
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Defining certain cultural and artistic movements found in film as a medium‚ has never been that difficult for me to grasp its primary synthesis. Realist films base their aesthetic off of the belief that elements in film should match the way we perceive reality. The soviet montage movement was a dialectic interpretation of cultural and social change with an emphasis on how to capture it through the camera’s “kino-eye”. These two concepts‚ among various others‚ are widely known and theorized about
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The first actress would fit the role of Sister Aloysius because she is an older and more experienced white nun‚ has a stern look to her‚ and has a simple and conservative appearance. In the headshot‚ the actresses’ gaze is very harsh and watchful‚ which would work well with the way Sister Aloysius attempts to watch over the children in the school and Father Flynn. The way her lips are pressed tightly together suggests that she is careful with her words‚ as well as who she says them too. In the play
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I strongly feel that Gossip Girl reflects Mulvey’s psychoanalytical theory by using many aspects like scopophilia‚ male gaze‚ and voyeurism. Now‚ as we know that Dan Humphrey started the Gossip Girl blog due to his scopophilia desires for Serena Van Der Woodsen. According to Gossip Girl’s Gaze article‚ in the first episode‚ Dan Humphrey reveals his crush anonymously using a Gossip Girl blast due to his castration anxiety. In the entire series‚ the two main
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‘.. Rear Window reads like an ironic reversal of Bentham’s ‘Panopticon’ as exploited by Foucault’ Write an essay exploring the significance of the surveillant theme evident in the film Rear Window. “We’ve become a race of Peeping Toms – what people ought to do is get outside their house and look in for a change.” – Stella‚ Rear Window‚ 1954. The theme of surveillance is all too clear in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 film‚ ‘Rear Window’. From the opening credits‚ we immediately get a sense of what
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German (Emsland) part. Research is conducted in this area in order to find out how tourists perceive local products of the region and to which extent these products play a part in attracting tourists to Veenland. In 2012 the Emsland had with approximately two million overnight stays per year (with an increasing tendency) the highest bed occupancy rate of Lower Saxony‚ Germany (Emsland‚ 2012). It is a tourist hot spot in Lower Saxony‚ however the Emsland promotes itself as a destination for active
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In the Modernist Mirror: Jacques Tati and the Parisian Landscape Author(s): Lee Hilliker Source: The French Review‚ Vol. 76‚ No. 2 (Dec.‚ 2002)‚ pp. 318-329 Published by: American Association of Teachers of French Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3132711 Accessed: 25/11/2009 13:02 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR ’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR ’s Terms and Conditions of Use provides
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The main character‚ Detective Mills‚ first looks at himself in the mirror giving himself the gaze‚ the visual presentation of self‚ of the “I”‚ the ego for “It is the birth of the long love affair/despair between image and self-image which has found such intensity of expression in film and such joyous recognition in the cinema audience” (Mulvey‚ 840). Because Mills has gained his ego from the gaze of identification and the environment that surrounds him‚ Se7en narrative becomes his‚ for we‚ as
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Improving Non-verbal Communication Executive Summary Hotel Srdiecko has noticed customer complaints about their personnel that they are rude and the clients did not feel welcome and comfortable in the Hotel. Srdiecko must not only handle these complaints‚ but also find the cause and solve the problem. The external specialist from Thermal Wellnes Hotels‚ which Hotel Srdiecko is a member of their international chain‚ Matus Eperjesi‚ found out that the cause lays in the lack of non-verbal
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