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Alfred Hitchcock School Library
1,607 words... for a peeping Tom killer in his forties (the age of the murderer in Bloch's novel), the director proposed using a much younger character and even suggested to the writer that Perkins get the lead role (Rebello 111). When Hitchcock began production on PSYCHO, he was told that he would have to use the facilities at Revue Studios, the television division of Universal Studios, which Paramount had rented for the making of the film (Rebello 112). Although he was unable to use his regular cinematog...
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Barbed Wire Gas Station
1,575 words... es, their own civil structure, their own government when they have been deprived of every last paper that might have provided something at least to build upon? Back outside we pass more buildings pitted by war and destruction. At one high-rise, its entire western wall missing, we can see clearly a man hanging from a metal beam, stripping the wire from the ceilings of the otherwise empty building. Below him on the street, his donkey waits next to a wooden cart filled with odds and ends. Acros...
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The Birth Of A Nation And Greed
1,299 wordsThe progress of the film industry was remarkably fast in the first quarter of this century. I have chosen two films namely The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Greed (1924) for comparison and contrast to show how much the industry had evolved within the short span of nine years. These two films are chosen for the short time span between them. This short time span will enable us to evaluate the development of the film industry in terms of the psychological build-up of the plot and the characters, cin...
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Coronation Scene Richards Character Characters
1,006 wordsIn order to compose an exploratory semi-reproduction of a text from a different era, one needs not only to analyse the depth in language, construction of characters and other logistics behind the text itself, but also aspects of the society which gave birth to it. It is an impossibility to effectively or accurately transform a text to meet the requirements placed on it by contemporary values while concurrently retaining representations of the parent society, without fully understanding the drivi...
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Mobile Phones In Business
1,816 wordsIntroduction to Mobile Phone Mobile Phone is a wireless device that emits RFR (radio-frequency radiation) to transmit data and allows people to communicate anywhere. It can be carried anywhere as long as there is a signal transmission. There are three types of Mobile coverage, which are: AMPS, GSM and CDMA AMPS (Analogue Mobile Phone System) It is an analogue signal and system for transmit data and be used for mobile communication. The strength of this system is it has a better network coverage ...
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True Or False Group Of People
859 wordsWhat are the main difficulties human scientists confront when trying to provide explanations of human behaviour? What methods have been invented to circumvent these difficulties and to minimize their influence on the results that are obtained? Although many people in the field of human sciences try to get their disciplines to be recognized as pure sciences, there are many differences that distinguish the natural sciences from the human sciences. There is a certain kudos that comes with the natur...
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Richard Nassau Watches Tv Animals
1,017 wordsThroughout my life, the same scene in the television screen registered in different ways. The camera zooms in for the last shot of a lone hyena wheezing his way out of life. He may be dying of heat exhaustion or thirst or hunger, but his small eyes roll side to side slowly and then... just... stop. Equally significant and striking is the close-up of the very violent death of a baby seal as a hyena simultaneously shakes him into submission and breaks his spine. The camera is always held steady; n...
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Television News Informing The Public About Significant Events
913 wordsH 2 >Discuss to what extent two television stations broadcasting to audiences in Western Australia succeed in informing the public about significant events, in a fair and balanced way. Television news is an entertainment medium intending to inform the public of current issues in society, but that is not its prime function. It also serves as a program that helps viewers to see issues from different perspectives. Some perfect fairness cannot exist, so bias of some sort must be present in al...
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Rear Window And Gentlemen Prefer Blondes On Display
1,486 wordsRear Window (1954) and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) have very different plots but still have many striking similarities, such as the manipulation of the spectators gaze. Gaze is the transaction between the screen and a spectator. Two examples of the types of gazes used in these films are voyeuristic and fetishistic. The use of voyeuristic and fetishistic gazes reinforce movie viewing and gender roles during the 1950 s by featuring manipulative and frivolous women as sex objects. Rear Window i...
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Steven Spielberg E T
457 wordsSteven Spielberg As you may or may not know, Steven Spielberg is a famous director. Some his best movies are E. T. The Extra Terrestrial The Poltergeist Close Encounters of a Third Kind Jaws and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Steven says that Movies are my life. Steven first discovered his love for the camera as a very young child. Steven was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on December 18, 1947. One day Steven was cleaning out the families garage, when he found his father old film camera. Steven then immedia...
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Part Of The Movie Second Class
1,025 wordsHow has James Cameron presented and adapted the true story of The Titanic for the cinema? The Titanic was a gripping story written by James Cameron in 1996. It is a re-write of what happened in 1912, and it tells the story well, and it has many realistic features, and to make the story even more impressive, James Cameron adds a love story to the equation, and the story is a success, which is very emotional, and a calamity at the same time. James Cameron manages to really make the audience watchi...
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Black And White Polish Jews
1,160 words... y, there is the viewpoint of an old Jewish man, who does not sing, but remains in his chair looking distraught and angry, hopelessly outnumbered in his stance. The pseudo-traditional German folk song (composed by John Kinder and Fred Ebb for the film) continues, more and more instruments join in and the tempo picks up. Naturally this has an effect on our two characters who leave soon after and return to their car. By which time, the music has reached a massive crescendo. Max turns to Brian a...
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Fifty Six Six Years
1,109 wordsOne of the worlds best movies is Casablanca. Many things made this movie to the fine a movie as it was. Things such as the actors, lighting, costume, camera, and even the sound. People watching this movie can feel both caught up and detached from the plot at the same time. The Plot and Sub-Plot work so well with the setting as well. It appeals to many differnt audiences. If one has a morbid and odd mind, such as mine, it can be compared to modern movies such as John Carpenters Vampires. This mov...
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Cecil Beaton Firstly Beaton War
1,850 wordsBeaton had taken pictures from the jungles of Burma and the hillside of China. Cecil Beaton? s career as a royal photographer spans almost fifty years, from 1930 until 1979. In that period, he photographed nearly thirty members of the House of Windsor. A severe stroke in 1974 left Beaton paralysed in his right arm, but against all odds he taught himself to photograph with his left hand, resuming his photographic career three years later. Beaton died in 1980. Firstly, Beaton? s experience during ...
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60 Minutes Television Program
1,556 wordsSince 1968 America has been better enlightened than previously concerning current events and happenings around the world. A considerable factor for this occurrence is the television program 60 Minutes which debuted on the air in September of 1968. Many other television newsmagazine's have been produced since its creation, however none have possessed the longevity nor the influence of 60 Minutes. In fact, 60 Minutes, which is owned by CBS News, was the first regular network news program to cover ...
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President Of The United States Elected President
900 wordsIn History Of Photography Daguerreotypes In 1839 the Academy of Science in Paris, France made an announcement that would change our view on the world and ourselves forever. An artist named Louis Jacques Mand Daguerre and a amateur french scientist had developed a process by which a permanent image could be printed on a silver plated sheet of copper and the process could be duplicated and used commercially. France decided to give this gift to the world and thus the first Daguerreotype was born. A...
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Romeo And Juliet Fish Tank
1,010 wordsHow and why does Baz Luhrman s Romeo and Juliet update the characters and themes for a modern audience The ball scene starts as Romeo Takes an Ecstasy tablet. When Romeo enters the actual ball he goes in with his cousins and he flashes his fake ticket at the bouncer in a very stoned way and the bouncer looks down at him as if to say oh good another stoned person. The ball is full of sexual promiscuity with many things going on which aren t considered sexually normal such as Gloria Capulet kissin...
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Stepping On A Land Mine Stepping On A Land Capa
453 words&# 9; Robert Robert Capa Robert Capa &# 9; Robert Capa was born in Budapest, hungary in 1913. Robert Capa is most known for his photographs in war. Known for obtaining photos taken during a war that shows what it is like to be in a war. Showing things like the hardships that soldiers have to endure and the suffering of people whose homes and cities were destroyed as a result of war. His photos are divided into three categories: images of battle, images of the effect of war on individual soldiers...
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Saving Private Ryan World War Ii
865 wordsSaving Private Ryan War cannot be faced. It is too dreadful. It is the great emptiness that stands before life, transforms itself into a million shapes of unutterable horror, then returns to mocking silence. It is the nightmare from which we can never awake, because the nightmare is the truth: We die. We die like animals because we are animals. We are all creatures who blindly run until something big and hard hits us and our torn insides spill out and we die. It was easy to read the message in h...
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Snuff Films Charles Manson
2,605 wordsAlso known as white heat films and the real thing, the snuff film myth lives on like Bigfoot, despite the fact that no law enforcement agency in America has publicly admitted to ever locating one. Alan Sears, former executive director of the Attorney Generals commission on pornography during 1985 - 86, agrees with the more than two dozen law enforcement agencies I interviewed. Our experience was that we could not find any such thing as a commercially produced snuff film, says Sears. Our commissi...
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