Using the director’s and prop managers’ choices of lighting‚ soundtrack‚ and certain camera angles‚ Double Indemnity manages to set a specific mood of dangerous and doomed attraction. This atmosphere is brilliantly conveyed through the strategic use of low-key lighting. In black and white cinematography‚ an effect‚ called chiaroscuro‚ is implemented to give the film an air of mystery and crime. Based on a painting technique of the same name‚ cinematographers set the scene such that darkness dominates
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FORMALISM (also known as NEW CRITICISM) A Basic Approach to Reading and Understanding Literature Formalist theory has dominated the American literary scene for most of the twentieth century‚ and it has retained its great influence in many academic quarters. Its practitioners advocate methodical and systematic readings of texts. The major premises of New Criticism include: "art for art’s sake‚" "content = form‚" and "texts exist in and for themselves." These premises lead to the development
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Double Indemnity: Love of Manipulation or Manipulation of Love? “The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words‚ you can control the people who must use the words” (Phillip K. Dick). Manipulation in this book can be summed up in one phrase: It takes two to tango. This dance takes total control of the manipulator and the person being manipulated. Beauty and lust are two common methods of manipulating others. This novel successfully
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The Seven Deadly Sins Brianna Kibler Introduction To Film Studies- HUM/150 Dominic Biondi The 1944 film “Double Indemnity” is about an insurance salesman‚ Walter Neff‚ who gets entangled in a plot to kill an unhappy wife’s husband‚ Phyllis Dietrichson‚ over greed. They work together to stage a suicide that should later be determined accidental. Little does the salesman know the wife will get what she wants‚ no matter the cost. This paper will dissect the movie to help illuminate underlying
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A Brief Introduction to Russian Formalism Zhu Gang In the heyday of high modernism emerged a group of college students and young faculty in Moscow and Petersburg‚ Russia‚ whose interest was claimed to be literature per se. They were few in number‚ but their unmistakable insistence on the ideal status of literary study and stubborn pursuit for its realization has marked the beginning of a new era‚ and produced profound influence on the subsequent development of contemporary Western critical
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techniques that can be applied. The first being realism‚ where the importance of the story overshadows the art of production. Second being Formalism‚ where an emphasis is placed on the production of the film‚ often resulting in enhances visuals and sounds effects. Although production has advanced since the first motion pictures in the 1890s‚ the key components of a good film hold steady. Formalism and Realism are accomplished in all great movies. Formalism is the theory that focuses on the elements of
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Russian formalism. A school of literary theory and analysis that emerged in Russia around 1915‚ devoting itself to the study of literariness‚ i.e. the sum of ’devices’ that distinguish literary language from ordinary language. In reaction against the vagueness of previous literary theories‚ it attempted a scientific description of literature (especially poetry) as a special use of language with observable features. This meant deliberately disregarding the contents of literary works‚ and thus inviting
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Högskolan Dalarna Literature D-Level Essay Supervisor: Mats Tegmark The Construction of Identity in Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones Mohammad Wahidul Islam 830301-T236 Armegatan 32/0116 Solna 17171 h05mwisl@du.se Table of contents Introduction…………………………………………………………………….1 How Danticat Communicates Her Views on Post-Colonial Identity to Her Readers…………………………………………………………………………3 Identity is Constructed Through Conflicts………………………………… 9 External Conflicts between Two Nations……………………………………
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INDEMNITY AGREEMENT This INDEMNITY AGREEMENT ‚ dated as of September 17‚ 2013‚ is between Locomotive Transportation ‚ Inc.‚ a New York corporation (Locomotive) and Rapid Trains Corp.‚ a Massachusetts corporation ( Rapid). INDEMNITY AGREEMENT This INDEMNITY AGREEMENT ‚ dated as of September 17‚ 2013‚ is between Locomotive Transportation ‚ Inc.‚ a New York corporation (Locomotive) and Rapid Trains Corp.‚ a Massachusetts corporation ( Rapid). INDEMNITY AGREEMENT This INDEMNITY
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CONTRACTS OF INDEMNITY Definition Section 124 of the Contract Act defines a contract of indemnity as a contract by which one party promises to save the other party from loss caused to him by the conduct of the promisor himself‚ or by the conduct of any other person. P. contracts to indemnify Q against the consequences of any proceeding which R may. take against Q in respect of a certain sum of Rs. 200. This is a Contract of Indemnity: P is called the indemnifier and Q the Indemnity-holder. Characteristics
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