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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There were many changes in marketing and distribution of films from end of the silent period to the modern digital period. There was a studio system that existed at the end of the silent period and collapsed in 1949 with a court ruling. During this same time a sales era of marketing existed. After the Second World War the sales era was replaced with a new way of thinking and sales and marketing were not synonymous anymore. Marketing after World War II meant finding out what consumers’ needs and wants
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Exploitation films have been produced since the beginning of film‚ but once the Production Code was no longer in effect‚ more these films could be produced and at a faster rate. One genre of exploitation cinema is the drug crime film. Starting as early as the 1930s‚ filmmakers made movies about the dangers of doing drugs. These films were often cheaply made and aimed at a small audience (Clark 4). They were theatrically simple‚ with an uncomplicated narrative: “these are films whose entire function
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Rollo May’s Existentialism Psychology: An Overview to His Theory After many years of his hardships in conducting clinical research‚ May was able to postulate a new way of looking at human beings. With such newly evolved point of view‚ May saw people as living in the world of present experiences and ultimately being responsible for who they become. Many people‚ he believed‚ lack the courage to face their destiny‚ and in the process of fleeing from it‚ they give up much of their freedom. Having
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Existentialism is not as comprehensive and easily defined as other fields of philosophy‚ and this is due in large part to how each existentialist has his or her own theories. In this paper I will be looking at two existentialist in particular: Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. Camus sees the existential position as an acceptance of the “absurd” human condition whereas Sartre sees it as a freedom to define oneself – a radical freedom. These are two distinct models of existentialism‚ and the schism
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One overarching theme of ‘s W.O. Mitchell’s Who Has Seen the Wind (1947) is the incongruity between the wild and the domesticated. While this heterogeneity is often represented physically – Mitchell goes to great lengths to describe the vastness of the Saskatchewan prairie – it also manifests as a series of personality conflicts between adult characters. Although protagonist Brian self-assigns the role of mediator upon aspiring to become a ‘dirt doctor‚’ he is not the first to desire placation. Rather
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The Cog a short story by Author which‚ in my eyes‚ is about a man’s journey through his head as he questions the freedoms a society brings while also questioning the existential answer to is he truly happy? He starts from the jealousy of the freedoms of space‚ the freedom from the argument of society’s freedom. He later asks existential questions about his satisfaction with his life‚ his look both critically and existentially to find out his answer. As he is the president of the world how could
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terms of existentialism and nihilism? 	In both Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonegut and Good Country People by Flannery O’Connor the authors show how a character is corrupted and changed from an existentialist to a nihilist. The existentialist ends up losing their faith in life‚ and is left believing in nothing. They then turn to being nihilist after having the only thing they believed destroyed. In both stories the author uses both existentialist which is corrupted by nihilist. Existentialism is a
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Existentialism is the theory or approach that emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free responsible agent determining their own development through acts of will. Some people find their own purpose in their life such as family‚ job and religion. However‚ as soon as people get old‚ they realize that their purpose is not what they thought it was. For instance‚ in the story‚ “A Clean‚ Well- Lighted Place” an old man had his purpose‚ which was his wife‚ and lost it. He had to find a
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events‚ but he kept this clip very similar to the plot of the rest of the movie. Another aspect that is interesting in this segment was when Miss Trunchbull threw the little girl. This scene was taken in one shot‚ which means that the single length of film was continuously by one camera. Mise-en-scene was definitely a factor in this one scene from like the costume used and the staging of the fence with the garden of flowers. The uses of these techniques give the viewers different feelings based on these
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