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    The issue of female persecution throughout many of Hitchcock ’s films has been fiercely contested‚ none more so than the controversial issue of assault and the attempted rape of a woman. Views that Hitchcock represents the archetypal misogynist are supported‚ Modelski suggesting that his films invite "his audience to indulge their most sadistic fantasies against the female" (18). Through both the manipulation of sound and the use of language‚ none more so than in Blackmail and Frenzy‚ the idea

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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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    Lab 4 – Energy Sources and Alternative Energy Experiment 1: The Effects of Coal Mining Table 1: pH of Water Samples Water Sample Initial pH Final pH (24-48 hours) Pyrite 6 7 Activated Carbon 6 7 Water 6 6 NOTE: Picture below is after 48 hours of all three samples sitting in a warm place. POST LAB QUESTIONS 1. Develop hypotheses predicting the effect of pyrite and coal on the acidity of water? a. Pyrite hypothesis = If pyrite is in the water source‚ then it will make

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    Film Noir

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    Film Noir Presentation 1 Film Noir meaning black film or film of the night‚ was prevalent in post world war 2 in America and found a popular audience in France and got his name from the French critics. The term is most often applied to crime dramas. A genre that won’t mess you about and misleads you into thinking there will be a happy ending. The locations reek of the night‚ shadows‚ taxi drivers and bartenders who have seen it all‚ and also everybody in film noir seems to be smoking all

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    Synopsis of Films

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    Synopsis of film Introduction The second wave feminism has brought about several new feminist film theories. Concepts such as the gaze and scopophilia were introduced in the analysis and study of films‚ notably from individuals such as Laura Mulvey‚ Gaylyn Studlar and Gilles Deluze. Laura Mulvey uses Freud’s psychoanalytic theories and concepts as “political weapons” to argue that cinematic spectatorship is influenced by patriarchal society (Mulvey‚ 746). Women in films are often used to depict

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    coined by Francois Truffaut to describe the mark of a film director on his films. A director can be considered an auteur if about five of his film depict a certain style that is definitely his own. In other words‚ much like one can look at a painting and tell if it is a Monet‚ a Renoir‚ or a Degas‚ if a film director is an auteur‚ one can look at his film and tell by style and recurring themes that it was made by a certain director. In auteur films‚ the director is many times what brings an audience

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    Psych 540 Ms. McManus & Ms. Smith 9/28/2010 Women vs. Women: Bullying Broads A recent article on a website hosted by the ABC news show‚ Good Morning America‚ has brought a new workplace problem to light (Wild & Brady‚ 2009). This is the problem of women bosses bullying other women. Though this is probably not actually a new problem for our society‚ it is just recently being brought to attention because of one woman’s struggle with her female boss. The woman in the article attempted to sue

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    were mostly for pure entertainment‚ never delving too deep into the human psyche or touching on subjects outside of the day to day lives of the upper crust of society. Films never touched on the real day lives of the average person who‚ ironically‚ paid to those types of movies. During ww2 films served a similar purpose. Many of the films at the time were created to boost morale of people at home and to support the troops. They were understandably created to make the public at home feel a little less

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    these cultures idolize. These heroes not just appear in daily life‚ but these heroes were also carried over to their religious beliefs. The filmmakers did a great job of composing four stories from India‚ Indonesia‚ Korea and Japan. They break the film up into four parts were they use the art masterpieces and performances inspired by these tales. The first‚ “The Ramayana‚” tells the adventures of India’s legendary hero. Here we see Indian paintings‚ Indonesian sculpture and Japanese shadow play.

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    Also 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 General’s 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 commission

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