213 research outputs found
1976: Movies and Cultural Contradictions
This chapter traces the social and aesthetic implications of the five Academy Award contenders for Best Picture in America's Bicentennial year, 1976
IDENTIFICATION OF A WOMAN
This is a review/analysis of the Antonioni film IDENTIFICATION OF A WOMAN (1982), occasioned by its DVD release by the Criterion Collection
Empire of the Gun: Steven Spielberg's SAVING PRIVATE RYAN and American Chauvinism
This book chapter analyzes Steven Spielberg's supposedly anti-war SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (1992) as a pro-war, pro-military, and pro-America movie
The Gospel According to Spielberg in "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial"
This article examines the parallels between the space alien in Spielberg's "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial" and the New Testament account of the life of Jesus Christ
The Politics of Ambivalence: APOCALYPSE NOW as Pro-War and Anti-War Film
This essay investigates the possibility that APOCALYPSE NOW presents "mixed messages" about the Vietnam War to a divided U.S. audience
Narrate AND Describe?: Point of View and Narrative Voice in CITIZEN KANE's Thatcher Sequence
This article examines the theoretical aspects of point of view and narrative voice in CITIZEN KANE's Thatcher Sequence, with an eye to untangling the thorny aspects of subjectivity in that reticular film. In addition, there are larger implications that pertain to ALL narrative cinema in terms of who or what generates film images and sounds
BICYCLE THIEVES: A Re-reading
This article investigates the mixed ideology of Vittorio DeSica's classic neorealist film, BICYCLE THIEVES (1948) from a cinematic and political perspective
The Architectonics of Alienation: Antonioni's Edifice Complex
This essay explores the use of architecture in the cinema of Michelangelo Antonioni
Mr. Jones Goes to Washington: Myth and Religion in "Raiders of the Lost Ark"
This essay uses Joseph Campbell's concept of the Monomyth to analyze both the mythic and contemporary implications of a "popcorn" movie that has numerous social and political subtexts for the Reaganite era
The Bourgeoisie Is Also a Class: Class as Character in Michelangelo Antonioni's "L'Avventura"
This essay explores Michelangelo Antonioni's "L'Avventura" from a Marxist perspective, including its depiction of the Italian bourgeoisie of "il boom" era of the 1950s and 1960s. Numerous frame enlargements are used to substantiate the claim that even the film's style contributes to its representations of socioeconomic class
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