... use of camera angles, framing and background music. The camera pans slowly across Scottie's apartment at the beginning of the scene, finally stopping to pause for several seconds at an open bedroom door, drawing emphasis on the subject of the shot. Madeleine, who is shown to be sound asleep inside. When the telephone rings with a jarring sound, she whirls around to face him, the camera zooming in on her startled ... expression. Her obvious disorientation and fear, coupled with her ... woman is what fueled him to obsessively attempt to mould Judy into Madeleine, in later scenes, to expl...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

... . The Meiji Constitution dictated that the military answer only to the emperor, and so any issue concerning military action was out of the hands of the lower house. Finally, the role of the emperor himself as the ultimate source of Japanese authority meant that any action on the part of government could be overruled by recourse to an imperial prerogative. As present in the opinion of some Japanese scholarship, 'the sound and fury of the party ... battle could never be more than diversionary in the broad sweep of an absolutism ... ...

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