... "to-be-looked-at-ness". She offers that female characters add nothing or very little to actual elements of plot and character but rather are subjected to male scopophilia, the fetishistic and voyeuristic, due to phallocentricism and psychoanalytic fear of castration. She laments the way ... subtext. She subtly bemoans these tendencies and offers hopes to "[transcend] outworn or oppressive forms, or [dare] to break with normal pleasurable expectations in order to conceive a new language of desire."4 This implies that an awareness of the way pleasure and beauty elicits a scopophilic gaze .....

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... the construction of gendered identity in the fifties was surprising, for it exactly reversed the focus of his previous film North by Northwest. The lead character of North by Northwest, Roger Thornhill, overcomes his reliance on his mother to take his "proper- role as a masculine entity and perform his ... and moral in the world. When Norman took that knife to Marion, he was slashing away at everything that had gone before, at expectations of heroes and bad guys, at every cliché of what was supposed to happen, at the polite fantasy of good triumphing over evil ... The film's enormous ...

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... passing through Europe explains to his new friend Celine his idea for a TV show consisting of 24 hours of 365 ordinary people's different lives. Similarly, in Waking Life, the main character, a man trapped in a dream world, meets performance artist Tiana Hux as he is going down to the subway. They discuss the lack of connection and communication between people these ... not directly seeking money, yet still filled with creative energy. In effect, this actually describes the production of this film and independent filmmaking as a whole. He did not expect a great deal of box office succes...

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... been praised as one of the all-time classics. However as an adaptation of the novel many traditionalists have failed to see its merits. Bogart's character Sam Spade appears far less sleazy than in the novel in fact his relationship with his partners wife is played down. There is a rather large ... movie ten years its senior. Despite excuses of low budget, many critics have viewed this as 'unforgivable'. There are also other aspects claimed don't make a great deal of sense, but these are just few in what was a superb 1940's style film. For example to suit Bogart's persona he is situated i...

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After viewing Jonathan Demme's film Beloved, I felt as I usually do upon watching a movie based on a novel, disappointed. Films rarely live up to the expectations set up by a great novel and this is due to the limitations of working with film as a medium. This paper will attempt to exploit these limitations and explain why Toni Morrison's novel, Beloved, is ... " actions and reasoning through Morrison's description of past and present events and surroundings. In the film, the viewer has to rely on the ability of the actor to convey the character's thoughts and reasoning through facial expres...

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