He communicates this message to his audience by presenting a bleak view of the universe that is typically Langian - thematically, stylistically and narratively. ... What also remind the audience of the machine-like precision are the clocks that are so prevalent in this film. ... While the presence of clocks contributes to the bleak and pessimistic atmosphere, the mood that encompasses the feeling of entrapment depicted in the film is also created by the stylistic techniques employed in the film. Lang employs numerous stylistic techniques, many of which can be attributed to Film Noir, to emphas...

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At this point in time, there were a lot of elements that allowed American cinema to draw from, and in turn, steer American film in the direction that it has been going in for the past fifty years. ... His belief as a conventional filmmaker was that, "it's not so much what the characters do, it is where they're placed, and how the react. " "In Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast, there wasn't any other figure that incarnated the literary tendency of French cinema. ... As James Stewart approaches Kim Novak near the door, the audience is on the edge of their seat wondering wh...

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