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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Bernays equated what propaganda is to a democratic society to what force is to a dictatorship. ... Schivelbusch uses the example of neoclassical monumentalism to underscore how the same stylistic, formal, and technological developments are used to serve ostensibly different political systems. ... Garraty begins by distinguishing the Nazi destruction of democratic institutions and imprisonment and murder of dissidents and what they considered non "Aryan". The New Dealers, as Garraty calls them in New Deal, National Socialism, and The Great Depression, did not imprison people for thei...

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What went out was narrative, description, rational exposition; what emerged focused on stream of consciousness, images in poetry (rather than description or narration), a new use of universal myth, and a sense of fragmentation both of individuality and of such concepts as space and time. ... But all through what might be termed the period of Modernism there were writers who kept working away in more traditional modes. What is significant is that both kinds of writing could flourish at the same time. ...

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