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A Prison For Others—A Burden To One's Self, Anne Collins Smith, Owen M. Smith

Faculty Publications

Women have come a long way since the mid-1960's, both in the real world and in the world of philosophy. Given the advances in society and the developments within feminism that took place between that decade and the first decade of the 21st century, we might reasonably expect the new Prisonerseries to present a more contemporary perspective on women than the original. Such is most emphatically not the case. If we compare the original Village to the new one, it looks as if those pennyfarthing wheels are spinning backwards instead of forwards.

In Particularity We Trust:Richard Dutcher's Mormon Quartet And A Latter-Day Saint Spiritual Film Style, Mark Sheffield Brown

Wayne State University Dissertations

Between 2000 and 2008, writer/director Richard Dutcher made four films with narratives focused primarily on members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The films are explicitly Mormon-related in their content, but I argue they are also inherently Mormon in their style. Critic and filmmaker Paul Schrader argues there is a particular style of filmmaking, a dialect of the cinematic language if you will, that enables viewers to experience an encounter with a Transcendent Divinity. The contention of this dissertation is that Schrader's views were simultaneously too general and too narrow. I draw on Clive Marsh's call for …

‘The Future’S Not Ours To See’: How Children And Young Adults Reflect The Anxiety Of Lost Innocence In Alfred Hitchcock’S American Movies., Jason Mcentee

English Faculty Publications

Introduction:

In The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), the Ambassador, while plotting to kill the Prime Minister, orders the kidnapped American child Hank McKenna killed, telling his would-be gunman, Edward Drayton: “Don’t you realize that Americans dislike having their children stolen?” Earlier in the movie, Jo McKenna entertains her son and husband by singing “Que Sera Sera,” and its playfulness becomes darkly ironic when she sings “the future’s not ours to see” on the eve of her son’s kidnapping.
The movie unfolds as a cat-and-mouse game in which the McKennas desperately try to locate and save their kidnapped son, …

Children In The Films Of Alfred Hitchcock, Debbie Olson, Jason Mcentee

English Faculty Books

Jason McEntee is a contributing author, "'The Future’s Not Ours to See’: How Children and Young Adults Reflect the Anxiety of Lost Innocence in Alfred Hitchcock’s American Movies.”, pp.31-46.

Children and youth perform both innocence and knowingness within Hitchcock's complex cinematic texts. Though the child often plays a small part, their significance - symbolically, theoretically, and philosophically - offers a unique opportunity to illuminate and interrogate the child presence within the cinematic complexity of Hitchcock's films.

The Evolution Of Political Cinema, Eric S. Benninghoff

Eric S Benninghoff

No abstract provided.

On Palestinian Art, Rebecca Gould

Rebecca Gould

No abstract provided.

Sumud: The Palestinian Art Of Existence, Rebecca Gould

Rebecca Gould

No abstract provided.

Of Doppelgängers And Alter Egos: Surveillance Footage As Cinematic Double, Evangelos Tziallas

Evangelos Tziallas

This article argues that as surveillance becomes defined less as an idea of power-knowledge and more as a representation or action conducted by or contingent upon moving images and related technologies, the spectre of surveillance that was maintained subtextually in moving images returns, rather than develops anew. It argues that surveillance is the return of the repressed; it is cinema’s uncanny double—its doppelgänger and alter ego. It uses the first two Paranormal Activity films as case studies to explore how the discourse and emulation of surveillance produces multiple interdependent doubles, which engender uncanny cinematic experiences. Ultimately, it argues that the …

The Media And Armed Conflict, Philip Hammond

Philip Hammond

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Movie: "Fury." A Representation Of Altruistic Sacrfice And Just War Theory, Gene Washington

Gene Washington

All religions, as well as much fiction and many philosophies, employ a language to create the realities we want and to open the wonders elsewhere—that is, to go beyond a representation of the here and now to what may lie beyond the here and now. Names for such a "place" include "utopia," "the transcendent," "heaven," "paradise," nirvana," "peace" and the like and are embodied in the scripture of all religions and in secular works like Plato's Republic, Sir Thomas More's Utopia and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. As a linguistic artifact, the wonders elsewhere appear chiefly by means of modal verbs, "should," …

Unveiling The Monster: Memory And Film In Post-Dictatorial Spain, Juan Pablo Pacheco Bejarano

Self-Designed Majors Honors Papers

In 2007, the Spanish congress approved the Law of Historical Memory, recognizing a collective desire to exorcize the ghosts and monsters from its abject and repressed traumatic past. Spanish contemporary identities are still heavily impacted by the traumatic Civil War (1939) and the nearly forty-year long dictatorship (1939-1975) that marked most of its twentieth century’s history. This research focuses on a close reading of three films located within the aesthetic tradition of the Grotesque and the Gothic, and situated within the aftermath of the Civil War: El Espíritu de la Colmena (The Spirit of the Beehive) (1973) by Victor Erice, …

Noir Westerns After World War Ii, Kenneth Estes Hall, Chritian Krug

ETSU Faculty Works

Excerpt: Towards the end of Ethan and Joel Coen's Academy-Award winning No Country for Old Men (2007), Carla Jean Moss's life depends on the toss of a coin. Heads or tails will decide whether she lives or dies.

Dit Photo 14 : 2014 Ba Photography Graduate Exhibition, 2014 Ba Photography Graduates

Other

The 2014 BA Photography Graduate exhibition features the photographic projects of fourteen final year students.

Project 6048 : Curatorial Collaboration, 2014 Ba (Hons) Photography Students

Other

The title of the curatorial collaboration undertaken by the Third Year students of the BA (Hons) photography course within DIT is project6048 and describes the number of days that the school of photography occupied the temple bat campus.

Text by Daniel Siberry.

"Breaking Boundaries" And Exploring Identity In Three Coen Brother Films, Lauren Carey

Senior Theses

"Audiences were first introduced to sibling filmmaking duo Joel and Ethan Coen in 1984 with their debut film Blood Simple. Since then the brothers have experienced considerable commercial and critical success with their 16 films, garnering six Academy Awards wins and more than 30 nominations. Attempts at naming a definitive style or genre or subject matter is a difficult undertaking when it comes to the Coen canon, and yet it seems to be this consistent unpredictability that continues to attract critics and audiences alike. Whatever the styles or genres they are working within or the subject matter of their story, …

Subscribing To Governmental Rationality: Hbo And The Aids Epidemic, Shayne Pepper

Communication, Media and Theatre Faculty Publications

Between 1987 and 2013, HBO produced or distributed over twenty HIV/AIDS programs. These films trace a cultural shift from an early focus on AIDS as a public health issue to be dealt with through individual “safe-sex” practices and ethical citizenship to a later focus on AIDS as a global pandemic where the explicit strategy becomes a reliance on non-state actors to combat AIDS. This article argues that HBO's HIV/AIDS films are embedded within a cultural approach to AIDS that relies on governmental logics and neoliberal solutions – not direct action, but directing action.

The Divided Reception Of The Help, Suzanne W. Jones

English Faculty Publications

The reception of Kathryn Stockett’s The Help (2009) calls to mind the reception of two other novels about race relations by southern white writers: Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind (1936) and William Styron’s The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967). Like Gone With the Wind, The Help has been a pop culture phenomenon— prominent in bookstores and box offices, and the “darling of book clubs everywhere.” In January 2012 when I asked students in my Women in Modern Literature class what was the best book they had recently read by a woman, most named either The Help or The Hunger …

Rod Library Mini Comic-Con, Program, 2014, University Of Northern Iowa

RodCon Documents

Saturday, March 29, 2014 - 12:00pm to 4:00pm

Program distributed at the event.

Rod Library Mini Comic-Con, Flier, 2014, University Of Northern Iowa

RodCon Documents

Saturday, March 29, 2014 - 12:00pm to 4:00pm

Flier used in promotion of the event.

Reporting The Irish Famine In America: Images Of "Suffering Ireland" In The American Press, 1845-1848, James M. Farrell

Communication

This chapter is a study of American newspaper reporting on the Great Irish Famine. The study examines six master narratives that constrained the image of Ireland and the Irish people presented to American readers. Those narrative constraints predisposed Americans to respond with hostility when Irish Famine refugees began to arrive in the United States.