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Movies in 203 | Brokeback Mountain Breaks the New Queer Cinema Mold

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FILM THEORY and CRITICISM. Breaks the New Queer Cinema Mold. July 5, 2011. Ang Lee, 2005) we see the binary character study of two men engaging in a socially unacceptable love affair throughout a lifetime. The implications of such a plotline give. A public persona that is incorrectly associated with New Queer Cinema. The motives of films defined within the realms of New Queer Cinema are substantially different from those of. Might be easily associated. Conform itself in turn to an individually-centered i...

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Movies in 203 | Meditations on Movie-watching…

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By Dr Tiel Lundy. February 17, 2011. I'm often asked if my training as a film scholar has taken all the fun out of watching movies. Can you just watch a movie for entertainment, or are you always. People ask. I used to say that there were some films I could watch uncritically, simply enjoying the two hours of escapism. Now I know that isn't true. So does my inability to simply watch a film for entertainment constitute a loss? Am I missing out on one of life's simple pleasures? Singin' in the Rain. You co...

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Movies in 203 | Broken By The Past: The Role of Gender in Contemporary Gothic Cinema

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FILM THEORY and CRITICISM. Broken By The Past: The Role of Gender in Contemporary Gothic Cinema. February 28, 2011. The silhouette of a woman with unkempt hair flickers in an attic window sending a cautionary chill up an observer's spine. Something is out of place. Mental stability and social norms no longer feel as reliable as they should. This is the nature of the gothic nightmare. A Tale of Two Sisters. In the Name of Love: Women, Masochism, and the Gothic. That is one reason I do not get well faster&...

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Movies in 203 | Citizen Kane: "Greatest American Movie of All Time"?

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Greatest American Movie of All Time? By Dr Tiel Lundy. October 26, 2011. It is one of the miracles of cinema that in 1941 a first-time director; a cynical, hard-drinking writer; an innovative cinematographer, and a group of New York stage and radio actors were given the keys to a studio and total control, and made a masterpiece. Is more than a great movie; it is a gathering of all the lessons of the emerging era of sound, just as. Birth of a Nation. So says Roger Ebert in his 1998 review of Orson Welles's.

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Movies in 203 | Cameras, Truth, and War Stories: Full Metal Jacket and Apocalypse Now

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FILM THEORY and CRITICISM. Cameras, Truth, and War Stories:. September 5, 2011. 35 years after the fact, the Vietnam War remains a divisive event in American history. Anti-communist sentiment stemming from the Cold War was tempered by an increasing desire for isolationism within the American populace, and both of these viewpoints were complicated by the introduction of a media presence in Vietnam which allowed news to be transported from the front faster than ever before. During a conversation between Jo...

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Movies in 203 | Lola’s Game of Life

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FILM THEORY and CRITICISM. Lola's Game of Life. April 24, 2011. I remember the first time I saw. Tom Tykwer, 1998), it was showing on a paid cable channel that I scrolled past and then back again to see what in the world was that? I sat through the exhilarating ride and didn't find out what the film was called until days later. The next time I watched it, years later, was for my Intro to Film course here at UCD and with that screening I found an unexpected passion coursing through my being for it. They a...

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Movies in 203 | Truth and Perception: Guilt and Innocence in Hitchcock

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FILM THEORY and CRITICISM. Truth and Perception: Guilt and Innocence in Hitchcock. April 21, 2011. One of Hitchcock's favorite themes is the innocent man caught in a desperate situation, especially one is which he appears guilty of some crime. Sometimes the innocence or guilt is ambiguous; more often, it is clear to the viewer but unclear to the other characters in the film. 1941); it is the question that makes the film interesting. The film plays a guessing game with the viewer: are the deaths of th...

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Movies in 203 | The Lesbian Soldier and the Supportive Wife: Gender Roles and the Woman Warrior in G.I. Jane and Courage Under Fire

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FILM THEORY and CRITICISM. The Lesbian Soldier and the Supportive Wife: Gender Roles and the Woman Warrior in. July 5, 2011. The question of women in the American military during the 1990s was rife with controversy due to the multiple sex scandals reported by the media from harassment to rape. 1996) These movies, though not portraying actual events, serve to highlight the controversies and tension present during the 1990s regarding women in the military. And Capt. Karen Walden (. Article titled The Army'...

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Movies in 203 | The Story in History: Examining Apocalypse Now by looking at The Things They Carried

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FILM THEORY and CRITICISM. The Story in History: Examining. The Things They Carried. January 24, 2011. Tim O'Brien says, "A grenade sails out. One guy jumps on it and takes the blast, but it's a killer grenade and everybody dies anyway. Before they die though, one of the dead guys says, 'The fuck you do. And the jumper says, 'Story of my life, man,' and the other guy starts to smile but he's dead. That's a true war story that never happened" (83-4). The Things They Carried. Cannot be viewed as a historic...