Every time a character enters or leaves a room, members of the audience can record the time of the event if they wanted to. It almost seems that the sequence of events are indexed by time and all the characters are forced to follow a set schedule. The fates of each character seem to be entrapped by a higher power, or as Gunning words it - the destiny-machine. ... In both Heidt's and Reed's cases, costume design is used to assign characters to their stereotypical gender roles, thus highlighting the power dynamics between the characters. The lighting techniques employed in this sequ...

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The female characters are dressed in such way that they are forced to been inactive whereas the male characters' costumes are obviously made for the environment that the film was set in, as the clothes are worn and dusty and easy to move in. ... The first was Fay Wray in King Kong, a character renowned for her high pitched call of fear. ... Altaira's whole purpose of her character is that of a reward, to be fought over by the hero and the evil robot. ... In the original film, which was made in the late 1970's, the character Ripley, is part of the crew in charge of a space-shi...

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Theorist William Rathbone Greg best summaries the feelings of the Victorian age towards fallen women: "If the passions of woman were ready, strong, and spontaneous, in a degree even remotely approaching the form they assume in the coarser sex, there can belittle doubt that sexual irregularities woul...

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