As the 1950's began, Westerns introduced new techniques of filmmaking both on location and in the editing room. ... 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. ... Also with James Stewart's feelings of vertigo, Hitchcock portrays his visceral sense of ambivalence by using the track out and zoom forward technique whenever he confronts his fear. I...

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This led to the rapid expansion of a largely unsophisticated literary public, the rise of the popular press, and the mass production of 'popular' literature for a semi-literate 'lowbrow' readership. ... Isolation and alienation, together with experimental forms of expression, came to characterise serious literature, while cinematic techniques and the elaboration of popular genres came to dominate other forms of cultural expression. ...

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The Condition of Man in The Heart of Darkness and The Lord of the Flies "Man is a fallen being. He is gripped by original sin. His nature is sinful and his state perilous-(Golding, "Fable-, The Hot Gates and Other Occasional Pieces, Harcourt, Brace & World, New York, 1965, page 61). This quote by ...

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Joseph Stalin was the soviet communist leader who's passing molded an era, and whose iron rule determined the lives of millions of people. Considering that he shaped the direction of post-World War II Europe, we may regard him as the most powerful person to live during the 20th century. Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili on December 21, 1879, in Gori, Georgia . Both his parents were peasants. His father, Vissarion Dzhugashvili, was a cobbler, hopping that one day his son will be apprenticed in the same trade; his mother, Yekaterina ...

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