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Television Was Theater, Television is Cinema

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Hilary

More often than not, those discussing the history of television tend to focus on changes in social content or technology. Interesting though those topics may be, my thoughts linger on the change in style and presentation. Continue reading →

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CGI + Traditional Animation = The Future of Cartoons?

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Hilary

Because CGI makes for very crisp, slick-looking backgrounds and hand-drawn pictures make for very rich, varied, and often diaphanous backgrounds, the combination of the two made for a visually stunning movie. Continue reading →

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Socio-Political Symbolism in Dracula

Posted on December 29, 2010 by Hilary

Robert Sklar said the horror movies of the 1930s, like the 1931 film Dracula, expressed the public’s “fear for the survival their society and pleasure at seeing someone… vent his rage at it” (179). Rather than venting rage, one could suppose that it was more along the premise of seizing personal power over society Continue reading →

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Film Noir: The Mother of the Psychological Thriller

Posted on December 19, 2010 by Hilary

I believe it is possible that psychological thrillers such as Rope (1948), The Shining (1980), Jaws (1975); and the genre of psychological thrillers as a whole are natural extensions of film noir. Continue reading →

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