Ninotchka Essays

  • The Importance of Posture and Gesture for the Performer in Relation to Greta Garbo From Camille

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    The Importance of Posture and Gesture for the Performer in Relation to Greta Garbo From Camille Camille, created in 1936, is universally acknowledged as one of the most romantically atmospheric productions of al time. The film begins with the scene being set as we are shown “the gay half-world of Paris, the gentlemen of the day met the girls of the moment at certain theatres, balls and gambling clubs, where the code was discretion - - but the game was romance. This is the story of one

  • Erica Carter - Young Women and their Relationship to Consumerism

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    Erica Carter Erica Carter teaches Cultural Studies at the University of Warwick. Recently, she published How German is She? Postwar West German Reconstruction and the consuming Woman (1996), in which she explores how the development of a "social market economy" after 1949 gave a new centrality to consumers as key players in the economic life of the (German) nation and in that process gave women a new public significance. Carter argues that concepts of nationhood survived in the rhetorics of public

  • Menschen Am Sonntag: Film Analysis

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    Name: Mark A. Bell Professor Padawer Course: Film 103 The Great Directors Date: 5/15/2015 Billy wilder Introduction: Born Samuel Wilder on June 22 1906 in Austria. Wilder started working as a sports reporter in Austria before moving to Berlin. His love of detail in his writings is shown in his films. In 1929, Wilder was hired as a scriptwriter for the film Menschen Am Sonntag and was still writing in Germany until Hitler’s rise to power

  • The Hollywood’s Blacklist

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    or the HUAC. Anti-communism influences the films produced, films portrayed communism as evil and immoral. The films during the cold war certainly portrayed the political storm between the progressive left and the conservative right. Films such as Ninotchka in 1939, showed anti-communism, guilty of Treason 1949, showed an attack against communism, exploiting the evils of communism was shown in Docudrama. The Red Menace in 1949 showed the immense threat f communism.