Gertrude is one of Shakespeare’s most ambiguous queens. She is a role that compresses arguments about sexuality, maternal authority, dynastic legitimacy, and conscience into remarkably few lines. Yet her afterlives are abundant. Read alongside the chronicles that prefigure Hamlet (Saxo Grammaticus and François de Belleforest), Shakespeare’s queen stands at the junction of piety and power; read through Laurence Olivier’s 1948 film, she is reframed within an Oedipal optics; rea

Figure 1. Ingrid Bergman in " Notorious" Alfred Hitchcock’s most unsettling effects are not built from chases or killings but from faces that do too little and hands that do too much. His characters are caught between what they mean and what they must pretend to mean, a performance-within-performance where gestures must advance the fiction for other characters while broadcasting contradictory emotions. Richard Allen argues that Hitchcock is a romantic ironist, staging scen

Realism in cinema, particularly within the Italian Neorealism movement and its global reverberations, represents a profound shift in...

La Terra Trema (The Earth Trembles) was released in 1948 and directed and narrated by Luchino Visconti. The story follows a family in...

Laurel Creighton Brazilian Cinema Fabio Cardoso Andrade In the 1970s, Brazil experienced an emergence of pornography as a mainstream...

I Like a book on the subway tracks That somebody forgot to read I, too, am filled with discarded knowledge More esoteric than academic My...

Laurel Creighton Ivone Margulies Selected Directors: Chantal Akerman Spring Semester 2023 Always the Mother A film that replicates itself...

Under the guidance of my professor, Mr. Benjamin Moore, I'm setting out on a month-long journey to explore my inner self and connection...

Laurel Creighton HIST 14100 02 The United States from the Colonial Era to the Civil War July 12, 2023 A Comparative Review of Historical...

The film Raging Bull is based on Jake LaMotta’s memoir, Ragin Bull: My Story. The screenplay was written by Mardik Martin and re-written...

Dear Tukman Research Residency Program Board, Over the years at Hunter, I have passionately studied both Film and the German language. My...

Notorious is an espionage film with gothic melodrama and noir elements. It stars Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, and Cary Grant and plays...

Politicians have double billed prisons as solution to crime and unemployment and this narrative has shaped the United States’ political...

What is the difference between plot and story? According to Russian Formalists, the plot is what we see and hear while a story goes much...

João César Monteiro's Branca de Neve is a startling recital of Snow White over a black screen punctuated by momentary images and eerie...

Bresson's Au Hazard, Balthazar (1966, France) is an allegorical film told through the lens of a donkey named Balthazar and was based in...

Lizzie Borden presents a situation where individuals, especially women are still restricted and oppressed despite a "successful" Social...

Opera Mouffe is about many things but can be argued that it is about women’s visual vocabulary. A woman’s visual vocabulary exists linked...

Critics and scholars agree that the 1930s were classical Hollywood's "Golden Era." Only a few years prior, in 1928, film had been...

John Cassavetes says, "Maybe there is no America; it was only Frank Capra." A true rags to riches in his own life – Frank Capra became...