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Joan Mellen
In this work, Joan Mellen analyses'In the Realm of the Senses', the controversial film which caused a sensation at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival.Joan Mellen is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Temple University and author of Seven Samurai
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Joan Mellen
Sherlock Being Catfished is a memoir of a self-induced hypnosis, brilliantly choreographing a pas-de-deux with an internet'catfish'and allowing us to see a sensitive, lonely woman succumb to a devilish entrapment helplessly yet altogether knowingly.
Autor:
Joan Mellen
In Seven Samurai (1954) a whole society is on the verge of irrevocable change. Akira Kurosawa's celebrated film, regarded by many to be the major achievement of Japanese cinema, is an epic that evokes the cultural upheavalbrought on by the collapse o
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Joan Mellen
Modern Times was Charlie Chaplin's last full-length silent film. The author situates'Modern Times'within the context of Chaplin's life work, exploring its history and influences. She explores how the film's themes of oppression, industrialization and
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Joan Mellen
In the film'Seven Samurai'(1954) a whole society is on the verge of irrevocable change. Many people consider this film a major achievemnet in Japanese cinema, an epic that evokes the cultural upheaval brought on by the collapse of Japanese militarism
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Joan Mellen
Joan Mellen tells a brilliantly researched, meticulously supported, and compulsively readable tale that everyone concerned with how America operates should know.” Samuel R. Delany, author of Dhalgren and Through the Valley of the Nest of Spider
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Joan Mellen
Lyndon Johnson and Mac Wallace crossed paths only briefly; but Wallace's life, especially one violent episode and its intricate aftermath, illuminates the dark side of our 36th president.Perhaps no president has a more ambiguous reputation than LBJ.
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Joan Mellen
Publikováno v:
Film Quarterly. 61:24-32
This essay reflects on the shared qualities of the late works of Yasujiro Ozu and Mikio Naruse. Both worked in the shomin-geki genre of middle-class life, depicting the often unhappy social conditions, notably among women, in post-war Japan. But whil
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Joan Mellen
Publikováno v:
Film Quarterly. 61:24-31
Bringing together the DVD reissue of Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven, Paul Haggis's In the Valley of Elah, and Joel and Ethan Coen's No Country for Old Men, this essay argues that the three films are indictments of the violent history of American mi