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  • ...ny cinema in three hours and without any extra expense to the owner of the cinema. A demonstration of the machine will be given at the Scala Theatre on Tuesd [[Category: Articles about Juno and the Paycock (1930)]]
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  • ...had no difficulty in covering, as with cloths of gold, the whole field of cinema production. The more experienced architecture of the silent picture, never ...both sides. One of the most fruitful examples of sound manipulation comes from Germany, where G. W. Pabst, director of ''The Joyless Street'' and ''The Lo
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  • ...taking up points in a film. One reason why British films had not made more progress in the United States was that in many cases the American picture theatres w Mr. Engholme admitted that while they got some splendid films from the United States, they also got some outrageous "duds," and now that the w
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  • It is the purpose of these articles to discuss the talkies in detachment from the wild campaign of publicity that has attended their introduction; to rev ...arning greater profits than in the past, and it seems fairly safe to argue from American experience that, when once the novelty of talking films has worn o
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  • ...to a "synopsis." Thus, our hopes of obtaining a full treatment of the film from this source are dashed. ...ck literature, Noble (6-7), Yacowar (29-30), Sloan (49), but they all stem from the ''Bioscope'' review.
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  • ...], [["Hitchcock's Films" - by Robin Wood]], [[Alfred Hitchcock]], American cinema, Artistic Representation (Imitation), [[Bruce Dern]], Character, Feature fi ...and tear), but the perception of them will vary from viewer to viewer and from age to age: in that sense there will always be more to say (or sometimes to
    36 KB (6,011 words) - 08:09, 23 February 2015
  • * keywords: ''1950s, [[Alfred Hitchcock]], [[Alma Reville]], American cinema, [[Andrew Britton]], [[Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero]], Cultural influenc ...eals with the post World War II nuclear family. The statistics that emerge from this period and confirm the 50s as the definitive family values era are fai
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  • ...it sound self-evidently obvious. If everybody knows that Hitchcock's films from [[Strangers on a Train]] to [[Psycho]] use the discourses of national secur ...ile tone. How could I miss the point that if some apparently neutral films from a given period had a political subtext, many others would as well? Just as
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  • ...red Hitchcock]], [[Blackmail (1929)]], [[Bodega Bay, California]], British cinema, [[Donald Spoto]], Europe), [[Eve Kendall]], Feature films, Film (Internati ...et. To one side of the shop is the family dining and sitting room, divided from the shop by a glass wall, half-curtained. In the shop itself is a telephone
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  • * article: '''Notes on the British Cinema''' '''Notes on the British Cinema'''
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  • ...he strangest and darkest films, not just in [[Hitchcock]]'s career, but in cinema in general," says [[Dominik Moll]]. "It's gloomy, desperate, and almost imp ...the pleasure he took in fabricating them. He understood the specificity of cinema, how you can tell a story with film in a very different way than in a novel
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  • ...lly played by [[Basil Radford]] and [[Naunton Wayne]], provides one of the cinema's most reliable pleasures. Launder and Gilliat were the Charters and Caldicott of the cinema, expressing a light-hearted Englishness, refusing to take the world or them
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  • ...ou use it to draw the much-needed, long-gone female audience back into the cinema? Certainly not by tempting them in with the mandatory gang rape, as film di ...sically the sexual psychodramas, usually directed by [[Alfred Hitchcock]], from the better years of Hollywood. They have nicer sofas and worse music, but w
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  • ...roduced and directed by Mr. Bruce Humberstone and to be seen at the Rialto Cinema, is based on a novel called the ''Build-Up Boys'', and "build-up boy" is as ...to one of repellent glamour. As Clint, Mr. Andrews ages visibly during the progress of the film, and no wonder.
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  • <indent>''Miller talks about [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s hidden pictures. First, from [[Strangers on a Train]], something obvious, literally obstructing the way. First, from [[Strangers on a Train]], something obvious, literally obstructing the way.
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  • ...t's film differs from the long cycle of earlier films extending or quoting from Psycho {{-}}Psycho 2, Dressed to Kill, and so on{{-}}"not in kind, but only ..., the Van Sant Psycho was trading on a relationship that made it different from all other films: its status as a remake of the father (or, more accurately,
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  • * '''25th''' - {{Hitchcock}} graduates from St. Ignatius College.<ref>{{DSG}}, page 24.</ref> * '''12th''' - Alfred Hitchcock's father, William Hitchcock, dies from chronic emphysema and kidney disease.
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  • ...arden (1925)]], [[Thornton Wilder]], [[Under Capricorn (1949)]], [[Waltzes from Vienna (1934)]], [[Young and Innocent (1937)]]'' ...o the flair for popular showmanship that is characteristic of the American cinema. It is significant that the most widely celebrated of all British directors
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  • ...ething in the film — a line, a shot, a musical phrase — brings me back from these absent states, I hardly know what I regret more — losing the fierce ...ridescent steering wheel on Scottie’s De Soto Firedome, which looks made from mother-of-pearl rather than plastic, and whose regular stippling seems to p
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  • <blockquote>''Cinema is form.''<br />{{-}}Alfred Hitchcock (Samuels 233)</blockquote> ...s (Bordwell 301). The result, as Bordwell asserts, is that in the American cinema sound was never really "a radical alternative to silent filmmaking"; rather
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