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Bringing out the Dead and Auteur Theory
Matthew Bettencourt Professor Sarah E. S. Sinwell Film 6350 October 20th, 2020 Bringing out the Dead and Auteur Theory Martin Scorsese’s Bringing out the Dead has fallen off the radar since its 1999 release. Possibly due to a poor marketing campaign, the film was a box office bomb and confused audiences who were expecting another…
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Star Wars Fan Culture
Matthew BettencourtProfessor Sarah E. S. SinwellFilm 6350November 8th, 2020 Star Wars Fan Culture When Star Wars was released in 1977, it became a cultural phenomenon. It pushed the boundaries of what the medium could achieve and ushered in a new era of blockbuster cinema. It was a perfect piece of escapism that defined the childhoods…
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Last Year at Marienbad and Art Cinema
Matthew BettencourtProfessor Sarah E. S. SinwellFilm 6350September 29th, 2020 Last Year at Marienbad and Art Cinema Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961) is one of many seminal European films ofthe 1960s that rewrote the rules of traditional cinema. The way it dismantled the classical modeof storytelling was incredibly ambitious for its time. While the…
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