Hitchcock’s Themes and Motifs: The search is manifest in the suspenseful pursuit of a missing person, at the end of which there’s a disclosure of hidden personality.
Movie Stars: Approach–Richard Dyer’s Classification of Types
April 29, 2021 by
The perspective of auteurism led to studies of actors-stars as auteurs, performers who had an unusual control over their careers and screen images–Fred Astaire, James Cagey, Bogart, Garbo, John Wayne.
Directors: Independent–Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini
April 28, 2021 by
With their first feature American Splendor, Springer Berman and Pulcini earned an Oscar Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Movie Stars: Approaches, Concepts, Theories (Mythological, Sociological, Psychoanalytic)
April 20, 2021 by
Stars gratify our deepest sexual needs and respond to our deepest psychic needs, in wats that modern religions fail to do–Parker Tyler
Movie Stars: Dee, Sandra–Background, Career, Decline of Teenage Star (Tammy, Summer Place, Imitation of Life)
April 19, 2021 by
Sandra Dee became a teenage star for her performances in Imitation of Life and Gidget (both 1959), which made her a household name.
