This article revisits a seminal figure of film history, the director/actor/scriptwriter Erich von Stroheim, focusing on his early work, and arguing that a Gothic framework is the most appropriate context for making sense of his complex, subversive persona; equally, the essay shows how two films...
Makin, A. J. 1990, `The Current Account: Not Really the Villain in Australia's Macroeconomic Melodrama', Economic Papers, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 77-84.Makin, A., 1990, `The CAD: Not Really the Villain in Australia's Macroeconomic Melodrama', Economic Papers, 9(3): 77-84....
Michael Redgrave is on the train to his job as a crane operator. He sees at a window Paul Lukas killing Sally Gray.It's a great start for a movie, and it was used before. LADY IN DISTRESS is a remake of the French METROPOLITAIN. I'd like to offer you a comparison of the two ...
The most vicious man in the play is not in the least a stage villain; indeed, he regards his own moral character with the sincere complacency of a hero of melodrama. The amiable devotee of romance and beauty is shewn at an age which brings out the futilization which these worships a...
Mr Blount: “A good day’s work, Bolton! You’re getting faster all the time. Beats me how you do it!” Dr. Bolton: [Bitterly] “No matter how fast I still can’t save them!” Mr Blount:“Yes, most distresing, but, alas, inevitably you can’t have operations without screams. ...
To become a better writer, you do not need to know who your protagonist is before you begin writing—but as you look at your work in progress, it's important to ask: Whose future is most important to this story, to the other characters in this story? Whose future is most important to...
Marcia says “Alright I’m vain, foolish, and female and I like mirrors”Gil–“And they like you, baby.” In the story of The Hungry Glass the legend that circulates amongst the locals is that Jonah Bellman built the house to be a showplace, he said he’d make it a jewel box (...
Bing Crosby headlines the film adaptation of Cole Porter's musical. Universal holds the rights. The 1956 remake (also starring Bing) is out on DVD — why not the original? The April Fools (1969) "He has a wife. She has a husband. With so much in common they just have to fall in...
(in its second edition) “A Gothic Story.” This story originated in England in the second half of the 18th century. But it took until the late 1790s for “Gothic” to take on some of the meanings we most frequently associate with it today: Gothic as synonym for grotesque, ghastly and...
I. Introduction The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. These facts few psychologists will dispute, and their admitted truth must establish for all time the genuineness and di