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Kristin Thompson (born 1950) is an American film theorist and author whose research interests include the close formal analysis of films, the history of film styles, and "quality television," a genre akin to art film. She wrote two scholarly books in the 1980s which used an analytical technique called neoformalism. She also co-authored two ...
Television film Legend of the Sandsquatch: Lola Wallace: Mike Korich, Travis Betz, Katie Rhine: United States [75] The Legend of Viper's Hill: David A. Lloyd: Brian Hillhouse, Tina Michaud, Donna Henry: United States [76] Living Death: Erin Berry: Kristy Swanson, Vik Sahay, Rajiv Narang: Canada [77] The Lonely Ones: David Michael Quiroz Jr.
Taphophobia (from Greek τάφος – taphos, "grave, tomb" [1] and φόβος – phobos, "fear" [2]) is an abnormal (psychopathological) phobia of being buried alive as a result of being incorrectly pronounced dead. [3] Before the era of modern medicine, the fear was not entirely irrational.
Mirvish was born to a Jewish family in Omaha, [6] the son of Lynda and Sidney Mirvish. [7] [6] His father was a cancer researcher at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.[8] [9] His mother was a publicist and public relations executive. [10]
Others have dismissed the book on grounds that Booker is too rigid in fitting works of art to the plot types above. For example, novelist and literary critic Adam Mars-Jones wrote, "[Booker] sets up criteria for art, and ends up condemning Rigoletto , The Cherry Orchard , Wagner , Proust , Joyce , Kafka and Lawrence —the list goes on—while ...
Among the events depicted in the film is the Freedom Summer of 1964, in which three civil rights workers were slain. Freedom on My Mind combines personal interviews, rare archival film and television footage, authentic Mississippi Delta blues, and Movement gospel songs. It emphasizes the strategic brilliance of Mississippi's young, black ...
From Caligari to Hitler melds his understanding of trends in the film market with analysis of political tendencies of German social politics. Kracauer proposes that Robert Wiene's film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is an allegory for German social attitudes. Kracauer argued that Caligari symbolizes autocratic tendencies inherent in the German ...
Silencing the Past is a meditation on the characteristics of power and how it influences the creation and recording of histories. Spanning examples from The Alamo and Christopher Columbus to the position of the Haitian Revolution in the collective memory of Western society, Trouillot analyzes conventional historical narratives to understand why certain parts of history are remembered when ...