Classical Hollywood cinema

The film Les 400 Coups is autobiographical, through the character of Antoine Doinel, Truffaut recounts the struggles of his upbringing as a troubled young adolescent in Paris. Les 400 Coups (a French expression meaning to “raise hell”) shows the result of neglectful, or entirely absent, parenting as it is of youth delinquency. Antoine is certainly not blameless, many of his actions are dictated by necessity. He is a victim of circumstance. There is no doubt as to where our sympathies lie or…

The most electrifyingly opportune motion picture playing in New York was made in 1965. Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers is well known, however for quite a while it's been accessible just in washed-out prints with ineffectively interpreted, white-on-white subtitles. The recently deciphered and subtitled 35-millimeter print at Film Forum is probably the form that was secretly screened in August for military work force by the Pentagon as a field manual for battling terrorism. Previous…

if Hollywood itself wrote it's own autobiography of their role in shaping the outcomes of the war. The desire to produce both an analytical reflection of how 1940’s Hollywood should be remembered as an industry within a historically accurate retelling of the film industry’s actions during the war is daunting in that the reader may find the history portion dry or the opinion sections unwarranted. Doherty manages to please both parties and factually romanticizes the necessary role Hollywood…

By today’s standards, this is a lighthearted romantic comedy. However, Otto Preminger encountered a great deal of resistance when he tried to distribute his film. In the Production Code files archive there are several letters between Otto Preminger and Joseph Breen (the director of The Production Code Association) discussing the denial of a seal of approval for The Moon is Blue. Among these are letters between Preminger and the heads of many studios that also refused to distribute the film due…

Classical Conditioning is a type of learning that pairs a stimulus that would cause a predictable reaction with a stimulus that causes a neutral reaction, in the hopes that the neutral stimulus with invoke the response of the previous stimulus. The unconditioned stimulus will cause the unconditioned response without any need to condition it. The unconditioned stimulus will always produce the unconditioned response. The neutral stimulus will have a neutral reaction. This is crucial, seeing as how…

My client has suffered the last four years of her life, with a horrible smoking problem. This problem interferes with all that she does. She cannot work, because it causes her to smoke. She’d rather be in her house, watching some TV, where she has the option to smoke at any time. My client has no past of smoking, or any other drug use. She is the only one around with a problem like this. Smoking causes people to not only have bad coughs, but it causes lung cancer, and many other kinds of cancers…

associative learning, which occurs when an organism makes a connection between two events. Within associative learning, there is classical conditioning, which occurs when an organism learns the association between two stimuli. Classically conditioned organisms are able to anticipate events they have been trained to expect as a result of other occurrences. Specifically, classical conditioning is the learning process in which a neutral stimulus becomes associated with an innately meaningful…

it involves killing, vandalism, theft (belongings and auto), and the beating of rival gang members. Gang violence is very prevalent in communities with low income. The two theorists I have chosen are B.F Skinner (conditioning) John B Watson’s (Classical Conditioning) and Robert K. Merton 's (Anomie Theory). According to B.F Skinner, the study of behaviorism is simply observing what people do. John B. Watson was most famous for his experiments with Little Albert. In terms of conditioning, John…

I’ve got a god awful habit that I just can’t seem to shake. In my family, nail biting could be considered hereditary. Everyone in my family bites their nails, even my 4 year old cousin Elias has been plagued with this monster, and for reasons that were unknown until this assignment came up. As a child, my mother was always so hypocritical of me biting my nails, always claiming that I was going to have a huge ball of nails in my stomach. Being a easily fascinated child, her words had the opposite…

In this experiment the main goal is to examine the correlation between position, velocity, time, and acceleration of objects, moving in one or two dimensions. Each and every experiment will be conducted under different conditions. For example, the first experiment requires a constant force (gravity) to act on the object, the picket fence. This experiments other condition is that we neglect friction. This object should be in nearly ideally circumstances. In the second experiment, the conditions…