Framing

An audience attending a Hitchcock film is required to do much more than eat popcorn and drink soda! A Hitchcock film immerses the audience within the action of the film using stylistic and cinematic elements, such as: camera placement, editing, point of view, subjectivity and objectivity, all working together in ways that help to evoke certain emotions, while also provoking certain questions, making you wonder just what in the world Hitchcock is going to do next? In 39 Steps, one can see the…

Stanley Kramer’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967) and Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) are set in starkly contrasting contexts but, through similar values explored in both, we can see how concerns of the human condition are universal. Both texts explore the racial prejudice, negative stereotyping and reluctance to move forward as fundamental elements of the human condition. Stanley Kramer’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967) criticises the racial prejudice and…

With exploration, a picture will reveal truths and untruths. I have chosen to scrutinize a recent picture of myself that I clearly remember being taken. Some of the aspects I analyzed are lighting, framing, clothing and expression. Being able to explore…

the term “hearing loss”, but not very familiar with the term “deaf gain”. I was expecting “deaf gain” to involve the advantages of being deaf that I do not hear about often. The article talks about the framing of deafness and the diversity to society that deafness contributes. The current framing of deafness makes it seem like a negative thing in today’s society. We live in a society where there’s an…

The authors assert that the problem often lies within the decision-maker and not the process. The authors describe eight potential biases that they refer to as the anchoring trap, status quo trap, a sunk cost trap, the confirming evidence trap, the framing trap, the overconfidence trap, the prudence trap, and the recall ability trap. The article gives a description of each of the aforementioned traps and methods to overcome them. Personal Reflection This article aided in my recognizing that…

Introduction: A discourse is a system of socially constructed knowledge about an aspect of reality (Foucault 1977; Hall 1997; van Leeuwen 2005). The #DontClipTheirWings campaign is concerned with the discourse surrounding gender-differentiated parenting: the act of treating one’s children differently just because of their gender (Raley and Bianchi 2006). Although the dominant discourse has evolved significantly, gender-differentiated parenting remains to be a prevalent issue. The unequal…

What does a student need to become well educated? Educational author Alfie Kohn offers a common belief. Written in his article “What Does it Mean to be Well Educated,” Kohn believes a student’s educational success can never be truly measured; since education differs by location, culture, educators, and monetary resources, defining the characteristics of a well-educated student becomes complex. However, Kohn explains the only reputable characteristic of a well-educated student “is to have the…

film. This is abundantly clear at the climax of the film, the final face-off between Harry and Voldemort. The cinematography of this scene is not just picturesque but industrious. It is clear that every aspect of every shot is deliberate from framing to depth of field. These choices not only serve to keep us focused on the intended subject, a necessity with all the chaos taking place on screen, but also to heighten the viewers emotions. A shot of Harry, framed at the end of a long corridor…

The argument of Graeff et al. (2014) about networked framing provides plurality into the framing of public issues was true, while social media neglect some key points reported critically by legacy media. For example, traditional media extensively reported the allegation about the BattleBus used to propagandise in crucial marginal…

“You will tell the court how that poppet come here and who stuck the needle in,” (80). Proctor tells this to Mary Warren, forcing her to accuse Abigail of framing Elizabeth. He forced Mary to attempt to bring the truth to the court that all the girls were pretending to be involved in witchcraft, which would in turn convict Abigail of framing Elizabeth, free Elizabeth, and end the witch trials. This was the only way the to accomplish his goals without revealing his act of adultery and keeping…