Greenwich Village

Desperation strikes Sue and Johnsy, two artists rooming in the heart of Greenwich Village, when Johnsy develops a life-threatening case of pneumonia. She lies motionless in bed all day, staring out of the window at an old ivy vine losing its leaves in the autumn breeze, believing that the last leaf falling will cause her imminent…

Hitchcock utilised the theme of voyeurism in many of his works e.g. Rear Window, Psycho, Vertigo, and North by Northwest, in his endless pursuit to engage the audience. The use of the gaze invites the viewer into the character’s world and become a part of the scene via relatability. Whilst watching a Hitchcock movie, we almost feel responsible when we see an act of violence being imposed on a character in an act of passion boiling over, as if the blade were in our own hand. There is an element…

prompted the celebration of Pride, which is still yearly celebrated in memory of how far the community has gone in reaching its goal. As claimed by an article, “New York was the birthplace of Pride in 1970, one year after the famous Stonewall in Greenwich village” (The History of LGBT Pride, from 1970 to Now, hrc.org). The celebration of the riot came to be known as, Pride; ultimately serving as an event in which people of the community come together. Due to the actions taken at the Stonewall,…

In Kristina Gibson's Street Kids, we delve into the pathos behind youth homelessness, with a particular focus on queer youth. The capital of homeless LGBT+ youth in the USA is none other than New York City. Neglected and at-risk youth from across the country often flock to the city to find a sense of home and community that was missing from their lives, and to escape various forms of abuse and mistreatment. Unfortunately, many become trapped in a maze of criminality, forced to engage in illegal…

Hopper said he got the inspiration for the diner from one in Greenwich Village of New York City. However, the diner that inspired him has been demolished since then. Hopper uses a repetition of windows in many of his works and especially in Nighthawks. He believed that windows were the gateway between the real world and…

his aim of fleeing African American society brutal oppression in the 1950’s. However, sonny’s brother asserts, “but there’s no need…is there? In killing yourself?” (Baldwin 59) making reference to sonny’s drug use during his musical escapes in Greenwich Village…

spaces across the decades of American history, as pictured in the documentary Before Stonewall. Each decade of the twentieth century brought different movements, leaders, and progresses with it that set the stage for the customers of a gay bar in Greenwich Village to say “enough is enough” in the face of abuse and marginalization by the police force. In the early part of the century, traditional views on marriage were so widely held that denial of same sex attraction was the only choice for…

prologue of the film: we are introduced to the space where much of the narrative will take place, to the protagonist, his background, and his neighbors through entirely visual means. Hitchcock created an entire film from the rear window of a Greenwich Village apartment symbolizing a certain “movie-watching” experience. Hitchcock uses mise en scène to show how the film is going to progress, uses camera movement around the buildings to give a sense of continuity and time, uses the frame of the…

session guitarist and working under the name of Jimmy James. By the start of 1966, Jimi had been a part of quite a few acts including: Ike and Tina Turner, Sam Cooke, the Isley Brothers, and Little Richard, and also in many venues all around Greenwich Village. After playing as Little Richard’s back line guitarist, he split ways and formed his own band named Jimmy James and the Blue Flames, in doing so he made himself the lead guitarist in this new band. The latter half of 1966 proved to be…

Dalton Conley’s memoir narrates how growing up white in the projects of NYC affected how he perceived race as he grew older. Growing up being one of the few white boys in a mostly black and Puerto Rican neighborhood on Manhattan’s Lower East Side made his childhood out of the ordinary. Conley opens up the book with an incident that underlines his experience with color in his childhood. In an attempt to show his unawareness to color, three year old, Conley whose mother was pregnant at that time,…