Orson Welles

Thereby onto the scene comes one of the most dark characters, who has been embedded on celluloid. Reeds film could be Orson Welles’s best role, always hiding in the shadows, with a cynical grin. He shows himself for not more than a few minutes at a time, yet his disturbing presence is signified throughout the whole film. Right next to him is the excellent Joseph Cotten…

The Third Man (1949) directed by Carol Reed, is a film that takes place during World War II in the war torn country Vienne. American writer Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten) comes to Vienna for work promised by his childhood friend Harry Lime (Orson Welles). However, upon arriving to Vienna, Holly learns that Harry was killed in an untimely vehicle accident. After certain events, Holly then is led to believe that Harry's death might not have been accidental due to his involvement in the underground…

The play, “The Hitchhiker” by Lucille Fletcher, tells the story of a man’s road trip from Brooklyn to Hollywood. When thirty-six year old Ronald Adams began his drive on the Brooklyn Bridge, he spotted a hitchhiker on the side of the road. Adams saw the same man throughout the entire trip, but no one else he talked to seems to be able to see the man. In this story, Lucille Fletcher set the tone within the story to show Adams’s paranoia, panic, and dread, which is compatible with the horror in…

Name: Ibrahim Alemadi Film: Citizen kane Sequence Analysis WorkSheet This worksheet describes 6 main elements that you can talk about in your sequence analysis. 1. Narrative 2. Composition 3. Sound 4. Photography 5. Editing 6. Audience Address NARRATIVE What "happens" in the selected sequence? camera moves slowly to show “Mr.Kane in 1871” written on a paper happy music playing in the background Kane using his sled to slide down the snow Kane stands up and throws a snowball at his house a…

Stanley Cohen and Jock Young are two of the most influential sociologists, and their work on crime and the media has done a lot to help identify and understand moral panics. Thanks to Cohen’s and Young 's work it now allows for news stories to be properly assess and to help determine what is and what isn 't a moral panic. Which is very important because being able to skip to through all the nonsense that the news companies produces and find the real important issues that should be discussed is…

and the reality of the actors who are playing a part on a set. Meanwhile Burton's film highlights the layers of production within film, and how each new addition to the process alters the final product. The dialogue that occurs between Ed and Orson Welles also indicates some of Burton's personal opinion of these alterations, ascribing the ultimate vision of a film to the director as the decision maker. His mockery of his main character, however, also demonstrates a level of personal critique in…

created by an educational charity devoted for raising awareness of Shakespeare’s existence. The group has taken their research very seriously and have numerous backers. Intelligent and well respected men such as Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, and Orson Welles have publicized their willingness to believe the notion that Shakespeare is a hoax (Bevington, 1998). Mostly, the foundation of this research lies within the fact that someone who was a writer for a living, left very little evidence of his…

Dream” was known as a dream to make your own decisions and do what you wanted with no restrictions. Now our whole society measures everyone’s “rank” as how much money and material things they have accumulated over their life time. Citizen Kane by Orson Welles, was a film we watched for this unit, Charles Foster Kane was the main character in the film and the whole film was centered around…

The Italian inventor, Guglielmo Marconi, made the radio and was able to send and receive radio signals in nineteen sixteen. Radios had become an important technological advances that positively affected society (Taylor. Pg.5). The radio impacted many lives in the past and today. The greatest impact radios had in life was during the Great Depression. Without radios, the United States would have been socially and economically behind because of the Great Depression in the late nineteen twenties and…

Summary: Echols’ article begins by discussing how the medium of radio was effectively used for storytelling, particularly in telling horror stories. She does not immediately offer her thesis in this introduction, but rather gradually builds up to it by introducing key elements of her argument throughout the introduction. One important element she mentions is that radio was about “focusing on the individual listener” (43), particularly by making the audience identify with the characters and…