Orson Welles

the first televised debates between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, the public’s reaction alternated wildly depending on whether they watched on television, the Yellow journalism wouldn’t have thrived as it did without printed journalism, and Orson Welles production of the War of the Worlds would not have been as spectacular as it was if her hadn’t used the medium of the radio. But these days,…

Saki, in another name Hector Hugh Munro was a British writer and master of the short story form and his works were often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. He influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Caroll and Rudyard Kipling and also he influenced to the other authors, such as A. A. Milne and P. G. Wodehouse. Saki was Munro’s pen name and inspiration of his pen name came from the boyish cupbearer in “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam” by Edward FitzGerald. However, Saki may refer to a South American…

Life is riddled with obstacles and difficulties. It gets extremely tough at times and unbearable at others. Furthermore, humans are not perfect creatures and their already tough existence is even more complicated by the mistakes that one makes. An individual might be convinced that nothing is important and life is devout of any meaning. People with that mindset are one step away from a suicide. Maria, a heroine of Joan Didion’s novel Play It As It Lays, is one such character. She thinks that…

Ridley Scott’s 1982 film Blade Runner is an endlessly fascinating film to dissect. The film while not popular upon it’s initial release has grown a huge following over the years and has captured the minds of filmmakers, students and scholars alike. Even Sir Ridley Scott himself couldn’t stay away from his film as over the last thirty years he has tinkered with and fine tuned his film into what is now known as “The Final Cut”. The 1982 theatrical cut of the film and the subsequent 2007 release of…

After World War II, the Cold War began to heat up as the world’s two biggest powers vied for control of third world countries. On the left, the Soviet Union employed communist principles, while the United States fought for democracy. Following Truman’s Executive Order 9835, the purging of communist principles seeped into industry in the United States. On October 20, 1947, the notorious Red Scare began to infiltrate the biggest propaganda source: Hollywood. As a congressional committee known as…