Stanley Edgar Hyman

for my genre analysis was a horror classic, The Shining. The film was made in the year 1980, starring Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance, Shelly Duvall as Wendy Torrance, and Danny Lloyd as Danny Torrance. The film was directed by Stanley Kubrick and screen written by Stanley Kubrick and Diane Johnson. Critics originally poorly reviewed the film, however with time the film became a classic. The film ended up grossing $44.40 million dollars. The film’s story was based on Author Stephen King’s novel…

The Blackhawks were finally getting hot, everybody knew about Glenn Hall, Stan Mikita, Pierri Pilote, and Bobby Hull. Mikita was awarded his first Art Ross Trophy in 1964 and Hull scored 50 goals in one regular season, which was considered a lot back in that time because of how little the league was. Fewer teams, fewer games to be played. Mikita also had real temper that made their games more interesting to watch. He managed to rack up 149 penalty minutes in the 1964 regular season due to a lot…

Blanche is unhappy at the way that Stanley treats her sister and thinks that Stella would be better off without him, “In my opinion? You’re married to a madman!’. Meanwhile Stanley despises Blanche and seeks to destroy her. He goes out of his way to discover the secrets of Blanche’s past and finds that she is not who she says she is; she was known for sexual promiscuity and for having an affair with a young student. Stanley wants to exploit her insecurities, to mentally break her…

Blanche’s life. Blanche is from Laurel, Mississippi, but after losing her family home she leaves Mississippi and moves to New Orleans to live with her sister Stella. Stella is married to a man named Stanley, whom Blanche is not too fond of. She seems to believe that her sister deserves a better husband. Stanley seems to be aware of Blanche’s feelings and perceptions towards him and seems to be feeling the same way. During her time in New…

Stanley Milgram is a well-known psychologist whose revered yet controversial experiments on obedience forge a popular name for him. His experiments offer plenty to critique, and many respected psychologists tore his work apart. One author, Diana Baumrind, critiques Milgram in her article, “Review of Stanley Milgram’s Experiments on Obedience,” and explains the unethicality of his work and the assumed rights of the subjects. Ian Parker on the other hand, in his article “Obedience,” states that…

Although, Blanche Dubois was a southern belle born with a silver spoon in her mouth she had a hard life. Underneath her haughty disposition was a fragile human being, who became greatly affected by the tragedies she faced day to day. Her life was filled with tragedy and fear that altered her psyche completely. Blanche Dubois became insane. Blanche’s self-awareness meant that she was able cover up her mental illness. In spite of that, the music in the play exposed it, by being a reflection of…

Brought by the innovative - yet not always succeeded - American director Michael Almereyda, “Experimenter” tells us about the work of social psychologist, Stanley Milgram (an unsmiling Peter Sarsgaard), based on his overwhelming studies on the human obedience to authority. In this biographical drama, whose theme is sufficiently enticing to keep us watching with a responsive curiosity, Almereyda uses his creative freedom to edify a somewhat loose narrative that drinks from the thoughts and…

displays her reliance on Stanley. In the opening Stella catches the meat Stanley caught for her, introducing Stanley as the dominant provider. Ruby Cohn says “Stanley has trained his wife to catch his meat”. Stella catches Stanley’s meat in every way and sense, as well as in the language “catch”, “what”, “meat” exchange. What’s more, Stanley does not only provide Stella with meat, he also satisfies her sexual needs. This is one of the main sources of dependence on Stanley. Stella is totally…

The Shining was released into theaters in1980 and became a horror movie classic, but what scenes in the film helped build suspense towards the climax where the main character is attacking his family? The film overall storyline involves a man named Jack Torrance who getting a new job as a caretaker to a hotel during the winter season. During this season he will be living with just his family because the hotel closes down completely due to its harsh winter storms, but the caretaker is suppose to…

One of the studies that we covered in class during the Social Psychology unit was the Stanford prison experiment run by Philip Zimbardo. This study has the broad design of an experiment. It is an experiment because Zimbardo set out to see the effects of prison and social roles. The idea is that he was experimenting with a group of people to see how their social roles would change once put into the controlled environment of the mock prison space. It is more specifically known as a Quasi…