Alfred Marshall

A lot of people like a nice spy film, Action, danger, love, suspense. If I told you North by North West was one of the first spy films, would you believe it? North by Northwest influenced the bond films and the styling of the spy film in general, in plot structure, tropes, and even a set piece. The man on the run plot structure is the same where our hero quickly shows his word play at the beginning of the film while playing nice with the quickly identified villain as some plot elements develop…

American Psycho, Election 2016, and the Entropy of the American Dream The ‘80’s described in the book were a time of excess, immorality, and sloth. They were also significantly a time when the American Dream, as originally described was one of hard work and charismatic patriotism, changed to one of excess and moral competition. In this, the human persona became more animalistic; so begins this discourse with a genius line from the main character of American Psycho, Patrick Bateman, “There…

Alfred Hitchcock was a masterful manipulator of film techniques to enhance the gothic atmosphere in Rebecca. He uses various techniques to manifest the atmosphere and genre that he wants to convey to the viewers. His use of film noir incorporated into many of the scenes reflects the mysterious and suspicious environment around the protagonist, The second Mrs DeWinter. Hitchcock portrays the character of the damsel in distress through his specific stage directions and thus he utilises his role as…

They argue the significance of the affair lies in Dreyfus representation as a “symbol” that highlighted the many fundamental issues with the French republic, such as the rights of an individual and in the polarisations it provoked between those who believed the rights of an individual should be the utmost concern (the left) even if it meant a reprehended state system such as Zola who announced “There is no Dreyfus Affair any longer. There is only one issue: is France still the France of the…

COUN 5710 Dr. Baggerly Fall 2016 Adlerian and Cognitive Theory Comparison Paper Adlerian and Cognitive Theory Comparison Paper Individual Psychology (IP) and Cognitive Therapy (CT) are both popular approaches in counseling. Founded by Alfred Adler and Aaron T. Beck, these two approaches encompass fundamental elements from older theories, while also diverging to reflect their own perceptions of humans and best practices. IP and CT are two theories related in many aspects, but remain…

The movie, “Psycho” best exemplifies dissociative identity disorder. Marion Crane, a real estate secretary in Phoenix, Arizona, is discussing with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis, how they cannot afford to get married because of Sam’s debts. After lunch, Marion returns to work where a client drops off a $40,000 deposit on a property. Her boss asks her to deposit the money in the bank and then she asks if she can take the rest of the afternoon off. She runs home, packs for an unplanned trip, deciding…

To fully understand Rear Window, it is important to understand the effect cinema has on its spectators. French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan was popular as he was influential in the 20th century, with works rivalling that of Freud, despite the lack of his work being offered in English. His film theories and their relation to the conscious and subconscious human mind opened doors to many other ideas, including the idea of spectator’s film identification, which will be discussed next. Lacan proposed…

Bernard Herrmann’s score for Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho is one of the most highly regarded in film history. The music does so much to create a suspenseful, and sometimes terrifying, atmosphere for the film. Psycho was one of few films that explored psychology and presented new techniques to showcase them in the music. Composed during the New Wave Cinema, Psycho employs modern techniques such as the lack of a given cue, dissonant sounds, limited orchestral colors, and black-and-white…

been devised by psychological theorists using their particular ideas, background, values, own personality and experiences in order to offer a theoretical perspective to explain personality (Ryckman, 2013). Two personality theorists will be analysed; Alfred Adler’s individual psychology and Hans Eysenck’s Trait Theory. Their core concepts regarding behaviour and personality will be examined in relation…

Among our most intrinsic human characteristics, we strive to express ourselves both creatively and socially. Combining these two traits creates an artistic interaction between an audience and a medium. Cinema, arguably the most visually astounding form of art, not only stimulates visually, but subjects viewers to haptic and acoustic experiences as well. The film scholar, Thomas Elsaesser, makes various points in his book “Film Theory” describing several ways in which we can experience the film…