The Director Of M By Fritz Lang

Insanity is a major theme throughout the novel. Insanity is the state of being insane, and many characters became insane when they are going to the camps. Elie, his father, Ms.Schachter, and meir katz become insane.

Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 ‘Rear Window’ is full of characterization, narratives and symbolism. The film focuses around the main character of the story, Jefferies, who is a photographer but unfortunately recently has to use a wheelchair and stay in an apartment because he broke his leg. Jeff has to spend time alone, so he spends his time watching his neighbors through his camera. Due to the warmth of summer most people had to open their window so now Jefferies can see what is happening in their life. It’s like he is watching multiple films at the same time. A free cinema for Jefferies. The view of that window and Jefferies’s apartment is all the viewers have.

Effect: creates irony by implying that insanity is not just contained within the walls of the asylum. Madness is also demonstrated through the action and deeds perpetrated by so called “normal” people in the outside world.

Jewhooing the Sixties by David Kaufman is a book that examines the Jewish identity of the Jewish people as a whole based on the Jewish celebrities in America and their effect on popular culture, mainly during the first half of the 1960s. During this time, it was very common for people and especially for Jews to follow the habit of citing Jewish celebrities to which Kaufman refers to the name as “Jewhooing”. This action of jewhooing according to Kaufman “points to a deeper relationship between Jews and celebrity overall.” (1) As Kaufman takes us through this book he shows the reader four different celebrities during this time that stand out above the others which are Sandy Koufax, Lenny Bruce, Bob Dylan, and Barbara Streisand, all of which are Jewish, and the way they became celebrities within an American context, while at the same time remaining identifiable as Jews but in four different ways. This book allowed me to see the Jewish culture and a period that it was very prominent in that I had never known about before based on the Jewish identities of these celebrities.

The decline of the Weimar Republic marked a time of great concern over how post-war Germany would shed its authoritarian past and reinvent itself. Feasibly, no other film from this era could so adeptly capture the history of immediate-postwar Germany than Fritz Lang 's Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler. Fritz Lang’s melodramatic tale of an elusive and depraved gambler, or ‘player’ as it’s literally translated, is actually an allegory for a corrupt and economically unstable Germany that would soon give rise to fascism. Though Lang, a fervent anti-fascist, would find great success in cinematically portraying despotism in his cult classic Metropolis (1927), Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler was the film that was the more directly connected to a recovering Germany. Dr. Mabuse is an allegory for the political and economic strife that took hold Weimar Germany.

In the movie Labyrinth of Lies, the German society’s blindness to the moral wrongdoings is shown through the case organized by Johann Radmann. The people of Germany turned a blind eye to the actions of the Nazis during the war; they merely categorized it as something they did under order from the military so they would not be held accountable for their actions. I believe that the people did not want to think about the awful crimes that their leaders committed during the war, and it was easiest to place the blame on Hitler, who was already dead. People tend to look for the easiest ways out of a situation, and this movie shows one way that it can be done. Another tendency people have is placing the blame on others; it is one way that people will justify or excuse their actions.

Fritz Lang introduces his first sound movie by filming “M” in 1931. As a drama-thriller the film is telling us a story of a pathological and bizarre case. The plot is quite intriguing as it is about a serial killer (murderer), called Beckert, of children called Hans Beckert and the violence spread in the city by him as the violence plays a main role in the film. The title of the movie “M” is the first “hidden” detail which emphasizes and directs to the violence but it could only be noticed if the film is being watched. What does actually is meant by it, is exactly ‘MURDERER’ whereas the ‘M’ is the first letter of the word.

There are instances in life in which we must accept things that are beyond our control and understanding. In the film M by Fritz Lang we are thrust into a situation of that exact caliber. The story tells of a man named Hans Beckert, who appears to be an average man by day. We first meet the character as a shadow and all that we hear is a whistle as he approaches a child which was left alone. Once the news is out about the missing child the town erupts in chaos, everybody seems to have their own theory about who this criminal is. Even the gangsters of the city have to participate in the manhunt in order to restore their “normal” criminal activity, they even stage a court room in which they plan on prosecuting Mr.

“Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World” is a 2003 American historic naval warfare drama starring Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany. Director Peter Weir crafted an intriguing adventurous movie that balances masterfully crafted fierce battle sequences with smart intimate scenes.

The director of Calvary, John Michael McDonagh describes the film as an exploration of human themes, such as despair and death, for which the contemporary Irish social context and the reality of the churches in Ireland provide its stage. As a black comedy, this film seems to caricature the context in an exaggerated manner, yet it certainly features a secularized town of Ireland.

The silent film, Metropolis directed by Fritz Lang, released in 1927, reflects the social situation of the time in Germany during the Weimar Period, before the rise of Hitler power. At that time, there was a new political climate, which was in favor of an equity-oriented fascism rather than liberty-oriented capitalism. The film clearly gives viewers an idea that fascism way of the political system is the preferable ideology for the society by depicting the class struggles between capitalists and labours. Thus, the movie was often interpreted as a propaganda movie and being criticized.

The film Experimenter, by Michael Almereyda, based on Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University, experimented focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. The participant of the study was compliant with the "teacher and learner" role because they were obedience. None of the participants questioned the position they were given in the study or requested to be in the opposite part. Being in the role of the teacher, gave you the position of power, taking control of the experiment.

In the 1940’s film The Great Dictator by Charlie Chaplin, Chaplin plays the role of a Jewish Barber set in a time similar to that of World War II. The jewish barber shares a striking resemblance to that of the great dictator Hynkel. In the third act of the film Hynkel is captured by mistake from his own soldiers and they mistaken the jewish barber as their great dictator. With this new great power bestowed upon the jewish barber he uses this chance to cry out to the people of the newly invaded country that Hynkel had sieged. In this short speech Charlie Chaplin delivers it with a style similar to that of Hitler. Chaplin at this point uses pure emotions to fuel his speech while he brings strategies such as hyperboles and metaphors to convince the audience to stand up for what 's right and to bring humanity back to what we as humans once were.

After Reading Camera Lucida written by Roland Barthes, I was both confused and interested by his ideas. Though I did not understand much of the book, I was able to take a couple of his ideas and really think about how I see photos. In the future, I intend to use these ideas when I look at photos. One of his ideas that I was able to understand is the way he looks at pictures. The other one is his second definition of punctum.

The short film, "Paper man", by John Kahrs is a genuine reflection on his world. The way this is depicted is through his exploration use of magic, the amazing symbolism of the colour used and the service of sound. The representation of these allows, the audience to be more thankful to this film and understand its diversity in the world that it once was.