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    Mayer's original version. The original story, by Janowitz and Mayer, tell the story of certain murders that happen in a fictitious town called Holstenwall. It ends with Caligari being strapped into a strait jacket. "Janowitz and Carl Mayer half intentionally stigmatized the omnipotence of a state authority. Manifesting itself in universal conscription and declarations of war" (Kracauer, 349). Kracauer states that Janowitz and Mayer feel that the German war government fit the prototype of that

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    Around the premonition of the rising of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party, two German World War I veterans named Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer wrote the script for the German silent film, ‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari’. Based on experience from their time in the German military, they wrote the script based on the mistrust of authority while with the military in World War I. The plot tells the story of a crazy hypnotist, Dr. Caligari, who hypnotizes and uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders.

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    The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a German film from 1920, directed by Robert Wiene and written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer, both of whom emerged from World War I strongly embittered against the wartime government. The two writers used the powerful new medium of film to create an expressionist masterpiece, which became highly successful and is generally regarded as one of the first horror films. The film set design is one giant graphic art piece. The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari is unanimously agreed

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    Dr. Calligari

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    translated as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, had their original intentions totally inverted when a frame story was added to their work, making it more akin to later Nazi propaganda than the subversive satire they had meant it to be. Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer, the writers of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, were Czech and Austrian, respectively, and both

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    German Expressionism in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari David Hudson from GreenCine.com argues that, “[Horror]…the social milieu is sketched and the political and psychological undercurrents of German Expressionism are drawn out.” Robert Weine’s classic horror film, “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” is no exception as it is based on the main character Francis (Friedrich Fehér) and his recollections of the murderous Dr. Caligari, and his somnambulist partner in crime, Cesare. This film being noted as the

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    The documentary film, Dr. Burzynski: The Movie was written, produced and directed by Eric Morela. The documentary, released in 2011 tells the story of Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski, a medical doctor and Ph.D. Chemist, who discovered a cure for cancer and the federal government, namely the Federal Drug Administration (FDA), National Cancer Institute along with pharmaceutical companies unrelenting efforts to put him out of business and literally plunk him in jail. Filmmaker’s Motives and Effectiveness

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    1. What aspects of German Expressionism do you notice in Caligari? The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a master piece and the most influental triumph of German Expressionism in type of genre - silent horror, made in 1920. The two clips present a combination of dark sides (tragedy) and bright sides (romance). It also demonstrates how people mind could be twisted - nonrealistic disharmony or uncertainty, adapts world of fiction (Cesare knows all your secrets). All the settings are visual thru the painting

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    Oscar Mayer Essay

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    Additionally, LR brand generates less operating income for the number of pounds sold compare to Oscar Mayer. Our next question follows, Can Louis Rich Brand alone make up the income short fall? The answer seems no, looking closely at the numbers, one can clearly see a decline in pound volume from 3% to 2% in the current year. Increase in the operating income

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    Must women adopt male characteristics to succeed? Introduction Looking back at the historical development of corporations and firms, one can find that these organizations are once created by men (Rao et. Al, 1999). Nowadays, more and more women become very successful in the organizations and they work hard to act at the high management levels in the corporations. In spite of it, the proportion of women leaders in the organizations is relatively low than men leaders. Then it has emerged a statement

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    changes and the ways to achieve that efficiently (Carlson 2015). Apart from that, an analysis would be made to find out whether the feedback is an essential element in an organizational development intervention or not. It has been found that Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo has been in the headlines as she has introduced some of the organizational changes into the corporation. The changed policies adopted in the company have been

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