François Mauriac

different works, but with further examination we are able to uncover their many similarities. Both works focus on self-representation, identity, fashion, and femininity. At a first level iconographic analysis of Madame de Pompadour at Her Toilette by Francois Boucher, the viewer is presented with a half-length portrait of Madame de Pompadour from the waist up. She’s seated in on a yellow chair in front of a very bleak wall, centered in the painting, essentially drawing all attention to her. She seems

Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and Modern World The futuristic world that Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451, so vividly describes is frighteningly close to our own. It might not seem so at first glance, but if you take a closer look, you'll find that Bradbury wasn't far off the mark with his idea of what our lives would be like in 50 years. As he envisioned, technology would be extremely sophisticated, families would start becoming distant, and entertainment would take a more significant

Cinematic Techniques The extraordinary film The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut, 1959) skillfully uses cinematic devices appropriately within the context of the theme. Part of the underlying theme of this movie as explained by Truffaut himself is, “... to portray a child as honestly as possible...”(Writing About Film, 1982). It is the scenes in this movie that are most helpful in disclosing the overall theme of the film. Within the scenes, the camera angles in this film play an important role in

Antoine Watteau’s La Perspective (View through the Trees in the Park of Pierre Crozat) uses many elements of the Rococo style of painting to instill a sense of intimacy. In this painting, members of the elite society gather unceremoniously in a wooded clearing. The people make casual exchanges as they mingle in the park. Trees and foliage dominate a majority of the painting. A small white building can be seen in the background through a clearing in the trees. Watteau uses color, composition, setting

Health and ageism issues appear throughout dystopian films. In 2005 the release of Alfonso Cuaron’s Children of men based on the novel of the same name has the themes humanity at his core. Set in a future Britain no child has been born for the past 18 years. A former activist and bureaucrat Theo (Clive Owen), agrees to help transport a pregnant woman to a sanctuary to save humanity. It is not clear in the film whether it was man-made or natural influences that lead to the infertile crisis. We learn

Montag’s interaction with outside forces contributes toward his growth and helps develop the theme censorship is dangerous and inhibiting to all people. One outside force that leads to Montag’s development, is a character Granger. Granger played a significant role towards influencing Montag. Granger mentions his Grandfather and how every person is meant to 'leave a mark' on the earth before they die. This encourages Montag in numerous ways. Granger remembers books that he has read and inspires Montag

Narrative Film," it is said that “the prevailing mode of postwar French cinema was literary adaption, which caused French films to become increasingly verbal and theatrical. It was against this tendency- identified as ‘the tradition of quality’ by Francois Truffaut and the other critics writing in Cashiers du Cinema, that the New Wave reacted in the late 1950’s and 1960’s.” Camera-stylo, which would permit the cinema “to become a means of expression as supple and sbutle as that of written language

The Signature Style of Auteur’s Truffaut and Hitchcock Auteur theory is among the most controversial film studies theories proposed, because of the ways that it connects to a framework for understanding film that is inherently rooted in literary studies and because it focuses on the idea of the auteur as the central source of meaning. Within the academic community, there were many academic arguments and conversations about the implications of auteur theory. However, some of the most typically “auteur”

‘Operation Satanic’ occurred around the time of midnight on July 10th 1985. In the Waimata Harbour on Marsden Wharf in Auckland, New Zealand, the Rainbow Warrior had visited before leading a group of vessels to Mururoa Atoll to protest against the French nuclear testing that was going to take place in the South Pacific. The Rainbow Warrior had been the flagship of an international environmental organisation, Greenpeace. The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior ended with the death of Fernando Pereira,

Ray Bradbury is an author used to writing against the norm. Many of his literary works are written in such a way to make the reader think, such as his most famous work Fahrenheit 451, which was a book whose imagery was created entirely by the reader’s perspective. Bradbury (1994) switches up the literary device with ‘A Sound of Thunder’. A Sound of Thunder focuses on three men on a hunting expedition through a time machine, hoping to hunt a T-Rex and proclaim themselves true big game hunters of time