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Whenever books are adapted for film, changes inevitably have to be made. The medium of film offers several advantages and disadvantages over the book: it is not as adept at exploring the inner workings of people - it cannot explore their minds so easily; however, the added visual and audio capabilities of film open whole new areas of the imagination which, in the hands of a competent writer-director, can more than compensate.

In the 1950’s, the inequality of gender conflicted women in the United States. A woman’s goal in life was to get married, have children, and to primarily take care of the house. An article by Christina Catalano called Shaping the American Woman: Feminism and Advertising in the 1950’s states that women were known for being, “...Stupid, submissive, purely domestic creatures.”(Catalano 45). Men on the other hand are viewed as the more superior gender. The life of a man consist of getting married and working. Although this may seem very little, men are free to do whatever they desire and are more free spirited during the 50’s whereas women are more cautious in what they do. A woman’s main goal is to attract a husband because if they

How are Eva Smith and Curley’s Wife presented as victims in the ‘Of Mice and Men’ and ‘An Inspector Calls’?

These artworks have been a major source of information about art and history in the ancient world.

In the movie “North by Northwest,” by Alfred Hitchcock he shows how a film can have an influence on a historical event. Alfred Hitchcock was born August 13, 1899 and died April 29, 1980 being sometimes referred as “The Master Of Suspense.” During Hitchcock’s career some major historical events took place, in which he used his films to reflect and sometimes respond to those events. Hitchcock’s films both reflected and sometimes also intervened in contemporary social and political events during his career.

I wished to write a very American tale, a tale very characteristic of our social condition, and I asked myself what was the most salient and peculiar point in our social life. The answer was: the situation of woman, the decline of the sentiment of sex, the agitation on their behalf (James, Notebooks 47).

Alfred Hitchcock was the first English filmmaker to have any real success in Hollywood, paving the way for incredible English filmmakers of today like Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours), Ridley Scott (Gladiator, The Martian, Alien), Christopher Nolan (Inception, Interstellar), Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech, Les Miserables, The Danish Girl), and Sam Mendes (American Beauty and the recent James Bond movies), just to name a few (McGilligan 233). Hitchcock’s films created the modern suspense, horror, and thriller genres in film and rallied behind stories involving murder, an idea that was considered unsophisticated in Hollywood (McGilligan 233). Through his path-treading genre, Hitchcock pioneered creative techniques that build suspense throughout his films, such as the roaming cam - a slow-moving shot that pans a scene of a film. This technique makes the audience “discover” a scene and scan for possible clues and significant objects. The reluctant pace is a slow burn within the audience as they wait to see what the shot will reveal (Renée). These Hitchcock-induced tremors inflicted on Hollywood fall just behind where on which he laid his greatest quake - censorship. The Motion Picture Production Code was simultaneously Hitchcock’s worst enemy and biggest inspiration. The Hollywood censorship rule-makers discouraged films involving murder and suicide, but these regulations only made Hitchcock want to incorporate those aspects even more. Shamelessly, Hitchcock portrayed murder, suicide, sex and lesbianism in his films, even throwing a few punches at the U.S. government itself in Foreign Correspondent with his criticism of the Neutrality Act (McGilligan 278-9). Psycho brought down censorship in one swipe with its violent portrayal of murder, but more groundbreaking, the first onscreen toilet. Hitchcock’s extirpated censorship and the Production Code and by

“With greater intelligence came imagination and the ability to create images in both painting and sculpture”, Carol Strickland discussed in her book “The Annotated Mona Lisa” (2). Over time, people break out and discover additional information and ways to create objects. Objects that is created may become an artifact over time. An artifact is an item created by humans, that usually has cultural and/or historical interest attached to the item. Some artifacts have been discovered, were created decades ago. Throughout the centuries, there have been very meaningful artifacts discovered, that could have helped inform society of the past. Two artifacts, I found interesting were the Lascaux and the Stonehenge. The Lascaux was painting on walls of caves, while the Stonehenge was an astronomical calendar. Since someone has

It becomes clear that the female protagonist, Alice, appears to be provocative and impatient, despondent at the prospect that she has been kept waiting at the expense of the British legal system, although she is more than happy to share a joke with the nearest detective in order to incite some form of reaction from her lover, Frank, a fellow detective. Stating that she expects “the entire machinery of Scotland Yard to be held up to please” her only aggravates an already awkward situation, emphasising her unwillingness to conform to the rules and regulations, expecting the law to accommodate her every necessitity.

Instantly the men begin belittling the women in the investigation when the men claim “women are used to worrying over trifles.” (Glaspell 1007) When it was, the men worried about trifles when they start looking around the investigation in pointless places where men would be when they should have considered the places Mrs. Wright would have been. The men throughout blatantly look down on women subjecting them to the traditional gender roles. It is when the men leave to those pointless places and the county attorney makes the remarks “Dirty towel! Not much of a housekeeper, would you say ladies?” (Glaspell 1008) when the women, Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale began to come together in the kitchen and relate because how they are treated and put into gender roles by men. Eventually due to the women looking in relevant places they find a cage then a dead bird with rope around its neck the same way John Wright had it. They had all the evidence the County Attorney and Sheriff needed but they instead sympathize with Minnie Foster (Mrs. Wright) and realize why she may have done it and end up not giving the evidence in hopes to protect Mrs. Wright. They realize Mrs. wright was a product of oppression and relate to what her original motifs were which is an act of feminism.

Art has a long history in the evolution of modern mankind, from paint made of wet clay,to sculpture, and even to modern art. Some pieces are meant to symbolize an emotion or an object, to be used in the worship Gods,to tell stories or simply to be something beautiful. Throughout history, art has evoked emotions, awe, and has broken barriers and culture lines in ways nothing else could. Art can be influenced from everywhere; nature, emotions, neighboring cities and many other ways. Since so many culture influence each other, it is easy to see where similarities in pieces might be.

Citizen Kane brought the aspects of a newspaper tycoon in the 1940’s to life in a form of a dramatic narrative. This film is based on a true story of a newspaper magnate, William Randolph Hearst and based off of some aspects of Orson Welles(Writer and Director). This filmed has been named, “The best American film of all time” due to the fact that, during the time of its making, it was the first film to take on many new techniques of cinematography. Citizen Kane is a revolutionary film not only in the drama genre, but in filmmaking of all forms.

The artist is influenced by everything around him. Social changes, economic situation, religion, personal situation, the environment in which he lives. All these factors influence the work of the artist. Many artists have used this influence to represent the society in which they live, creating an artistic archive, which later serves to decrypt the society in which the artist lived. These files consist of pictures, paintings, objects, installations, videos, photographs, books of notes and any work produced by the artist. The problem of memory and the past is undoubtedly central in contemporary art production. The literature is abundant and the practical number, positions, procedures and strategies is such that single enumeration of its variety is almost endless. Aside, of course, debates on the issue of the monument and its relationship to the "public" memory, usually memory practices swirling in lathe "file" problem. The file, understood as the work in the space - the display, what has been called the "archival aesthetic"-, but as a method of work around the question of "document". In this sense, it is possible to observe how a large number of artists work directly with objects, images, texts, stories, sounds... "documents" that pertain to your environment. Indexes, presences real history, that are used, post-produced - by using the notion of Bourriaud-, assembled and integrated in the work, provided through the collection and the deployment of the documentary in the

We the people have gained many knowledge in history through the information about art. When going to a museum there is many art paintings that talk allot about history. Many historical

These curios are keys to the past. Without them, we know little or nothing whatsoever of the individuals who went before us. With antiquities, be that as it may, we come to comprehend the convictions, qualities, traditions, and practices of these individuals. To put it plainly, we come to comprehend their culture.