Identity in Elia Kazan’s Splendor in the Grass Arthur Rankin March 2012 CTEQ Annotations on Film Elia Kazan’s Splendor in the Grass (1961) concerns the problems encountered by two teenagers – Wilma Dean (“Deanie”) Loomis (Natalie Wood) and Bud Stamper (Warren Beatty) – living in Kansas at the end of the 19...
The Child Archetype in Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander Arthur Rankin March 2009 CTEQ Annotations on Film Fanny and Alexander (1982 Sweden/France/West Germany 188 mins) Prod Co: Cinematograph Prod: Jörn Donner Dir, Scr: Ingmar Bergman Phot: Sven Nykvist Ed: Sylvia Ingemarsson Art Dir: Anna Asp Mus: Daniel Be...
Power and the Mythic Gaze in Fritz Lang’s Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler Arthur Rankin August 2008 CTEQ Annotations on Film Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (1922 Germany 270 mins) Prod Co: Uco-Film GmbH Prod: Erich Pommer Dir: Fritz Lang Scr: Thea von Harbou, based on the novel by Norbert Jacques Phot: Carl Hoffmann Art Dir: Otto Hun...
Painterly Moments in Roman Polanski’s Tess Arthur Rankin March 2008 CTEQ Annotations on Film Tess (1979 France/UK 177 mins) Prod Co: Renn/Burrill Prod: Claude Berri Dir: Roman Polanski Scr: Roman Polanski, Gerard Brach, John Brownjohn based on the novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy ...
Tendentious Innocence: Chaplin’s Use of Doubling in City Lights and The Idle Class Arthur Rankin November 2007 Feature Articles Insightful reading of Chaplin’s cinema in the light of Freud’s ideas in his Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious.
