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Author Arthur Rankin

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Arthur Rankin teaches in the Department of Arts, English, and Humanities, Louisiana State University at Alexandria.

Identity in Elia Kazan’s Splendor in the Grass

Arthur Rankin
March 2012
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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...
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The Child Archetype in Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander

Arthur Rankin
March 2009
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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...
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Power and the Mythic Gaze in Fritz Lang’s Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler

Arthur Rankin
August 2008
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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...
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Painterly Moments in Roman Polanski’s Tess

Arthur Rankin
March 2008
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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 ...
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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.

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