Brad Anderson The Machinist A Film Review
DOWNLOAD
Download Brad Anderson The Machinist A Film Review PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Brad Anderson The Machinist A Film Review book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Brad Anderson The Machinist A Film Review
DOWNLOAD
Author : Sebastian Taugerbeck
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2010-03-16
Brad Anderson The Machinist A Film Review written by Sebastian Taugerbeck and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-16 with Literary Collections categories.
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, grade: 2, University of Siegen, course: Text Production, language: English, abstract: Brad Anderson, an American director and scriptwriter, proves with his fifth film “The Machinist” that neither a big budget nor the financial supports of a glamorous Hollywood studio have got to be essential conditions for producing a fine piece of art. After he had finished his work on the screenplay, he presented it all the usual Hollywood studios, in the hope that he could find a financially strong sponsor for his ambitious project. Even though his scriptwriter Scott Kosar did a great job, no studio or producer wants to finance or support the film because of its overwhelming dark mood and twisted plot. After they had searched for several years and were turned down by every approached studio, they decided to shot the entire film on locations in Barcelona, Spain. Even though those financial problems led to an austerity budget, nothing could hold them back to produce this masterpiece of narration work. Trevor Reznick (Christian Bale) is captured in a nightmare from which he can’t escape: He hasn’t slept in a year, without knowing the cause of his sleeplessness. Due to his insomnia he had lost one third of his original weight and is nothing but skin and bone. His only attachment figures are the prostitute Stevie (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and the waitress Marie (Aitana Sánchez-Gijòn), who works in an airport cafe. He works as a mechanist in a dirty factory under the lead of a misanthropic assistant foreman. Because of his appearance and his strange behaviour he has lost all amicable contact to his workmates. But then he meets Ivan (John Sharian) who claims to be the new worker on the welding bench. During a routine maintenance Trevor is distracted by Ivan and causes a horrible accident whereby his mate Miller (Michael Ironside) loses his left arm. He tries to explain his carelessness but nobody has ever heard of Ivan. After that, a sequence of strange calamities progresses and Trevor thinks that everyone has conspired against him.
Film Review
DOWNLOAD
Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Film Review written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Motion pictures categories.
Lucid And The Machinist Prototypes Of The Psychotraumatic Thriller
DOWNLOAD
Author : Lydia Gaukler
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2009-05
Lucid And The Machinist Prototypes Of The Psychotraumatic Thriller written by Lydia Gaukler and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, University of Mannheim, 17 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: It is common ground that films offer a richness and an intensity that cannot be found in any other medium. The unique combination of visual and acoustic elements; the work-ing together of language, gesture, mimic and music; of images and sound, offer an im-pressive account of reality. Wedding explains: "With the best films, the viewer experi-ences a sort of dissociative state in which ordinary existence is temporarily suspended. No other art form pervades the consciousness of the individual experiencing it to the same extent and with such power." Of course one may argue that some literary works can have the same absorbing effect, still the medium film is undoubtedly a very power-ful one when it comes to captivating people's attention. Films "have become a perva-sive and omnipresent part of our society with little conscious awareness of the pro-found influence the medium may be exerting" . One extremely widespread and popular genre is the thriller and its subgenres. Ranging from spy, gangster and science-fiction films to horror films, splatters and stalkers, there is hardly any film that has not been labelled a thriller. A relatively new develop-ment within the thriller is the topic of mental illness and psychopathology. Two recent examples are The Machinist by Brad Anderson and Lucid by Sean Garrity. In both films, the directors concern themselves with trauma and its impact on the psyche of the re-spective protagonists. In his book 'The Suspense Thriller', Derry outlines a new thriller subgenre: the psy-chotraumatic thriller. I shall like to discuss whether Lucid and The Machinist may or may not be subsumed under this label. In the following, I will first outline the plots of the two films. Then I shall want to concen-trate on the acute and post-traumatic stre
In Search Of Captain Zero
DOWNLOAD
Author : Allan Weisbecker
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2002-09-17
In Search Of Captain Zero written by Allan Weisbecker and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In 1996, Allan Weisbecker sold his home and his possessions, loaded his dog and surfboards into his truck, and set off in search of his long-time surfing companion, Patrick, who had vanished into the depths of Central America. In this rollicking memoir of his quest from Mexico to Costa Rica to unravel the circumstances of Patrick's disappearance, Weisbecker intimately describes the people he befriended, the bandits he evaded, the waves he caught and lost en route to finding his friend. In Search of Captain Zero is, according to Outside magazine, "A subtly affecting tale of friendship and duty. [It] deserves a spot on the microbus dashboard as a hell of a cautionary tale about finding paradise and smoking it away." In Search of Captain Zero: A Surfer's Road Trip Beyond the End of the Road is a Booksense 76 Top Ten selection for September/October.
Beware Of The Other Side S
DOWNLOAD
Author : Heike Schwarz
language : en
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Release Date : 2014-03-31
Beware Of The Other Side S written by Heike Schwarz and has been published by transcript Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
This interdisciplinary study examines the still vivid phenomenon of the most controversial psychiatric diagnosis in the United States: multiple personality disorder, now called dissociative identity disorder. This syndrome comprehends the occurrence of two or more distinct identities that take control of a person's behavior paired with an inexplicable memory loss. Synthesizing the fields of psychiatry and the dynamics of the disorder with its influential representation in American fiction, the study researches how psychiatry and fiction mutually shaped a mysterious syndrome and how this reciprocal process created a genre fiction of its own that persists until today in a very distinct self-referential mode.
Filming The Body In Crisis
DOWNLOAD
Author : Davina Quinlivan
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-09-29
Filming The Body In Crisis written by Davina Quinlivan and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-29 with Performing Arts categories.
How does film affect the way we understand crises of the body and mind and how does it manifest other kinds of crises levelled at the spectator? This book offers vital scholarly analysis of the embodied nature of film viewing and the ways in which film deals with the question of loss, the healing body and its material registering of trauma.
Into The Dark
DOWNLOAD
Author : Mark A. Vieira
language : en
Publisher: Running Press Adult
Release Date : 2016-05-24
Into The Dark written by Mark A. Vieira and has been published by Running Press Adult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-24 with Performing Arts categories.
You know film noir when you see it: the shadowed setting; the cynical detective; the femme fatale; and the twist of fate. Into the Dark captures this alluring genre with a cavalcade of compelling photographs and a guide to 82 of its best films. Into the Dark is the first book to tell the story of film noir in its own voice. Author Mark A. Vieira quotes the artists who made these movies and the journalists and critics who wrote about them, taking readers on a year-by-year tour of the exciting nights when movies like Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and Sunset Boulevard were sprung on an unsuspecting public. For the first time, we hear the voices of film noir artists speak from the sets and offices of the studios, explaining the dark genre, even before it had a name. Those voices tell how the genre was born and how it thrived in an industry devoted to sweetness and light. Into the Dark is a ticket to a smoky, glamorous world. You enter a story conference with Raymond Chandler, visit the set of Laura, and watch Detour with a Midwest audience. This volume recreates the environment that spawned film noir. It also displays the wit and warmth of the genre's artists. Hedda Hopper reports on Citizen Kane, calling Orson Welles "Little Orson Annie." Lauren Bacall says she enjoys playing a bad girl in To Have and Have Not. Bosley Crowther calls Joan Crawford in Possessed a "ghost wailing for a demon lover beneath a waning moon." An Indiana exhibitor rates the classic Murder, My Sweet a "passable program picture." Illustrated by hundreds of rare still photographs, Into the Dark conveys the mystery, glamour, and irony that make film noir surpassingly popular. About TCM: Turner Classic Movies is the definitive resource for the greatest movies of all time. It engages, entertains, and enlightens to show how the entire spectrum of classic movies, movie history, and movie-making touches us all and influences how we think and live today.
Cinema Suffering And Psychoanalysis
DOWNLOAD
Author : Laura Stephenson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2023-12-14
Cinema Suffering And Psychoanalysis written by Laura Stephenson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-14 with Psychology categories.
Cinema, Suffering and Psychoanalysis explores psychological disorder as common to the human condition using a unique three-angled approach: psychoanalysis recognises the inherent suffering encountered by each subject due to developmental phases; psychology applies specific categorisation to how this suffering manifests; cinema depicts suffering through a combination of video and aural elements. Functioning as a culturally reflexive medium, the six feature films analysed, including Black Swan (2010) and The Machinist (2004), represent some of the most common psychological disorders and lived experiences of the contemporary era. This book enters unchartered terrain in cinema scholarship by combining clinical psychology's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Five (DSM-V) to organise and diagnose each character, and psychoanalysis to track the origin, mechanism and affect of the psychological disorder within the narrative trajectory of each film. Lacan's theories on the infantile mirror phase, the Imaginary, and the Symbolic, Žižek's theories on the Real, the big Other and the Event, and Kristeva's theories on abjection and melancholia work in combination with the DSM's classification of symptoms to interpret six contemporary pieces of cinema. By taking into consideration that origin, mechanism, affect and symptomatology are part of an interconnected group, this book explores psychological disorder as part of the human condition, something which contributes to and informs personal identity. More specifically, this research refutes the notion that psychological disorder and psychological health exist as a binary, instead recognising that what has traditionally been pathologised, may instead be viewed as variations on human identity.
The Machinist
DOWNLOAD
Author : Scott Kosar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
The Machinist written by Scott Kosar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with categories.
Dark Dreams 2 0
DOWNLOAD
Author : Charles Derry
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2009-11-12
Dark Dreams 2 0 written by Charles Derry and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-12 with Performing Arts categories.
Greatly expanded and updated from the 1977 original, this new edition explores the evolution of the modern horror film, particularly as it reflects anxieties associated with the atomic bomb, the Cold War, 1960s violence, sexual liberation, the Reagan revolution, 9/11 and the Iraq War. It divides modern horror into three varieties (psychological, demonic and apocalyptic) and demonstrates how horror cinema represents the popular expression of everyday fears while revealing the forces that influence American ideological and political values. Directors given a close reading include Alfred Hitchcock, Brian De Palma, David Cronenberg, Guillermo Del Toro, Michael Haneke, Robert Aldrich, Mel Gibson and George A. Romero. Additional material discusses postmodern remakes, horror franchises and Asian millennial horror. This book also contains more than 950 frame grabs and a very extensive filmography.