Antonio Loriguillo-López
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited Japan through Others’ Lenses: “Hiroshima Mon Amour” (1959) and “Lost in Translation” Japan Studies Review 11 (2007): 143-155. Also available on the Internet at http://asianstudies.fiu.edu on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months ago
This article compares and contrasts two films that take place in Japan but that were directed by French and American directors. Their “outsider perspective” is explored in terms of their respective films’ themes, characters, and cinematic styles.
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited IDENTIFICATION OF A WOMAN on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months ago
This is a review/analysis of the Antonioni film IDENTIFICATION OF A WOMAN (1982), occasioned by its DVD release by the Criterion Collection.
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited Mr. Jones Goes to Washington: Myth and Religion in “Raiders of the Lost Ark” in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis essay uses Joseph Campbell’s concept of the Monomyth to analyze both the mythic and contemporary implications of a “popcorn” movie that has numerous social and political subtexts for the Reaganite era.
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited “‘You’re Telling Me You Didn’t See”: Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” and Antonioni’s “Blow-Up” in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis essay compares After Hitchcock’s REAR WINDOW and Michelangelo Antonioni’s BLOW-UP in terms of their similarities in narrative, characters, and cinematic style.
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited The Mass Psychology of Fascist Cinema: “Triumph of the Will” in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis essay uses the work of Wilhelm Reich to analyze the “mass psychology of fascism” in Leni Riefenstahl’s infamous Nazi propaganda film, TRIUMPH OF THE WILL.
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited The Gospel According to Spielberg in “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial” in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis article examines the parallels between the space alien in Spielberg’s “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial” and the New Testament account of the life of Jesus Christ.
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited Empire of the Gun: Steven Spielberg’s SAVING PRIVATE RYAN and American Chauvinism in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis book chapter analyzes Steven Spielberg’s supposedly anti-war SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (1992) as a pro-war, pro-military, and pro-America movie.
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited “I’ll See It When I Believe It”: Rodney King and the Prison-House of Video in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis book chapter analyzes the numerous responses to the famous videotape of Los Angeles motorist Rodney King at the hands of the L.A. Police Department.
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited EROS and Civilization: Sexuality and the Contemporary International Art Cinema in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis essay describes and analyzes the anthology film EROS (2004), which consists of three short films by major directors: Wong Kar-wei, Steven Soderbergh, and Michelangelo Antonioni. The focus is on the cinematic depiction of sexuality as it pertains to the national origins of the three shorts: Hong Kong, United States, and Italy.
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited EL TOPO and the Midnight Movie Craze in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoAlejandro Jodorowsky’s EL TOPO set off a trend for midnight movies that brought numerous esoteric films to an insomniac audience. This essay analyzes the surreal movie and its position as an early exemplar of independent cinema exhibited outside the mainstream patterns.
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited Mr. Jones Goes to Washington: Myth and Religion in “Raiders of the Lost Ark” on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months ago
This essay uses Joseph Campbell’s concept of the Monomyth to analyze both the mythic and contemporary implications of a “popcorn” movie that has numerous social and political subtexts for the Reaganite era.
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited “‘You’re Telling Me You Didn’t See”: Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” and Antonioni’s “Blow-Up” on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months ago
This essay compares After Hitchcock’s REAR WINDOW and Michelangelo Antonioni’s BLOW-UP in terms of their similarities in narrative, characters, and cinematic style.
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited The Mass Psychology of Fascist Cinema: “Triumph of the Will” on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months ago
This essay uses the work of Wilhelm Reich to analyze the “mass psychology of fascism” in Leni Riefenstahl’s infamous Nazi propaganda film, TRIUMPH OF THE WILL.
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited The Gospel According to Spielberg in “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial” on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months ago
This article examines the parallels between the space alien in Spielberg’s “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial” and the New Testament account of the life of Jesus Christ.
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited Empire of the Gun: Steven Spielberg’s SAVING PRIVATE RYAN and American Chauvinism on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months ago
This book chapter analyzes Steven Spielberg’s supposedly anti-war SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (1992) as a pro-war, pro-military, and pro-America movie.
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited “I’ll See It When I Believe It”: Rodney King and the Prison-House of Video on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months ago
This book chapter analyzes the numerous responses to the famous videotape of Los Angeles motorist Rodney King at the hands of the L.A. Police Department.
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited EROS and Civilization: Sexuality and the Contemporary International Art Cinema on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months ago
This essay describes and analyzes the anthology film EROS (2004), which consists of three short films by major directors: Wong Kar-wei, Steven Soderbergh, and Michelangelo Antonioni. The focus is on the cinematic depiction of sexuality as it pertains to the national origins of the three shorts: Hong Kong, United States, and Italy.
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited EL TOPO and the Midnight Movie Craze on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months ago
Alejandro Jodorowsky’s EL TOPO set off a trend for midnight movies that brought numerous esoteric films to an insomniac audience. This essay analyzes the surreal movie and its position as an early exemplar of independent cinema exhibited outside the mainstream patterns.
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited Colonel North Goes to Washington: Observations on the Intertextual Re-Presentation of History in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis essay examines the parallels between Frank Capra’s MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON and the televised Oliver North hearings 40 years later.
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited Narrate AND Describe?: Point of View and Narrative Voice in CITIZEN KANE’s Thatcher Sequence in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis article examines the theoretical aspects of point of view and narrative voice in CITIZEN KANE’s Thatcher Sequence, with an eye to untangling the thorny aspects of subjectivity in that reticular film. In addition, there are larger implications that pertain to ALL narrative cinema in terms of who or what generates film images and sounds.
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