Man of iron: representing and shaping historical consciousness through film - a Polish case

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Polish director Andrzej Wajda's 1981 film 'Man of Iron,' deals with the evolution of the Solidarity movement in 1980 through the fictional strike leader Tomczyk. The film is made by the juxtaposition of several events, both in Tomczyk's life, and in recent Polish history. Footages of the 1970 strike at the Baltic Coast are interspersed with scenes of the 1980 strike. Wajda's film rekindles popular memories and consciousness that had been repressed by communist censorship. Viewers are offered a vision of history in which they can participate through the heroic figure of Tomczyk.

Criticism and interpretation, History, Filmmakers, Movie directors, Movie producers (Persons), Motion pictures, Polish, Polish movies, Man of Iron (Motion picture), Wajda, Andrzej

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The hilarious rump: our fascination with the arse in early comedic film

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Americans, for so many years, have been fascinated with jokes involving the arse or the butt. Definitions range from the serious to the hilarious. Multiple meanings and allusions have been ascribed to butt jokes that, more often than not, are suggestive of something funny or comic. The audience do not actually laugh at the extreme violence, sexual innuendos or death and other morbid and gross things displayed onscreen but on that part of the body we all have which wholly intimates and unifies these ideas.

Social aspects, Americans, Buttocks, Comedy films, Comedy movies

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Film adaptation, co-authorship, and hauntology: Gus Van Sant's Psycho (1998)

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The cultural significance of Gus Van Sant's near word-for-word, scene-for-scene 1998 adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho is interrogated by reading it alongside Jacques Derrida's concept of hauntology. It deals primarily with the ways in which Hitchcock's Freudian psychology haunts Van Sant's adaptation.

Analysis, Works, Motion picture remakes, Movie remakes, Van Sant, Gus, Psycho (Motion picture)

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