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English 007 Foth - Films (Matthews): Subject Terms

Directors

Alfred Hitchcock

    The 39 Steps (1935)

    Rebecca (1940)

    Dial M for Murder (1954)

    Rear Window (1954)

    Vertigo (1958)

    North by Northwest (1959)

    Psycho (1960)

    The Birds (1963)

Roman Polanski

Rosemary's Baby (1968)

Chinatown (1974)

Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1979)

Frantic (1988)

The Pianist (2003)

The Ghost Writer (2010)

Stanley Kubrick

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968),

A Clockwork Orange (1971).

The Shining (1980)

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

Martin Scorsese

Mean Streets (1973)

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)

Taxi Driver (1976)

Raging Bull (1980)

The King of Comedy (1982)

The Age of Innocence (1993)

The Departed (2006)

David (Keith) Lynch

Blue Velvet (1986)

Wild at Heart (1990)

The Elephant Man, 1980

Dune 1980

Eraser-head (1977)

Mulholland Dr. (2001)

Subject Terms

Assignment Topics:

·     1. War Movies

·     2. Superhero movies

·     3. Romantic comedies/ “Chick Flicks (Flixs)”

·     4. Science fiction/ futuristic/ dystopic films

·     5. Eastern Influence/ Martial arts films

·     6. Disney

·     7. Focus on a Director’s works: Hitchcock, Polanski, Kubrick, Scorsese, or David Lynch

·     8. Representations of race in films

·     9. Representations of gender in film

·     10. Representations of “the other” in film

Movie Terms

Movies or films or motion pictures or

Cinema or hollywood or bollywood

Analysis Terms:

Reviews or evaluation or critiques 

The "Other" Terms:

Othering

Racism or race

Sexism

Women

Teenagers

Youth

Gender

Lesbian or gay or LGBT

Loners

        Psychological  or Cultural or Social impact Terms:


Psych*  

      Socio*

       propaganda

      "Culture in motion pictures"

       Racism

     Film Types/Genres:

Anti-War Films; Military Films

     "Science Fiction" or "Sci-fi" or Fantasy

       Romance; Comedy; Horror

       Adventure or action

       Crime'; Drama; Musicals

       Westerns; Martial Arts      Childrens

       Gothic; Film Noir; Suspense