Winter 2003

	*Winter 2003*





	Introduction Listen, this may merely address a resoundingly moot point, but I have to say there really is something magical about the movies. Film is both art and craft and owes a large debt to each, though it adheres to a very specific media in order to create a series of stratified works. More.		Memoirs of a Hopeless Romantic: The Influence of Annie Hal I was not really supposed to watch a Woody Allen film. My mom had always said she did not like him as a person, so my parents never encouraged me to see his films. However, I had heard one particular movie title tossed around here and there for years. More.

	In the Mood for Love: New Standards in Asian Cinema In recent years of American cinema, audiences have generally depended on one or two new artists per year to break the mold and present the public with something so new and fresh it can barely be linked to a predecessor. Last year, the culprit was probably Todd Field, whose In the Bedroom defied dramatic convention and made for the most realistic and probing movie of the year. More.		An Argument Against Auterism There is no argument that I, Julie Cohen, have written what you are now reading. If you want to argue this fact, look at the top of the page. Now don’t you feel dumb? More.

	Water and Power: A Look at Roman Planski's Chinatown I first discovered Chinatown about two years ago, before I was fully interested in film, in one of those magazine lists of the “greatest films of all time.” Chinatown was up near the top, and as I was flipping through the blurbs about each film there was a photo of Jack Nicholson slapping Faye Dunaway. More.		Hitchcock's Leading Men John Michael Hayes, certainly Hitchcock’s most abused writer and co-conspirator, redirected Hitchcock’s focus and tone in the middle of the 1950s, giving the films of this period a classier, warmer quality that any before or after. This sabbatical was a refreshing glance at a slightly more human side of the cold, famed profile the world had grown accustomed to. More.

	I Am Not a Sheep It is said by some, that the American movie going public is nothing but brainwashed sheep. They herd themselves into the local multiplex to watch Hollywood dribble, loving every minute of it and having it no other way....		"Something like a rich widow:" Spartacus and the Protestant Work Ethic In considering Spartacus in relation to the Protestant Work Ethic, our first task is to define the Protestant Work Ethic (PWE). Though multifaceted, its salient features are epitomized well by Wayne E. Oates, who states that...

	Which Came First? Hollywood, of late, has been producing a certain variety of movies that may be known as paltry, perhaps stale at best. It has, in fact, reached a zenith whence even the prestigious Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has chosen to bestow its highest honors on do-gooder, middle-of-the-road films....