Unlike many other cinema movements, Japanese New Wave birthed within a mainstream context despite filling with advent-grade elements, embracing unorthodox … More
Author: Ashley Chang
Queer Reading: Rebecca (1940) by Alfred Hitchcock
Renowned for his mastery in the psychological interplay between romance, violence, and sex, Hitchcock’s legacy commenced with his first American … More
Color and Costuming: Rear Window (1954) by Alfred Hitchcock
From the sound of films to the variations in camera angles, films had evolved drastically in their early period. Technicolor, … More
It Happened One Night (1934)
During the early 1930s, the United States was in the distress of the Great Depression. Hollywood responded to the economic … More
Review: US (2019)
Rating : (4/5) Jordan Peele’s follow-up to the Oscar-winning Get Out is more of a revisionist horror/ thriller movie and … More
The Gender Representation in Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Hostilities continued to emerge soon after the end of World War II in 1945. The international conflict, namely the Cold … More
The Conversation(1974): Character POV in Relation to Conspiracy and Paranoia
The Conversation, made in-between the two Godfather epics, is one of the few films that Francis Ford Coppola directed based … More
Terrence Malick’s Usage of Voiceover in Badlands
Terrence Malick’s subversive debut feature, Badlands, demonstrates the complexity of Malick’s filmic language. One of the most striking features in … More
The Representation of Violence in Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde
Inspired by the French New Wave and a new era of filmmaking, Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde broke the Hollywood … More
The Impact of Music in 2001: A Space Odyssey
Inspired by Arthur C. Clarke’s short story The Sentinel, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey is renowned for its groundbreaking … More
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