Screenwriting, 1940-1970 Uncoupling Movies from Novels, Plays, Poems & Stories
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Item Open Access Hearts of the West: Some Aspects of Women's Roles in American Westerns, 1939-1969(1991) Hehner, BarbaraA thesis by Barbara Hehner [M.F.A., 1991] on the nature, scope and limits of the representation of women within American western movies, 1939 – 1969.Item Open Access 'In a Moment of Brilliance': Heidegger's Horsemen, HIGH NOON and the Existential Sentiment of 'Westerns'(1981) Cameron, Evan Wm.; Hehner, BarbaraBy evidence and common consent, great 'western' movies are mythical encompassing a Weltanschauung that has engaged viewers within diverse cultures for over a century. Questions recur, however. What makes them so? and why have they proven so enticing to male viewers in particular? Within this essay I and Barbara Hehner address those questions, attending to the design of HIGH NOON as exemplary.Item Open Access Misusing Sights as Sounds: The Infringements of Radio Drama on the Making of CITIZEN KANE(1968) Cameron, Evan Wm.Many arts have influenced the cinema over extended periods of time. One art – radio drama – is an exception, for we can date the onset of its influence from the coming of synchronous sound to the cinema in 1926 and the culmination of it with the creation of CITIZEN KANE in 1941. Film and radio drama were thereafter to part company, each having learned what it could from the other. What had the cinema learned from radio drama? If we look closely at CITIZEN KANE, we can learn much about the virtues and limitations of radio design, cinematical design and the design of CITIZEN KANE itself.