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• A Sociocritical Reading of a news item

  25 November 2016, by Edmond Cros

• American Films of the Thirties - The Case of Howard Hawks’s Scarface III

  21 December 2009, by Edmond Cros

  These economic determinants are, however, not the only ones worth mentioning, Higham notes two other factors that are part of the superstructure. (1) The shock of foreign cultural models. In contrast to the first wave of immigra-tion, which was predominantly Protestant and British, the second (...)

• American Films of the Thirties- The Case of Howard Hawks’Scarface II

  21 December 2009, by Edmond Cros

  In a first approach to Scarface I had reconstructed the semiotic system of the initial se-quences of the film before proposing the outlines of a sociocritical reading. The problemat-ics that have emerged may now be submitted to new analyses conducted from perceptibly different and, for that (...)

• American Films of the Thirties - The case of Howard Hawks’s - I-Scarface e

  13 November 2009, by Edmond Cros

  I- Toward a Semiological Reading of Film
  Study of Sequences
  SCARFACE (dialogue and shooting script)* Street scene at night Medium close-up of the globe of a lighted lamp-post, in a low-angle shot; beneath the globe, a sign indicating “22^nd Street.” The camera moves back, and a horse-drawn (...)