Trailer for the short film DIESI TOMOR on artist Maegan McCoy
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Food storytelling
Food voyeurism is one of the most prominent themes shared in media. Images of food are one of the most popular posts on social media, and food is a very prominent theme in TV and film, including documentaries. Here I will be examining the techniques used in food documentaries created by David Gelb.
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A Case Study on Grace Kelly
Classy and sophisticated, Grace Kelly represented something aspirational for American audiences. Her marriage into the Monaco royal family was the ultimate destination of the ‘American dream’, the climbing of the social and class ladder up to the ultimate hierarchy of inherited status. The star system represented this same image of a meritocracy and accessibility into upper class life. By imitating stars, figures of fabricated extraordinary ordinarity, one could hope to become like them. When Grace Kelly became a princess, even that seemed possible. How might her royal marriage be the natural conclusion of star power, or are royalty and stardom oppositional ideas?
Continue reading “Is Stardom Analogous with Royalty?”The persona as deceit in “All About Eve”
Starring Bette Davis, All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950) is a film about acting itself. Bette Davis is an example for the star being used as a marketing tool. Films she starred in would bill “Davis” above the title of the film to attract viewers as she was one of the most acclaimed actors of her time.
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The image of a star is not completely falsified because they base their persona on a quality that they do have, this is why the image of a star is believable. There has to be some assumable truth to what story is being told about a star for people to buy into it. The film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks, 1953) starring Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell is about the male gaze and how two women navigate their objectification.
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Drea Secchi 