Essays on Unease

Questions:

1) Watch a television show of your choice that falls into one of the sub genres mentioned above in Notes.  Post the name of the show you watched in thread title. Analyze the program according to the criteria you read above in Module 2 notes.  I've included the pilot episode link for Hill Street Blues below, but feel free to choose any show you'd like. Most can be found on youtube.com and hulu.com. http://www.hulu.com/watch/325 I watched a television show in the sub-genre of police procedural called NCIS. The episode began with the cast interacting pleasantly with one another, until ...

Jonathan Glazer’s 2013 science fiction film Under the Skin is a supremely stylized, innately profound work that utilizes kaleidoscopic visuals and an unsettling performance from Scarlett Johannson to explore issues of the male gaze and take them to their furthest conclusion. Telling the story of an alien (Johansson) who comes to Earth and entices men with sex for her own twisted, mysterious purposes, Under the Skin charts the progression of a woman’s experience by simultaneously giving her a power and a predatory agency that women are not typically afforded, then stripping that agency away bit by bit ...

Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo is a master's class in subtle and effective filmmaking - its noirish tale of obsession and loss is considered one of his best works. This is due in no small part to the directors' use of the various elements of film as a mirror. Hitchcock intends to create a sense of repetition and a cyclical nature to the life of the characters in the film; following Scottie (James Stewart) through his descent and ascent into madness deals significantly with themes of duality and obsession. Furthermore, the use of film as a mirror onto ourselves is made very clear in the audience's ...