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A 6 page paper which examines the director’s intentions and ambitions, explores the film from an historical context, and discusses popular and critical responses to the film. Specifically analysis includes film’s subject matter, the cinematic ways in which themes are conveyed, along with an evaluation as to whether or not the director’s ambitions are satisfied in terms of audience reaction (are they challenged or merely entertained). Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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upon the senses and often feature violent images that remain in the viewers mind long after the screen has faded to black. But De Palma is not merely interested
in shock value; he forces audiences to feel what they are seeing and then compels them to think about it afterwards. De Palma is a stylist, which is appropriate
because he is a self-styled filmmaker in the mold of Steven Spielberg, who also did not attend film school (Lewis 28). Born in 1940, De Palma began making 16mm
short films while majoring in physics at Columbia University (Lewis 28). His first full-length effort was completed in 1963, released in 1969 as The Wedding Party (co-directed with Wilford
Leach and Cynthia Munroe) and marks the big-screen debuts of Robert De Niro and Jill Clayburgh (Lewis 28). But it was the 1973 film, Sisters, which provided filmgoers with
the first glimpse of De Palmas visual genius. Based on his own script, De Palma experimented with the Hitchcockian touches that elevated suspense thrillers like Rear Window (1954) and
Psycho (1960) from mere entertainment to shocking screen art (Lewis 29). Sisters features surprises and plot twists a la Hitchcock that would become his own trademark. This film,
along with Obsession (1976), further developed De Palmas expressive use of cinematography and music (the final score completed by legendary Hitchcock film composer Bernard Herrmann), and set the creative stage
for what would become De Palmas most critically and commercially successful film to date, Carrie (1976) (Lewis 29). During the mid-1970s, the sexual revolution was in full swing. The
Vietnam War had been settled by a ceasefire, but its legacy of violence continued back on the home front. Violence among teens was becoming more prevalent, and women were
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