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The Missing Filmmaker and the Foundations of Cinema TW: Suicide, sexual harassment, exploitation, pedophilia, grooming, abuse, brief explanations of war-related deaths Louis Le Prince was a french artist and the renowned inventor of an early moving motion picture that could shoot a moving picture sequence using the single lens camera, skyrocketing the ideas of other late 19th century inventors to compete. Since this day in France in 1888, the world’s sources of entertainment suddenly changed, from live-action plays and puppet shows to the developing success of early cinema. “ Roundhay Garden Scene ” was produced by Le Prince that same year. But the Roundhay Garden Scene had more variety to offer the audience. The humble 2-second film captured a few 19th-century cheerful middle-class people walking around a patio at Oakwood Grange in Roundhay, Leeds, following this was the Horse in Motion sequence that more popularly defines the first-ever film.  Although Le Prince seemed to have bi...

  Mariam and Laila, the two lead protagonists of Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns display the Fruedian psychoanalytic theory of Transference and Resistance when acting upon their decisive processes of Laila’s hope and perseverance in contrast to Mariam's sacrifice and noble humility. In Psychoanalysis, we treat troubling mental conditions by investigating the interaction of both conscious and unconscious elements of the mind while simultaneously surfacing repressed fears and intrusive thoughts with various therapy methods, such as dream analysis and Transference therapy. The two women in abusive circumstances have used psychoanalysis as a resource for making sense of the social upheavals of the century, especially those involving gender relations, sexuality, and family life.  According to the Debatable Austrian Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and his mentor Josef Breuer, the term transference is a term referring to unknowingly transferring feelings about someone or somet...

  The following poem is inspired by the engaging confessional poetry of Sylvia Plath. She participated in the growing spread of Surrealism as a philosophy and form of art.  Although Plath was a pioneer beyond her living time, she suffered from clinical depression. In 1956 she married the English poet Ted Hughes; they had two children together. The couple separated in 1962. In 1963, Slvia passed away from suicide by the gas oven in the Home, the children were physically unharmed but the devastation still plagued the family for decades later. As writers, I believe it’s more than important to understand and honor the eminent power of those before us, that Inspire us now.  It is before me, the silky marbelized inking, Moving like a stone among a waterfall; drips Its word travels through the air, a scorched syllable It is quiet, but still a harmony it is singing, Liked the tongue of a stranger inside bruised lips, So quaint it must be invisible It is devolving now, stars that ...

  Then existed a boy, threaded together by a dead mother's love, and empty door frames. The fearlessness was a shield, Imaginary. Then a boy existed, who wore baggy jeans and a heaping amount of Citré Shine Hair Gel over his frosted tips. Then he was 18 years old, he talked back, violated speed limits, and ran laps alone, down the block, late after sundown. He lived in a home of Instability, but he peeled his socks off in bed, his room rooted in heat, hungover he slept in. He was fevered and knotted with fresh business by the hours. Now? I’m 48 years old and I’m not married. I don’t run anymore, not with my back too sore and my ankles swollen. My stability? I’m glued down strong. Now, it is a lonely place. Now, I wring my hands at an office cubicle, with razor nicks eating my neck. But when I doze off, I witness the hot hands around his back, kissing her lips of a blurred complexion. The crowd and the thumping of a Stereo, it was a fog so dampened by ephebic life. My memory serves ...

  Mary Ann Cotton; The First British Serial Killer  “ Lord Jesus receive my spirit, Oh Lord have mercy upon me” said Mary Ann Cotton moments before prison executioner Robert Anderson released his grip on the rope that left Cotton defeated, and dangling on the noose. March 24th, 1873 when the “Black Widow Killer” had been charged the death sentanc for murdering her seven-year old stepson, Charles Edward Cotton with a fatal dose of arsenic.  It is undeniable that Mary Ann Cotton was a wretched and sickeningly wrong woman for what she’s accused of, but It should be known as well much of her story is not known. Between the years of 1865 and 1872 it is publicly believed to be the time period she committed her murders: 21 victims. Mary had 13 children of her own, but only two of those children survived to meet their adulthood. Margeret Edith, her youngest daughter she gave birth to during her trial and her son George Cotton, from a separate marriage where she lost custody of t...

  Introduction:   Black Swan is a 2010 drama-psychological film, directed by Darren Aronofsky and written by Mark Heyman, John McLaughlin, and Andres Heinz but predominantly Andres Heinz based on a story he wrote long before the screenplay was produced. The film stars Natalie Portman (as Nina), Vincent Cassel (as Thomas), Mila Kunis (as Lily), Barbara Hershey (As Nina’s mom, Erica), and Winona Ryder (as the original swan queen) the entire layout of the film is about the production of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake by the New York City Ballet company but really it focuses on Nina, the protagonist and her journey conforming into the Swan Queen, a role she’s wanted all her life. But can she handle this role? Or did she set herself up to fail? Let’s talk about it. Before we get started, this video essay will obviously have spoilers and pretty difficult topics such as bulimia, anorexia, sexual harrasment, rape, self-harm behaviors, sucidal tendancies, schizophrenia hallucinations...