Category: Scene analysis
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Do the Right Thing Love/Hate Scene Analysis
By Imogen Prince, written for Kim Simard’s Explorations in Cinema and Communications class Winner of the Cheryl Simon Writing Award for Subtext’s Winter 2024 issue Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing (1989) takes place in the span of one day in a predominantly Black New York neighborhood during a heatwave. The film centers on a…
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Shifting Identities
A scene analysis from Robert Altman’s 3 Women Written by Kayliya Phongsavath Sananikone for Justine McLellan’s Cinema Styles course 3 Women (1977), directed by Robert Altman, is a fever dream of a film that follows the otherwise mundane lives of Millie, Pinky, and Willie. The film focuses on their identities and how those are shaped…
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