Stories By Scott A. McConnell
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On Greta Garbo’s Greatness: An Appreciation of the Silent Icon’s Sound Star Turn in Queen Christina
August 2, 2018“Spoils, glory, flags and trumpets! What is behind these high-sounding words? Death and destruction, triumphals of...
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Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious: How to Create Drama from Internal Conflict and Ironic Suspense
April 10, 2018To stop a Nazi plot, an American agent pimps the woman he loves to a dangerous...
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Moviemaking
The Mark of Zorro Unmasked: Analyzing the Irony and Disguises of Tyrone Power’s Swashbuckling 1940s Hero
April 24, 2017Some movies offer their audience the experience of an efficacious hero wittily fighting evil in a dramatic but...
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Moviemaking
100 Seconds of Greatness: Analyzing the First Scene of John Ford’s The Searchers
March 13, 2017What made John Ford a great director? Let’s try an experiment to help answer that question....
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