Scott A. McConnell

  • Other

On Greta Garbo’s Greatness: An Appreciation of the Silent Icon’s Sound Star Turn in Queen Christina

“Spoils, glory, flags and trumpets! What is behind these high-sounding words? Death and destruction, triumphals of crippled men, Sweden victorious…

6 years ago
  • Other

Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious: How to Create Drama from Internal Conflict and Ironic Suspense

To stop a Nazi plot, an American agent pimps the woman he loves to a dangerous Nazi. This is the…

6 years ago
  • Moviemaking

The Mark of Zorro Unmasked: Analyzing the Irony and Disguises of Tyrone Power’s Swashbuckling 1940s Hero

Some movies offer their audience the experience of an efficacious hero wittily fighting evil in a dramatic but benevolent world. The 1940…

7 years ago
  • Moviemaking

100 Seconds of Greatness: Analyzing the First Scene of John Ford’s The Searchers

What made John Ford a great director? Let’s try an experiment to help answer that question. Let’s look at a…

7 years ago