Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Much of the film is shot to allow great depth of field, keeping both the foreground and the background of the picture in focus. This technique--pioneered by Orson Welles in Citizen Kane--is known as "deep focus." The use of deep focus lends a strong sense of realism to the film, portraying simultaneously the characters and their environment. Kusturica also imports some techniques from the genre of film noir, especially the notion of the woman-as-temptress (in this case the mistress), and the practice of photographing her image in mirrors...
...background to this statement, I have attached the following items...
...plausible concept than the eternal universe of Aristotle. But he also declared boldly that if his philosophical thinking had substantiated Aristotle's view, he would simply have reinterpreted the Bible accordingly. Maimonides treated the sacrificial rituals commanded by biblical law as accommodations that God made to the Hebrews' pagan background...
Ferraro attributed her abstention solely to a 16-month-old Justice Department investigation into her financial background. The probe is focused on the funding of her initial 1978 House race and some of her financial disclosure statements while in office. In 1979 the Federal Election Commission fined her husband-campaign manager John Zaccaro and her committee $750 for arranging $130,000 in loans from her family, well in excess of the $1,000 legal limit allowed for individual contributors. The House Ethics Committee, which looked into Ferraro's failure to report fully her and her husband's incomes, found that...
...disinterred and looked at. The trouble is that Nazi art was, to put it mildly, both German and 20th century, and its complete absence from this exhibition leaves the kind of hole one would expect a huge radioactive hot potato to make when dropped. It is the concealed background against which the achievements of Beuys and Kiefer have to be seen, since a large part of their work is an attempt to address the older, mythic imagery of German romanticism, which the Nazis appropriated and corrupted. Unless we grasp the ways in which Hitler's culture took over a large...