Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Raining is not a documentary. By portraying the personal conflicts of a few dedicated party leaders and supporters, Soto conveys the magnitude of their sacrifice, although his method unlike Renes's, does not really show why the lower classes believe so strongly in Allende. The flashbacks are often confusing (It's Raining presumes far more knowledge of Chile than Avenue), but they give a sense of what the militants were fighting for--a government whose policies were based on improving the lives of the Chilean people rather than improving relations with the west...
...hundreds of Americans and Europeans visit Rumania for government-organized Dracula tours of spooky castles that were supposedly once inhabited by the Transylvanian ghoul. Many of the tourists who climb secret staircases and descend into the dank depths of dungeons wear bags of garlic round their necks-the traditional method of warding off the vampire's bloodsucking kiss. In the spirit of the occasion, local schoolchildren wave their arms like bat wings and bare their budding fangs for visitors' cameras...
Vlad the Impaler. In fact, the historical Prince Vlad Dracula is scarcely an improvement over the legendary Count Dracula. In his day, the prince was known as Vlad Tepes (pronounced Tsep-pesh) or Vlad the Impaler. Reason: his favorite method of killing enemies was to impale them on wooden poles. He was fond of dining outdoors, surrounded by a veritable forest of impaled men, women and children. According to one account, Vlad remarked, "Oh, what great gracefulness they exhibit!" as he watched his victims writhe in their death agonies...
...riddles by invoking the theories of sociology and psychoanalysis. New voices insist that it should serve the purposes of racial justice or economic reform. In contrast to all these divisions, Braudel offers historians a new kind of synthesis. Oxford Historian H.R. Trevor-Roper has written of the Braudelian method that it "is a kind of history which crosses all frontiers and uses all techniques. The achievement is to have drawn geography, sociology, law, ideas into the broad stream of history and thereby to have refreshed that stream, which previously had been running dangerously...
Close's method is complex: he squares up from a large, side-lit studio mug shot of his subject, working over it first in pure red, then in blue and finally yellow; the overlays, as in three-color printing, produce "natural" color. The camera is focused on the sitter's eyes, and the photo's depth of field is so small that the tip of the nose blurs, and one can see as many differences of sharpness in Close's beard or Linda's tangle of rusty curls as among the stalks of a wheatfield...