This page contains a series of essays involving a variety of topics in history, cinema, dance, sociology, and music. These essays were scholarly works written in the context of university and have been left in their original form as much as possible. Please note that some of these topics will require a previous knowledge of the topic or a screening of films included in the topic of discussion.
AMERICAN MUSIC: A historiography
ANTONIONI: Architecture and Landscapes
Bibliography Selected_sources
BIG BAND MUSIC: The dominating factors
BIG BAND MUSIC-The rise and fall
BLOW UP – A comparison of scholarly and non-scholarly article
BROADWAY MELODY: The beginning of Hollywood musicals
CARTOON MUSIC-A study of the various uses of music
DANCE & MISE EN SCENE: A dancer’s abilities
DR STRANGELOVE-A critical film review
EUROPEAN CINEMA: Hollywood domination
FRED ASTAIRE-Class execution and perfection personified
GENOCIDE: The Holocaust and other stories
HEARTS & MINDS: What Vietnam did to us/a>
IAM CUBA: Long shots and camera expression
JAZZ IN CANADA – The rise of jazz
Journals
JULES AND JIM-A film review
MANDABI: The political use of realism/a>
MARLENE DIETRICH – A synthesis of eroticism
MONTREAL & TORONTO JAZZ: Montreal’s leading success
MONTREAL “OPEN CITY”-The rise & fall of Montreal’s jazz scene
NETSILIK ESKIMO: Metaphors
OLYMPIA – A looming war
PEARL HARBOUR: A last ditch effort
QUEBEC SOCIAL CHANGE-A book review
THE BANDWAGON & SINGING IN THE RAIN
THE FRENCH DECLINE OF THE FILM INDUSTRY
THE HISTORIAN’S CRAFT: A book review
THE HOLLYWOOD MUSICAL – Evolution & Aesthetics
THE LONDON THEATRE: A study of theatre attendance in the eighteenth century
THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY – A study in absurdity
THE UNTOUCHABLES: Symbolic and ironic metaphors