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moving-picture show Analysis of All That promised land Allows Chosen sequence Golden f totally Tree/Carys bedroom scene. Before the emergence of auteur theory the director Douglas Sirk was a famous exponent of classical Hollywood narrative, particularly in the genre of romanticistic melodrama, of which his film All That Heaven Allows is a classic example. However, he is straight off regarded as a master of mise-en-scene, one of the few tools left to a director working within the constraints of the Hollywood studio/institutional constitution who is now thought to have been highly critical of American mainstream stopping point and society in this prosperous era. 1, 2 The Golden Rain Tree sequence occurs early(a) on in the film after the opening panoramic, establishing shot - showing the scene of the action, a small middle-class New England town in autumn. The main protagonists are soon introduced of which the prime causal agent is an unassured wom an, Cary Scott (Jane Wyman), in keeping with romantic melodrama. As a widow, she is a dupe of circumstance who is eager to change her life. Her friend visits (Mona) and hopes to persuade Cary to take a conventional route out of widowhood but, by chance, she meets the gardener, Ron Kirby (Rock Hudson) and from the mise-en-scene in these opening scenes it is self-evident that she would prefer a romantic affiliation of some sort with Ron. after(prenominal) a few pleasantries, some tea at the table distant Carys house and some profound references to gardening, Ron goes to hand Cary a small brance/twig, on the face of it a token of deep affection. The film so far displays all the conventions of classical narrative and maintains all the dominant ideologies o... ...lassical narrative cinema. In beingness There, the character and motives of Gardiner are made much clearer to the viewer through the visionary use of mise-en-scene, as illustrated above. NOTES 1. Carroll. Essay The Moral Ecology of Melodrama The Family Plot and kinglike Obsession. p. 170. 2. Cook. p. 76-79. BIBLIOGRAPHY An Introduction to Film Studies Jill Nelmes (ed.) Routledge 1996 Anatomy of Film Bernard H. Dick St. Martins Press 1998 pigment Concepts in Cinema Studies Susan Hayward Routledge 1996 Teach Yourself Film Studies Warren Buckland Hodder & Stoughton 1998 Interpreting the despicable Image Noel Carroll Cambridge University Press 1998 The Cinema Book Pam Cook (ed.) BFI 1985 FILMOGRAPHY All That Heaven Allows Dir. Douglas Sirk Universal 1955 Being There Dir. Hal Ashby 1979