Robert B. Ray examines the ideology of the most enduringly popular cinema in the world--the Hollywood movie. Aided by 364 frame enlargements, he describes the development of that historically overdetermined form, giving close readings of five typical instances: Casablanca, It's a Wonderful Life, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Godfather, and Taxi Driver. Like the heroes of these movies, American filmmaking has avoided commitment, in both plot and technique. Instead of choosing left or right, avant-garde or tradition, American cinema tries to have it both ways. Finalist, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Best Paper Award, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 2015-2018

Alan J. Pakula's political thriller All the President's Men(1976) was met with immediate critical and commercial success upon its release, finishing second at the box office and earning seven Academy Award nominations. Teaching people to be rational and see through the illusions of fear so they can live a life on their terms, not OCD’s. Afterall, if there is no fear, OCD has nothing to latch to.I am you: Having suffered from – and recovered from OCD myself, I fully understand how it feels to be trapped in a cycle of anxiety, and how OCD can lead to feelings of extreme darkness and isolation. But my own experience has given me the insight to fully understand that the only way to break the cycle is through rational thinking and the unconditional acceptance of your fears. It’s not just about repeated exposure to the things you’re scared of; my approach goes much deeper than that. Bray entered films in 1946 under contract to RKO. [ citation needed] He appeared in B Westerns like 1949's Rustlers. In the 1950s, the then freelancing actor appeared in a varied number of roles including the 1952 episode "Thunder Over Inyo" of the syndicated western television series The Adventures of Kit Carson. Zodiac Sign: Robert Bray was a Scorpio. People of this zodiac sign like truth, being right, longtime friends, teasing, and dislike dishonesty, revealing secrets, passive people. The strengths of this sign are being resourceful, brave, passionate, a true friend, while weaknesses can be distrusting, jealous, secretive and violent. The greatest overall compatibility with Scorpio is Taurus and Cancer.

Robert B. Ray is the author of A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema, 1930–1980 (Princeton University Press); The Avant-Garde Finds Andy Hardy (Harvard University Press); How a Film Theory Got Lost, and Other Mysteries in Cultural Studies (Indiana University Press); The ABCs of Classic Hollywood (Oxford University Press); Walden X 40: Essays on Thoreau (Indiana University Press); and The Structure of Complex Images (Palgrave Macmillan). In the 1960–1961 television season, Bray played Simon Kane in the ABC series Stagecoach West. The Western comprised 38 one-hour episodes.Finalist, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Best Paper Award, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management With all of the experience and research time spent above and over 15,000 plus hours 1-2-1 coaching, group and seminar sessions all around the world, I currently work with people all over the world from incredibly severe cases to mild OCD. People often come to me when they have been from centre to centre, tried many different routes and are convinced by this point they are treatment resistant – where in fact they just don’t have an understanding of OCD yet to bring relief. I help them see the path and coach them in getting there. I also became a motivational speaker for the US based anxiety and OCD center which had helped me and spent time going around the UK delivering motivational talks and being involved in setting exposure work for clients with therapy centres. From this point on, and seeing how what I had learnt had taken me to full recovery, I became absolutely determined to bring OCD out of the dark and decided to make it my job. I branched out to coaching others to help them understand what I had learnt during my own recovery journey and from my lived experience, now that I am fully recovered. I was so driven by how clearly I could see the path to recovery and how recovery felt and wanted as many people as I could to see and feel the same.

Sharing his vast knowledge of OCD, experience having helped thousands, tools and resources to guide you along the road to recovery He teaches courses in film studies, contemporary criticism, and intellectual history, with a particular interest in experimental critical practice. His scholarly interests include film history and aesthetics; film and philosophy; storytelling in literature and film; and poetry. He holds a PhD from Indiana University, an MBA from Harvard, a JD from the University of Virginia, and an AB from Princeton.

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In 1954, he portrayed bandit Emmett Dalton in an episode of Jim Davis's syndicated western Stories of the Century. That same year, he guest-starred in Reed Hadley's CBS crime drama, The Public Defender. On December 4, 1955, he was cast as petroleum pioneer Pattillo Higgins in " Spindletop – The First Great Texas Oil Strike (January 10, 1901)" on the CBS history series, You Are There, the story of the origin of the Texas oil industry.

Impressionism, Surrealism, and Film Theory: Path Dependence, or How a Tradition in Film Theory Gets Lost In the 1920s, when film criticism was as new as the cinema itself, a particular way of thinking about the movies developed in Paris. The cinema, this theory suggested, turns on photography's automatism, the revolutionary fact that for the first time in human history a perfect representation of the world can be produced by accident. Moreover, the camera's gaze has the potential to transform ordinary objects—a telephone, a letter on a desk, a woman's face—into spellbinding images, swarming with details whose precise appeal remains unpredictable. By the 1930s, this theory of photogénie (photogenia) had vanished from most serious writing about film. Why did this disappearance occur? In this collection of essays, Robert B. Ray discusses this disappearance and other mysteries like it: Why did photography and the detective story originate at exactly the same time? Why has some of the most prominent academic writing about the cinema resisted anything but "scientific" accounts of the movies? What counts as "knowledge" in film studies or any intellectual discipline? What do the French Impressionists have in common with the Sex Pistols? How did Douglas Sirk's critically ignored melodramas become "subversive critiques of bourgeois ideology"? How did the fate of Sirk's movies help us understand postmodernism and the avant-garde? In taking up these questions, Ray's essays challenge certain ideas about film and cultural studies, while arguing for a mode of writing about the movies and experimental art that would respect the abidingly mysterious effect of their images and sounds. Teaching people to see reality as it is not what we imagine it to be, when we are thinking irrationally. Early in 1960, Bray was cast as Tom Byson in the episode "Three Graves" of the NBC western series, Riverboat. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Meritorious Service Award, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2017In 1963, he guest starred on Gunsmoke as “Gib Dawson”, a settler who marries a Comanche Squaw and has to deal with the racial hatred from others because of it in the episode “Shona” (S8E22). He also appeared as an Army Commander in "The Twilight Zone" S5 E10 "The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms" which aired 12/4/1963. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Meritorious Service Award, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society, 2019 Through a close reading of key scenes, performances and stylistic decisions, Christian Keathley and Robert B. Ray show how the film derives its narrative power through a series of controlled oppositions: silence vs. noise; stationary vs. moving camera; dark vs. well-lit scenes and shallow vs. deep focus, tracing how these elements combine to create an underlying formal design crucial to the film's achievement. To be very clear about how recovery feels, I no longer feel anxious and while OCD can’t be cured, 99.9% of the time I couldn’t tell the difference between having it and not having it. Thoughts have lost all intrusiveness and while, like anyone in the world, I can get triggered by things that have the potential to scare me, I am able to dispute them within minutes using rational thinking, meaning OCD is no longer able to latch to anything or have a hold on me.