Essays 181 - 210
of looking at the basic format of a film noire, especially before color (Dirks). The plot as well is a confusing one, in terms of ...
community in the mission is that the film portrays delays in the UN rescue mission stemming, at least partially, from faults in co...
her husband, and knew herself to be near death. Her digestive system had been destroyed by the disease, and, in intense pain and u...
names this "one of the great recent crime movies" (Ebert, 2002). Devil in a Blue Dress references a theme, subject and time perio...
way for actresses who were interested not simply in portraying stylish roles but were also interested in exploring characters of s...
Belafonte, and the two eventually become sympathetic toward each other. The movie portrays a culture which is seemingly opposite t...
other horror films. For example, in many subtle ways there is the age old suspense that we often saw in Hitchcock films as subtle ...
the event of Savannahs hospitalization after a second suicide attempt and Toms journey to New York to assist her psychologist, Dr....
The play is divided into two acts, containing three scenes in the first and two scenes in the second. It centers...
Hitchcocks movie, Vertigo. This whole movie is centered around one man and his inability to let go of an old love. The story, in b...
direction and production of a larger film. "The plan, Rodriguez said, was to make a series of three action films for this market a...
the message it conveys through incisive parody scary? Definitely. Barry Levinson is a veteran filmmaker who deftly employs a cyn...
meet while returning to their hometown of Boone City, are symbolic of the American social class structure (Beidler 589). Upper-cl...
The basic structure of most fiction stories follows a simple Act one, Act Two, Act Three kind of format. In the first part of the ...
it can be seen to have been on its way out at the dawn of all the other television competition for viewers time. Perspectives shif...
that are easily overcome (Carey, 2000). This is a reflection of their inventive mind where it is the message and not the mechanics...
in keeping all of the people hostage while the funds are delivered. As mentioned, while it is not exactly a bank robbery film, it ...
Weisman, in an article featured in The New York Times, described Indian cinema as "an all purpose dream engine delivering gaudy th...
physical state that supports the distinguishing characteristics of film noir. Though the term "film noir" is French, the st...
preface of her book, author Susan Brigden confesses to the broad nature of her book "New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudo...
Indeed, by looking at the role of the women in the movie it is a reflection of the social conditions. There is a reflection of the...
In five pages this essay contrasts and compares the perspectives of critics and the film's writers with regard to 1999's American ...
This 9 page essay considers how the theatrical presence in the film is developed stylistically through textural characteristics of...
A 5 page discussion of the ever present force of patriarchy in this classic film. This author observes that the dramatic ending i...
This paper addresses Orson Welles' film, Citizen Kane. The author focuses on formalism and realism in the film. This five page p...
This 5 page essay illuminates the message and presentation in Babette's Feast. Based on the book by Isaak Dineson this film prese...
the daily lives of the general population. The Soviet View of Security Throughout the thirties Soviet leaders viewed their countr...
cost, even when it calls for doing things against his or the departments ethical code. His golden boy status within the police fo...
background is disadvantaged. Marcus is the son of a bitter, abusive man who hates whites with every fiber of his being. Marcus is,...
is Elektra King, unlike many of Bonds female enemies she is a rich young woman who has not become part of communist assassination ...