Essays 1921 - 1950
reviewer Thierry Jousse considered the Cannes award "totally disproportioned", arguing that the film in fact was too slight to mer...
In seven pages this paper discusses the impact of technology upon humankind as considered in H.G. Wells' novels The War of the Wor...
him: Father Barry (Karl Malden) is a tough priest who urges him to testify about what he knows; Johnnie Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) is ...
his habitual good-natured grin when he is arrested. For this damage to municipal property, Luke is sentenced to two-years labor on...
Fasts text of the same name). They each offer depictions of George Washington as perceived by authors, screenwriters, and filmmak...
Ann Beard, in her essay The Fourth State of Matter, illustrates how a young man, Gang Lu, becamse so disgruntled with life and wit...
are clearly emotionally distraught at being unloved and uncared for by humans, their parents. They seek vengeance. The only replic...
is bored out of his skull with his job and his life. His doctor advises him to go to support club meetings for people who are rea...
but always something that is made in a four-party meaning-situation. An author... circulates a text... to an audience... whose pe...
The assignment asks how the student relates to Annas problem. This writer/tutor imagines that it is quite easy for many women to r...
whom he has already fathered two children. Charles literally drags Helen to the front door and throws her out of the house (IMDb,...
is an unfortunate event, but the event takes place not because the boy did not have a good mother, but because his mother was poor...
1998). Derek is induced into joining a neo-Nazi movement by a older hate-monger played by Stacy Keach, who uses him as a neighbo...
period scenes depicting Salinas and Soledad are reconstructed "in meticulous... detail" (Murray, 2003; Morsberger, 1993, p. 128). ...
formula that proposes to plot the poems value on a graph, Keating denounces it and commands his students to rip the offending page...
as did the movie companies, which realiszed that the sweet manufacturer hadnt paid a cent" (Goodwin, 2002). With these realities p...
employed, whose most significant feature is to make the cut seem invisible. This is achieved through such devices as shot/reverse-...
also shows how the Nation of Islam similarly rehabilitated other prostitutes and drug dealers during the time, "providing moral gu...
incidence of fire breaking out during operations. In one of ABCs 20/20 episodes in 1998, the audience was cautioned that this ha...
come to overestimate his own value as a singular entity amidst an enormous universe. There is no doubt that Stones intention when...
necessarily a love triangle, more like opportunists trying to manipulate each other. Both of the women attempt to seduce Flynn an...
killer bees were responsible for an attack in Tipton, Oklahoma. They are currently in six Southwestern states and they are dangero...
legacy of screwball comedy. Both Ninotchka and Roman Holiday encompass themes that are more sophisticated than the typical screwb...
own terms, as an interpretation for a modern mass audience of a compelling story that gives shape to some of the deepest-rooted hu...
style, but did not really have the time to focus on its development until he suffered from a back injury and spent numerous months...
hide those Jews that were being persecuted by Hitlers war machine. He used his unsuccessful businesses as fronts to move various f...
considered a right" (230). In four French films in particular, Arnaud Desplechins Comment Je Me Suis Disput?... (Ma Vie Sexuelle)...
of a horror film, and the crucifixion of Jesus is without question one of the most horrific episodes in world history. There are ...
After the robbery goes bad, the gang regroups in an abandoned warehouse. Here they learn that the reason their job went bad was du...
darkies" (Leab 99). Focusing on the Atlanta plantation of Gerald and Ellen OHara, Gone With the Wind represented life for souther...