Essays 181 - 210
days on the battlefield seemed to be but a dim memory. The Korean War was Americas first unpopular war where there were no victor...
no longer walks the Chinatown beat, ever since he was promoted to lieutenant (Dirks chin.html). Chinatown is regarded as a punish...
not easy to explain why individuals are motivated to act in the ways they do. This is why there are a number of competing theories...
before. Perhaps the iconic model here is Barbara Stanwyck luring Fred MacMurray to his doom in Double Indemnity. But there is an...
problems of Susanna. Susanna is diagnosed as having borderline personality disorder. Susanna is suffering from hallucinations. For...
person that John F. Kennedy was addressing when he said "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your co...
his home, and is confronted by an angel who convinces him that Mary has told the truth. The next scenes dramatize the "birth of Je...
to his students. He gives them no time to "adjust," but leaps right in with both feet on the first day by having the class read Ro...
is not identified as a goddess except for when a servant speaks to Achilles about the legends that have begun to be spun concernin...
titles such as "The Sultan of Sleaze," "The Prince of Puke" and "The Pope of Trash," which is the one he says he prefers (Als, 199...
what the audience is viewing with his own subjective observations. In his consideration of film noir, Jon Tuska (1984) noted that...
of America had suffered through more than 15 years of deprivation in one form or another. The Great Depression that began with th...
be his wife and daughter. Even with the unrelenting encouragement of Sarah and Rachels recollections to help him remember his fam...
The Blair Witch Project The Blair Witch Project fits perfectly with the popular conception of what constitutes an independent fil...
surrealist movement, but there is debate about that ("Frida Kahlo, The Surrealist," 2006). The film itself was replete with infor...
Henrys voiceover narration.3 This narration gives the viewer insight into Henrys motivations. This narration conveys Henrys childl...
flag down a car, but no one stops. Desperate, she positions herself in the middle of the road while holding her arms outstretched ...
drugging and kidnapping his wife, whom he subsequently frames on drug charges (Touch of Evil, 1995). Vargas, and justice, prevail ...
way or another by the culture itself. Now, while there are numerous contemporary artists and also numerous styles this section ...
is a mixed bag. In films that parody the past like Undercover Brother and in music videos, the most watched genre of film today by...
Opposing Arguments Petrakis (2010) is completely right when he writes: "the screenplay is simplistic and uninteresting, lea...
A 3 page essay that contrasts and compares American Psycho (2000, directed by Mary Harron) and In Bruges (2008, directed by Martin...
This research paper offers a character study that focuses on Vinz (played by Vincent Cassel) in Mattieu Kassowitz's film La Haine....
ethics or lack thereof, surrounding the mystique of Wall Street. Although takeovers are not in themselves unethical, the methods ...
the injustice that fate as inflicted upon him, as he has pursued the whale for years, coming close numerous times, but never actu...
This 8 page paper gives an overview of the works of Chinese film director Zhang Yimou. This paper includes discussions of four of ...
as director. This Catholic perspective is also quite evident in the fact that Mary, the mother of Jesus, is the most prevalent c...
sit down, even when "they are having menstrual cramps" (Giroux). In the film, workers also complain about "plant conditions, speed...
a realistic glimpse into troubled American youth that did not compromise moral values or the integrity of the film. Judging by th...
This research paper focuses on the films of Roberto Rossellini, specifically on "Paisan" and "Germany Year Zero" and the films of...