Essays 1981 - 2010
them after the war. In America, there would be "raisins and chocolate, cookies and dolls, white slippers and pink hair bows, all ...
in reality is not one of the "good girls." She is living an illusion. Her need for self improvement has reached an emergency lev...
an extremely abbreviated version of the play. Well over half the dialogue of the original play has been condensed or eliminated i...
takes. It would seem that to incorporate so much history into so little time that these works would be awash with busyness, myria...
from his well-received form of art. "Normally, both of you would be dead as fucking fried chicken by now, but since Im in a trans...
they were loosely allied to the Nazis. The Italians viewed the circumstances of the war somewhat differently than did their allie...
"right hand" man despite Iagos longer term of service (Null, 2002). Iago manages to incite a jealousy rage in Othello that results...
brief excursion into heterosexuality twenty years earlier, who Armand and Albert raised. Son Val (Dan Futterman) does not share A...
know the woman, named Madeline, he falls in love with her. However, Madeline succeeds in committing suicide and Scotty is helpless...
feelings of forgetfulness (Marguerite Duras). In "India Song", Duras tells of the life during the 1930s in a fashionable di...
"More importantly, the innovative, bold film is an acknowledged milestone in the development of cinematic technique. It uses film ...
Gibson. From a simple understanding of history and the constant struggle between Scotland and England, as Scotland fought to rem...
and attitudes from the Western world that are needed as the first step towards development (Lewis, 2002). Unfortunately, Western m...
(originally produced to be shown on PBS, but later received theatrical distribution), which starred Jane Alexander and focused upo...
to the daughter of the influential and powerful Senator Stiles" (Anonymous Cusack and Spader show their True Colors, 2002; 5937&Se...
film, which is told via flashbacks by Salieri, who is in an asylum after attempting suicide, and concentrates on the final ten yea...
known in postmodern films beginning in the late 1970s because it was a significant way of breaking down the stifling barrier of ge...
the director and the male filmgoer) receive a sexual thrill from watching the victimization of women (Williams 706). As one of th...
of a visual masterpiece that demonstrates that Scorsese is an artist who understands the tone of the original work from which he c...
because of the Civil War, and many of whom were still alive when the film was produced" (The Birth of a Nation PG). The director ...
harmed, though he will herald her with poetry if he is an artistic sort. These are fairly simple definitions, but they help to set...
the world, but only derive essence later. In other words, a human is nothing to start with, and the essence of the person comes fr...
out Dil, Jodys girlfriend. Ironically, painfully, and even humorously, Dil is actually a man (Hooper 43). It is worth noting t...
is quite apparent in her remark that is intended to shut the whispering people in the Spitfire Grill up: "Hannah, did I forget to ...
In eight pages this report considers how director Howard Hawks was able to masterfully combine film and literature. Five sources ...
to come to terms with the exoneration of the policemen who beat Rodney Smith during the riots of the early 1990s, but in a complet...
one-man conjecture about how Americas involvement in the Vietnam War according to the directors consistently biting tone; by provi...
identity. It is interesting to note that as he pulls on his "cloak of madness" that his true intellect becomes completely clouded ...
producers and directors have found that they have a truly unique power to significantly influence the attitudes and emotions of th...
in the destructive power of nuclear energy. Osteen (1994) points out that few events have affected the American psyche in a manne...