Essays 451 - 480
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...
politics. Gore Vidal wrote the screenplay, as well as the original Broadway play on which the movie is based. Vidal was friends wi...
exact) and the censorship had begun to relax. Other firsts included showing the two lovers naked on their wedding night. What one...
the whole trilogy and uses a heavily layered story that involves high action sequences that are purely designed to attract those w...
(Rombes). Rafferty (1997) explains that the postmodern film is built on the film noir genre, but that a feature of postmodernism ...
and evil (technology). Blade Runner considers the city of Los Angeles in the year 2019 as "a fragmented Third World metropolis, m...
of the classic noir characteristics, it also thumbed its nose at the use of flashbacks. There were no voice-over narrations, with ...
Chaplin appeared, it was also a film that he made use of established paradigms. The tools used focus on content emotion had experi...
This paper begins by presenting a brief summary of the plot to "Philadelphia," a 1994 film. The writer, then, present a sociologic...
This film review examines the social aspects of the 2004 film, "The Notebook." Four pages in length, three sources are cited. ...
This paper pertains to eight specific issues that address the film "When Harry Met Sally" (1989). These aspects of the film discus...
This paper pertains to Lily, the main character is the film "The Secret Life of Bees." The writer discusses the film from a social...
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 ...
forest, which would later represent the convergence of Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina, symbolically depict a convergence of the h...
They have decided to acquire it so that the airport can be expanded. Thus, the working class Kerrigan family is pitted against th...
and had been released some months earlier (Biodrowski). The novel, which has the subtitle of "The Modern Prometheus," is "a sort o...
frees him from this indignity and travesty of life by smothering him with a pillow and then escapes from the asylum (One Flew, 199...
Each Film The American Revolution (also referred to as The Revolution) was a 1994 six-hour documentary produced by A&E and shown...
the film is Allens character Alvy who seems to have so many problems it becomes hilarious and insane, often presenting psychologic...
for Rita. The result is that not only does Frank tutor Rita, but Franks learns from Rita as well. Initially Rita is portrayed as...
in a film that only a percentage of moviegoers even remember. This represents the crapshoot movie studios were forced to endure w...
and defined crime as a "problems that we--the public--must solve" (Cavaliero 50). These films attempted to shift attention from t...
women will play in the film (The Graduate). Throughout the film, Nichols uses images, including an extensive series of montages, t...
that it has always been a colony of sorts. Its independence is illusive and while things have changed since 1997, it seems as if H...
This film review pertains to "Medicine Man," a 1992 film directed by John McTiernan. The writer gives an overview of the plot, whi...
In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at group development in "The Wizard of Oz". Four stages of development (forming, stormin...
In 6 pages this paper considers the Communist paranoia of the 1950s as depicted in this film's desire to prosecute Queeg during a ...
that has been crafted by man. Is Evelyn a beguiling sculptor who wants to mold Adam? There are other thematic elements in the wor...