Essays 481 - 510
directed by David Van Taylor and R.J. Cutler) is a documentary that follows the 1994 senate race between incumbent Senator Charles...
back to the film "The Birth of the Nation" which lead later to a movement of "race films" in the 1920s in the cinema. Mainstream U...
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....
This writer offers a detailed analysis of the Gotta Dance/Broadway Melody scene from the 1952 film Singin' In the Rain. These scen...
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...
(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...
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...
hard to draw oppositions between Travis and the Villain, Sport, as both are strong males who use forceful methods and generally th...
a group of radical New York women who aggressively sought change (Mainardi, 1969). Others chose to work patiently behind the scen...
In a paper consisting of five pages viewing audience passivity, activity, and impact of film realism is explored in terms of the p...
in keeping all of the people hostage while the funds are delivered. As mentioned, while it is not exactly a bank robbery film, it ...
that are easily overcome (Carey, 2000). This is a reflection of their inventive mind where it is the message and not the mechanics...
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...
The writer explores the plot, characters, setting and other elements of the 1942 classic film Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart...
In seven pages historical comparisons are made between the ways in which education is depicted in such films as Stand and Deliver,...
This paper considers how the Vietnam War was depicted in the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket and the 1988 film Good Morning, Vietnam i...
on the development of an exploitative tourist industry in Antigua. Achebe takes a very different perspective than Kincaid in tha...
In two pages this paper considers the subtle advertisements featured in the movies Back to the Future and E.T. There is no biblio...
opens just after her birth. Like all babies, she is crying. Lucinda, a rather stupid fairy, is intent on giving Ella a "gift" and ...
prove equally beneficial to businesses? Turcotte (1995) argues that it does and lists a variety of reasons. First of all, produc...
in economic terms, which depends largely on equating national cinema with a countrys domestic film industry. As this suggests, thi...