Essays 421 - 450
In five pages five scenes from the play are presented in an argument that Claudius is in fact a sympathetic character in William S...
In thirteen pages Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 suspense masterpiece is analyzed in terms of effect, form, and function with a cinematic...
In nine pages this paper examines how Victorian theater actress Helena Faucit, science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, and Shakespear...
skitters to the old event with a new trigger. It does not matter that it is a new person, a new time, or a new love. The memory...
In six pages critical cinematic theory is applied to director John Boorman's film released in 1972 and discusses how theme is depi...
century after the turning point events of the 1960s, it is time to give the black women of the civil rights movement the credit an...
who had fled Europe--to create that future. Almost overnight, then, New York became the sole remaining outpost of the modernist mo...
before he sees the Ghost and receives his deadly mission. When the Ghost appears to him, Hamlet voices his apprehension as to th...
as an imitation of reality, "it holds a mirror up to nature" (Durant, 1961, p. 59). Aristotle notes that human beings find pleasur...
The cuts are approximately equal in length. Finally Thornhill asks if hes supposed to meet someone and the stranger replies...
as the crime film genre became more sophisticated, the line between good/evil oftentimes became blurred. De Palma elected to take...
mere lust, but sacred and precious. Therefore, he constructed a poetic dialogue that would "provide this decisive encounter with ...
aided in this aspect of the film by production designer Henry Bumstead, who "carried the masters color ideas out in ingenious desi...
The scene opens with Menelaus and the Attendant coming on stage. The Attendant sees Agamemnon approaching and says to Menelaus, "M...
the mid-80s, and concentrates on the chaotic Seventies, in which martial law was firmly in place. Perhaps the books most memorabl...
to tell what might appear on first glance to be a tired old story. First, there is the scintillating color that enables the film ...
This paper addresses common questions in the field of forensic evidence. The author covers polygraphs, fingerprints, DNA typing, ...
To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was ...
influential example of neo-realism in the holistic sense and then examine this with reference to particular scenes and frames in t...
evolution of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment until its climactic attack on Fort Wagner, South Carolina of July 18, 1863, that resulted i...
the time, that of a Bond girl. With that in mind we see that Hollywood needed to start truly paying attention to her presence, and...
pronounced adornment" (Hardy NA). We note she has innocent eyes, that immediately seem to spell disaster and we also perhaps note ...
who is so conditioned by the state that he is unable to survive in the real world. Finally, a violent past which he is unable to c...
an outsider, a theme which is emphasized in most critical analyses of the play, Othellos identity as the Moor in Venice was "not a...
the film to perfection. He suggested that the German people should take matters into their own hands and reclaim their country by ...
he would have lent his considerable talents and boundless energy to the circus arena "because the circus is just that same mixture...
tidbits that enabled the readers to journey back in time. The film alters this setting somewhat with a present-day Evelyn Couch s...
by the same name and so was translated to the silver screen. When this is done it is always a touchy business. Much of the motivat...
enter the hovel, stating that he will pray and then sleep. Lear then prays for all the people who do not have shelter on this nigh...
be suspects after many years of lingering doubt. Still, the timing is curious as Christmas Eve is a time that is usually associate...