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In ten pages existentialism is examined in a consideration of the philosophies of Nietzsche, Camus, and Sartre and then applies th...
In 5 pages this paper examines the cinematic style of director Quentin Tarantino in this thematic analysis of the controversial fi...
this tension and anxiety. As Fried (1995) illustrates "Pulp Fiction is not simply a sensational stylistic exercise without content...
In three pages this report analyzes the postmodern characteristics of these 1992 and 1994 films by director Quentin Tarantino. Th...
We note he grows to be a gregarious individual who seems driven to succeed in unusual ways, always seeking some adventure and some...
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...
truths binding on everyone. Postmodernism is most often characterized by power struggles and a lack of objective reality, boundari...
pick of meat as well as salad ingredients that can also run up a bill. Food is expensive and can be considered as something that e...
the inherent flexibility of a non-sequential narrative, because things get too confusing. Tarantino apparently decided to let it b...
of sound in film can be understood by watching a scene from a film without the sound track. With no sound, the images, no matter h...
works for her husband, and hes supposed to show her a good time and do what she wants, so shut up and dance because she wants that...
The ongoing debate onf movie violence is examined from both sides in five pages with Pulp Fiction and Natural Born Killers among t...
In twelve pages this paper analyzes postmodern cinema's characteristic elements in a consideration of such films as Pulp Fiction, ...
This paper consists of five pages and examines the controversies surrounding this film director, producer, writer, and actors uses...
In five pages this paper discusses how Quentin Tarantino addresses the human condition in his filmmaking style and in the violent ...
time Travolta began doing the leaps and pirouettes on the flashing dance floor in Saturday Night Fever, he was already a veteran a...
the constraints which the box-office places upon both screenwriters and directors is a major influence on American film, whereas t...
(Rombes). Rafferty (1997) explains that the postmodern film is built on the film noir genre, but that a feature of postmodernism ...
The Blair Witch Project The Blair Witch Project fits perfectly with the popular conception of what constitutes an independent fil...
to each other only by code names ("Mr. Pink," "Mr. White", etc.). They relate to each other mainly by wisecracks ("Do I have to be...
America, and the finicky laws that change over time, it is hard to know fact from fiction. For example, was cocaine ever legal? Wa...
movement, and the technical developments of the 1980s" (Neuromancer, William Gibson). The word "neuromancer" is a compound: "neuro...
Herodotus (Vidal). Herodotus was an actual historical figure, known as both the "father of history" and the "father of lies." Here...
In eight pages this paper examines the literary departure of James Joyce in this 1916 example of modernist fiction....
sees the cultural upheavals which have befallen the mainland in its over forty years under socialism as a backdrop, not a major pl...
PBS, tells the story of this despicable episode in the history of American jurisprudence. The saga of the Massie Affair begins in ...
on the nature of the fourth dimension, i.e., time, as well as the astronomical features and evolutionary development that he obser...
literature, for he is only telling his story. For example, he states such things as "I began thinking about my friend the other da...
possible, but have not been invented yet. This will sound strange, because science itself is just getting started, but really, all...
machine, and cannot understand why his mother doesnt really seem to love him. Among the science fiction elements are the followi...