YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :American Interpretations of Film Noir
Essays 391 - 420
facets of daily life, from job availability to health care and public education, but the list is growing, even to the long term af...
in Southern states, rather than Northern ones). But Roosevelt wasnt helping the South out of the goodness of his heart - h...
interrupted by the First, and especially the Second World War, when women in large numbers went to work for the first time. Many ...
Workers included men, women and children. The fact that children worked in incredibly dangerous situations and conditions furthe...
was apparently encouraged by leading minds of the time the work was completely his, indicating he was not working, so to speak, fo...
slang and colloquialisms (of the world) smack of American English (1), and that this is true even in England. He credits this fact...
depiction of explicit violence, rapes, flogging, etc. are "implied rather than shown," he seems to feel that this is an artistic a...
that "Tara is the whole story" as the plot revolves around Tara" (Schreibman, 2004, p. 41). The cinematography particularly unde...
film. More credits fall and slide into place, which foreshadows how Thornhill will later slide, nearly falling off the face of Lin...
who is also a preacher, and conspires to have him evicted from his congregation (Alleva, 1998). Enraged, Sonny takes his sons base...
romantic leads ("Screwball comedy"). Another feature of the screwball was its "reverse class snobbery," where to be poor was, so...
suggests, the filmmakers show him as very human and the script does a good job of dramatizing his imperfections as well as his rem...
entitled "House of Cards," the detectives and attorneys who are featured in the show similarly face what seems like a case of cert...
sixteen at the time, had stolen a neighbors car and his fathers guns. Harris gave Adams a lift when his vehicle ran out of gas. H...
mother, Elinor and Marianne (who are both young women) and younger sister Margaret, by beginning with the death of Henry Dashwood,...
decent amount of food and health. A Nazi band plays a bright military march that contrasts with the general shabbiness of the men ...
high over the legendary kiss between two women portrayed in Morocco. Society was simply not ready for an open acknowledgement of ...
of his story, as his capture is told in flashback, which emphasizes the personal tragedy of this event for him. Cinques story of h...
film taking on certain aspects of each others roles (Davis 80). Norika offers Tomi and Shukichi the respect that filial tradition ...
when Dash gets in trouble at school. His mother, Helen, is trying to talk to him and reason with him as they drive home, telling h...
a thicket of vines. This is a slow tracking show that is designed to five the audience the impression that they are seeing the poi...
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 ...
this key scene This movie is very relevant to todays issues as it causes the viewer to ponder the possible ramifications of cloni...
community in the mission is that the film portrays delays in the UN rescue mission stemming, at least partially, from faults in co...
and teachers alike (Willis). It is so out-of-control that only very strong action can tame it, and Clark provides just that action...
Montague explode into a deadly brawl, comes directly after the secret wedding between Romeo and Juliet, a time during which Romeo,...
neorealistic filmmakers, such as Rossellini, Vittorio DeSica and Cesare Zavattini, was to make a "moral statement," which forces ...
is Elektra King, unlike many of Bonds female enemies she is a rich young woman who has not become part of communist assassination ...
a term coined by feminist film critic and professor Barbara Creed. And the young girls conversion from angel to devil is more than...
background is disadvantaged. Marcus is the son of a bitter, abusive man who hates whites with every fiber of his being. Marcus is,...