YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :American Interpretations of Film Noir
Essays 1471 - 1500
main character, but is predominantly depicted as a sympathetic witness to a way of life that he senses will soon be lost forever. ...
to computers to cell phones is digital in nature, that is, totally a product of math; yet, few of us understand how math makes the...
their love becomes the stuff of legend in their neighborhood (Legend of Paul and Paula). West German films/The Marriage of Maria...
2006, p.34). Conversely, if one imagines their day as something that will be wonderful, good things are more likely to occur. It m...
act, is subject to debate. Any politician who has an emotional outburst, or simply shows enthusiasm, seems to violate normative be...
was popular during the 1970s (Dudley, 1984). This states that the nature of the cinema is to be ideological in its representations...
murder and he saves her-for another man (Ashlin). There are many other subplots in the film but the real story is of the love Quas...
for anything-they cant save, they cant take any vacations, they can barely manage to pay their bills. They cannot afford to go to ...
to come to terms with life when it seems to have spun out of control. Eric Snider says its a film about "people who fear loneline...
whereby blockbuster movies capitalize upon it. Clearly, there is a tangible essence to the manner by which Melvin Goes to D...
their jobs back, women were suddenly deemed weak and incapable of doing "mens jobs" and so were pushed out of the labor force and ...
feel or to be aware of the world and ones connection to it as real"; this allows us to form our identity and relate to others (Gol...
movement that reacts to modern art and literature; postmodernists suggest that truth is no longer verifiable, and that new art for...
Cuban Missile Crisis the following year. The film implies that JFK made a deal with Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev, in which h...
aided in this aspect of the film by production designer Henry Bumstead, who "carried the masters color ideas out in ingenious desi...
returns. If this plotline sounds familiar to modern audiences, it should. Sundiata is often referred to as the Lion King. Disneys ...
problems and the pollution of the towns water table by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E). Brockovich instinctively felt that the case ...
except that they happen to live very close to one another in the same building and they are thrown together for a simple reason, t...
humans cannot readily draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of ...
only when the heart is wakened in this picture that buildings are destroyed and the human element is reintroduced. A later film ...
up going over a cliff in his rickshaw. At the bottom of the cliff, however, he finds three camels, apparently having ended up th...
with pleasure, which is why they "love the life of enjoyment" (Aristotle). Considering this stance, the next development in the m...
won in 1998. While "Geris Game" was clearly an innovative technical film, it did not win this award based on this aspect alone. Wh...
the mother is the only person that could be a witness against her ex husband. Both she and Kimble are aware of the danger, but Kim...
women and have no true knowledge of what life is like in a society with two sexes. These men fall in love, and eventually are kick...
Naucratis in Egypt there dwell one of the old gods of the country, the god to whom the bird called Ibis is sacred, his own name be...
times appears to be a prune. In one memorable scene, as the plot thickens, George is standing in the middle of a waving...
was basically antiwar in its theme. FIRST SEASON The film was not much of a success, but the concept for the film intrigued those...
of film by offering film at a lower price. Further Fuji became the official film of the 1984 Summer Olympics which took place in ...
toward the Rolls Royce. He probably thought it was corny" (Chandler, 1992, p. 4). We learn a lot about Marlowe from what he says...