YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :American Interpretations of Film Noir
Essays 1621 - 1650
can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...
focus on what is perceived as "cool," what demonstrates the youth culture of resistance and creates a collective youth image. Hol...
When Julies friend Carrie leaves, but Julie lingers near the carousel, she and Billy are now along and can speak freely, if hesita...
of cinema designed to convey a specific message about a particular government. The director may choose to present this message in...
through the use of rolling chords that softly underscore the melody line in the treble, while octaves sound in the bass like dista...
In five pages this research paper considers religious and social identities in such films as Omar Gatlato, My Son the Fanatic, Fea...
was shot on location at Big Bear Lake and Yosemite Valley in California (Magills-1920). In an interview with film historian Kevin ...
sees a boy, Carls character as a child. She is dressed in a skirt and a top, very casually, as she would dress perhaps every day i...
Palme dOr and "best actress" for its star in 1999 (Dargis). The brothers generally share the tasks of both writing and directing...
manicured lawns and rose gardens. But for every blooming rose, there is a thorn lurking somewhere, and through the frequent imagi...
of modernism, with particular emphasis upon modernisms elitist social, political and economic structure of upper and lower classif...
quintessential young American suburban couple. They are living the ideal of 1950s economic prosperity and have been affectionatel...
boundaries of their acceptable group behavior. Forming is the stage of transition when the individuals become members of a team (C...
was cast as the Indian renegade Magua and a "less likely and more melodramatic Indian...is hard to imagine" (Magills-1920). Beery ...
ignited in their minds the light of an epiphany of understanding. A 2005 film which won wide acclaim, Crash, largely concerns ho...
sayin nothin" (Greatest Films). In these respects the audience is presented with men who possess power and immorally take advant...
has trouble controlling his body and does not begin to feel some returning sense of normality until he reaches the Acura dealershi...
and accumulating gambling debts he cannot possibly pay, the stage is set for a bloody confrontation when loan sharks come calling....
to the history of this powerfully great city, "Like the magic of a Russian fairy tale, St. Petersburg grew up with such fantastic ...
who attempted their own interpretations of the new application. All along, the original inventors knew of their potential finding...
is a misconception that can lead to problems in effective treatment Dr. Grohol believes that the best approach to treatment is to ...
escalate into World War III; if he did nothing or offered a weak response, the balance of power would clearly shift in the directi...
diegetic music and spoken/sung dialogue (Altman 297-298). This film genre has historically consisted of three evocative forms. F...
bound and determined to remain at the top of the monetary mountain; Tucker had little means to battle such inequitable market stru...
it is about a silent film star, Don Lockwood (played by Kelly) making the transition to sound pictures, a leap that not all popula...
climax of the film. The history of the cubicle is that these partitions were once heralded as an innovation and, today, they rem...
the content of these three films and place them in the context of the time considering the placement and the culture of the time. ...
is picked to become part of a US Ping-Pong team that plays in newly opened Communist China. After his discharge from the army, For...
experience, will readily be admitted with regard to such objects, as we remember to have once been altogether unknown to us..." (A...
notes that this is the first film crew to be given permission to film extensively at the UN and this gives the movie a feeling of ...