YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :American Interpretations of Film Noir
Essays 1831 - 1860
saved Thomass life) and to explore the meaning their culture has for each of them (Berardinelli, 1998). Its also notable, Berardi...
scene begins Laura Wingfield (Karen Allen) and her gentleman caller Jim OConnor (James Naughton) are looking at Lauras "glass mena...
evolves because the men in the film are misogynist or because it is something that is a part of Celie, is unclear. Still, it seems...
reporter investigating this issue and interviewing the various people who new Kane. From the newsreel, the audience learns that ...
how mans recollections "are motionless fragments marked by the surroundings" (La Jet?e); inasmuch as the storys underlying current...
of film. That would alert the readers to the fact that the criticism is biased. Finally, we have to wonder if opinions really ...
her bedroom wall and uses this to confide in. However, even at this very early level there are indication of the culture clash and...
daytime and snow is falling. "Charlie" (Charles Foster Kane) is playing outside, and the camera stops on him. He rolls a snowbal...
clear example of this conflict (Dinks, 2005). Ringo, who doesnt know Dallass background, seats her close to Lucy, which makes her...
people remember many strong disagreements with their first families. Battles during toddlerhood and adolescence are common and wil...
Hyde. Mr. Hyde is a hideous man who engages in murder and essentially allows his most animalistic, most primitive, nature to come ...
twentieth century, people are all chimeras, or mythic hybrids of machine and organism, or cyborgs (Haraway, 1991). In Western sci...
is, there is both free will and determinism. The idea that free will and determinism are one in the same is rare, but it seems ...
tight close-up (Dirks, 1996). There is a menacing "No Trespassing" sign outside an old gate, and after panning up over a chain-li...
Music Town. With $9,000 of store receipts in his pocket, Lucas goes to Atlantic City in hopes of parlaying that into enough money...
them" (Trbic, 2005). At the same time there was a very powerful visual style that was insistence on losing the "polite look of his...
an uneasy political alliance with Sinn Fein President Eamon De Valera, and this fueled the romantic rivalry between Collins and hi...
Tom, then, is the central male figure in the family. Their father has abandoned them some many years before, and so it has fallen...
only thing that is known is what is presently occurring. In other words, if something is out of ones eyesight and experience, it i...
some of the inmates to play poker with pornographic cards. He smuggles hookers in for several of the ward mates, and he threatens ...
light across a coffee table may be the only thing that signals that the scene takes place in someones living room. Throughout th...
portrays? Are the facts sacrificed in the name of entertainment? Seabiscuit is not only the story of a horse but also of the rea...
were quite memorable. Jehan is an evil man who desires Esmerelda, like most of the men in the story, and Esmerelda is a very helpl...
Battle of Summit Springs, a reenactment that showcased Cody rescuing poor white damsel Indian captives in distress (Buscombe 286)....
have readily characterized their discipline by a progression of determining steps beginning with the development of a sociological...
In the epic, the threat is supernatural; in the film, the menace is recast as a vicious, cannibalistic tribe who dress in animal s...
course, 28 days later, when a bicycle courier named Jim (Cillian Murphy) awakens from a coma and finds himself in an abandoned hos...
the place and burns it to the ground (Albright, 2003). Ambiguity Is the Point One of the reasons why the film remains controvers...
to do is wait and persist and she will eventually love him. While Tod is also not successful in his goal, he realizes that the cul...
again and make everyone else in my life think you are wonderful and Im a shmuck. But Im not a shmuck Bob, and Im not going to let...