YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :American Interpretations of Film Noir
Essays 1921 - 1950
as the crime film genre became more sophisticated, the line between good/evil oftentimes became blurred. De Palma elected to take...
America, the concept of the antihero was revised to better reflect the attitudes of its citizens, and was defined to be an individ...
Laura Mulveys book, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, states "Film reflects, reveals and even plays on the straight, socially ...
and destiny must have been in the air. Certainly the idea of freedom and destiny, of purpose and potential are embodied in the cha...
dime to look like an model. In fact, in reality, it was not too long ago when it was discovered that models were selling their egg...
anthropological data on this tribe, it is impossible to say precisely where this assessment errs, but err it must, simply because ...
is an unfortunate event, but the event takes place not because the boy did not have a good mother, but because his mother was poor...
and behaviours, and seen as being in direct opposition to "femininity", which is equally constrained in its parameters, and define...
McGill spins a yarn about buried ill-gotten gains ($1.2 million) that he promises to share (Berardinelli). In their journey, the...
The assignment asks how the student relates to Annas problem. This writer/tutor imagines that it is quite easy for many women to r...
whom he has already fathered two children. Charles literally drags Helen to the front door and throws her out of the house (IMDb,...
is a virtual prisoner in her home (Copycat). She has withdrawn from both work and her life and the only contact she has with the o...
had erred so completely, even though he did so unknowingly, his only recourse was to take his own life. In Fight Club, then, th...
adventure" would seem to fit those films in which were not sure of the way the two leads feel about each other, but which hold out...
necessarily a love triangle, more like opportunists trying to manipulate each other. Both of the women attempt to seduce Flynn an...
killer bees were responsible for an attack in Tipton, Oklahoma. They are currently in six Southwestern states and they are dangero...
period scenes depicting Salinas and Soledad are reconstructed "in meticulous... detail" (Murray, 2003; Morsberger, 1993, p. 128). ...
formula that proposes to plot the poems value on a graph, Keating denounces it and commands his students to rip the offending page...
to know one another. The tactic worked and real friendships were formed between black and white team members. Of course, this did ...
as did the movie companies, which realiszed that the sweet manufacturer hadnt paid a cent" (Goodwin, 2002). With these realities p...
man who feels he must do everything himself. He is seeking the advice of others, and balancing that advice with perhaps gut feelin...
and thus stands as something that would attract audiences. Another reason why this novel would do well is in relationship to th...
and makes sense in our world (Fournier, 2005). Then, we check the narrative fidelity and compare it to whether or not it matches o...
employed, whose most significant feature is to make the cut seem invisible. This is achieved through such devices as shot/reverse-...
also shows how the Nation of Islam similarly rehabilitated other prostitutes and drug dealers during the time, "providing moral gu...
who are unfamiliar with the novels premise, it concerns the Dashwood family (a mother and her three young daughters) who have been...
Odysseus and Polyphemus (or Cyclops), the protagonist and antagonist in "The Odyssey." Like Odysseus, Todd is banished from his w...
desperation to find a job; losing her court cause in which Ed Masry represents her; the way she cajoles Masry into giving her a jo...
Goodman, who starred in four Coen films). Its dramatic KKK historical motif serves as a backdrop for what plays like a cartoon wi...
lesser creatures than men. In relationship to medical science, which involves Gilmans story a great deal, one author notes how, "I...