YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :American Interpretations of Film Noir
Essays 1951 - 1980
Ultimately, however, Tre grows out of the necessity of needing the peer approval, begins to loathe the sound of gunfire and the...
approach the demon with great trepidation; although they both know they harbor the protection of God while on their mission to exo...
capitalists, wining and dining them all through Paris" (Nugent). In this we see the psychology of the seriousness of the Russia...
labor. Rather than being totally dependent on custom, these societies are held together primarily through mutual obligation betwee...
that adolescence is a time of life that skews peoples thinking. People the age of the Latin Kings have a terrifying illusion of im...
still essentially the same (HBO, 2007). In this series, therefore, it seems as though the image of Rome is one that is historical ...
the not-too-distant past; the guards on the battlements talk about how the previous King Hamlet "smote the sledded [Polacks] on th...
actually the perfect place for Americans to diverge from Eastern standards of rigid control as they sought a more morally ambiguou...
but be of a military mind and take such realities as par for the course in warfare. There may be others who used the war to make t...
her friends are at a diner of sorts, prior to the scene with her father, where all the kids hang out, she is laughed at by some yo...
are used to match up, such as a person getting out of a chair and then being shown form a different angle entering a room. The use...
they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. In The Birds, for instance, Melanie (Tippi Hedren) pursues Mitch (Rod Taylor), a m...
capacity of the individual to be expressed and to strengthen (Kirschenbaum, 2004, p. 116). In pursuing this line of thinking, Ro...
fell considerably short of avoiding stereotypes. For example, one review, that is typical of those produced by white critics, de...
Angeles finds out hes not real, he sets the rest of the film in motion. The questions are: what makes contemporary LA different f...
"realists," saying that what they "had in common was a desire to put cinema at the service of what ... [he] called a fundamental f...
seems to ring true" (Rosenstock, 2003). In the film, Nashs hallucinations take a visual form; his roommate, the man he believes re...
there is a certain allure to the way in which both Caine and O-Dog are portrayed. Cinema has since its inception been one of the...
and society would become even more fragmented than it already is. The question also arises: do we have the right to design our chi...
identity in relation to the various products of the national and international film and television industries, and the conditions ...
lightly and surely not a topic that one could conceive of as being used as the foundation of a comedy film that would actually rec...
commercial solar power projects and the company is undertaking international expansion as well as domestic expansion, two producti...
a doctor has to treat the whole person. Many studies have shown that patients resent it when doctors think of them simply as their...
different elements together to speak of ancient Aboriginal beliefs as well as a modern world. In As Long as the Rivers Flo...
(Stam 54). While these terms seem extreme, they convey the disappointment of the critic, or the general viewer, towards a film tha...
brash prostitute that flaunts her body and acts like a tough hooker. She is representative of women who sell their body and are al...
essentially wrong is when words appear on his computer screen-something that should not happen-and hes told to "follow the white r...
her supposed advice and is incredibly confused and upset by Celies advice. While Celie is sorry she is not in a position in her li...
because of his insistence on seeing everything from the Marxist perspective. But perhaps most important in a discussion of the fi...
at the other end looks miniscule (Holme, et al, 1972). This perception is based on visual assumptions, and these same assumptions ...