YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :American Interpretations of Film Noir
Essays 241 - 270
love for their children. However, it quickly becomes evident that there is trouble in this paradise, as Alice has a problem, as sh...
the nature of good and evil. In "Shadow," there are the two "Charlies," Uncle Charlie and his niece, Charlotte, who is known as "C...
The God of the Waning Year is associated with the sacrificial victim, whose death was believed necessary in order for the earth to...
in their lives when they are accustoming themselves to their impeding morality and the problems that come with old age. Catherine ...
enjoy his vacation but pushes aside that vacation to help his friend find retribution for the murder of his father. There are mome...
counterculture. Thus, by setting his film there (he filmed most of it on location), Lester was tapping into the one spot in the co...
above racism as he deals with his fathers death. White supremacy groups are, like many hateful groups, designed to control their...
was developing. But, when her husband was taken it was very hard for her to do nothing. She constantly ended up battling with the ...
(Benshoff and Griffin 132). A voiceover at the beginning of the film explains that because of this law, 1940s Chinatown was exclus...
Fitts (Chris Cooper) and his wife Barbara (Allison Janney). Fitts is even more emotional remote from his teenage son than Lester i...
1998). Derek is induced into joining a neo-Nazi movement by a older hate-monger played by Stacy Keach, who uses him as a neighbo...
but always something that is made in a four-party meaning-situation. An author... circulates a text... to an audience... whose pe...
incidence of fire breaking out during operations. In one of ABCs 20/20 episodes in 1998, the audience was cautioned that this ha...
or rouged (Brabazon, 2000, p. 98). At an awards ceremony, Davis was asked if she regretted not being the sort of movie star that w...
out of the selection" (Mikiro). They have never really been presented in film, showing how Natives were actually treated. One o...
brutalized in this event and the historical record shows that such a background would be historically accurate. Alienated against...
his five years at Biograph, Griffith took the raw elements of moviemaking as they had evolved up to that time -- lighting, continu...
clearly an attempt to redefine the modern cowboy for modern audiences by penetrating the invincible stereotype and revealing vulne...
as arrogant as they play up the fact they are noble and helping. In "The Ugly American" the authors note, "Hordes of United States...
human. Analyzing how Kubrick utilizes the Vietnam War as a means by which to expose violence, sexism and racism inherent to Ameri...
that mirrors such interpretation as brought about by the likes of popular culture, but it has also been quite successful at reachi...
screen is transitory at best. This movie asks the question: Is love merely going through the motions? Is beauty a trap? Are women ...
commit violence on anyone who is not white and protestant for any small reason. They will deliberately instigate events so as to d...
characterize Mexican tradition with the contemporary realism of complex family relationships. It is a cinematic postcard for fami...
more of art imitating life rather than the other way around. II. DISCUSSION The good old days of the colorful, romantic, s...
just not appeal to me....Yes, the movie does have that somewhat annoying trait of finding gut-wrenching humor in the very existenc...
of his life. He realizes that he has been living in an emotional vacuum, operating more as a robot than a human being, and he subs...
everyone reveals their powerful inner human side, and all comes out well in the end. Some may argue that this film depicts the ...
In eight pages this paper examines the shift from Orson Welles' perceptions of the American Dream to the subversion represented in...
character and Brian, however, are that Brian did not go through a stage where he involved himself in an affair to ease the transit...