YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Analysis of Three Classic Films From the Mid Twentieth Century
Essays 421 - 450
featured performer in the action. It visually depicts why Americans have answered the call to Go West since the pioneer days. In...
(Bacchus, 2007). The atomic age is the real villain here, because its radiation from the atomic testing in New Mexico that causes ...
an afternoon off and a swim. At the beach house, the first camera shot has Monte showing a closet full of bathing suits (Dirks)....
him: Father Barry (Karl Malden) is a tough priest who urges him to testify about what he knows; Johnnie Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) is ...
couple as well (Beah Richards and Roy Glenn) who arent happy that their son is considering marrying a white girl (Guess Whos Comin...
can be trusted; it is the ultimate in paranoid societies. By keeping its citizens fearful and mistrustful of each other, the gover...
is of excellent quality which is likely why it quickly became a classic, and one which others emulate. The ending is satisfying. S...
murder and he saves her-for another man (Ashlin). There are many other subplots in the film but the real story is of the love Quas...
by Billy Wilder) is regarded as a classic example of film noir. The screenplay was adapted from a novel by James M. Cain by Raymon...
for garnering information about the characters. Citizen Kane tops on all of the critics list is the new and dynamic use of the cam...
author points out, it would be impossible to spend as much time on each and every event and person mentioned in the Old Testament....
(Brackett & Wilder, 1950). Its the narrator, who is telling his story from beyond the grave. He says he wants to tell the real ...
The writer analyzes the 1942 classic film Casablanca, and argues that Rick Blaine, played by Humphrey Bogart, is the archetypal re...
him. A coach has been appointed the foreman but he is ill equipped to do the job he has been assigned. He resents wasting his tim...
these nonverbal cues that reveal more than the spoken dialogue. Alfred Hitchcocks reputation as the cinemas "Master of Suspense" ...
Williards mission is more severe then Marlows. While Marlow endeavors to bring Kurtz back to civilization, Williards mission is to...
This paper analyzes and reviews Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 classic film, North by Northwest. This two page paper has one source list...
This paper reviews and analyzes Martin Scorsese's 1980 classic film, Raging Bull. This two page paper has one source listed in th...
In five pages this 1941 classic film is examined in a consideration of Orson Welles' pioneering camera techniques and how they del...
Modern movie adaptations of classic novels are often hard to compare to the originals. This report discusses the film version of P...
In seven pages the ways in which Dickens' portrays childhood during the 19th century in his classic novels Great Expectations, Oli...
employed, whose most significant feature is to make the cut seem invisible. This is achieved through such devices as shot/reverse-...
any film based on a novel, there is much that is left out. And, interestingly enough, if it were up to anyone but Peter Jackson, t...
Furthermore, there are certain commonalties that run through the storylines of all epic writing. Examples of such include heroism,...
Luhrmann, "In Moulin Rouge, our ultimate Red Curtain gesture, music and song is the device that releases us from a naturalistic wo...
This five page paper compares this classic text to the film version by Paul Mazursky. Two sources are listed....
footsteps. This is demonstrated through the parallels between Huck and his father. In the part of the novel where Huck is abducted...
In five pages the reasons why this silent film classic should be considered the greatest of all melodramas are presented. There a...
This book review is on "The Century of the Detective," a classic text by Jurgen Thorwald. The writer presents an overall view of t...
This essay pertains to Pillow Talk (1959), which the writer describes as a classic sex comedy. To support this position, the write...