YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Analysis of the 1986 Film Crossroads
Essays 481 - 510
and evil (technology). Blade Runner considers the city of Los Angeles in the year 2019 as "a fragmented Third World metropolis, m...
of the classic noir characteristics, it also thumbed its nose at the use of flashbacks. There were no voice-over narrations, with ...
Chaplin appeared, it was also a film that he made use of established paradigms. The tools used focus on content emotion had experi...
(Rombes). Rafferty (1997) explains that the postmodern film is built on the film noir genre, but that a feature of postmodernism ...
hard to draw oppositions between Travis and the Villain, Sport, as both are strong males who use forceful methods and generally th...
preface of her book, author Susan Brigden confesses to the broad nature of her book "New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudo...
Indeed, by looking at the role of the women in the movie it is a reflection of the social conditions. There is a reflection of the...
theater, they rolled a cannon ball down a wooden trough that then fell onto a large drumhead (Brunelle, 1999). In films, sound eff...
is completely unique and no two are alike. Therefore, what takes place is a kind of power struggle between the subject and the ob...
truth and the search for meaning in life. It was no longer a time for people to sleep and hide in their supposedly perfect illusor...
the Bond films (Antulov, 2004). They all seem to come together on some lonely little island, in the middle of nowhere, where th...
to tell what might appear on first glance to be a tired old story. First, there is the scintillating color that enables the film ...
human being he is. This comes as a shock to Oliverio who is as bad as the rest in assuming that prostitutes have no brains. Actu...
child who is the product of a failed system, this film seems to be saying. This film was a social commentary of sorts, which use...
understand and come to terms with life as they know it. Their father is a small town minister. Fly fishing seems to be their only ...
of human existence and the ways in which all human beings relate to stress, desire, and feelings of social and personal alienation...
the whole trilogy and uses a heavily layered story that involves high action sequences that are purely designed to attract those w...
exact) and the censorship had begun to relax. Other firsts included showing the two lovers naked on their wedding night. What one...
who comes to love Mag and he persuades her to marry him. This step, of course, completes Mags ostracism from white society. "She w...
religion is treated in Hollywood film; what forces of religion are considered "box office" (i.e., profitable); and what values do...
In three pages cinema is defined as 'writing in images' with differences between visual and written texts considered along with fi...
that wracks him with confusion (Nassal, 2002). "I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to acknowledge them. Li...
This paper addresses two films from each decade, beginning with the 1950s and continuing to the 1990s, and cites examples of racis...
where nothing detrimental occurs. In fact, Fast Company publishes ethical problems and lies that contributors send in on an annual...
the criminal activity that is taking place in this particular world. In Mildreds story we have a woman who has struggled all he...
and defined crime as a "problems that we--the public--must solve" (Cavaliero 50). These films attempted to shift attention from t...
Brittens music in this work, his primary identification is with deeply felt emotion that emanates from Owens poetry (Gomez 92). So...
women will play in the film (The Graduate). Throughout the film, Nichols uses images, including an extensive series of montages, t...
that it has always been a colony of sorts. Its independence is illusive and while things have changed since 1997, it seems as if H...
for Rita. The result is that not only does Frank tutor Rita, but Franks learns from Rita as well. Initially Rita is portrayed as...