YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Analysis of the Film Imitation of Life
Essays 1771 - 1800
military prestige and marriage to a well-to-do Caucasian, was little more than a savage who was ultimately enslaved by primal pass...
large urban environment, humanity is even more vulnerable to the cruel and capricious winds of fate than at any other time in hist...
(like Mel Gibson in the 1991 film) has no interest in playing him as an apologetic mope" (Ebert). In the written play there is a...
was no evidence of peeling paint on anything. Schools like Welton do exist in the United States. They are generally very clos...
as the crime film genre became more sophisticated, the line between good/evil oftentimes became blurred. De Palma elected to take...
this when Edward Nortons character slowly develops the alter ego played by Brad Pitt. Edward Nortons character wants nothing to do...
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...
(Benshoff and Griffin 132). A voiceover at the beginning of the film explains that because of this law, 1940s Chinatown was exclus...
legacy of screwball comedy. Both Ninotchka and Roman Holiday encompass themes that are more sophisticated than the typical screwb...
own terms, as an interpretation for a modern mass audience of a compelling story that gives shape to some of the deepest-rooted hu...
style, but did not really have the time to focus on its development until he suffered from a back injury and spent numerous months...
hide those Jews that were being persecuted by Hitlers war machine. He used his unsuccessful businesses as fronts to move various f...
by todays standards because almost everything this film did, has been done over and over since. The paper, therefore, focuses on h...
the face of it, to go against the utilitarian principle of the "greatest good of the greatest number", taking a more long-term vie...
the most louche, laidback villains in screen history" (Brooke, 2005, PG) emphasises Thornhills naivety as far as espionage and mur...
What is generally missed, according to Lyden, is that regardless of cinematic content, audiences receive all the messages of a fil...
harrowing to watch, with Nash suffering several climactic breakdowns and brief moments of lucidity and temporary remission. The u...
of a horror film, and the crucifixion of Jesus is without question one of the most horrific episodes in world history. There are ...
darkies" (Leab 99). Focusing on the Atlanta plantation of Gerald and Ellen OHara, Gone With the Wind represented life for souther...
contemplate how individual and cultural identities are constructed in the first place. In the opinion of Benedict Anderson, autho...
considered a right" (230). In four French films in particular, Arnaud Desplechins Comment Je Me Suis Disput?... (Ma Vie Sexuelle)...
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,...
to do is wait and persist and she will eventually love him. While Tod is also not successful in his goal, he realizes that the cul...
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...