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he would have lent his considerable talents and boundless energy to the circus arena "because the circus is just that same mixture...

is no truly artistic use of the camera aside from working towards presenting us perhaps with the perspective of every day life. Th...

the hospital commissary where Rudy is studying for the bar exam. In the book, Kelly and Rudy have met previously. Rudy comments ...

evidence of the mixed critical reaction to this film, The Tampa Tribune critic Bob Ross disagrees, calling Big Fat Liar "a showbiz...

physical state that supports the distinguishing characteristics of film noir. Though the term "film noir" is French, the st...

a young girl who has only her inherent strength and her faith in God to help her survive. She is not especially intelligent, nor i...

libidinal desire and an internal examination, which tends to idealize self (Naiman 333). The one factor which unites the two symb...

MGM and Warner Brothers, it had to rely on a limited group of performers. One of the most appealing was a tall, gangly young acto...

1996, p. 3), which she accepts as a way of demonstrating her unconditional support of him and his intention to literally drink him...

true to the book? When Szpilman took pen to paper, he seemingly did so to relay the events of his life. Realizing that he had sur...

impostor of a friend. The heroines role, of course, is defined not only by her own inner convictions but also by those with whom ...

At the same time, there are two teachers in this work who are at odds. They are of course Forrester and Crawford. Forrester actua...

in 1980, Puerto Ricans organized a protest outside the theater in order to draw attention to the stereotypical images of Latinos ...

other supporting characters. In order to streamline the storytelling even more, the screen adaptation of A Clockwork Orange focus...

was put into prison and made to wear a scarlet leader to indicate that she was an adulteress. However, she never revealed who the ...

he is the one telling us of his past and his art. He tells us that one time he took some drug that was supposedly LSD but he think...

use the camera in the same way as an author uses words for both aesthetic and textural purposes. There are two particularly effec...

the message it conveys through incisive parody scary? Definitely. Barry Levinson is a veteran filmmaker who deftly employs a cyn...

safe with American restaurant choices, avoiding human contact, and the like. What is interesting about this story is tha...

foundation, upon which the subsequent action and characterizations are constructed. The mise-en-scene, which is featured in the o...

meant to symbolize the conditions of rural poverty in China and its openness and vastness is typical of Chinese art works which eq...

What it depicts is a picture of class prejudice and strained gender relationships. Saturday Night Sunday Morning is made ...

yet sympathetic short stories about ordinary people in Japanese life. Black Rain is considered a novel distinct from all other tex...

it was because of Kurosawa that the West became aware of Japanese movies and the unique views of and commentary on the world that ...

farmer, the oppressor. However, once the pigs were in place and the rules established, the farm animals found themselves under a...

84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...

taken with a bomb explosion on Christmas night in 1951 (Green, 1999). Ironically, this was also the night of their twenty-fifth w...

slaver and other American citizens acted so savagely at the time. The thinking is that if the United States tried to make amends ...

straight ahead and never acknowledged him, as women all about him were flirting and trying to get his attention. Naturally, it wa...

news item which it is likely that the vast majority of those in the audience will recognize. For example, recent news stories of c...