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Essays 541 - 570
In five pages this paper discusses how these films reflect expansionism, individualism, success, economic wealth, the 'American Dr...
In eight pages this paper discusses the problems filmmaker Stanley Kubrick struggled with while making his big screen adaptation o...
In eight pages this paper examines innovative marketing strategies for films with The Blair Witch Project as a recent example of a...
In eleven pages this paper discusses how deviance is cinematically depicted in such films as Leaving Las Vegas and One Flew Over t...
Battle of Summit Springs, a reenactment that showcased Cody rescuing poor white damsel Indian captives in distress (Buscombe 286)....
tight close-up (Dirks, 1996). There is a menacing "No Trespassing" sign outside an old gate, and after panning up over a chain-li...
Music Town. With $9,000 of store receipts in his pocket, Lucas goes to Atlantic City in hopes of parlaying that into enough money...
harrowing to watch, with Nash suffering several climactic breakdowns and brief moments of lucidity and temporary remission. The u...
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...
sexuality and innocence that made superstardom a foregone conclusion. The cinematic experience is one in which the spectator (the...
(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...
depicts the aliens as beings who represent communism and the fear of being consumed by such "thought." The aliens in this film ...
surprise twist at the end - the camera, representing the subjective perspective of the audience, is "run over" by a car rather tha...
parodies American consumer culture as evidenced by the hilarious scene when grilled cheese sandwiches and coleslaw are ordered for...
narrative style. With Sleepless there is a sense of desperation as lives are changing. In LAvventura there is a real desperate sit...
to tell what might appear on first glance to be a tired old story. First, there is the scintillating color that enables the film ...
their advertising campaigns asserted) more stars than there are in the heavens" (The Thin Man, 1995). Mordden (1988) asks, "What, ...
yield a very different analysis. In the film, Jake is unemployed. The family lives off the dole but it seems that whatever money...
the long view where we can see the entire dance. This is often seen in present day films about dance where it seems the performers...
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...
part of the scene while also seeing the entire dance routine. In many films of dancing the direction may not be on the long sho...
story, mise-en-scene, editing, and music, they collectively provide a common theme that speaks of the uniqueness of the feminist e...
of confines. The overall metaphor of this movie is the symbol of the rose. At one point a neighbor asks how the roses are grown s...
box office. Welles was a product of his time and though he had tremendous creativity when it came to camera angles and budgets,...
characterize Mexican tradition with the contemporary realism of complex family relationships. It is a cinematic postcard for fami...
admit he hasnt, but soon remedies that by accompanying Kirby and his men on a mission to defend their firebase from the Vietcong s...
he would have lent his considerable talents and boundless energy to the circus arena "because the circus is just that same mixture...
that the alien is given a sexual orientation. In the second movie of this series the alien is a Queen whose main goal (besides des...
possible, including the attainment of the American Dream. His childhood is in sharp contrast to that of his lifelong friend, Jenn...