YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Birth of a Nation Cinematic History
Essays 451 - 480
own terms, as an interpretation for a modern mass audience of a compelling story that gives shape to some of the deepest-rooted hu...
Altman dusted Mr. Marlowe off and brought him back, but his vision was very different from the earlier films. This Marlowe was a d...
who are unfamiliar with the novels premise, it concerns the Dashwood family (a mother and her three young daughters) who have been...
The cuts are approximately equal in length. Finally Thornhill asks if hes supposed to meet someone and the stranger replies...
influence in the life of his father and a contributing factor in the suicide of his mother. Therefore, the reader comes to underst...
and their interactions clearly let us know that the two are very good friends. In fact, we quickly see that Esteban is perhaps the...
his five years at Biograph, Griffith took the raw elements of moviemaking as they had evolved up to that time -- lighting, continu...
own life. With Scottie in pursuit, Madeleine climbs a bell tower and apparently falls to her death; in reality, the Novak charact...
daytime and snow is falling. "Charlie" (Charles Foster Kane) is playing outside, and the camera stops on him. He rolls a snowbal...
notes that this is the first film crew to be given permission to film extensively at the UN and this gives the movie a feeling of ...
(Manvell 37). While Pudovkin would occasionally use non-professional actors in the name of realism, he preferred relying on profe...
as arrogant as they play up the fact they are noble and helping. In "The Ugly American" the authors note, "Hordes of United States...
has come forth with a version that wholly eclipses the standard. What can easily be argued is the fact that Branaghs film version...
foul he is that we suffer a twinge of guilt for siding with him so readily. But we tend to do it anyway. The "New York Times" rev...
director was, quite literally, involved in every possible aspect of filmmaking, from raising money to hiring actors to helping to ...
crashes several hours flying time from a scientific research station in the Arctic. An Air Force crew is ordered to go and pick up...
indication that the audience has that Travis is not quite normal, that is, that his combat experience has left him with mental sca...
children. Josie gets the job, but from the first day, she is subjected to snide sexual references. The women working at the mine ...
and accumulating gambling debts he cannot possibly pay, the stage is set for a bloody confrontation when loan sharks come calling....
to the history of this powerfully great city, "Like the magic of a Russian fairy tale, St. Petersburg grew up with such fantastic ...
of hope and a future for the people, not a controlled government that decimates the people. Without really having been in ...
to computers to cell phones is digital in nature, that is, totally a product of math; yet, few of us understand how math makes the...
mans face. The fish slips from his fingers and manages to make it over the side. The perspective follows the fish. The fish turn...
decent amount of food and health. A Nazi band plays a bright military march that contrasts with the general shabbiness of the men ...
in structuralist models, researchers often examine the underlying structures which occur beneath the actions or speech of the indi...
use the camera in the same way as an author uses words for both aesthetic and textural purposes. There are two particularly effec...
in his 30s. Coppola, born in 1939 in Detroit, Michigan to an actress mother (Italia) and musician father (Carmine) grew up in Quee...
attitude which pervades most of her works, even today, it can be stated. This is because feminism was asking women to redefine the...
woman. She has the ability to ruin peoples lives. This gives her a great deal of power and it corrupts absolutely. As Judge Danfor...
of tape and combines them to emphasize their meaning. It is a method by which through two unrelated shots we may create a third an...