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Essays 661 - 690
sexuality and innocence that made superstardom a foregone conclusion. The cinematic experience is one in which the spectator (the...
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...
surprise twist at the end - the camera, representing the subjective perspective of the audience, is "run over" by a car rather tha...
harrowing to watch, with Nash suffering several climactic breakdowns and brief moments of lucidity and temporary remission. The u...
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...
Battle of Summit Springs, a reenactment that showcased Cody rescuing poor white damsel Indian captives in distress (Buscombe 286)....
homeless man, or a prison inmate that has been arrested for some outrageous reason (Nissley 165). To illustrate how technology ha...
saved Thomass life) and to explore the meaning their culture has for each of them (Berardinelli, 1998). Its also notable, Berardi...
reporter investigating this issue and interviewing the various people who new Kane. From the newsreel, the audience learns that ...
decision for Olivier to choose to embark on this project. At the age of forty, Olivier thought he was too old to play the Danish p...
brought his version of the play forward 500 years into the 1930s. Both McKellen and director Richard Loncraine felt that Richard ...
as reflecting reality depicting unusual events or situations, but presenting real conflicts and issues that reflect this history o...
Even today, if we look at the extent to which Chinese cultural ideology has made its way to the West via art and...
film La Maternelle (The Nursery School) begins with the story of Rose, who has been forced by the men in her life - her fathers ba...
would become his own trademark. This film, along with Obsession (1976), further developed De Palmas expressive use of cinematogra...
provides evidence of repressed female sexuality, and reveals how the traditional patriarchy was threatened as a result of these ch...
culture. "Out of Africa", for example, is a love story. It is also a story of contrasts. A Danish woman lands in the middle of K...
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...
was shot on location at Big Bear Lake and Yosemite Valley in California (Magills-1920). In an interview with film historian Kevin ...
Palme dOr and "best actress" for its star in 1999 (Dargis). The brothers generally share the tasks of both writing and directing...
he would have lent his considerable talents and boundless energy to the circus arena "because the circus is just that same mixture...
admit he hasnt, but soon remedies that by accompanying Kirby and his men on a mission to defend their firebase from the Vietcong s...
characterize Mexican tradition with the contemporary realism of complex family relationships. It is a cinematic postcard for fami...
to hear the sound of my own voice, he says at one point, and indeed he does such a smooth and natural job of translation that the ...
ethnology, he developed an affinity for film which he would then continue to spend his life committed to (Biography of Jean-Luc Go...
a good impression on his prospective in-laws, Armand and Albert pretend to be straight (Bawer). Instead of going for the easy lau...
necromantic books are heavenly!" (Marlowe, Act 1, Li 40-50). Having made his decision to...
the story of twelve men (all stereotypical white and middle class) who by luck of the draw are brought together to deliberate the ...
rather than blatant stereotypes and also new films which spoof the previous stereotypes depicted which in effect erases cinematic ...