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parodies American consumer culture as evidenced by the hilarious scene when grilled cheese sandwiches and coleslaw are ordered for...

story, mise-en-scene, editing, and music, they collectively provide a common theme that speaks of the uniqueness of the feminist e...

their advertising campaigns asserted) more stars than there are in the heavens" (The Thin Man, 1995). Mordden (1988) asks, "What, ...

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...

(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...

Battle of Summit Springs, a reenactment that showcased Cody rescuing poor white damsel Indian captives in distress (Buscombe 286)....

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 ...

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...

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 ...

homeless man, or a prison inmate that has been arrested for some outrageous reason (Nissley 165). To illustrate how technology ha...

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...

depicts the aliens as beings who represent communism and the fear of being consumed by such "thought." The aliens in this film ...

sexuality and innocence that made superstardom a foregone conclusion. The cinematic experience is one in which the spectator (the...

rather than blatant stereotypes and also new films which spoof the previous stereotypes depicted which in effect erases cinematic ...

the story of twelve men (all stereotypical white and middle class) who by luck of the draw are brought together to deliberate the ...

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

(originally produced to be shown on PBS, but later received theatrical distribution), which starred Jane Alexander and focused upo...

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...

necromantic books are heavenly!" (Marlowe, Act 1, Li 40-50). Having made his decision to...

Republican senatorial candidate Chris Marshall (played by another Anglo, Ralph Fiennes). However, the true essence of the...

by the same name and so was translated to the silver screen. When this is done it is always a touchy business. Much of the motivat...

characterize Mexican tradition with the contemporary realism of complex family relationships. It is a cinematic postcard for fami...

box office. Welles was a product of his time and though he had tremendous creativity when it came to camera angles and budgets,...

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...

choice to live and abide by a certain set of unwritten expectations. The movie, Menage, directly challenges this idea. Powrie al...