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daytime and snow is falling. "Charlie" (Charles Foster Kane) is playing outside, and the camera stops on him. He rolls a snowbal...

Altman dusted Mr. Marlowe off and brought him back, but his vision was very different from the earlier films. This Marlowe was a d...

own life. With Scottie in pursuit, Madeleine climbs a bell tower and apparently falls to her death; in reality, the Novak charact...

his five years at Biograph, Griffith took the raw elements of moviemaking as they had evolved up to that time -- lighting, continu...

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...

own terms, as an interpretation for a modern mass audience of a compelling story that gives shape to some of the deepest-rooted hu...

by todays standards because almost everything this film did, has been done over and over since. The paper, therefore, focuses on h...

early years of the century. George Albert Smith was the first to experiment with composing scenes from individual shots and camera...

Censorship of any form also has the effect of promoting elitism with regard to access to...

it is quite obviously going to have a lot of action throughout the film. However, too much action and the theme and characterizati...

lends great insight into the cinematic development of any film, especially the films of Hitchcock. In his movies, every shot has ...

politics. Gore Vidal wrote the screenplay, as well as the original Broadway play on which the movie is based. Vidal was friends wi...

the audience a close up of Othellos face and the audience is able to watch the doubt creep over Othellos face. Without saying anyt...

a women faced with the types of situations that they face in his plays. Twelfth Night examples this most concisely. The plot of T...

flag down a car, but no one stops. Desperate, she positions herself in the middle of the road while holding her arms outstretched ...

political insights that can be gleaned from any motion picture. The major differences between a journalistic approach to a movie c...

evolution of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment until its climactic attack on Fort Wagner, South Carolina of July 18, 1863, that resulted i...

identity. It is interesting to note that as he pulls on his "cloak of madness" that his true intellect becomes completely clouded ...

influence in the life of his father and a contributing factor in the suicide of his mother. Therefore, the reader comes to underst...

Indeed, by looking at the role of the women in the movie it is a reflection of the social conditions. There is a reflection of the...

given a task to perform and in doing so derives some sort of personal meaning from it. He may meet with a great series of misfortu...

1956 account of Vincent Van Gogh leaves that question open in his sympathetic portrayal of the artist" (TCM, 2003). When watchi...

are similar to Emilys. The characters discussed are Carrie, from the film "Carrie," Norman Bates from the film "Psycho," Eleanor f...

There are other types of westerns though as well. Some westerns depict life in Americas colonial times or may take place in terra...

(Rombes). Rafferty (1997) explains that the postmodern film is built on the film noir genre, but that a feature of postmodernism ...

human being he is. This comes as a shock to Oliverio who is as bad as the rest in assuming that prostitutes have no brains. Actu...

climactic as an invading force, but may take place in the acculturation of one culture from another. Even today many of the Wester...

are mediums that are used for both works of fiction or art or as devices to convey messages. However, artistic works of fiction al...

woman. She has the ability to ruin peoples lives. This gives her a great deal of power and it corrupts absolutely. As Judge Danfor...