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child who is the product of a failed system, this film seems to be saying. This film was a social commentary of sorts, which use...

only way to do things, or that individuality is just as important as prosperity, then the whole structure falls apart. The secret ...

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

specifically address black independent filmmaking. Diawara (2001) highlights the tendency of the mainstream to consistently borro...

that are easily overcome (Carey, 2000). This is a reflection of their inventive mind where it is the message and not the mechanics...

in keeping all of the people hostage while the funds are delivered. As mentioned, while it is not exactly a bank robbery film, it ...

Weisman, in an article featured in The New York Times, described Indian cinema as "an all purpose dream engine delivering gaudy th...

physical state that supports the distinguishing characteristics of film noir. Though the term "film noir" is French, the st...

1996, p. 3), which she accepts as a way of demonstrating her unconditional support of him and his intention to literally drink him...

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...

preface of her book, author Susan Brigden confesses to the broad nature of her book "New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudo...

hard to draw oppositions between Travis and the Villain, Sport, as both are strong males who use forceful methods and generally th...

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

evidence of the mixed critical reaction to this film, The Tampa Tribune critic Bob Ross disagrees, calling Big Fat Liar "a showbiz...

and evil (technology). Blade Runner considers the city of Los Angeles in the year 2019 as "a fragmented Third World metropolis, m...

Chaplin appeared, it was also a film that he made use of established paradigms. The tools used focus on content emotion had experi...

of the classic noir characteristics, it also thumbed its nose at the use of flashbacks. There were no voice-over narrations, with ...

which pokes fun at what might otherwise be regarded as a very unfunny subject, such as death. There is also the romantic comedy, ...

Promised Land," which was a national best seller in 1912, looks at key issues in the immigrant experience. As the student reads t...

is Elektra King, unlike many of Bonds female enemies she is a rich young woman who has not become part of communist assassination ...

Montague explode into a deadly brawl, comes directly after the secret wedding between Romeo and Juliet, a time during which Romeo,...

neorealistic filmmakers, such as Rossellini, Vittorio DeSica and Cesare Zavattini, was to make a "moral statement," which forces ...

her husband, and knew herself to be near death. Her digestive system had been destroyed by the disease, and, in intense pain and u...

names this "one of the great recent crime movies" (Ebert, 2002). Devil in a Blue Dress references a theme, subject and time perio...

it was because of Kurosawa that the West became aware of Japanese movies and the unique views of and commentary on the world that ...

back to the film "The Birth of the Nation" which lead later to a movement of "race films" in the 1920s in the cinema. Mainstream U...

way for actresses who were interested not simply in portraying stylish roles but were also interested in exploring characters of s...

Belafonte, and the two eventually become sympathetic toward each other. The movie portrays a culture which is seemingly opposite t...

other horror films. For example, in many subtle ways there is the age old suspense that we often saw in Hitchcock films as subtle ...

a group of radical New York women who aggressively sought change (Mainardi, 1969). Others chose to work patiently behind the scen...