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names this "one of the great recent crime movies" (Ebert, 2002). Devil in a Blue Dress references a theme, subject and time perio...
her husband, and knew herself to be near death. Her digestive system had been destroyed by the disease, and, in intense pain and u...
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 ...
theater, they rolled a cannon ball down a wooden trough that then fell onto a large drumhead (Brunelle, 1999). In films, sound eff...
the Bond films (Antulov, 2004). They all seem to come together on some lonely little island, in the middle of nowhere, where th...
truth and the search for meaning in life. It was no longer a time for people to sleep and hide in their supposedly perfect illusor...
to tell what might appear on first glance to be a tired old story. First, there is the scintillating color that enables the film ...
of human existence and the ways in which all human beings relate to stress, desire, and feelings of social and personal alienation...
of Harper Lees novel To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Robert Mulligan, is a cinema classic that continues to move each new gener...
who also co-wrote the screenplay with Jim Taylor, is a comedy that satires an election for student government president, which is ...
in 1992 and directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky for New Video Group. It concerns the fate of Delbert Ward, one of four ba...
film Hero, released in 2002 and costing $30 million to produce, is the most expensive film in the history of the Chinese film indu...
particularly disturbing because, as Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivores Dilemma, indicates in the film, eating such a narrowly...
to achieve dramatic effect. In Shaaras book, Armistead simply comments to Longstreet that he would like to see his old friend one ...
over the credits, signifying that Judah has recovered from his burden of guilt and is prepared to get on with and enjoy his life (...
instance), and externally (how the cinematic techniques used communicate with one another, and with the audience, to convey some t...
and he refuses to do so. Mary Kate abides by her brothers wishes, which confuses and frustrates Sean. The plot complications tha...
single, concise action, one cannot help but recall the inherent ambiguity and independence of Camus Mersault, the protagonist of "...
high over the legendary kiss between two women portrayed in Morocco. Society was simply not ready for an open acknowledgement of ...
of his story, as his capture is told in flashback, which emphasizes the personal tragedy of this event for him. Cinques story of h...
decent amount of food and health. A Nazi band plays a bright military march that contrasts with the general shabbiness of the men ...
when Dash gets in trouble at school. His mother, Helen, is trying to talk to him and reason with him as they drive home, telling h...
a thicket of vines. This is a slow tracking show that is designed to five the audience the impression that they are seeing the poi...
lens but by the filmmakers imagination and based upon the unique New York experiences contained within a particular neighborhood e...
the nonfiction novel, he appears nowhere in the text, despite the fact that all of the information contained within is based on hi...
This paper addresses two films from each decade, beginning with the 1950s and continuing to the 1990s, and cites examples of racis...
where nothing detrimental occurs. In fact, Fast Company publishes ethical problems and lies that contributors send in on an annual...