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become a renegade, a murderer, and set himself up as a sort of king over the natives of the region. Conrad makes the exploitation...
is a misconception that can lead to problems in effective treatment Dr. Grohol believes that the best approach to treatment is to ...
children. Josie gets the job, but from the first day, she is subjected to snide sexual references. The women working at the mine ...
However, Condon never allows the characterization to slip from deliberate parody into stereotyping; his characters are complex and...
of modernism, with particular emphasis upon modernisms elitist social, political and economic structure of upper and lower classif...
constant and effective contrast made between Eliane, who represents the beauty of the country as seen by its colonizers, and Camil...
in many works, the focus of attention on the many true stories he takes on is related to childhood friendship that seemingly last ...
provides evidence of repressed female sexuality, and reveals how the traditional patriarchy was threatened as a result of these ch...
there are individuals who either remember it or have hand one reason or another to study it. Americans themselves, in fact, held ...
in "Once Upon a Time in America", is known for his portrayal of violent characters. Noodles, the character De Niro portrays in "O...
towards the end of World War II. In Biloxi, Mississippi, Eugene faces "authority and danger, anti-Semitism and assimilation" (Henr...
has trouble controlling his body and does not begin to feel some returning sense of normality until he reaches the Acura dealershi...
sayin nothin" (Greatest Films). In these respects the audience is presented with men who possess power and immorally take advant...
and accumulating gambling debts he cannot possibly pay, the stage is set for a bloody confrontation when loan sharks come calling....
of cinema designed to convey a specific message about a particular government. The director may choose to present this message in...
through the use of rolling chords that softly underscore the melody line in the treble, while octaves sound in the bass like dista...
In five pages this research paper considers religious and social identities in such films as Omar Gatlato, My Son the Fanatic, Fea...
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...
manicured lawns and rose gardens. But for every blooming rose, there is a thorn lurking somewhere, and through the frequent imagi...
has arranged for her so she can rejoin her husband and live in exile. Upon seeing what he believes to be the dead Juliet, Romeo s...
was cast as the Indian renegade Magua and a "less likely and more melodramatic Indian...is hard to imagine" (Magills-1920). Beery ...
ignited in their minds the light of an epiphany of understanding. A 2005 film which won wide acclaim, Crash, largely concerns ho...
closer together and provide cohesiveness to the group through a single-mindedness of purpose (Gehring 93). At no time does the gr...
diegetic music and spoken/sung dialogue (Altman 297-298). This film genre has historically consisted of three evocative forms. F...
is no "true print" of the film, but it stands as a historical film nonetheless (Lang, 1994; 37). "The film was based on former No...
who attempted their own interpretations of the new application. All along, the original inventors knew of their potential finding...
bound and determined to remain at the top of the monetary mountain; Tucker had little means to battle such inequitable market stru...
it is about a silent film star, Don Lockwood (played by Kelly) making the transition to sound pictures, a leap that not all popula...
the content of these three films and place them in the context of the time considering the placement and the culture of the time. ...