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the ordinary man can screw those in authority then he should do it. One of the themes of Double Indemnity is shown in that it is...
aesthetic qualities of film noir. Even with the seductiveness of film noir, there is no dropping the history out of the debate. Th...
by Billy Wilder) is regarded as a classic example of film noir. The screenplay was adapted from a novel by James M. Cain by Raymon...
This research paper argues that director Quentin Tarantino has earned the perspective of being considered the auteur of his films,...
(Ralph Meeker) swerves to avoid her and runs off the road. Angry, he snarls, "You almost wrecked my car. Well? Get in!" (Dirks, 20...
Jerry and chase them through the hotel. The two hide under a table in a banquet room, only to discover that its the very room in ...
This 5 page paper discusses the viewpoints of French film critic and auteur Andre Bazin, and Russian director Sergei Eisenstein, o...
time our doomed hero...enters the house, he is mistaken for an undertaker... Outside the house is the swimming pool, at first fil...
would become his own trademark. This film, along with Obsession (1976), further developed De Palmas expressive use of cinematogra...
flag down a car, but no one stops. Desperate, she positions herself in the middle of the road while holding her arms outstretched ...
factor can be seen in both Sunset Boulevard and The Grifters. In Sunset, Joe Gillis is an out-of-work screenplay writer, who has t...
of America had suffered through more than 15 years of deprivation in one form or another. The Great Depression that began with th...
The auteur film techniques that characterize director Brian DePalma are considered in an examination of three of his films The Unt...
In five pages cinematic realism is compared and contrasted with film noir and surrealism with the focus being how in the film Ragi...
(Rombes). Rafferty (1997) explains that the postmodern film is built on the film noir genre, but that a feature of postmodernism ...
of the classic noir characteristics, it also thumbed its nose at the use of flashbacks. There were no voice-over narrations, with ...
In six pages a cinematic analysis of director Orson Welles' masterpiece Citizen Kane focuses upon the auteur's themes of capitalis...
In three pages this paper examines how family and work attitudes are represented in these films from the 1940s. Two sources are c...
the loss of ones own humanity(Cline). CHARACTER The triangle which emerges shows that there is not clear cut definition of good ...
girl, outcast, forlorn/as thrown her life away?"). But the poet is adamant that both parties, the man and the woman involved in th...
theorists and directors," note that "Hitchcocks films are deeply infused with anxiety, guilt, and existential angst, which they tr...
director was, quite literally, involved in every possible aspect of filmmaking, from raising money to hiring actors to helping to ...
in films today. The protagonist at the heart of Allens films is conflicted, neurotic, and a bumbler who usually manages, somehow, ...
they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. In The Birds, for instance, Melanie (Tippi Hedren) pursues Mitch (Rod Taylor), a m...
Valance (1962). The films beginning, breathtaking shots of Monument Valley (which the director would make repeated use of in subs...
"should be allowed to people who are considered superior human beings" (Alfred Hitchcocks "Rope"). Their definition of a "superio...
Symphony, to underscore elements of the theme and create contrast between the beauty of the classical music and the turbulence of ...
Hathaway. However, the Columbia claims department feels that Windsors death does not meet the criteria set forth in his policy cov...
the injustice that fate as inflicted upon him, as he has pursued the whale for years, coming close numerous times, but never actu...
before. Perhaps the iconic model here is Barbara Stanwyck luring Fred MacMurray to his doom in Double Indemnity. But there is an...