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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...

(Ralph Meeker) swerves to avoid her and runs off the road. Angry, he snarls, "You almost wrecked my car. Well? Get in!" (Dirks, 20...

- is what was considered quite unique for the figuratively dark production. Adding literal darkness to MacBeth was the directors ...

(Brackett & Wilder, 1950). Its the narrator, who is telling his story from beyond the grave. He says he wants to tell the real ...

time our doomed hero...enters the house, he is mistaken for an undertaker... Outside the house is the swimming pool, at first fil...

form of entertainment. Thus is the case with their somewhat lighthearted, yet very socially revealing portrait of the womens move...

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

of America had suffered through more than 15 years of deprivation in one form or another. The Great Depression that began with th...

A 6 page essay reviewing how women are portrayed in these classic movies. The plots are outlined and compared. Societal circums...

the criminal activity that is taking place in this particular world. In Mildreds story we have a woman who has struggled all he...

In six pages this paper discusses spatial imagery and the visual contrasts offered by film noir. Eight sources are cited in the b...

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...

in the destructive power of nuclear energy. Osteen (1994) points out that few events have affected the American psyche in a manne...

before. Perhaps the iconic model here is Barbara Stanwyck luring Fred MacMurray to his doom in Double Indemnity. But there is an...

what the audience is viewing with his own subjective observations. In his consideration of film noir, Jon Tuska (1984) noted that...

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

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

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

In five pages cinematic realism is compared and contrasted with film noir and surrealism with the focus being how in the film Ragi...

This paper consists of 5 pages discusses how film noir and classical Hollywood were influenced by Tourner's 1947 film. There are ...

successes to his credit. A total of 112 sets were built, including a scale model of Paris Arc de Triomphe and an entire reproducti...

police detective that suspects his department is turning a blind eye to organized crime after refusing to further investigate the ...

In four pages this poem is explicated and analyzed. There are 4 sources cited in the bibliography....

lens but by the filmmakers imagination and based upon the unique New York experiences contained within a particular neighborhood e...

be made about film noir and its enduring popularity is that it strikes a chord at the depth of nearly every viewer. Film noir focu...

claustrophobic, hopeless and without clear moral or personal identity," suggesting that the world is a place with no clear values ...

the loss of ones own humanity(Cline). CHARACTER The triangle which emerges shows that there is not clear cut definition of good ...

and the even larger political responses of the Truman administration created a realm in which the primary purpose was to protect t...

somehow harm society or even annihilate the world. There is fear of nuclear warfare which is a popular theme in the genre. There i...

Spots of neon and carlights poke through the night - there is a dream like quality to the film, with spots of beauty contrasting t...