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This 9 page essay considers how the theatrical presence in the film is developed stylistically through textural characteristics of...
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...
the whole trilogy and uses a heavily layered story that involves high action sequences that are purely designed to attract those w...
the Bond films (Antulov, 2004). They all seem to come together on some lonely little island, in the middle of nowhere, where th...
and defined crime as a "problems that we--the public--must solve" (Cavaliero 50). These films attempted to shift attention from t...
In nine pages this paper discusses media criticism and its types with a focus upon scholarly, journalist, and auteurist and then e...
This paper provides an analysis of the film Se7en (Seven), in terms of form, cultural-historical background, and how the film is u...
an afternoon off and a swim. At the beach house, the first camera shot has Monte showing a closet full of bathing suits (Dirks)....
one in which Danny Torrance, the seven-year-son of Wendy and Jack, has a vision of blood engulfing a hotel hallway in torrential w...
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...
key films of the Hong Kong New Wave period" (Hall 1). This film has had tremendous influence over both Western and Asia filmmake...
the novel or the film precisely. Typically, films classified as film noir, but not all of them, focus on a murder or multiple mu...
aesthetic qualities of film noir. Even with the seductiveness of film noir, there is no dropping the history out of the debate. Th...
wealth, status, and material possessions (clothes and cars), because all other "normal" avenues to the top are unavailable to them...
the loss of ones own humanity(Cline). CHARACTER The triangle which emerges shows that there is not clear cut definition of good ...
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...
definitely postmodern? In some ways, that appears to be true, but in other ways that may not be the case at all. 2001 began with...
have fallen upon hard times. She does this with her first view of Dunnet Landing, as she describes it as a "coast town . . . more ...
For example, the film focuses away from the traditional violence of the western film and the identification of the main characters...
This 7 page essay explores female meladrama genre. 6 sources are listed....
in low Earth orbit would cause tidal waves, which is never mentioned, and one of the criticisms leveled at the film. There are oth...
1926) According to Waldron (1991) legend has it that Monet discovered his grocery purchase had been wrapped in a Japanese wood-bl...
silent era, as it became clear to filmmakers that certain types of stories were particularly popular and profitable (Gazetas, 2008...
In five pages the 'mariachi' and Western film genres are contrasted and compared. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....
Hoping to succeed this time, the good doctor gives his complete attention to Cole, even if it means neglecting his wife, Anna (Oli...
diegetic music and spoken/sung dialogue (Altman 297-298). This film genre has historically consisted of three evocative forms. F...
it is about a silent film star, Don Lockwood (played by Kelly) making the transition to sound pictures, a leap that not all popula...
holding fast under the stress of combat, thereby propagandizing the need for unity. In "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1936), ...
An analysis of these cinematic genres and how they are used are considered in an examination of Andrew Davies' A Perfect Murder an...
The horror films of the 1960s and 70s served to continue the challenge to the legitimacy of capitalist, patriarchal rule. The evol...