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Essays 271 - 300
of looking at the basic format of a film noire, especially before color (Dirks). The plot as well is a confusing one, in terms of ...
community in the mission is that the film portrays delays in the UN rescue mission stemming, at least partially, from faults in co...
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...
red interior, which contrasts with the white exterior of the car. Like the car, Ripley has a seemingly "spotless" exterior, but hi...
and teachers alike (Willis). It is so out-of-control that only very strong action can tame it, and Clark provides just that action...
of his story, as his capture is told in flashback, which emphasizes the personal tragedy of this event for him. Cinques story of h...
film taking on certain aspects of each others roles (Davis 80). Norika offers Tomi and Shukichi the respect that filial tradition ...
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...
decent amount of food and health. A Nazi band plays a bright military march that contrasts with the general shabbiness of the men ...
high over the legendary kiss between two women portrayed in Morocco. Society was simply not ready for an open acknowledgement of ...
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...
boring, routine job he despises because he might develop heart problems. Its likely that he will, but there is no guarantee of tha...
forest, which would later represent the convergence of Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina, symbolically depict a convergence of the h...
and defined crime as a "problems that we--the public--must solve" (Cavaliero 50). These films attempted to shift attention from t...
for Rita. The result is that not only does Frank tutor Rita, but Franks learns from Rita as well. Initially Rita is portrayed as...
in a film that only a percentage of moviegoers even remember. This represents the crapshoot movie studios were forced to endure w...
that it has always been a colony of sorts. Its independence is illusive and while things have changed since 1997, it seems as if H...
women will play in the film (The Graduate). Throughout the film, Nichols uses images, including an extensive series of montages, t...
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 ...
Brittens music in this work, his primary identification is with deeply felt emotion that emanates from Owens poetry (Gomez 92). So...
theater, they rolled a cannon ball down a wooden trough that then fell onto a large drumhead (Brunelle, 1999). In films, sound eff...
is completely unique and no two are alike. Therefore, what takes place is a kind of power struggle between the subject and the ob...
Today, there are more female police officers on the force and so, Hollywood had made an attempt to portray the female officer as l...
notions of the division between the "haves" and "have nots" and in fact supported his ideas with the theory of alienation. Further...
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 ...
the Bond films (Antulov, 2004). They all seem to come together on some lonely little island, in the middle of nowhere, where th...
who comes to love Mag and he persuades her to marry him. This step, of course, completes Mags ostracism from white society. "She w...
religion is treated in Hollywood film; what forces of religion are considered "box office" (i.e., profitable); and what values do...