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as "jolly, slapstick comedy," but also criticizes it for lacking the "almost eerie humanity that infused" the earlier movies, writ...
conquer it. The focus of the film changes when it shifts to dramatizing the successful launch of the Soviet Unions Sputnik and i...
lessons of life the Great Depression had imposed upon my Father, but this was a new twist to a very tired story. The impact of the...
over the credits, signifying that Judah has recovered from his burden of guilt and is prepared to get on with and enjoy his life (...
public, which is basically whats going on here; that is widely accepted and understood. If it were not a cultural norm for people ...
understand and come to terms with life as they know it. Their father is a small town minister. Fly fishing seems to be their only ...
Each Film The American Revolution (also referred to as The Revolution) was a 1994 six-hour documentary produced by A&E and shown...
In ten pages a trio of historic films answer questions pertaining to cinematic theories, techniques, styles, emotions, and editing...
Eyes Wide Shut was the last film Stanley Kubrick made. This paper offers an analysis and review of the film, including cinematic t...
In six pages critical cinematic theory is applied to director John Boorman's film released in 1972 and discusses how theme is depi...
way for actresses who were interested not simply in portraying stylish roles but were also interested in exploring characters of s...
other horror films. For example, in many subtle ways there is the age old suspense that we often saw in Hitchcock films as subtle ...
The auteur film techniques that characterize director Brian DePalma are considered in an examination of three of his films The Unt...
In three pages this paper examines how filmmaker techniques are applied to advancing the film's theme, development of plot, and to...
a different "historical memory of the Maori," as they remember "fierce fighters who battled against British colonizers for decades...
earning him an Academy Award (Raging Bull, 19950. De Niro made Jakes decline more believable by gaining 60 pounds over the course ...
draw and paint, which is a "direct expression" of "her interior life" (Young 29). When she is finally able to walk again, she visi...
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...
a "master swordsman," arriving at the Emperors fortress. Nameless explains to the Emperor how he vanquished "three deadly assassin...
history of the Civil War and the Reconstruction. In essence, Griffith is recounting the tales told to him by his father, who was a...
an afternoon off and a swim. At the beach house, the first camera shot has Monte showing a closet full of bathing suits (Dirks)....
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...
in the destructive power of nuclear energy. Osteen (1994) points out that few events have affected the American psyche in a manne...
claustrophobic, hopeless and without clear moral or personal identity," suggesting that the world is a place with no clear values ...
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...
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...
and the even larger political responses of the Truman administration created a realm in which the primary purpose was to protect t...
Spots of neon and carlights poke through the night - there is a dream like quality to the film, with spots of beauty contrasting t...
bearing the legend "Spade and Archer." In both films, the editing is subtle and seems to blend together effortlessly, creating a c...