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overall philosophical tone of the work. Whatever the reasons, the James Whale 1931 film is meant to frighten audiences, and it wor...
between Hobbits Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin is the primary focus of the trilogy, but there is also an interesting dynamic of thei...
of Boston and Philadelphia. Rather, the film endeavors to expose the man behind the myth. It discusses his life essentially in c...
somewhat difficult; she appears to be one of those writers who will not use one word where she can cram in three. In addition, she...
can be trusted; it is the ultimate in paranoid societies. By keeping its citizens fearful and mistrustful of each other, the gover...
the bug, and that Harry cannot find it unless he steps out of context to consider the way in which the film itself is made (Levin)...
three. In addition, she seems to have been vaccinated with a thesaurus: why use "mimetic" when "copying" will do? Her pretentious ...
when he first sees her after the transformation, she comes to him out of a green, glowing light that seems otherworldly. The fil...
same lust. At times, his meddling seems to be a good thing, as when he and his nurse/masseuse Stella (Thelma Ritter) see a neighbo...
(Dirks, 2008). There is almost nothing positive about the surveillance that Chaplin describes here; it consists solely of a powerf...
times appears to be a prune. In one memorable scene, as the plot thickens, George is standing in the middle of a waving...
had erred so completely, even though he did so unknowingly, his only recourse was to take his own life. In Fight Club, then, th...
is a virtual prisoner in her home (Copycat). She has withdrawn from both work and her life and the only contact she has with the o...
anthropological data on this tribe, it is impossible to say precisely where this assessment errs, but err it must, simply because ...
harrowing to watch, with Nash suffering several climactic breakdowns and brief moments of lucidity and temporary remission. The u...
the face of it, to go against the utilitarian principle of the "greatest good of the greatest number", taking a more long-term vie...
and behaviours, and seen as being in direct opposition to "femininity", which is equally constrained in its parameters, and define...
McGill spins a yarn about buried ill-gotten gains ($1.2 million) that he promises to share (Berardinelli). In their journey, the...
The assignment asks how the student relates to Annas problem. This writer/tutor imagines that it is quite easy for many women to r...
whom he has already fathered two children. Charles literally drags Helen to the front door and throws her out of the house (IMDb,...
is an unfortunate event, but the event takes place not because the boy did not have a good mother, but because his mother was poor...
of the play, which is the fact that Toms continues to love his sister, miss her and long for a different past, as he pursues a dif...
a shock for white audiences. Poitier invested his character with dignity and strength, and although later that tactic no longer re...
the novel as it pertains to Phoebus. Phoebus is a military man and Esmerelda is quite taken with him. She feels he is a real man a...
What is generally missed, according to Lyden, is that regardless of cinematic content, audiences receive all the messages of a fil...
Fitts (Chris Cooper) and his wife Barbara (Allison Janney). Fitts is even more emotional remote from his teenage son than Lester i...
After the robbery goes bad, the gang regroups in an abandoned warehouse. Here they learn that the reason their job went bad was du...
darkies" (Leab 99). Focusing on the Atlanta plantation of Gerald and Ellen OHara, Gone With the Wind represented life for souther...
contemplate how individual and cultural identities are constructed in the first place. In the opinion of Benedict Anderson, autho...
the most louche, laidback villains in screen history" (Brooke, 2005, PG) emphasises Thornhills naivety as far as espionage and mur...