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(Benshoff and Griffin 132). A voiceover at the beginning of the film explains that because of this law, 1940s Chinatown was exclus...
legacy of screwball comedy. Both Ninotchka and Roman Holiday encompass themes that are more sophisticated than the typical screwb...
uncompromising manner that demands to be interpreted as truth (This is Spinal Tap PG). It is the perfect device for Rob Reiner to...
the senate and the man these black officials believed had won the election. Gore is seen repeatedly banging his gavel to restore ...
angles that one would not normally expect, such as shooting through water. There is an underwater shot of blood slowly spreading a...
72). Morrow and the two children were killed instantly. While tighter safety precautions were immediately instituted by the film i...
she is thinking or what has occurred. Surrounded by a halo of light, Shermans face is a "shadowed" mask and it is this melodramati...
rings. At the door is Delilah Johnson (Louise Beavers), an African American woman who has come to apply for a job as cook and hous...
- but his dominating persona was not very favorable to colleagues (though he could be friendly and helpful on certain occasions) (...
feelings of forgetfulness (Marguerite Duras). In "India Song", Duras tells of the life during the 1930s in a fashionable di...
film, which is told via flashbacks by Salieri, who is in an asylum after attempting suicide, and concentrates on the final ten yea...
known in postmodern films beginning in the late 1970s because it was a significant way of breaking down the stifling barrier of ge...
the director and the male filmgoer) receive a sexual thrill from watching the victimization of women (Williams 706). As one of th...
of a visual masterpiece that demonstrates that Scorsese is an artist who understands the tone of the original work from which he c...
Gibson. From a simple understanding of history and the constant struggle between Scotland and England, as Scotland fought to rem...
foundation, upon which the subsequent action and characterizations are constructed. The mise-en-scene, which is featured in the o...
and attitudes from the Western world that are needed as the first step towards development (Lewis, 2002). Unfortunately, Western m...
"More importantly, the innovative, bold film is an acknowledged milestone in the development of cinematic technique. It uses film ...
Passage to India. However, his creative pinnacle is largely acknowledged to be the wildly successful (both critically as well as ...
(originally produced to be shown on PBS, but later received theatrical distribution), which starred Jane Alexander and focused upo...
to the daughter of the influential and powerful Senator Stiles" (Anonymous Cusack and Spader show their True Colors, 2002; 5937&Se...
Luhrmann, "In Moulin Rouge, our ultimate Red Curtain gesture, music and song is the device that releases us from a naturalistic wo...
farmer, the oppressor. However, once the pigs were in place and the rules established, the farm animals found themselves under a...
84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...
Furthermore, there are certain commonalties that run through the storylines of all epic writing. Examples of such include heroism,...
his household. The suitors have taken it upon themselves to essentially use Odysseus home as though it was their own, killing live...
truths binding on everyone. Postmodernism is most often characterized by power struggles and a lack of objective reality, boundari...
critics. The other reason that books seldom translate well to film is that in a screenplay all the senses are limited to the visu...
It all started when Lestat, a very old vampire, gives Louis the choice to either die or have eternal life as a vampire (Berardinel...
the natural disaster" (Action Films, 2002). Marchetti also states that action-adventure films have long been the domain of male...