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the voiceover. According to reviewer Patricia Kowal, this inclusion of a female perspective furthers the gangster genre because it...
his five years at Biograph, Griffith took the raw elements of moviemaking as they had evolved up to that time -- lighting, continu...
a camaraderie that is more reminiscent of Huck and Tom than future revolutionaries. However, as they begin to see the poverty and ...
of that would come out in his work. The truth, however, is that his films never held any true kind of message of social or religio...
to consider who has helped the most people, Michael Milken or Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa spent her life helping the poor, while ...
brutalized in this event and the historical record shows that such a background would be historically accurate. Alienated against...
tight close-up (Dirks, 1996). There is a menacing "No Trespassing" sign outside an old gate, and after panning up over a chain-li...
Music Town. With $9,000 of store receipts in his pocket, Lucas goes to Atlantic City in hopes of parlaying that into enough money...
it was because of Kurosawa that the West became aware of Japanese movies and the unique views of and commentary on the world that ...
75). The door to the room is deep inside the frame, so when the nurse enters, it carries the eye "deep into an almost endless fram...
go around changing the rules because they dont suit you. Theres just sin" (Kowal, 1995, p. PG). It becomes quite apparent that i...
during the cock fight. Imagery as utilized in this story is perhaps best exemplified in this disturbing scene. And while there a...
press appealed more in gender terms to male audiences(Neale, 63). In fact, Neale seems to think that the majority of the m...
come around, Americans were frantically attempting to launch a man into space, more to keep up with the Soviets (who had already l...
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...
In six pages this paper examines the online gambling, film, and music entertainment industries in a consideration of technological...
artistic advancements, including a color sequence at the end" (Review of The Birth of a Nation, 2002). Furthermore, this film gre...
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...