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Essays 481 - 510
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...
no adultery, save for stolen kisses, which of course are observed and thereby cause conflict, anguish for Arthur; exile for Lance...
academic as being relevant or meaningful to their lives (Giroux 46). The plot of this movie is obviously the story of a plucky, ca...
"poor little rich girl or the princess," and is drive to school by her father in a BMW (The Breakfast Club, 1995). Allison is the ...
the streets? Will Valentine disgrace himself in the commodities market? Since this is a comedy, we know the answer to both questio...
In seven pages historical comparisons are made between the ways in which education is depicted in such films as Stand and Deliver,...
events surrounding the Peloponessian War, but also the views of other cultures which sometimes conflicted with his own sensibiliti...
who "led an extremely worldly existence in the convent" (Mack, 1996, p. 13), defiance of the system was a way of life. She was qu...
This paper considers how the Vietnam War was depicted in the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket and the 1988 film Good Morning, Vietnam i...
The writer examines the development of Ingmar Bergman's classic movie The Seventh Seal, tracing it from a series of acting exercis...
In ten pages a trio of historic films answer questions pertaining to cinematic theories, techniques, styles, emotions, and editing...
In five pages the 1995 film's use of cinematography as reinforcement of the filmmaker's vision is analyzed. Two sources are cited...
In a paper consisting of five pages viewing audience passivity, activity, and impact of film realism is explored in terms of the p...
a group of radical New York women who aggressively sought change (Mainardi, 1969). Others chose to work patiently behind the scen...
to watch everyone else who comes for the same reason. Intrigue is served with each glass. The plot clinks with the cubes about w...
she chooses to apply it in the wrong manner. It is interesting that the film never shows Baxter acting in front of the camera, but...
This film review pertains to "Elizabeth: The Golden Age," which premiered in 2007 and portrays events from the reign of Elizabeth ...
This film review is on "To Kill A Mockingbird" (1962), directed by Robert Mulligan, based on the novel by Harper Lee. The writer t...
and had been released some months earlier (Biodrowski). The novel, which has the subtitle of "The Modern Prometheus," is "a sort o...
They have decided to acquire it so that the airport can be expanded. Thus, the working class Kerrigan family is pitted against th...
ultimately meaningless and pointless. An audience member, however, wants to understand whats happening, and uses a film narrative ...
frees him from this indignity and travesty of life by smothering him with a pillow and then escapes from the asylum (One Flew, 199...
the film is Allens character Alvy who seems to have so many problems it becomes hilarious and insane, often presenting psychologic...
Each Film The American Revolution (also referred to as The Revolution) was a 1994 six-hour documentary produced by A&E and shown...
acknowledging responsibility for their own deaths if Israeli forces fired upon them (Twair 56). Abu-Assad later revealed that his...
applied to the characters at different times, but the two that seem most effective are Merton, and Shaw and MacKay. The term "Amer...
This paper consists of 5 pages and discusses the film's inability to transfer Cheever's internal monologue visually on the big scr...
David Ansen goes on to speculate that the film may be more thrilling to viewers who are encountering the story for the first time,...