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Essays 901 - 930
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...
legacy of screwball comedy. Both Ninotchka and Roman Holiday encompass themes that are more sophisticated than the typical screwb...
own terms, as an interpretation for a modern mass audience of a compelling story that gives shape to some of the deepest-rooted hu...
style, but did not really have the time to focus on its development until he suffered from a back injury and spent numerous months...
hide those Jews that were being persecuted by Hitlers war machine. He used his unsuccessful businesses as fronts to move various f...
considered a right" (230). In four French films in particular, Arnaud Desplechins Comment Je Me Suis Disput?... (Ma Vie Sexuelle)...
of the sport it was necessary to begin regulating the horses and the races and thus the Jockey Club was organized. This club also ...
of a horror film, and the crucifixion of Jesus is without question one of the most horrific episodes in world history. There are ...
by todays standards because almost everything this film did, has been done over and over since. The paper, therefore, focuses on h...
After the robbery goes bad, the gang regroups in an abandoned warehouse. Here they learn that the reason their job went bad was du...
this when Edward Nortons character slowly develops the alter ego played by Brad Pitt. Edward Nortons character wants nothing to do...
of enabling managers to move VOIP (voice over IP) to a lower-end, less-expensive device that migrates employees calls with no retr...
industry would locate along a waterway is understandable and even forgivable for the time in which it occurred. Rivers were magic...
huge country (Kaplan, 2001). Wihtin this country were seven great powers (competing with one another in both military and economic...
was no evidence of peeling paint on anything. Schools like Welton do exist in the United States. They are generally very clos...
as the crime film genre became more sophisticated, the line between good/evil oftentimes became blurred. De Palma elected to take...
America, the concept of the antihero was revised to better reflect the attitudes of its citizens, and was defined to be an individ...
Laura Mulveys book, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, states "Film reflects, reveals and even plays on the straight, socially ...
and destiny must have been in the air. Certainly the idea of freedom and destiny, of purpose and potential are embodied in the cha...
dime to look like an model. In fact, in reality, it was not too long ago when it was discovered that models were selling their egg...
and Italy. France was suddenly a power to reckon with. During the Napoleonic era, many lands were conquered for France. Of cours...
(Benshoff and Griffin 132). A voiceover at the beginning of the film explains that because of this law, 1940s Chinatown was exclus...
skirt of transparent silk, being back-lit would produce dramatic shapes of light through the skirt (Eley, 2002d). She created her ...
of our lives. Many of the impacts of the terrorists attacks affected the airlines directly. Immediately after the attacks gas pr...
grand, self-improving - yet highly attainable - aspirations are what ultimately brought the era to be known as the Golden Age of S...
end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end p...
for Life," commenting that ...we must seriously despise instruction without vitality, knowledge which enervates activity, and his...
Republican senatorial candidate Chris Marshall (played by another Anglo, Ralph Fiennes). However, the true essence of the...
work in a factory. "Charles was deeply marked by these experiences. He rarely spoke of this time of his life" (Charles Dickens: Hi...