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Essays 211 - 240
As We Think: Reflections on Horror and/or Criticism" author Steffen Hantke explores the horror genre as it exists in the contempor...
scientific research, as part of his effort to understand the vampires and he discovers the bacterial cause of the vampire plague. ...
In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at "The Call of Cthulhu" and "Dracula". Comparisons are drawn to examine the differenc...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at "Life of Pi". The value of narrative and story in providing comfort from the horror...
in their lives when they are accustoming themselves to their impeding morality and the problems that come with old age. Catherine ...
the nature of good and evil. In "Shadow," there are the two "Charlies," Uncle Charlie and his niece, Charlotte, who is known as "C...
in low Earth orbit would cause tidal waves, which is never mentioned, and one of the criticisms leveled at the film. There are oth...
love for their children. However, it quickly becomes evident that there is trouble in this paradise, as Alice has a problem, as sh...
"at heart, I was always a silent movie man" (Twatio 14). One reason why early silent films appear odd or stilted to modern audie...
"the Son of Your handmaid" (Longhenry, 2004). Additionally, John and Peter address Mary as "mother" numerous times during the film...
The God of the Waning Year is associated with the sacrificial victim, whose death was believed necessary in order for the earth to...
Schwartz towards the woman he is longing for; the disappointed gaze of his wife Lotte (Cameron Diaz). When a person is presumably ...
often referred to as a trench war. And, as one author notes, "There had never been anything like it before and there wont ever be ...
obviously take the most tragic of subjects and place the words in a way that would make us, the reader, want more, and yet cause u...
In six pages this report examines the life and writings of Stephen King with his works The Stand, Insomnia, and The Green Mile amo...
to those impacts than are others. The normative, i.e. not so unique, stressors of Hurricane Katrina are characterized best ...
we are all insane, than sanity becomes a matter of degree." The difference is, according to King, is that those who are completely...
anthologized works in literature and for good reason. The story is simple, follows a linear structure, and within that basic frame...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at "The Exorcist". Elements of terror, suspense, and revulsion are analyzed. Paper use...
mother, Elinor and Marianne (who are both young women) and younger sister Margaret, by beginning with the death of Henry Dashwood,...
that "Tara is the whole story" as the plot revolves around Tara" (Schreibman, 2004, p. 41). The cinematography particularly unde...
romantic leads ("Screwball comedy"). Another feature of the screwball was its "reverse class snobbery," where to be poor was, so...
film. More credits fall and slide into place, which foreshadows how Thornhill will later slide, nearly falling off the face of Lin...
who is also a preacher, and conspires to have him evicted from his congregation (Alleva, 1998). Enraged, Sonny takes his sons base...
suggests, the filmmakers show him as very human and the script does a good job of dramatizing his imperfections as well as his rem...
read, she immediately attributes these events to the action of Providence. When her captors, which is a band of American Natives m...
entitled "House of Cards," the detectives and attorneys who are featured in the show similarly face what seems like a case of cert...
sixteen at the time, had stolen a neighbors car and his fathers guns. Harris gave Adams a lift when his vehicle ran out of gas. H...
In five pages this paper examines the rhetoric and reality of the Vietnam War within the contexts of the book Hollywood's Vietnam ...
associated with roles from other films (Magills Survey of Cinema). During that time in Hollywood, women were not as indepen...