YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :National Identity in 2 Chinese Films
Essays 301 - 330
"at heart, I was always a silent movie man" (Twatio 14). One reason why early silent films appear odd or stilted to modern audie...
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...
the nature of good and evil. In "Shadow," there are the two "Charlies," Uncle Charlie and his niece, Charlotte, who is known as "C...
Schwartz towards the woman he is longing for; the disappointed gaze of his wife Lotte (Cameron Diaz). When a person is presumably ...
"the Son of Your handmaid" (Longhenry, 2004). Additionally, John and Peter address Mary as "mother" numerous times during the film...
against Americans on their own soil. The extent to which the Act serves to intercept terrorist activity, protect national freedom...
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...
depiction of explicit violence, rapes, flogging, etc. are "implied rather than shown," he seems to feel that this is an artistic a...
read, she immediately attributes these events to the action of Providence. When her captors, which is a band of American Natives m...
suggests, the filmmakers show him as very human and the script does a good job of dramatizing his imperfections as well as his rem...
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...
as a commercially viable and attractive genre by its continued existence and evolution. In all three of the production to ...
The Replicants in The Blade Runner were genetically engineered, and yet while their initial data was programmed and they had a lif...
women will play in the film (The Graduate). Throughout the film, Nichols uses images, including an extensive series of montages, t...
based on a research study that surveyed over 2,000 RNs who provide direct nursing care in three mid-western hospitals. This result...
kept isolated from others (Hanson 20). The ultramodern beach house is minimalist in decor and looks more like a prison than safe ...
and defined crime as a "problems that we--the public--must solve" (Cavaliero 50). These films attempted to shift attention from t...
that it has always been a colony of sorts. Its independence is illusive and while things have changed since 1997, it seems as if H...
for Rita. The result is that not only does Frank tutor Rita, but Franks learns from Rita as well. Initially Rita is portrayed as...
in a film that only a percentage of moviegoers even remember. This represents the crapshoot movie studios were forced to endure w...
applied to the characters at different times, but the two that seem most effective are Merton, and Shaw and MacKay. The term "Amer...
acknowledging responsibility for their own deaths if Israeli forces fired upon them (Twair 56). Abu-Assad later revealed that his...
ultimately meaningless and pointless. An audience member, however, wants to understand whats happening, and uses a film narrative ...
to be Kates surrogate is Angie Ostrowiski, who is characterized as "white trash," a high school dropout who has a common law marri...