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holding fast under the stress of combat, thereby propagandizing the need for unity. In "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1936), ...
back to the film "The Birth of the Nation" which lead later to a movement of "race films" in the 1920s in the cinema. Mainstream U...
In ten pages the imagery featured in TV and films regarding the differences of class, race, and gender are the focus of this resea...
romantic leads ("Screwball comedy"). Another feature of the screwball was its "reverse class snobbery," where to be poor was, so...
before. Perhaps the iconic model here is Barbara Stanwyck luring Fred MacMurray to his doom in Double Indemnity. But there is an...
(Ralph Meeker) swerves to avoid her and runs off the road. Angry, he snarls, "You almost wrecked my car. Well? Get in!" (Dirks, 20...
factor can be seen in both Sunset Boulevard and The Grifters. In Sunset, Joe Gillis is an out-of-work screenplay writer, who has t...
Opposing Arguments Petrakis (2010) is completely right when he writes: "the screenplay is simplistic and uninteresting, lea...
This film analysis is on "When Harry Met Sally," 1989, directed by Rob Reiner. The writer asserts that the specific genre for this...
npa), the use of the fantasy genre allows the author or director to stand outside of the reality with which we are familiar, and g...
somehow harm society or even annihilate the world. There is fear of nuclear warfare which is a popular theme in the genre. There i...
In eighteen pages the screwball comedy is examined in terms of its history and evolution with a discussion of their intentions alo...
person that John F. Kennedy was addressing when he said "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your co...
father, but the two young men are not fond of each other, at least not on the surface (Maslin, 2002). Thomas, who chatters incessa...
in that the main character, Abdel, has been abused by the police. He has been beaten so badly that he has had to be hospitalized. ...
is a mixed bag. In films that parody the past like Undercover Brother and in music videos, the most watched genre of film today by...
of the classic noir characteristics, it also thumbed its nose at the use of flashbacks. There were no voice-over narrations, with ...
"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 ...
as a commercially viable and attractive genre by its continued existence and evolution. In all three of the production to ...
less than a month later with Sputnik II, in which a dog was successfully launched into orbit, it appeared as if the Soviet Union w...
In nine pages this paper discusses media criticism and its types with a focus upon scholarly, journalist, and auteurist and then e...
This paper provides an analysis of the film Se7en (Seven), in terms of form, cultural-historical background, and how the film is u...
This 9 page essay considers how the theatrical presence in the film is developed stylistically through textural characteristics of...
the Bond films (Antulov, 2004). They all seem to come together on some lonely little island, in the middle of nowhere, where th...
the whole trilogy and uses a heavily layered story that involves high action sequences that are purely designed to attract those w...
and defined crime as a "problems that we--the public--must solve" (Cavaliero 50). These films attempted to shift attention from t...
one in which Danny Torrance, the seven-year-son of Wendy and Jack, has a vision of blood engulfing a hotel hallway in torrential w...
For example, the film focuses away from the traditional violence of the western film and the identification of the main characters...
have fallen upon hard times. She does this with her first view of Dunnet Landing, as she describes it as a "coast town . . . more ...
This 7 page essay explores female meladrama genre. 6 sources are listed....