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"at heart, I was always a silent movie man" (Twatio 14). One reason why early silent films appear odd or stilted to modern audie...

love for their children. However, it quickly becomes evident that there is trouble in this paradise, as Alice has a problem, as sh...

Schwartz towards the woman he is longing for; the disappointed gaze of his wife Lotte (Cameron Diaz). When a person is presumably ...

The God of the Waning Year is associated with the sacrificial victim, whose death was believed necessary in order for the earth to...

in their lives when they are accustoming themselves to their impeding morality and the problems that come with old age. Catherine ...

of Boston and Philadelphia. Rather, the film endeavors to expose the man behind the myth. It discusses his life essentially in c...

in explicit language and vivid descriptions of sexuality that were shocking within the conservative cultural context of the period...

kind of money people like Lester makes. He has all these schemes and dreams and he ultimately learns they are pointless, just as L...

such a level of significance which allows it to be seen as a representation of the issues which are applicable to the society, and...

Fasts text of the same name). They each offer depictions of George Washington as perceived by authors, screenwriters, and filmmak...

to the settlement of the American frontier, Drums Along the Mohawk. It is the story of farmer Gil Martin and his privileged bride...

have reattached since he could not afford the cost of both. According to Rick, the hospital priced the reattachment of his middle...

as icon ... you dont cast Denzel Washington unless youre willing to accept that charisma is often the secret weapon of the success...

This paper discusses typology of individual adaptations as is evidenced in the 1999 film American Beauty. There are two sources i...

above racism as he deals with his fathers death. White supremacy groups are, like many hateful groups, designed to control their...

counterculture. Thus, by setting his film there (he filmed most of it on location), Lester was tapping into the one spot in the co...

someone was sick, or out of a job, or when things were going wrong, they asked God for help (Rodriguez). At home, "God the Father ...

how dependent upon technology the average citizen has become in everyday life. The fact that God initially contacted Bruce via hi...

bed, or even beginning to become amorous might secure a PG rating, but during that time period, blatant sexuality in film was not ...

was developing. But, when her husband was taken it was very hard for her to do nothing. She constantly ended up battling with the ...

of his life. He realizes that he has been living in an emotional vacuum, operating more as a robot than a human being, and he subs...

everyone reveals their powerful inner human side, and all comes out well in the end. Some may argue that this film depicts the ...

in the destructive power of nuclear energy. Osteen (1994) points out that few events have affected the American psyche in a manne...

In eight pages this paper examines the shift from Orson Welles' perceptions of the American Dream to the subversion represented in...

1998). Derek is induced into joining a neo-Nazi movement by a older hate-monger played by Stacy Keach, who uses him as a neighbo...

but always something that is made in a four-party meaning-situation. An author... circulates a text... to an audience... whose pe...

(Benshoff and Griffin 132). A voiceover at the beginning of the film explains that because of this law, 1940s Chinatown was exclus...

or rouged (Brabazon, 2000, p. 98). At an awards ceremony, Davis was asked if she regretted not being the sort of movie star that w...

out of the selection" (Mikiro). They have never really been presented in film, showing how Natives were actually treated. One o...

incidence of fire breaking out during operations. In one of ABCs 20/20 episodes in 1998, the audience was cautioned that this ha...