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Hollywood's Classic Film Maltese Falcon

employed, whose most significant feature is to make the cut seem invisible. This is achieved through such devices as shot/reverse-...

Malcolm X Film by Spike Lee Historically Reviewed

also shows how the Nation of Islam similarly rehabilitated other prostitutes and drug dealers during the time, "providing moral gu...

Using Mass Media to Argue for Gun Control

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

The Film Chicago and Rick Altman's Guidelines

necessarily a love triangle, more like opportunists trying to manipulate each other. Both of the women attempt to seduce Flynn an...

Posting Responses to the Positions of Michael Moore and Barry Glassner

killer bees were responsible for an attack in Tipton, Oklahoma. They are currently in six Southwestern states and they are dangero...

Historical Revisionist Oliver Stone's Films Born on the Fourth of July and Platoon

come to overestimate his own value as a singular entity amidst an enormous universe. There is no doubt that Stones intention when...

Techniques of Filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock

The cuts are approximately equal in length. Finally Thornhill asks if hes supposed to meet someone and the stranger replies...

Critics of Michael Moore's Films

the facts themselves wrong, but that he manipulated them to mislead people (Nyhan). In one instance, Moore apparently "do...

Film, Identity, and Language

has remade her into a woman who is now his equal, at least in terms of speech, and since she is "suitable" he finds her intriguing...

Film as Nightmare '28 Days Later'

course, 28 days later, when a bicycle courier named Jim (Cillian Murphy) awakens from a coma and finds himself in an abandoned hos...

American Culture and Actress Bette Davis

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...

Film Industry of South Africa

of money used to market them, and they are distributed to theaters via a well-understood network of distributors. These condition...

The Dance Film, 'Tap'

dance in his life. What makes this film powerful in its presentation of dance is that it makes the viewer aware of the passiona...

Films and Books on the Vietnam War

watching Vietnam films, but if I had to pick one that seems to capture the horror, blood, panic, humor, and sheer waste of the who...

Boyz N the Hood and Communication Theories

Ultimately, however, Tre grows out of the necessity of needing the peer approval, begins to loathe the sound of gunfire and the...

William Friedkin's Film, 'The Exorcist'

approach the demon with great trepidation; although they both know they harbor the protection of God while on their mission to exo...

Analyzing Bowling for Columbine from a Sociological Perspective

Marx). In other words, Marx saw societies as being composed of classes in constant conflict. Differing markedly from his predecess...

Producing and Distributing Short Films

mistakes will occur. A novice director frequently has difficulty keeping a "clear head" in regards to the scenes as they unfold ...

Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma

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

Film as Religion by John Lyden

What is generally missed, according to Lyden, is that regardless of cinematic content, audiences receive all the messages of a fil...

Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind Cinematic Analysis

harrowing to watch, with Nash suffering several climactic breakdowns and brief moments of lucidity and temporary remission. The u...

The Multi-Phobic 'What About Bob?'

again and make everyone else in my life think you are wonderful and Im a shmuck. But Im not a shmuck Bob, and Im not going to let...

Los Angeles and Its Cinematic Images

to do is wait and persist and she will eventually love him. While Tod is also not successful in his goal, he realizes that the cul...

Film Entertainment and Native Americans

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

Knowledge and Whether or Not Anything Can be Truly Known

only thing that is known is what is presently occurring. In other words, if something is out of ones eyesight and experience, it i...

Clint Eastwood's Film Million Dollar Baby

light across a coffee table may be the only thing that signals that the scene takes place in someones living room. Throughout th...

Seabiscuit Film Historical Review

portrays? Are the facts sacrificed in the name of entertainment? Seabiscuit is not only the story of a horse but also of the rea...

The Hunchback of Notre Dame in the 1923 Film Adaptation

were quite memorable. Jehan is an evil man who desires Esmerelda, like most of the men in the story, and Esmerelda is a very helpl...

Film Review of Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas

the voiceover. According to reviewer Patricia Kowal, this inclusion of a female perspective furthers the gangster genre because it...

Early American Film Director D.W Griffith

his five years at Biograph, Griffith took the raw elements of moviemaking as they had evolved up to that time -- lighting, continu...