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religion is treated in Hollywood film; what forces of religion are considered "box office" (i.e., profitable); and what values do...

In three pages cinema is defined as 'writing in images' with differences between visual and written texts considered along with fi...

that wracks him with confusion (Nassal, 2002). "I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to acknowledge them. Li...

the Bond films (Antulov, 2004). They all seem to come together on some lonely little island, in the middle of nowhere, where th...

truth and the search for meaning in life. It was no longer a time for people to sleep and hide in their supposedly perfect illusor...

to tell what might appear on first glance to be a tired old story. First, there is the scintillating color that enables the film ...

theater, they rolled a cannon ball down a wooden trough that then fell onto a large drumhead (Brunelle, 1999). In films, sound eff...

is completely unique and no two are alike. Therefore, what takes place is a kind of power struggle between the subject and the ob...

the whole trilogy and uses a heavily layered story that involves high action sequences that are purely designed to attract those w...

of human existence and the ways in which all human beings relate to stress, desire, and feelings of social and personal alienation...

and expression than film where the camera is able to capture the most subtle suggestions of emotion through the use of a close -up...

of these men (Broken Sword, Sky, and Flying Snow). In essence, the central protagonist in the film takes it on himself to find an...

understand and come to terms with life as they know it. Their father is a small town minister. Fly fishing seems to be their only ...

exact) and the censorship had begun to relax. Other firsts included showing the two lovers naked on their wedding night. What one...

politics. Gore Vidal wrote the screenplay, as well as the original Broadway play on which the movie is based. Vidal was friends wi...

Indeed, by looking at the role of the women in the movie it is a reflection of the social conditions. There is a reflection of the...

hard to draw oppositions between Travis and the Villain, Sport, as both are strong males who use forceful methods and generally th...

(Rombes). Rafferty (1997) explains that the postmodern film is built on the film noir genre, but that a feature of postmodernism ...

and evil (technology). Blade Runner considers the city of Los Angeles in the year 2019 as "a fragmented Third World metropolis, m...

of the classic noir characteristics, it also thumbed its nose at the use of flashbacks. There were no voice-over narrations, with ...

Chaplin appeared, it was also a film that he made use of established paradigms. The tools used focus on content emotion had experi...

human being he is. This comes as a shock to Oliverio who is as bad as the rest in assuming that prostitutes have no brains. Actu...

child who is the product of a failed system, this film seems to be saying. This film was a social commentary of sorts, which use...

The basic structure of most fiction stories follows a simple Act one, Act Two, Act Three kind of format. In the first part of the ...

it can be seen to have been on its way out at the dawn of all the other television competition for viewers time. Perspectives shif...

that are easily overcome (Carey, 2000). This is a reflection of their inventive mind where it is the message and not the mechanics...

in keeping all of the people hostage while the funds are delivered. As mentioned, while it is not exactly a bank robbery film, it ...

Weisman, in an article featured in The New York Times, described Indian cinema as "an all purpose dream engine delivering gaudy th...

physical state that supports the distinguishing characteristics of film noir. Though the term "film noir" is French, the st...

preface of her book, author Susan Brigden confesses to the broad nature of her book "New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudo...