YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Russian Culture in the Film Window to Paris
Essays 121 - 150
a take on the play that is patterned after the screwball comedies of the 1930s, as "Beatrice and Benedick are surely the prototype...
Frida, as a young teen, sneaking into an auditorium to watch Diego painting a mural. Diegos wife Lupe appears and confronts Diego ...
history of the Civil War and the Reconstruction. In essence, Griffith is recounting the tales told to him by his father, who was a...
the injustice that fate as inflicted upon him, as he has pursued the whale for years, coming close numerous times, but never actu...
counterculture. Thus, by setting his film there (he filmed most of it on location), Lester was tapping into the one spot in the co...
In order to offer thorough analysis, Boggs and Petrie (2004) recommend seeing a movie at least twice. The first viewing can be dev...
before. Perhaps the iconic model here is Barbara Stanwyck luring Fred MacMurray to his doom in Double Indemnity. But there is an...
problems of Susanna. Susanna is diagnosed as having borderline personality disorder. Susanna is suffering from hallucinations. For...
(Ralph Meeker) swerves to avoid her and runs off the road. Angry, he snarls, "You almost wrecked my car. Well? Get in!" (Dirks, 20...
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...
on the marquee, the classic Frank Capra holiday film starring James Stewart. The night is clear as evidenced by the lack of umbre...
the others, feels compelled to protect this young bit of innocence and humanity at all costs. The symbolic way that the child co...
that offer the viewer/reader a different look at the western worlds involvement in other cultures. In offering these different v...
GDR society," which would open it up to Western "cultural and economic influences" (Berghahn 146). However, the Partys views on re...
surrealist movement, but there is debate about that ("Frida Kahlo, The Surrealist," 2006). The film itself was replete with infor...
Henrys voiceover narration.3 This narration gives the viewer insight into Henrys motivations. This narration conveys Henrys childl...
also what was happening in the world at-large. For example, OBrien relates the ideological thrust of Cinderella to the perceived...
climax of the film. The history of the cubicle is that these partitions were once heralded as an innovation and, today, they rem...
titles such as "The Sultan of Sleaze," "The Prince of Puke" and "The Pope of Trash," which is the one he says he prefers (Als, 199...
throughout cinematic history, Jean Mitry (1907-1988) was perhaps the most comprehensive and objective. He examined cinema from al...
is not identified as a goddess except for when a servant speaks to Achilles about the legends that have begun to be spun concernin...
to prevent a Borg takeover of Earth, and to make sure that Zefram Cochrane (James Cromwell) makes the flight that will attract the...
clearly an attempt to redefine the modern cowboy for modern audiences by penetrating the invincible stereotype and revealing vulne...
in explicit language and vivid descriptions of sexuality that were shocking within the conservative cultural context of the period...
how dependent upon technology the average citizen has become in everyday life. The fact that God initially contacted Bruce via hi...
as director. This Catholic perspective is also quite evident in the fact that Mary, the mother of Jesus, is the most prevalent c...
sit down, even when "they are having menstrual cramps" (Giroux). In the film, workers also complain about "plant conditions, speed...
a shock for white audiences. Poitier invested his character with dignity and strength, and although later that tactic no longer re...
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...
culture in the discontentment of one mans desire to live more of his life than merely being a cookie cutout of average people. Le...