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role after years as a Warner contract player" (Galloway, 2002; maltesefalcon.shtml). As we can see from this simple description...

In Dashiell Hammetts novel, "The Maltese Falcon," many people are given such an opportunity, and the story is filled with corrupt ...

bearing the legend "Spade and Archer." In both films, the editing is subtle and seems to blend together effortlessly, creating a c...

This paper consists of three pages and examines how homosexuality is subtlely presented in 'The Bootlegger's Daughter' by Margaret...

reveal different offerings such as health care, optical, and auctions. The auction area for example is something much like eBay wh...

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

it. He disposes of his deceased colleagues desk, nameplate and widow in quick measure. Naturally, since the police are aware of ...

primarily morals or values, but rather self-interest and the realization that he would have allowed the attraction he feels for th...

in first person narration, he sees only what the detective sees, as he or she sees it. Hammett opens his novel with a physical des...

In six pages the ways in which this novel reflects the classic detective genre as established by Arthur Conan Doyle are considered...

In five pages this paper examines the detective literary genre and how this work represents it as well as deviates from it by alwa...

In six pages the ways in which Hammett's novel rejuvenated what had become by that time a tired detective fiction genre are explor...

it can be said, by an exciting, revolutionary, turbulent swirl which included great social and technological change: assassination...

could think of was his own breath, and then "Peace, he thought, and as quickly as the thought shaped itself, peace left him" (Shep...

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...

closer together and provide cohesiveness to the group through a single-mindedness of purpose (Gehring 93). At no time does the gr...

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...

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...

In five pages this research paper examines the cinematic career of filmmaker John Schlesinger in an artistic consideration of such...

In a paper of twenty pages such terms definitive of abstract expressionism including spatial depth, minimalism, material combinati...

In five pages this analysis considers how director Adrian Lyne's Fatal Attraction represents a changing suspense and horror film g...

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...

In eighteen pages the screwball comedy is examined in terms of its history and evolution with a discussion of their intentions alo...

somehow harm society or even annihilate the world. There is fear of nuclear warfare which is a popular theme in the genre. There i...

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. ...

lens but by the filmmakers imagination and based upon the unique New York experiences contained within a particular neighborhood e...