YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Shaping History Through Cinematic Narratives
Essays 241 - 270
Censorship of any form also has the effect of promoting elitism with regard to access to...
finds that he has a natural talent for it. It is as if the emotional side of him which has been forced to remain silent finally ha...
woman. She has the ability to ruin peoples lives. This gives her a great deal of power and it corrupts absolutely. As Judge Danfor...
(Rombes). Rafferty (1997) explains that the postmodern film is built on the film noir genre, but that a feature of postmodernism ...
of tape and combines them to emphasize their meaning. It is a method by which through two unrelated shots we may create a third an...
of the classic noir characteristics, it also thumbed its nose at the use of flashbacks. There were no voice-over narrations, with ...
a women faced with the types of situations that they face in his plays. Twelfth Night examples this most concisely. The plot of T...
across, and thus get the power of the film across. The predominant focus of the film is the story and the man who is an alien. It ...
lends great insight into the cinematic development of any film, especially the films of Hitchcock. In his movies, every shot has ...
politics. Gore Vidal wrote the screenplay, as well as the original Broadway play on which the movie is based. Vidal was friends wi...
the audience a close up of Othellos face and the audience is able to watch the doubt creep over Othellos face. Without saying anyt...
sexual encounter with a slave girl on an island, and the discovery of a nymphomaniac (whom they must satisfy before they can move ...
flag down a car, but no one stops. Desperate, she positions herself in the middle of the road while holding her arms outstretched ...
political insights that can be gleaned from any motion picture. The major differences between a journalistic approach to a movie c...
identity. It is interesting to note that as he pulls on his "cloak of madness" that his true intellect becomes completely clouded ...
be made about film noir and its enduring popularity is that it strikes a chord at the depth of nearly every viewer. Film noir focu...
evolution of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment until its climactic attack on Fort Wagner, South Carolina of July 18, 1863, that resulted i...
influence in the life of his father and a contributing factor in the suicide of his mother. Therefore, the reader comes to underst...
light of day can become obscured in the dark just as the best and brightest intentions can be compromised by allure of corruption....
it is quite obviously going to have a lot of action throughout the film. However, too much action and the theme and characterizati...
and their interactions clearly let us know that the two are very good friends. In fact, we quickly see that Esteban is perhaps the...
a person or persons involved in the action, or told by a detached third-person observer or observers. In written texts, the found...
daytime and snow is falling. "Charlie" (Charles Foster Kane) is playing outside, and the camera stops on him. He rolls a snowbal...
The cuts are approximately equal in length. Finally Thornhill asks if hes supposed to meet someone and the stranger replies...
Altman dusted Mr. Marlowe off and brought him back, but his vision was very different from the earlier films. This Marlowe was a d...
who are unfamiliar with the novels premise, it concerns the Dashwood family (a mother and her three young daughters) who have been...
own terms, as an interpretation for a modern mass audience of a compelling story that gives shape to some of the deepest-rooted hu...
by todays standards because almost everything this film did, has been done over and over since. The paper, therefore, focuses on h...
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...
in structuralist models, researchers often examine the underlying structures which occur beneath the actions or speech of the indi...