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Essays 331 - 360
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...
lush as one of the contemporary Merchant-Ivory or Emma Thompson movie adaptations of other literary classics that offer a view int...
relationship between a city or Nations government and a person is much like that of a parent/child relationship. The state nurture...
its ruler and padding back to America in search of the woman who scorned his advances when he was nothing more than a lowly consum...
and editing equipment to the ability to use special effects as never before. Thus, there is mise-en-scene today and some film mak...
most notably, but not really missed, were Queen Margaret, and Edward IV. Some of the lengthy dialogue was taken out without detrac...
back to the film "The Birth of the Nation" which lead later to a movement of "race films" in the 1920s in the cinema. Mainstream U...
mythos, Negroes were naturally more musical, more rhythmic, and better dancers than any other group. Therefore the studios scurrie...
his cinematic apprenticeship working for British studios - working first as an artist, set designer and directors assistant before...
Furthermore, there are certain commonalties that run through the storylines of all epic writing. Examples of such include heroism,...
neorealistic filmmakers, such as Rossellini, Vittorio DeSica and Cesare Zavattini, was to make a "moral statement," which forces ...
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...
climactic as an invading force, but may take place in the acculturation of one culture from another. Even today many of the Wester...
are mediums that are used for both works of fiction or art or as devices to convey messages. However, artistic works of fiction al...
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...
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 ...
There are other types of westerns though as well. Some westerns depict life in Americas colonial times or may take place in terra...
are similar to Emilys. The characters discussed are Carrie, from the film "Carrie," Norman Bates from the film "Psycho," Eleanor f...
(Rombes). Rafferty (1997) explains that the postmodern film is built on the film noir genre, but that a feature of postmodernism ...
his five years at Biograph, Griffith took the raw elements of moviemaking as they had evolved up to that time -- lighting, continu...
daytime and snow is falling. "Charlie" (Charles Foster Kane) is playing outside, and the camera stops on him. He rolls a snowbal...
own life. With Scottie in pursuit, Madeleine climbs a bell tower and apparently falls to her death; in reality, the Novak charact...
notes that this is the first film crew to be given permission to film extensively at the UN and this gives the movie a feeling of ...
(Manvell 37). While Pudovkin would occasionally use non-professional actors in the name of realism, he preferred relying on profe...
by todays standards because almost everything this film did, has been done over and over since. The paper, therefore, focuses on h...
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...