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(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 ...

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

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

notions of the division between the "haves" and "have nots" and in fact supported his ideas with the theory of alienation. Further...

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...

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

neorealistic filmmakers, such as Rossellini, Vittorio DeSica and Cesare Zavattini, was to make a "moral statement," which forces ...

her husband, and knew herself to be near death. Her digestive system had been destroyed by the disease, and, in intense pain and u...

names this "one of the great recent crime movies" (Ebert, 2002). Devil in a Blue Dress references a theme, subject and time perio...

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...

The play is divided into two acts, containing three scenes in the first and two scenes in the second. It centers...

direction and production of a larger film. "The plan, Rodriguez said, was to make a series of three action films for this market a...

way for actresses who were interested not simply in portraying stylish roles but were also interested in exploring characters of s...

Belafonte, and the two eventually become sympathetic toward each other. The movie portrays a culture which is seemingly opposite t...

other horror films. For example, in many subtle ways there is the age old suspense that we often saw in Hitchcock films as subtle ...

associated with roles from other films (Magills Survey of Cinema). During that time in Hollywood, women were not as indepen...

past and present. The result was an overwhelming collection of footage that has since been entitled, Mr. Strehlows Films. Thes...

is Elektra King, unlike many of Bonds female enemies she is a rich young woman who has not become part of communist assassination ...

a term coined by feminist film critic and professor Barbara Creed. And the young girls conversion from angel to devil is more than...