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his five years at Biograph, Griffith took the raw elements of moviemaking as they had evolved up to that time -- lighting, continu...

(Manvell 37). While Pudovkin would occasionally use non-professional actors in the name of realism, he preferred relying on profe...

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 ...

director was, quite literally, involved in every possible aspect of filmmaking, from raising money to hiring actors to helping to ...

who are unfamiliar with the novels premise, it concerns the Dashwood family (a mother and her three young daughters) who have been...

The cuts are approximately equal in length. Finally Thornhill asks if hes supposed to meet someone and the stranger replies...

This essay uses research to offer an overview of "Cool Hand Luke," a 1967 film directed by Stuart Rosenberg. Cinematic features, s...

This paper discusses the work of French film director Chris Marker. The writer address his cinematic style, his topics and his psy...

This paper pertains to Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of "Hamlet." The writer describes the overall film and the cinematic devices ...

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...

light of day can become obscured in the dark just as the best and brightest intentions can be compromised by allure of corruption....

influence in the life of his father and a contributing factor in the suicide of his mother. Therefore, the reader comes to underst...

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...

flag down a car, but no one stops. Desperate, she positions herself in the middle of the road while holding her arms outstretched ...

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

identity. It is interesting to note that as he pulls on his "cloak of madness" that his true intellect becomes completely clouded ...

political insights that can be gleaned from any motion picture. The major differences between a journalistic approach to a movie c...

climactic as an invading force, but may take place in the acculturation of one culture from another. Even today many of the Wester...

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...

early years of the century. George Albert Smith was the first to experiment with composing scenes from individual shots and camera...

are mediums that are used for both works of fiction or art or as devices to convey messages. However, artistic works of fiction al...

the audience a close up of Othellos face and the audience is able to watch the doubt creep over Othellos face. Without saying anyt...

it is quite obviously going to have a lot of action throughout the film. However, too much action and the theme and characterizati...

lends great insight into the cinematic development of any film, especially the films of Hitchcock. In his movies, every shot has ...

a women faced with the types of situations that they face in his plays. Twelfth Night examples this most concisely. The plot of T...

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...

Censorship of any form also has the effect of promoting elitism with regard to access to...