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light across a coffee table may be the only thing that signals that the scene takes place in someones living room. Throughout th...

portrays? Are the facts sacrificed in the name of entertainment? Seabiscuit is not only the story of a horse but also of the rea...

were quite memorable. Jehan is an evil man who desires Esmerelda, like most of the men in the story, and Esmerelda is a very helpl...

the voiceover. According to reviewer Patricia Kowal, this inclusion of a female perspective furthers the gangster genre because it...

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

the more stable cellulose acetate film to preserve the content (De Stefano, 2003). Unfortunately, these efforts were limited, bec...

twentieth century, people are all chimeras, or mythic hybrids of machine and organism, or cyborgs (Haraway, 1991). In Western sci...

tight close-up (Dirks, 1996). There is a menacing "No Trespassing" sign outside an old gate, and after panning up over a chain-li...

Music Town. With $9,000 of store receipts in his pocket, Lucas goes to Atlantic City in hopes of parlaying that into enough money...

her bedroom wall and uses this to confide in. However, even at this very early level there are indication of the culture clash and...

daytime and snow is falling. "Charlie" (Charles Foster Kane) is playing outside, and the camera stops on him. He rolls a snowbal...

clear example of this conflict (Dinks, 2005). Ringo, who doesnt know Dallass background, seats her close to Lucy, which makes her...

people remember many strong disagreements with their first families. Battles during toddlerhood and adolescence are common and wil...

Hyde. Mr. Hyde is a hideous man who engages in murder and essentially allows his most animalistic, most primitive, nature to come ...

the most louche, laidback villains in screen history" (Brooke, 2005, PG) emphasises Thornhills naivety as far as espionage and mur...

was no evidence of peeling paint on anything. Schools like Welton do exist in the United States. They are generally very clos...

as the crime film genre became more sophisticated, the line between good/evil oftentimes became blurred. De Palma elected to take...

America, the concept of the antihero was revised to better reflect the attitudes of its citizens, and was defined to be an individ...

Laura Mulveys book, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, states "Film reflects, reveals and even plays on the straight, socially ...

and destiny must have been in the air. Certainly the idea of freedom and destiny, of purpose and potential are embodied in the cha...

dime to look like an model. In fact, in reality, it was not too long ago when it was discovered that models were selling their egg...

(Benshoff and Griffin 132). A voiceover at the beginning of the film explains that because of this law, 1940s Chinatown was exclus...

anthropological data on this tribe, it is impossible to say precisely where this assessment errs, but err it must, simply because ...

and behaviours, and seen as being in direct opposition to "femininity", which is equally constrained in its parameters, and define...

McGill spins a yarn about buried ill-gotten gains ($1.2 million) that he promises to share (Berardinelli). In their journey, the...

The assignment asks how the student relates to Annas problem. This writer/tutor imagines that it is quite easy for many women to r...

whom he has already fathered two children. Charles literally drags Helen to the front door and throws her out of the house (IMDb,...

is an unfortunate event, but the event takes place not because the boy did not have a good mother, but because his mother was poor...

1998). Derek is induced into joining a neo-Nazi movement by a older hate-monger played by Stacy Keach, who uses him as a neighbo...

had erred so completely, even though he did so unknowingly, his only recourse was to take his own life. In Fight Club, then, th...