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quest for the Holy Grail that were considered by filmmaker Terry Gilliam and screenwriter Richard LaGravenese in the 1991 movie Th...

and emotionlessly micromanages his employees while engaging them with superficial small talk" (Office Space, 2008). Lumberghs la...

by persistent discomfort with ones sex" (Meyenburg, 1999, p. 305). This gender identification with the opposite sex typically com...

Brussat, 2007). A student bites a teacher; a gym coach "has sex with three students"; a boy is shot and killed; and the school, wh...

respects it is not a film that illustrates how art education impacts students but how one student is inspired by art education and...

kind of money people like Lester makes. He has all these schemes and dreams and he ultimately learns they are pointless, just as L...

rings. At the door is Delilah Johnson (Louise Beavers), an African American woman who has come to apply for a job as cook and hous...

- but his dominating persona was not very favorable to colleagues (though he could be friendly and helpful on certain occasions) (...

military prestige and marriage to a well-to-do Caucasian, was little more than a savage who was ultimately enslaved by primal pass...

large urban environment, humanity is even more vulnerable to the cruel and capricious winds of fate than at any other time in hist...

(like Mel Gibson in the 1991 film) has no interest in playing him as an apologetic mope" (Ebert). In the written play there is a...

poetry, philosophy and other topics. The club...would be completely unacceptable to the conservative school, which discourages stu...

Fitts (Chris Cooper) and his wife Barbara (Allison Janney). Fitts is even more emotional remote from his teenage son than Lester i...

another toots a miniature horn through his nose. When they arrive at the station, the boys join the rest of their peers, who are...

of his life. He realizes that he has been living in an emotional vacuum, operating more as a robot than a human being, and he subs...

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

of play. The summer is very representative of a simplistic and conservative community, giving us an ideal setting in a simpler tim...

uncompromising manner that demands to be interpreted as truth (This is Spinal Tap PG). It is the perfect device for Rob Reiner to...

the senate and the man these black officials believed had won the election. Gore is seen repeatedly banging his gavel to restore ...

angles that one would not normally expect, such as shooting through water. There is an underwater shot of blood slowly spreading a...

72). Morrow and the two children were killed instantly. While tighter safety precautions were immediately instituted by the film i...

she is thinking or what has occurred. Surrounded by a halo of light, Shermans face is a "shadowed" mask and it is this melodramati...

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...

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...

this when Edward Nortons character slowly develops the alter ego played by Brad Pitt. Edward Nortons character wants nothing to do...