YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The History of Cinematic Comedy
Essays 151 - 180
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...
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 ...
also survived the wreck to conceal her true nature. Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become T...
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...
(Jokinen). He died on August 6, 1637. It has been noted that Jonsons best work is characterized by his "wide and penetrating ob...
director was, quite literally, involved in every possible aspect of filmmaking, from raising money to hiring actors to helping to ...
the name of Jeremy Collier (1650-1726) embarked upon his own personal crusade to censor these works on religious grounds. The pub...
supernatural. Even before the humans enter the forest, and Oberon and Titania become involved in playing tricks on the humans thro...
of money and they will all essentially be wealthy. In the end the townspeople kill this man so they will receive the money....
foul he is that we suffer a twinge of guilt for siding with him so readily. But we tend to do it anyway. The "New York Times" rev...
and accumulating gambling debts he cannot possibly pay, the stage is set for a bloody confrontation when loan sharks come calling....
to the history of this powerfully great city, "Like the magic of a Russian fairy tale, St. Petersburg grew up with such fantastic ...
of hope and a future for the people, not a controlled government that decimates the people. Without really having been in ...
Clare within the historical context of the work of Mary Ward, who established her "own missionary order, the Institute of Mary, in...
Oberon and make him smile/ When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,/ Neighing in likeness of a filly foal:/ And sometime lurk I in...
as arrogant as they play up the fact they are noble and helping. In "The Ugly American" the authors note, "Hordes of United States...
has come forth with a version that wholly eclipses the standard. What can easily be argued is the fact that Branaghs film version...
crashes several hours flying time from a scientific research station in the Arctic. An Air Force crew is ordered to go and pick up...
indication that the audience has that Travis is not quite normal, that is, that his combat experience has left him with mental sca...
children. Josie gets the job, but from the first day, she is subjected to snide sexual references. The women working at the mine ...
money, not religion. Organ, a simplistic, but good man, has allowed Tartuffe to come into his home and take dominance over his fam...
easy to see how Leans grasp of cinematography and his ability to create and drive plots throughout the directing and filming proce...
statement that Social Fascism and Nazism actually worked. At the time, the Games did the job: Shirer noted that "the athletes from...
right opposite my place, / And drew the eyes of all the congregation, / To watch the fervour of his prayers to heaven; / With deep...
mans face. The fish slips from his fingers and manages to make it over the side. The perspective follows the fish. The fish turn...
decent amount of food and health. A Nazi band plays a bright military march that contrasts with the general shabbiness of the men ...
"teach" him "how to think and speak" (3.2.35) and "create" him new" (3.2.41), which is a reversal of the Elizabethan gender stereo...
For many historians, the comedy styles and content of the works of Moliere and Voltaire represent the pinnacle of 18th century Fre...