YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Influence of Border Films
Essays 2611 - 2640
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...
Battle of Summit Springs, a reenactment that showcased Cody rescuing poor white damsel Indian captives in distress (Buscombe 286)....
them" (Trbic, 2005). At the same time there was a very powerful visual style that was insistence on losing the "polite look of his...
child with the family maid, Maj (Fanny and Alexander PG). The Ekdahl family mantra is, according to Helena, that actors are not t...
twentieth century, people are all chimeras, or mythic hybrids of machine and organism, or cyborgs (Haraway, 1991). In Western sci...
is bored out of his skull with his job and his life. His doctor advises him to go to support club meetings for people who are rea...
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 ...
her bedroom wall and uses this to confide in. However, even at this very early level there are indication of the culture clash and...
clear example of this conflict (Dinks, 2005). Ringo, who doesnt know Dallass background, seats her close to Lucy, which makes her...
have readily characterized their discipline by a progression of determining steps beginning with the development of a sociological...
In the epic, the threat is supernatural; in the film, the menace is recast as a vicious, cannibalistic tribe who dress in animal s...
light across a coffee table may be the only thing that signals that the scene takes place in someones living room. Throughout th...
only thing that is known is what is presently occurring. In other words, if something is out of ones eyesight and experience, it i...
the voiceover. According to reviewer Patricia Kowal, this inclusion of a female perspective furthers the gangster genre because it...
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...
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...
documentary, that his most beloved college professor, Morrie Schwartz, played by Jack Lemmon, is dying from what is commonly refer...
by his mother. He becomes angry and withdrawn, mistrusting others around him and as a result constantly tests the boundaries Ted ...
same material, that is, the historical background to corporations, their basic operating motivation and specific case studies. How...
brutalized in this event and the historical record shows that such a background would be historically accurate. Alienated against...
Marx). In other words, Marx saw societies as being composed of classes in constant conflict. Differing markedly from his predecess...
mistakes will occur. A novice director frequently has difficulty keeping a "clear head" in regards to the scenes as they unfold ...
of money used to market them, and they are distributed to theaters via a well-understood network of distributors. These condition...
dance in his life. What makes this film powerful in its presentation of dance is that it makes the viewer aware of the passiona...
watching Vietnam films, but if I had to pick one that seems to capture the horror, blood, panic, humor, and sheer waste of the who...
out of the selection" (Mikiro). They have never really been presented in film, showing how Natives were actually treated. One o...