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legacy of screwball comedy. Both Ninotchka and Roman Holiday encompass themes that are more sophisticated than the typical screwb...

own terms, as an interpretation for a modern mass audience of a compelling story that gives shape to some of the deepest-rooted hu...

style, but did not really have the time to focus on its development until he suffered from a back injury and spent numerous months...

hide those Jews that were being persecuted by Hitlers war machine. He used his unsuccessful businesses as fronts to move various f...

considered a right" (230). In four French films in particular, Arnaud Desplechins Comment Je Me Suis Disput?... (Ma Vie Sexuelle)...

of a horror film, and the crucifixion of Jesus is without question one of the most horrific episodes in world history. There are ...

period scenes depicting Salinas and Soledad are reconstructed "in meticulous... detail" (Murray, 2003; Morsberger, 1993, p. 128). ...

formula that proposes to plot the poems value on a graph, Keating denounces it and commands his students to rip the offending page...

but always something that is made in a four-party meaning-situation. An author... circulates a text... to an audience... whose pe...

What is generally missed, according to Lyden, is that regardless of cinematic content, audiences receive all the messages of a fil...

harrowing to watch, with Nash suffering several climactic breakdowns and brief moments of lucidity and temporary remission. The u...

the face of it, to go against the utilitarian principle of the "greatest good of the greatest number", taking a more long-term vie...

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

is a virtual prisoner in her home (Copycat). She has withdrawn from both work and her life and the only contact she has with the o...

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...

death, Maggies family comes to see her just to secure their inheritance, something that brings money into the picture. Clearly, th...

Angeles finds out hes not real, he sets the rest of the film in motion. The questions are: what makes contemporary LA different f...

they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. In The Birds, for instance, Melanie (Tippi Hedren) pursues Mitch (Rod Taylor), a m...

are used to match up, such as a person getting out of a chair and then being shown form a different angle entering a room. The use...

someone was sick, or out of a job, or when things were going wrong, they asked God for help (Rodriguez). At home, "God the Father ...

seems to ring true" (Rosenstock, 2003). In the film, Nashs hallucinations take a visual form; his roommate, the man he believes re...

there is a certain allure to the way in which both Caine and O-Dog are portrayed. Cinema has since its inception been one of the...

still essentially the same (HBO, 2007). In this series, therefore, it seems as though the image of Rome is one that is historical ...

labor. Rather than being totally dependent on custom, these societies are held together primarily through mutual obligation betwee...