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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....

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 ...

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

Japan should become more westernized so that it could prosper economically and protect its territorial independence. Suddenly, a ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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

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

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...

as did the movie companies, which realiszed that the sweet manufacturer hadnt paid a cent" (Goodwin, 2002). With these realities p...

and thus stands as something that would attract audiences. Another reason why this novel would do well is in relationship to th...

employed, whose most significant feature is to make the cut seem invisible. This is achieved through such devices as shot/reverse-...

also shows how the Nation of Islam similarly rehabilitated other prostitutes and drug dealers during the time, "providing moral gu...

incidence of fire breaking out during operations. In one of ABCs 20/20 episodes in 1998, the audience was cautioned that this ha...

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...

After the robbery goes bad, the gang regroups in an abandoned warehouse. Here they learn that the reason their job went bad was du...

darkies" (Leab 99). Focusing on the Atlanta plantation of Gerald and Ellen OHara, Gone With the Wind represented life for souther...

contemplate how individual and cultural identities are constructed in the first place. In the opinion of Benedict Anderson, autho...