YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Trio of Historic Films Examined
Essays 1261 - 1290
rolling down a hillside and coming ominously to rest" (Morris, 2000). Following the template set by Caligari, Lang also delves int...
inherently linked to learned and imitated processes. Will Hunting is a character who demonstrates vast intelligence and a...
resonates with the viewers and that, in part, is why the film is so successful (Short and Short). In addition, writer and Angelo...
(Bacchus, 2007). The atomic age is the real villain here, because its radiation from the atomic testing in New Mexico that causes ...
but be of a military mind and take such realities as par for the course in warfare. There may be others who used the war to make t...
War can be seen as an event that ends in ruin for all concerned. He also says that society in general was dividing into two "grea...
the not-too-distant past; the guards on the battlements talk about how the previous King Hamlet "smote the sledded [Polacks] on th...
labor. Rather than being totally dependent on custom, these societies are held together primarily through mutual obligation betwee...
that adolescence is a time of life that skews peoples thinking. People the age of the Latin Kings have a terrifying illusion of im...
seems to ring true" (Rosenstock, 2003). In the film, Nashs hallucinations take a visual form; his roommate, the man he believes re...
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 ...
and while the film industry was just a gleam in the eye of motion picture gurus, the industry would later become important to Holl...
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...
not something that sprung up in the 1990s or 1980s. Yes, it is a 1950s phenomenon ("Film History of the 1950s"). McDonalds was fra...
an afternoon off and a swim. At the beach house, the first camera shot has Monte showing a closet full of bathing suits (Dirks)....
kind of money people like Lester makes. He has all these schemes and dreams and he ultimately learns they are pointless, just as L...
and society would become even more fragmented than it already is. The question also arises: do we have the right to design our chi...
identity in relation to the various products of the national and international film and television industries, and the conditions ...
such a level of significance which allows it to be seen as a representation of the issues which are applicable to the society, and...
in explicit language and vivid descriptions of sexuality that were shocking within the conservative cultural context of the period...
a doctor has to treat the whole person. Many studies have shown that patients resent it when doctors think of them simply as their...
death, Maggies family comes to see her just to secure their inheritance, something that brings money into the picture. Clearly, th...
"realists," saying that what they "had in common was a desire to put cinema at the service of what ... [he] called a fundamental f...
Angeles finds out hes not real, he sets the rest of the film in motion. The questions are: what makes contemporary LA different f...
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...
2006, p.34). Conversely, if one imagines their day as something that will be wonderful, good things are more likely to occur. It m...