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Essays 391 - 420
In five pages this report examines the creative possibilities represented by Forty Three Days Later, a fictional film about the Pe...
In eight pages this paper discusses the portrayal of the Vietnam War in an assessment of historical accuracy and the presentation ...
In five pages this film prequel is analyzed in terms of what it represents and its influence upon the two cinematic prequels to co...
The God of the Waning Year is associated with the sacrificial victim, whose death was believed necessary in order for the earth to...
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...
viewers (Sklar, 1998). In this regard, reception studies seek empirical evidence, either "historical or ethnographic research," th...
powerful and perhaps confusing mentor, Luke is angered and frustrated as he feels he is learning nothing at all. He struggles on t...
The film opens with panoramic shot of Monument Valley, which is the home of the Navajo tribe (Doherty 36). The lulling serenity of...
"the Son of Your handmaid" (Longhenry, 2004). Additionally, John and Peter address Mary as "mother" numerous times during the film...
This essay presents the thesis that All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), Apocalypse Now (1979), and Saving Private Ryan (1999) s...
in their lives when they are accustoming themselves to their impeding morality and the problems that come with old age. Catherine ...
was a client war, which is defined as a war where two sides fight in a third country. In Korea, the U.S. fought directly against t...
war of ideas,"" as sums up the "thinking of the intellectuals and government para-intellectals who supported the war."v The bulk ...
describes how and why the disastrous ramifications of the Treaty of Versailles set up the conditions that generated continued conf...
obviously take the most tragic of subjects and place the words in a way that would make us, the reader, want more, and yet cause u...
depiction of explicit violence, rapes, flogging, etc. are "implied rather than shown," he seems to feel that this is an artistic a...
suggests, the filmmakers show him as very human and the script does a good job of dramatizing his imperfections as well as his rem...
entitled "House of Cards," the detectives and attorneys who are featured in the show similarly face what seems like a case of cert...
sixteen at the time, had stolen a neighbors car and his fathers guns. Harris gave Adams a lift when his vehicle ran out of gas. H...
film. More credits fall and slide into place, which foreshadows how Thornhill will later slide, nearly falling off the face of Lin...
who is also a preacher, and conspires to have him evicted from his congregation (Alleva, 1998). Enraged, Sonny takes his sons base...
romantic leads ("Screwball comedy"). Another feature of the screwball was its "reverse class snobbery," where to be poor was, so...
that "Tara is the whole story" as the plot revolves around Tara" (Schreibman, 2004, p. 41). The cinematography particularly unde...
mother, Elinor and Marianne (who are both young women) and younger sister Margaret, by beginning with the death of Henry Dashwood,...
decent amount of food and health. A Nazi band plays a bright military march that contrasts with the general shabbiness of the men ...
of his story, as his capture is told in flashback, which emphasizes the personal tragedy of this event for him. Cinques story of h...
high over the legendary kiss between two women portrayed in Morocco. Society was simply not ready for an open acknowledgement of ...
when Dash gets in trouble at school. His mother, Helen, is trying to talk to him and reason with him as they drive home, telling h...
In eight pages this paper examines Kubrick's definitive auteur film styles as they are represented in these films and compares the...
In five pages cinematic realism is compared and contrasted with film noir and surrealism with the focus being how in the film Ragi...