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Essays 541 - 570
physical state that supports the distinguishing characteristics of film noir. Though the term "film noir" is French, the st...
preface of her book, author Susan Brigden confesses to the broad nature of her book "New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudo...
Indeed, by looking at the role of the women in the movie it is a reflection of the social conditions. There is a reflection of the...
hard to draw oppositions between Travis and the Villain, Sport, as both are strong males who use forceful methods and generally th...
of the classic noir characteristics, it also thumbed its nose at the use of flashbacks. There were no voice-over narrations, with ...
and evil (technology). Blade Runner considers the city of Los Angeles in the year 2019 as "a fragmented Third World metropolis, m...
(Rombes). Rafferty (1997) explains that the postmodern film is built on the film noir genre, but that a feature of postmodernism ...
back to the film "The Birth of the Nation" which lead later to a movement of "race films" in the 1920s in the cinema. Mainstream U...
way for actresses who were interested not simply in portraying stylish roles but were also interested in exploring characters of s...
Belafonte, and the two eventually become sympathetic toward each other. The movie portrays a culture which is seemingly opposite t...
other horror films. For example, in many subtle ways there is the age old suspense that we often saw in Hitchcock films as subtle ...
names this "one of the great recent crime movies" (Ebert, 2002). Devil in a Blue Dress references a theme, subject and time perio...
her husband, and knew herself to be near death. Her digestive system had been destroyed by the disease, and, in intense pain and u...
it can be seen to have been on its way out at the dawn of all the other television competition for viewers time. Perspectives shif...
The basic structure of most fiction stories follows a simple Act one, Act Two, Act Three kind of format. In the first part of the ...
the event of Savannahs hospitalization after a second suicide attempt and Toms journey to New York to assist her psychologist, Dr....
Hitchcocks movie, Vertigo. This whole movie is centered around one man and his inability to let go of an old love. The story, in b...
direction and production of a larger film. "The plan, Rodriguez said, was to make a series of three action films for this market a...
The play is divided into two acts, containing three scenes in the first and two scenes in the second. It centers...
of human existence and the ways in which all human beings relate to stress, desire, and feelings of social and personal alienation...
In five pages the powerful use of color in the film's storytelling is examined. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....
This paper examines this film's complexities in terms of the intertwining government and societal factors throughout in five pages...
In five pages this text and its controversial message are examined with primary themes including films' role and their use as tool...
determine the dramatic strengths and weaknesses of one version compared to another. The movie This is a "coming of age" story and...
seriously short-handed, and in desperation, he enlists Starlings services. In the novel, Starling is portrayed as an ambitious an...
In three pages cinema is defined as 'writing in images' with differences between visual and written texts considered along with fi...
religion is treated in Hollywood film; what forces of religion are considered "box office" (i.e., profitable); and what values do...
who comes to love Mag and he persuades her to marry him. This step, of course, completes Mags ostracism from white society. "She w...
successes to his credit. A total of 112 sets were built, including a scale model of Paris Arc de Triomphe and an entire reproducti...
truth and the search for meaning in life. It was no longer a time for people to sleep and hide in their supposedly perfect illusor...