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Music Town. With $9,000 of store receipts in his pocket, Lucas goes to Atlantic City in hopes of parlaying that into enough money...
have readily characterized their discipline by a progression of determining steps beginning with the development of a sociological...
In the epic, the threat is supernatural; in the film, the menace is recast as a vicious, cannibalistic tribe who dress in animal s...
them" (Trbic, 2005). At the same time there was a very powerful visual style that was insistence on losing the "polite look of his...
child with the family maid, Maj (Fanny and Alexander PG). The Ekdahl family mantra is, according to Helena, that actors are not t...
Battle of Summit Springs, a reenactment that showcased Cody rescuing poor white damsel Indian captives in distress (Buscombe 286)....
wealthy man puts his emphasis on money, power and manipulation; fails at politics and his domestic life and dies friendless and al...
to consider who has helped the most people, Michael Milken or Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa spent her life helping the poor, while ...
a camaraderie that is more reminiscent of Huck and Tom than future revolutionaries. However, as they begin to see the poverty and ...
his five years at Biograph, Griffith took the raw elements of moviemaking as they had evolved up to that time -- lighting, continu...
only thing that is known is what is presently occurring. In other words, if something is out of ones eyesight and experience, it i...
light across a coffee table may be the only thing that signals that the scene takes place in someones living room. Throughout th...
portrays? Are the facts sacrificed in the name of entertainment? Seabiscuit is not only the story of a horse but also of the rea...
were quite memorable. Jehan is an evil man who desires Esmerelda, like most of the men in the story, and Esmerelda is a very helpl...
the voiceover. According to reviewer Patricia Kowal, this inclusion of a female perspective furthers the gangster genre because it...
the more stable cellulose acetate film to preserve the content (De Stefano, 2003). Unfortunately, these efforts were limited, bec...
documentary, that his most beloved college professor, Morrie Schwartz, played by Jack Lemmon, is dying from what is commonly refer...
by his mother. He becomes angry and withdrawn, mistrusting others around him and as a result constantly tests the boundaries Ted ...
same material, that is, the historical background to corporations, their basic operating motivation and specific case studies. How...
brutalized in this event and the historical record shows that such a background would be historically accurate. Alienated against...
is picked to become part of a US Ping-Pong team that plays in newly opened Communist China. After his discharge from the army, For...
experience, will readily be admitted with regard to such objects, as we remember to have once been altogether unknown to us..." (A...
notes that this is the first film crew to be given permission to film extensively at the UN and this gives the movie a feeling of ...
the moon base known as Clavius (Falsetto 44). In perhaps the most memorable sequence, when Bowman travels "Beyond the Infinite," ...
games and the computer, it rises up between 35 and 55 hours a week (Gentile et al., 2004; 1235). Through this much media exposure ...
editorializing, but this fits well within the boundaries of the film. For example, at one point a character says that "at any give...
inexperienced actors in the lead roles (Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey). The play opens with the servants, Samson and Gregory,...
scene begins Laura Wingfield (Karen Allen) and her gentleman caller Jim OConnor (James Naughton) are looking at Lauras "glass mena...
evolves because the men in the film are misogynist or because it is something that is a part of Celie, is unclear. Still, it seems...
as "a fantastic figure: he is Death, he is the elf-Knight of the ballads, he is the imagination, he is a Dream" (Easterly 543). As...