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culture in the discontentment of one mans desire to live more of his life than merely being a cookie cutout of average people. Le...

An analysis of the city's role in The American Friend, a 1977 film by director Wim Wenders, is presented in seven pages. There is...

relationship between a city or Nations government and a person is much like that of a parent/child relationship. The state nurture...

Burnham and his mid-life angst., a compelling subplot provides a telling commentary on the manner in which homosexuality is percei...

Schwartz towards the woman he is longing for; the disappointed gaze of his wife Lotte (Cameron Diaz). When a person is presumably ...

above racism as he deals with his fathers death. White supremacy groups are, like many hateful groups, designed to control their...

"at heart, I was always a silent movie man" (Twatio 14). One reason why early silent films appear odd or stilted to modern audie...

love for their children. However, it quickly becomes evident that there is trouble in this paradise, as Alice has a problem, as sh...

enjoy his vacation but pushes aside that vacation to help his friend find retribution for the murder of his father. There are mome...

counterculture. Thus, by setting his film there (he filmed most of it on location), Lester was tapping into the one spot in the co...

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

(Benshoff and Griffin 132). A voiceover at the beginning of the film explains that because of this law, 1940s Chinatown was exclus...

1998). Derek is induced into joining a neo-Nazi movement by a older hate-monger played by Stacy Keach, who uses him as a neighbo...

his five years at Biograph, Griffith took the raw elements of moviemaking as they had evolved up to that time -- lighting, continu...

brutalized in this event and the historical record shows that such a background would be historically accurate. Alienated against...

or rouged (Brabazon, 2000, p. 98). At an awards ceremony, Davis was asked if she regretted not being the sort of movie star that w...

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

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

clearly an attempt to redefine the modern cowboy for modern audiences by penetrating the invincible stereotype and revealing vulne...

as arrogant as they play up the fact they are noble and helping. In "The Ugly American" the authors note, "Hordes of United States...

out of the selection" (Mikiro). They have never really been presented in film, showing how Natives were actually treated. One o...

in the destructive power of nuclear energy. Osteen (1994) points out that few events have affected the American psyche in a manne...

makes constitutes the "others" uniqueness. "The Other" inFilm The existence of "the other" has figured prominently throughout the...

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...

In eight pages this paper examines the shift from Orson Welles' perceptions of the American Dream to the subversion represented in...

everyone reveals their powerful inner human side, and all comes out well in the end. Some may argue that this film depicts the ...

Brando, the apples and pears of Cezanne...and Tracys face" (Chances 66). Throughout the film, Ike professes his belief that "It is...

This 7 page paper compares Alexie's 1993 book with the Chris Eyre 1998 book that was inspired by the film and its representation o...

are not our leaders, but terrorists, such as the Unabomber and Timothy McVeigh. Within this mass of confusing images and media mes...

character and Brian, however, are that Brian did not go through a stage where he involved himself in an affair to ease the transit...