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In eight pages the changes that occurred in the horror cinematic genre between 1960 and 1996 are examined in a contrast and compar...
In five pages this analysis considers how director Adrian Lyne's Fatal Attraction represents a changing suspense and horror film g...
conversations -- yet as McNally & Florescu (1994) describe, it remains eminently readable even in an "age of novelettes and journa...
Passage to India. However, his creative pinnacle is largely acknowledged to be the wildly successful (both critically as well as ...
which pokes fun at what might otherwise be regarded as a very unfunny subject, such as death. There is also the romantic comedy, ...
Paradise Lost In a review of "Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills" Roger Ebert (1996) indicates that it "is uni...
closer together and provide cohesiveness to the group through a single-mindedness of purpose (Gehring 93). At no time does the gr...
diegetic music and spoken/sung dialogue (Altman 297-298). This film genre has historically consisted of three evocative forms. F...
couple of cars who happened to be drag racing. This gives the woman a chance to get away. She runs into the city and for some reas...
opening sequence has been found buried beneath the surface of the moon. While Floyd and his colleagues are standing in front of th...
silent era, as it became clear to filmmakers that certain types of stories were particularly popular and profitable (Gazetas, 2008...
as the crime film genre became more sophisticated, the line between good/evil oftentimes became blurred. De Palma elected to take...
the most louche, laidback villains in screen history" (Brooke, 2005, PG) emphasises Thornhills naivety as far as espionage and mur...
whom he has already fathered two children. Charles literally drags Helen to the front door and throws her out of the house (IMDb,...
necessarily a love triangle, more like opportunists trying to manipulate each other. Both of the women attempt to seduce Flynn an...
be made about film noir and its enduring popularity is that it strikes a chord at the depth of nearly every viewer. Film noir focu...
director was, quite literally, involved in every possible aspect of filmmaking, from raising money to hiring actors to helping to ...
Brittens music in this work, his primary identification is with deeply felt emotion that emanates from Owens poetry (Gomez 92). So...
Wilsons War, Gust Avrakotos (Philip Seymour Hoffman) tells Charlie (Tom Hanks) a parable about seemingly good things that can turn...
Soviet Union were busy building up their nuclear arms arsenals, the specter of the nuclear holocaust hung over society and haunted...
meet while returning to their hometown of Boone City, are symbolic of the American social class structure (Beidler 589). Upper-cl...
neorealistic filmmakers, such as Rossellini, Vittorio DeSica and Cesare Zavattini, was to make a "moral statement," which forces ...
role after years as a Warner contract player" (Galloway, 2002; maltesefalcon.shtml). As we can see from this simple description...
Hoping to succeed this time, the good doctor gives his complete attention to Cole, even if it means neglecting his wife, Anna (Oli...
both can be considered comedic films. Definition of film comedy Although East is East is a slice of life film that can...
The auteur film techniques that characterize director Brian DePalma are considered in an examination of three of his films The Unt...
This paper considers how the Vietnam War was depicted in the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket and the 1988 film Good Morning, Vietnam i...
The writer explores the plot, characters, setting and other elements of the 1942 classic film Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart...
In five pages the post First World War avant garde genre and its influence upon theater and cinema are examined in a consideration...
it is about a silent film star, Don Lockwood (played by Kelly) making the transition to sound pictures, a leap that not all popula...