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diegetic music and spoken/sung dialogue (Altman 297-298). This film genre has historically consisted of three evocative forms. F...
the content of these three films and place them in the context of the time considering the placement and the culture of the time. ...
Paradise Lost In a review of "Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills" Roger Ebert (1996) indicates that it "is uni...
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, ...
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...
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...
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...
specifically address black independent filmmaking. Diawara (2001) highlights the tendency of the mainstream to consistently borro...
director was, quite literally, involved in every possible aspect of filmmaking, from raising money to hiring actors to helping to ...
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...
Many of his early Star Wars films feature several shots of models and miniatures that convey realism as impressively and in less t...
in films today. The protagonist at the heart of Allens films is conflicted, neurotic, and a bumbler who usually manages, somehow, ...
silent era, as it became clear to filmmakers that certain types of stories were particularly popular and profitable (Gazetas, 2008...
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...
a thicket of vines. This is a slow tracking show that is designed to five the audience the impression that they are seeing the poi...
red interior, which contrasts with the white exterior of the car. Like the car, Ripley has a seemingly "spotless" exterior, but hi...
Brittens music in this work, his primary identification is with deeply felt emotion that emanates from Owens poetry (Gomez 92). So...
both can be considered comedic films. Definition of film comedy Although East is East is a slice of life film that can...
by the discussion of sex, and thus make them vulnerable to communist influence(Gordon 2003). The Kinsey sexual research studies ha...
role after years as a Warner contract player" (Galloway, 2002; maltesefalcon.shtml). As we can see from this simple description...
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 ...
it is about a silent film star, Don Lockwood (played by Kelly) making the transition to sound pictures, a leap that not all popula...
film taking on certain aspects of each others roles (Davis 80). Norika offers Tomi and Shukichi the respect that filial tradition ...
The auteur film techniques that characterize director Brian DePalma are considered in an examination of three of his films The Unt...