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a term coined by feminist film critic and professor Barbara Creed. And the young girls conversion from angel to devil is more than...

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...

her husband, and knew herself to be near death. Her digestive system had been destroyed by the disease, and, in intense pain and u...

names this "one of the great recent crime movies" (Ebert, 2002). Devil in a Blue Dress references a theme, subject and time perio...

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 ...

the event of Savannahs hospitalization after a second suicide attempt and Toms journey to New York to assist her psychologist, Dr....

associated with roles from other films (Magills Survey of Cinema). During that time in Hollywood, women were not as indepen...

past and present. The result was an overwhelming collection of footage that has since been entitled, Mr. Strehlows Films. Thes...

politics. Gore Vidal wrote the screenplay, as well as the original Broadway play on which the movie is based. Vidal was friends wi...

exact) and the censorship had begun to relax. Other firsts included showing the two lovers naked on their wedding night. What one...

the whole trilogy and uses a heavily layered story that involves high action sequences that are purely designed to attract those w...

of human existence and the ways in which all human beings relate to stress, desire, and feelings of social and personal alienation...

of these men (Broken Sword, Sky, and Flying Snow). In essence, the central protagonist in the film takes it on himself to find an...

understand and come to terms with life as they know it. Their father is a small town minister. Fly fishing seems to be their only ...

human being he is. This comes as a shock to Oliverio who is as bad as the rest in assuming that prostitutes have no brains. Actu...

child who is the product of a failed system, this film seems to be saying. This film was a social commentary of sorts, which use...

Chaplin appeared, it was also a film that he made use of established paradigms. The tools used focus on content emotion had experi...

and expression than film where the camera is able to capture the most subtle suggestions of emotion through the use of a close -up...

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...

The play is divided into two acts, containing three scenes in the first and two scenes in the second. It centers...

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 message it conveys through incisive parody scary? Definitely. Barry Levinson is a veteran filmmaker who deftly employs a cyn...

meet while returning to their hometown of Boone City, are symbolic of the American social class structure (Beidler 589). Upper-cl...

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 ...

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...

in keeping all of the people hostage while the funds are delivered. As mentioned, while it is not exactly a bank robbery film, it ...