YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Birth of a Nation Cinematic History
Essays 481 - 510
indication that the audience has that Travis is not quite normal, that is, that his combat experience has left him with mental sca...
children. Josie gets the job, but from the first day, she is subjected to snide sexual references. The women working at the mine ...
and accumulating gambling debts he cannot possibly pay, the stage is set for a bloody confrontation when loan sharks come calling....
to the history of this powerfully great city, "Like the magic of a Russian fairy tale, St. Petersburg grew up with such fantastic ...
of hope and a future for the people, not a controlled government that decimates the people. Without really having been in ...
to computers to cell phones is digital in nature, that is, totally a product of math; yet, few of us understand how math makes the...
mans face. The fish slips from his fingers and manages to make it over the side. The perspective follows the fish. The fish turn...
decent amount of food and health. A Nazi band plays a bright military march that contrasts with the general shabbiness of the men ...
in structuralist models, researchers often examine the underlying structures which occur beneath the actions or speech of the indi...
use the camera in the same way as an author uses words for both aesthetic and textural purposes. There are two particularly effec...
in his 30s. Coppola, born in 1939 in Detroit, Michigan to an actress mother (Italia) and musician father (Carmine) grew up in Quee...
attitude which pervades most of her works, even today, it can be stated. This is because feminism was asking women to redefine the...
woman. She has the ability to ruin peoples lives. This gives her a great deal of power and it corrupts absolutely. As Judge Danfor...
of tape and combines them to emphasize their meaning. It is a method by which through two unrelated shots we may create a third an...
of the classic noir characteristics, it also thumbed its nose at the use of flashbacks. There were no voice-over narrations, with ...
are similar to Emilys. The characters discussed are Carrie, from the film "Carrie," Norman Bates from the film "Psycho," Eleanor f...
(Rombes). Rafferty (1997) explains that the postmodern film is built on the film noir genre, but that a feature of postmodernism ...
There are other types of westerns though as well. Some westerns depict life in Americas colonial times or may take place in terra...
Indeed, by looking at the role of the women in the movie it is a reflection of the social conditions. There is a reflection of the...
1956 account of Vincent Van Gogh leaves that question open in his sympathetic portrayal of the artist" (TCM, 2003). When watchi...
libidinal desire and an internal examination, which tends to idealize self (Naiman 333). The one factor which unites the two symb...
given a task to perform and in doing so derives some sort of personal meaning from it. He may meet with a great series of misfortu...
Censorship of any form also has the effect of promoting elitism with regard to access to...
finds that he has a natural talent for it. It is as if the emotional side of him which has been forced to remain silent finally ha...
a woman-suit out of women (using their skin)-the ultimate in objectification" (Vorndam). Lecter is initially contemptuous of Starl...
water from a fire hydrant. The street scene also emphasizes the desperation of the era. A man stands next to a car that is covered...
Many of his early Star Wars films feature several shots of models and miniatures that convey realism as impressively and in less t...
novel and wholly unique to the film, it is arguably faithful to Fowles intentions in the way that the original novel is structured...
Thompson 115). The number of possible angles is infinite since there are an infinite number of points in space that the camera can...
a football player. Ford then told Duke to "try to tackle him" (PG) and Duke attempted it but was thrown roughly to the ground. W...