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as an imitation of reality, "it holds a mirror up to nature" (Durant, 1961, p. 59). Aristotle notes that human beings find pleasur...

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

successes to his credit. A total of 112 sets were built, including a scale model of Paris Arc de Triomphe and an entire reproducti...

Japan should become more westernized so that it could prosper economically and protect its territorial independence. Suddenly, a ...

light of day can become obscured in the dark just as the best and brightest intentions can be compromised by allure of corruption....

rings. At the door is Delilah Johnson (Louise Beavers), an African American woman who has come to apply for a job as cook and hous...

evidence of the mixed critical reaction to this film, The Tampa Tribune critic Bob Ross disagrees, calling Big Fat Liar "a showbiz...

true to the book? When Szpilman took pen to paper, he seemingly did so to relay the events of his life. Realizing that he had sur...

physical state that supports the distinguishing characteristics of film noir. Though the term "film noir" is French, the st...

a young girl who has only her inherent strength and her faith in God to help her survive. She is not especially intelligent, nor i...

was put into prison and made to wear a scarlet leader to indicate that she was an adulteress. However, she never revealed who the ...

in 1980, Puerto Ricans organized a protest outside the theater in order to draw attention to the stereotypical images of Latinos ...

specifically address black independent filmmaking. Diawara (2001) highlights the tendency of the mainstream to consistently borro...

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

attempt to make to the viewer sympathetic to his ideas...the film highlights the many conflicting realities which are inherent in ...

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

1996, p. 3), which she accepts as a way of demonstrating her unconditional support of him and his intention to literally drink him...

but that it was shared by his friends. For clarity and to avoid further explanation of detail, the rocket academy they formed in t...

it was because of Kurosawa that the West became aware of Japanese movies and the unique views of and commentary on the world that ...

foundation, upon which the subsequent action and characterizations are constructed. The mise-en-scene, which is featured in the o...

which pokes fun at what might otherwise be regarded as a very unfunny subject, such as death. There is also the romantic comedy, ...

by Heinrich Boll, on which the screenplay was based (Anonymous, 2001). Katharina Blum (played by Angela Winkler) is an innocent,...

not intend for the work to provide the surreal aura that Emerald City became in the filmed classic. The film was a musical and thi...

In five pages this report contrasts and compares the 1987 novel Beloved written by Toni Morrison with the 1998 movie adaptation. ...

noted for her androgynous performances, is clearly a woman who is unafraid to exert a mans strength and predatory nature, has soug...

a childs graduation or see a grandchild give birth. A poor person giving away his or her last dollar is a more moving scenario tha...

is partly based on the experiences of one of its writers, Neil Peng), focuses on Wai-Tung, a gay yuppie and his lover, Simon -- th...

excellent example of explanatory communication. The protagonist is explaining his reasoning and the fact that he wants to do some...

in that Ed Crane is sure that his wife is having an affair with her boss. Banking on the surety of his assumption, he sends the bo...

This paper examines the thematic elements of lifestyle changes and religious affectation in the Nineteenth Century film, Babette's...