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Essays 241 - 270
In eighteen pages the screwball comedy is examined in terms of its history and evolution with a discussion of their intentions alo...
This paper consists of seven pages and includes a Copland history and discography along with discussions of his film industry cont...
In five pages this essay examines how Middle Ages history and life are portrayed in the films Jabberwocky and First Knight. Two s...
Two sets of lovers from these families evolve over the course of the film: Ben Cameron and Elsie Stoneman and Phil Stoneman and Ma...
construct of war from one in which emotions such as love have the power to overwhelm the realities of death and dying which surrou...
artistic advancements, including a color sequence at the end" (Review of The Birth of a Nation, 2002). Furthermore, this film gre...
diegetic music and spoken/sung dialogue (Altman 297-298). This film genre has historically consisted of three evocative forms. F...
In ten pages this paper chronicles the history of British film from its 19th century origins until 1939. Six sources are listed i...
end, he assimilates, as they want him to as he is continually beaten and harassed. Though the author tries to make it seem as if t...
however, other provides insight into the minds of the typical German citizen and the manner in which they interacted with others o...
in their lives when they are accustoming themselves to their impeding morality and the problems that come with old age. Catherine ...
the nature of good and evil. In "Shadow," there are the two "Charlies," Uncle Charlie and his niece, Charlotte, who is known as "C...
"historical facsimile" of the House of Representatives for the State of South Carolina in 1870 (Dirks). In this scene, the audienc...
love for their children. However, it quickly becomes evident that there is trouble in this paradise, as Alice has a problem, as sh...
"at heart, I was always a silent movie man" (Twatio 14). One reason why early silent films appear odd or stilted to modern audie...
Schwartz towards the woman he is longing for; the disappointed gaze of his wife Lotte (Cameron Diaz). When a person is presumably ...
The God of the Waning Year is associated with the sacrificial victim, whose death was believed necessary in order for the earth to...
"the Son of Your handmaid" (Longhenry, 2004). Additionally, John and Peter address Mary as "mother" numerous times during the film...
of Boston and Philadelphia. Rather, the film endeavors to expose the man behind the myth. It discusses his life essentially in c...
a shock for white audiences. Poitier invested his character with dignity and strength, and although later that tactic no longer re...
to the settlement of the American frontier, Drums Along the Mohawk. It is the story of farmer Gil Martin and his privileged bride...
Fasts text of the same name). They each offer depictions of George Washington as perceived by authors, screenwriters, and filmmak...
In six pages the antiabolitionist intent of Stowe's novel is compared with the African American stereotypes it was responsible for...
(Benshoff and Griffin 132). A voiceover at the beginning of the film explains that because of this law, 1940s Chinatown was exclus...
but always something that is made in a four-party meaning-situation. An author... circulates a text... to an audience... whose pe...
incidence of fire breaking out during operations. In one of ABCs 20/20 episodes in 1998, the audience was cautioned that this ha...
out of the selection" (Mikiro). They have never really been presented in film, showing how Natives were actually treated. One o...
or rouged (Brabazon, 2000, p. 98). At an awards ceremony, Davis was asked if she regretted not being the sort of movie star that w...
Burnham and his mid-life angst., a compelling subplot provides a telling commentary on the manner in which homosexuality is percei...
counterculture. Thus, by setting his film there (he filmed most of it on location), Lester was tapping into the one spot in the co...