YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :American Interpretations of Film Noir
Essays 241 - 270
Schwartz towards the woman he is longing for; the disappointed gaze of his wife Lotte (Cameron Diaz). When a person is presumably ...
the nature of good and evil. In "Shadow," there are the two "Charlies," Uncle Charlie and his niece, Charlotte, who is known as "C...
"at heart, I was always a silent movie man" (Twatio 14). One reason why early silent films appear odd or stilted to modern audie...
love for their children. However, it quickly becomes evident that there is trouble in this paradise, as Alice has a problem, as sh...
of Boston and Philadelphia. Rather, the film endeavors to expose the man behind the myth. It discusses his life essentially in c...
to the settlement of the American frontier, Drums Along the Mohawk. It is the story of farmer Gil Martin and his privileged bride...
a shock for white audiences. Poitier invested his character with dignity and strength, and although later that tactic no longer re...
have reattached since he could not afford the cost of both. According to Rick, the hospital priced the reattachment of his middle...
Fasts text of the same name). They each offer depictions of George Washington as perceived by authors, screenwriters, and filmmak...
as icon ... you dont cast Denzel Washington unless youre willing to accept that charisma is often the secret weapon of the success...
The writer discusses the efforts made by the U.S. during the Cold War to win other nations to its view. The methods discussed incl...
kind of money people like Lester makes. He has all these schemes and dreams and he ultimately learns they are pointless, just as L...
such a level of significance which allows it to be seen as a representation of the issues which are applicable to the society, and...
in explicit language and vivid descriptions of sexuality that were shocking within the conservative cultural context of the period...
someone was sick, or out of a job, or when things were going wrong, they asked God for help (Rodriguez). At home, "God the Father ...
how dependent upon technology the average citizen has become in everyday life. The fact that God initially contacted Bruce via hi...
bed, or even beginning to become amorous might secure a PG rating, but during that time period, blatant sexuality in film was not ...
brutalized in this event and the historical record shows that such a background would be historically accurate. Alienated against...
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...
out of the selection" (Mikiro). They have never really been presented in film, showing how Natives were actually treated. One o...
his five years at Biograph, Griffith took the raw elements of moviemaking as they had evolved up to that time -- lighting, continu...
character and Brian, however, are that Brian did not go through a stage where he involved himself in an affair to ease the transit...
makes constitutes the "others" uniqueness. "The Other" inFilm The existence of "the other" has figured prominently throughout the...
In eight pages this paper examines the shift from Orson Welles' perceptions of the American Dream to the subversion represented in...
of his life. He realizes that he has been living in an emotional vacuum, operating more as a robot than a human being, and he subs...
everyone reveals their powerful inner human side, and all comes out well in the end. Some may argue that this film depicts the ...
Fitts (Chris Cooper) and his wife Barbara (Allison Janney). Fitts is even more emotional remote from his teenage son than Lester i...
(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...
1998). Derek is induced into joining a neo-Nazi movement by a older hate-monger played by Stacy Keach, who uses him as a neighbo...