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be made about film noir and its enduring popularity is that it strikes a chord at the depth of nearly every viewer. Film noir focu...

evolution of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment until its climactic attack on Fort Wagner, South Carolina of July 18, 1863, that resulted i...

lost prior to being sent from his home (1995). The camera is suddenly outside focusing on smoke rising form the chimney and then ...

crashes several hours flying time from a scientific research station in the Arctic. An Air Force crew is ordered to go and pick up...

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 ...

as arrogant as they play up the fact they are noble and helping. In "The Ugly American" the authors note, "Hordes of United States...

the boy some cookies. Marlow meets one of the men from his company, on the street and joins him in his hut office, but after a sh...

statement that Social Fascism and Nazism actually worked. At the time, the Games did the job: Shirer noted that "the athletes from...

easy to see how Leans grasp of cinematography and his ability to create and drive plots throughout the directing and filming proce...

neorealistic filmmakers, such as Rossellini, Vittorio DeSica and Cesare Zavattini, was to make a "moral statement," which forces ...

an extremely abbreviated version of the play. Well over half the dialogue of the original play has been condensed or eliminated i...

his five years at Biograph, Griffith took the raw elements of moviemaking as they had evolved up to that time -- lighting, continu...

(Manvell 37). While Pudovkin would occasionally use non-professional actors in the name of realism, he preferred relying on profe...

own life. With Scottie in pursuit, Madeleine climbs a bell tower and apparently falls to her death; in reality, the Novak charact...

daytime and snow is falling. "Charlie" (Charles Foster Kane) is playing outside, and the camera stops on him. He rolls a snowbal...

notes that this is the first film crew to be given permission to film extensively at the UN and this gives the movie a feeling of ...

foul he is that we suffer a twinge of guilt for siding with him so readily. But we tend to do it anyway. The "New York Times" rev...

has come forth with a version that wholly eclipses the standard. What can easily be argued is the fact that Branaghs film version...

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 ...

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...

There are other types of westerns though as well. Some westerns depict life in Americas colonial times or may take place in terra...

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...

are similar to Emilys. The characters discussed are Carrie, from the film "Carrie," Norman Bates from the film "Psycho," Eleanor f...

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...

in structuralist models, researchers often examine the underlying structures which occur beneath the actions or speech of the indi...