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Essays 361 - 390
own terms, as an interpretation for a modern mass audience of a compelling story that gives shape to some of the deepest-rooted hu...
structures, art, sculpture, glass works, decorative pieces and illuminated composition from the twelfth through the sixteenth cent...
who are unfamiliar with the novels premise, it concerns the Dashwood family (a mother and her three young daughters) who have been...
back to the film "The Birth of the Nation" which lead later to a movement of "race films" in the 1920s in the cinema. Mainstream U...
mythos, Negroes were naturally more musical, more rhythmic, and better dancers than any other group. Therefore the studios scurrie...
novel. However, the film adaptation was to have the monster say nothing at all, something which led Lugosi to declining the part. ...
most notably, but not really missed, were Queen Margaret, and Edward IV. Some of the lengthy dialogue was taken out without detrac...
daytime and snow is falling. "Charlie" (Charles Foster Kane) is playing outside, and the camera stops on him. He rolls a snowbal...
across, and thus get the power of the film across. The predominant focus of the film is the story and the man who is an alien. It ...
the audience a close up of Othellos face and the audience is able to watch the doubt creep over Othellos face. Without saying anyt...
lends great insight into the cinematic development of any film, especially the films of Hitchcock. In his movies, every shot has ...
politics. Gore Vidal wrote the screenplay, as well as the original Broadway play on which the movie is based. Vidal was friends wi...
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...
a women faced with the types of situations that they face in his plays. Twelfth Night examples this most concisely. The plot of T...
early years of the century. George Albert Smith was the first to experiment with composing scenes from individual shots and camera...
and their interactions clearly let us know that the two are very good friends. In fact, we quickly see that Esteban is perhaps the...
light of day can become obscured in the dark just as the best and brightest intentions can be compromised by allure of corruption....
no study of economics can be complete without including a focus on the issues of globalization. Whereas companies sought to enter...
flag down a car, but no one stops. Desperate, she positions herself in the middle of the road while holding her arms outstretched ...
political insights that can be gleaned from any motion picture. The major differences between a journalistic approach to a movie c...
identity. It is interesting to note that as he pulls on his "cloak of madness" that his true intellect becomes completely clouded ...
sexual encounter with a slave girl on an island, and the discovery of a nymphomaniac (whom they must satisfy before they can move ...
a person or persons involved in the action, or told by a detached third-person observer or observers. In written texts, the found...
lush as one of the contemporary Merchant-Ivory or Emma Thompson movie adaptations of other literary classics that offer a view int...
relationship between a city or Nations government and a person is much like that of a parent/child relationship. The state nurture...
novel and wholly unique to the film, it is arguably faithful to Fowles intentions in the way that the original novel is structured...
and editing equipment to the ability to use special effects as never before. Thus, there is mise-en-scene today and some film mak...
an extremely abbreviated version of the play. Well over half the dialogue of the original play has been condensed or eliminated i...
neorealistic filmmakers, such as Rossellini, Vittorio DeSica and Cesare Zavattini, was to make a "moral statement," which forces ...