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Essays 481 - 510
In ten pages this paper chronicles the history of British film from its 19th century origins until 1939. Six sources are listed i...
tight close-up (Dirks, 1996). There is a menacing "No Trespassing" sign outside an old gate, and after panning up over a chain-li...
Music Town. With $9,000 of store receipts in his pocket, Lucas goes to Atlantic City in hopes of parlaying that into enough money...
Battle of Summit Springs, a reenactment that showcased Cody rescuing poor white damsel Indian captives in distress (Buscombe 286)....
sexuality and innocence that made superstardom a foregone conclusion. The cinematic experience is one in which the spectator (the...
to do is wait and persist and she will eventually love him. While Tod is also not successful in his goal, he realizes that the cul...
parodies American consumer culture as evidenced by the hilarious scene when grilled cheese sandwiches and coleslaw are ordered for...
story, mise-en-scene, editing, and music, they collectively provide a common theme that speaks of the uniqueness of the feminist e...
narrative style. With Sleepless there is a sense of desperation as lives are changing. In LAvventura there is a real desperate sit...
to tell what might appear on first glance to be a tired old story. First, there is the scintillating color that enables the film ...
their advertising campaigns asserted) more stars than there are in the heavens" (The Thin Man, 1995). Mordden (1988) asks, "What, ...
yield a very different analysis. In the film, Jake is unemployed. The family lives off the dole but it seems that whatever money...
of confines. The overall metaphor of this movie is the symbol of the rose. At one point a neighbor asks how the roses are grown s...
box office. Welles was a product of his time and though he had tremendous creativity when it came to camera angles and budgets,...
the long view where we can see the entire dance. This is often seen in present day films about dance where it seems the performers...
theater, they rolled a cannon ball down a wooden trough that then fell onto a large drumhead (Brunelle, 1999). In films, sound eff...
(like Mel Gibson in the 1991 film) has no interest in playing him as an apologetic mope" (Ebert). In the written play there is a...
depicts the aliens as beings who represent communism and the fear of being consumed by such "thought." The aliens in this film ...
is completely unique and no two are alike. Therefore, what takes place is a kind of power struggle between the subject and the ob...
part of the scene while also seeing the entire dance routine. In many films of dancing the direction may not be on the long sho...
surprise twist at the end - the camera, representing the subjective perspective of the audience, is "run over" by a car rather tha...
harrowing to watch, with Nash suffering several climactic breakdowns and brief moments of lucidity and temporary remission. The u...
film La Maternelle (The Nursery School) begins with the story of Rose, who has been forced by the men in her life - her fathers ba...
would become his own trademark. This film, along with Obsession (1976), further developed De Palmas expressive use of cinematogra...
provides evidence of repressed female sexuality, and reveals how the traditional patriarchy was threatened as a result of these ch...
as reflecting reality depicting unusual events or situations, but presenting real conflicts and issues that reflect this history o...
was shot on location at Big Bear Lake and Yosemite Valley in California (Magills-1920). In an interview with film historian Kevin ...
Palme dOr and "best actress" for its star in 1999 (Dargis). The brothers generally share the tasks of both writing and directing...
brought his version of the play forward 500 years into the 1930s. Both McKellen and director Richard Loncraine felt that Richard ...
that it has always been a colony of sorts. Its independence is illusive and while things have changed since 1997, it seems as if H...