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silent era, as it became clear to filmmakers that certain types of stories were particularly popular and profitable (Gazetas, 2008...
In eighteen pages the screwball comedy is examined in terms of its history and evolution with a discussion of their intentions alo...
holding fast under the stress of combat, thereby propagandizing the need for unity. In "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1936), ...
In five pages this analysis considers how director Adrian Lyne's Fatal Attraction represents a changing suspense and horror film g...
In nine pages this paper discusses media criticism and its types with a focus upon scholarly, journalist, and auteurist and then e...
"screwball" romantic comedies, a man and woman of differing social standing and temperaments. In Frank Capras classic 1934 film, ...
In five pages the post First World War avant garde genre and its influence upon theater and cinema are examined in a consideration...
In five pages this paper considers Aristotle's genre definition and the psychological theories of Sigmund Freud in this examinatio...
In twelve pages this paper discusses how racial representations are structured in Hollywood films in a consideration of The Shinin...
both can be considered comedic films. Definition of film comedy Although East is East is a slice of life film that can...
horror film, according to director Elias Merhige, "The horror film transforms itself, adapting to our fears, to the things that we...
which pokes fun at what might otherwise be regarded as a very unfunny subject, such as death. There is also the romantic comedy, ...
in that the main character, Abdel, has been abused by the police. He has been beaten so badly that he has had to be hospitalized. ...
the whole trilogy and uses a heavily layered story that involves high action sequences that are purely designed to attract those w...
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...
Battle of Summit Springs, a reenactment that showcased Cody rescuing poor white damsel Indian captives in distress (Buscombe 286)....
closer together and provide cohesiveness to the group through a single-mindedness of purpose (Gehring 93). At no time does the gr...
diegetic music and spoken/sung dialogue (Altman 297-298). This film genre has historically consisted of three evocative forms. F...
1926) According to Waldron (1991) legend has it that Monet discovered his grocery purchase had been wrapped in a Japanese wood-bl...
In five pages the 'mariachi' and Western film genres are contrasted and compared. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....
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...
conversations -- yet as McNally & Florescu (1994) describe, it remains eminently readable even in an "age of novelettes and journa...
Project" serves as an excellent example of a film-maker taking full advantage of the inherent fear of all modern humans regarding ...
romantic leads ("Screwball comedy"). Another feature of the screwball was its "reverse class snobbery," where to be poor was, so...
factor can be seen in both Sunset Boulevard and The Grifters. In Sunset, Joe Gillis is an out-of-work screenplay writer, who has t...
Opposing Arguments Petrakis (2010) is completely right when he writes: "the screenplay is simplistic and uninteresting, lea...
before. Perhaps the iconic model here is Barbara Stanwyck luring Fred MacMurray to his doom in Double Indemnity. But there is an...
(Ralph Meeker) swerves to avoid her and runs off the road. Angry, he snarls, "You almost wrecked my car. Well? Get in!" (Dirks, 20...
This film analysis is on "When Harry Met Sally," 1989, directed by Rob Reiner. The writer asserts that the specific genre for this...
father, but the two young men are not fond of each other, at least not on the surface (Maslin, 2002). Thomas, who chatters incessa...