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and the even larger political responses of the Truman administration created a realm in which the primary purpose was to protect t...
in the destructive power of nuclear energy. Osteen (1994) points out that few events have affected the American psyche in a manne...
(Ralph Meeker) swerves to avoid her and runs off the road. Angry, he snarls, "You almost wrecked my car. Well? Get in!" (Dirks, 20...
flag down a car, but no one stops. Desperate, she positions herself in the middle of the road while holding her arms outstretched ...
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...
of America had suffered through more than 15 years of deprivation in one form or another. The Great Depression that began with th...
In four pages this essay discusses the McCarthyism period and the emergence of the civil rights movement thereafter....
This film review primarily profiles the film's protagonist, Edward R. Murrow, using an existential perspective. The writer argues ...
what the audience is viewing with his own subjective observations. In his consideration of film noir, Jon Tuska (1984) noted that...
before. Perhaps the iconic model here is Barbara Stanwyck luring Fred MacMurray to his doom in Double Indemnity. But there is an...
In six pages this paper discusses spatial imagery and the visual contrasts offered by film noir. Eight sources are cited in the b...
(Rombes). Rafferty (1997) explains that the postmodern film is built on the film noir genre, but that a feature of postmodernism ...
and evil (technology). Blade Runner considers the city of Los Angeles in the year 2019 as "a fragmented Third World metropolis, m...
of the classic noir characteristics, it also thumbed its nose at the use of flashbacks. There were no voice-over narrations, with ...
This paper consists of 5 pages discusses how film noir and classical Hollywood were influenced by Tourner's 1947 film. There are ...
In five pages cinematic realism is compared and contrasted with film noir and surrealism with the focus being how in the film Ragi...
successes to his credit. A total of 112 sets were built, including a scale model of Paris Arc de Triomphe and an entire reproducti...
the criminal activity that is taking place in this particular world. In Mildreds story we have a woman who has struggled all he...
police detective that suspects his department is turning a blind eye to organized crime after refusing to further investigate the ...
his father did not approve (Maier, 1986). The article does not mention his relationship with individual family members beyond this...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the 1950s' play with the 1990s' film version with McCarthyism among the topics of ...
In six pages this paper discusses how U.S. politics and society was profoundly affected by McCarthyism. Five sources are cited in...
censured by Congress, McCarthy was the instigator of the investigations of so-called Communists within the government of the Unite...
claustrophobic, hopeless and without clear moral or personal identity," suggesting that the world is a place with no clear values ...
the loss of ones own humanity(Cline). CHARACTER The triangle which emerges shows that there is not clear cut definition of good ...
the ordinary man can screw those in authority then he should do it. One of the themes of Double Indemnity is shown in that it is...
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...
an afternoon off and a swim. At the beach house, the first camera shot has Monte showing a closet full of bathing suits (Dirks)....
Spots of neon and carlights poke through the night - there is a dream like quality to the film, with spots of beauty contrasting t...
somehow harm society or even annihilate the world. There is fear of nuclear warfare which is a popular theme in the genre. There i...