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Essays 541 - 570
post-modern culture, one more devoted to the supposed ironies of a Douglas Sirk or the wit and playfulness (amidst violence and me...
Ulmer relied on things like voiceover and dark shots that create a very powerful sense of darkness. There are the close ups and th...
time. Perhaps in the distance between the time of Christ and modern times, the death of Christ by way of crucifixion has been sa...
film Braveheart is noted for its bloody battle sequences (Brackman, 2004). While The Passion is based on the Gospel of John, Brac...
middle of filming the commercial he has come to do and the director is attempting to give him directions in Japanese using an inte...
and its heavy use of Japanese stereotypes for humor. Such depictions perpetuate racial and cultural insensitivity and misperceptio...
for working farms and it provided Southern states with a rationale for not rebuilding prisons after the war. In some cases, many s...
new person. This has been tradition since Gilgamesh. The hero emerges from the wilderness to contribute to society and carry out...
that most people believe to be haunted. A friend, Paul D determines to exorcise the ghost for her. After he has done so, Sethe is ...
who were obscuring their identities by dressing as American Indians (Levine, 1994). Times have most certainly changed s...
to capturing reality, and artistic flair was considered, but they were not privy to the aesthetic possibilities that exist today. ...
number has increased to 1,000; by 1901, to 1,299 titles" (Adventures in Cybersound, 2007). This was the beginning of the documenta...
enjoy his vacation but pushes aside that vacation to help his friend find retribution for the murder of his father. There are mome...
her away from home and the kids. Daniel seeks the help of his flamboyantly gay brother, Frank, to help him disguise himself as a w...
her, told her, "You better not never tell nobody but God. Itd kill your mammy (1)" which resulted in her writing letters that "are...
to each other only by code names ("Mr. Pink," "Mr. White", etc.). They relate to each other mainly by wisecracks ("Do I have to be...
respect to the character of this man, but the film is limited to visual aspects only. This tends to be true for most any book turn...
was popular during the 1970s (Dudley, 1984). This states that the nature of the cinema is to be ideological in its representations...
whereby blockbuster movies capitalize upon it. Clearly, there is a tangible essence to the manner by which Melvin Goes to D...
their jobs back, women were suddenly deemed weak and incapable of doing "mens jobs" and so were pushed out of the labor force and ...
main character, but is predominantly depicted as a sympathetic witness to a way of life that he senses will soon be lost forever. ...
clean and cook and be their servant. In both of the versions Cinderella becomes a slave to the step mother and step sisters. In th...
the reader with step by step information, charts, and other information that takes the reader through the entire process from star...
adventure" would seem to fit those films in which were not sure of the way the two leads feel about each other, but which hold out...
necessarily a love triangle, more like opportunists trying to manipulate each other. Both of the women attempt to seduce Flynn an...
the place and burns it to the ground (Albright, 2003). Ambiguity Is the Point One of the reasons why the film remains controvers...
come to overestimate his own value as a singular entity amidst an enormous universe. There is no doubt that Stones intention when...
as an imitation of reality, "it holds a mirror up to nature" (Durant, 1961, p. 59). Aristotle notes that human beings find pleasur...
whom he has already fathered two children. Charles literally drags Helen to the front door and throws her out of the house (IMDb,...
out of the selection" (Mikiro). They have never really been presented in film, showing how Natives were actually treated. One o...