YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Mainstream Cinema and the Portrayal of Women
Essays 751 - 780
the director and the male filmgoer) receive a sexual thrill from watching the victimization of women (Williams 706). As one of th...
to the daughter of the influential and powerful Senator Stiles" (Anonymous Cusack and Spader show their True Colors, 2002; 5937&Se...
the tale of Icarus. We do know that Auden visited the sixteenth century painting by Peter Breughel when it was displayed in the M...
the Chinese film makers. In order to survive as film makers, it seems as if some of the directors and producers may have resorted ...
Weisman, in an article featured in The New York Times, described Indian cinema as "an all purpose dream engine delivering gaudy th...
sister, Cynthia. As if to complicate matters further, Johns old college friend, Graham, shows up in town for a visit and something...
you mean am I determined to go to pub? I dont need determination to get me into a pub" (Russell). In this we see a bit of a condes...
is an open book. Throughout the world today, organizations that oppose the U.S. can find almost anything about what the military ...
For example, the film focuses away from the traditional violence of the western film and the identification of the main characters...
it is quite obviously going to have a lot of action throughout the film. However, too much action and the theme and characterizati...
book is that the author has primarily been a fiction writer. Why, all of a sudden, does a fiction writer attempt to write a non-fi...
the blink of an eye one could carry on a conversation with someone half way across the world. What came from this mingling of cult...
early years of the century. George Albert Smith was the first to experiment with composing scenes from individual shots and camera...
human being he is. This comes as a shock to Oliverio who is as bad as the rest in assuming that prostitutes have no brains. Actu...
child who is the product of a failed system, this film seems to be saying. This film was a social commentary of sorts, which use...
Censorship of any form also has the effect of promoting elitism with regard to access to...
any sense, which is the case in the novel. One similarity regarding the novel and the film involves the main characters fascina...
that the alien is given a sexual orientation. In the second movie of this series the alien is a Queen whose main goal (besides des...
were people that were also torn by the events of the war. Media coverage of those people, however, revealed an image that from an...
terms of interpretation, due to different apparent political agendas and a different political environment, as such we will use on...
to a degree and ultimately comes to recognize that there is indeed a certain undercurrent of evil in the world. In doing so he de...
thing as targeting other ethnic groups" (Ebert PG). Ebert goes on the draw comparisons as to the treatment given to Arab-America...
screen is transitory at best. This movie asks the question: Is love merely going through the motions? Is beauty a trap? Are women ...
in school show happy white children. Pecola surmises that happiness comes from being white, or acting white. Being beautiful meant...
commit violence on anyone who is not white and protestant for any small reason. They will deliberately instigate events so as to d...
through brightness and shadows. With Turners painting we see a much more subtle and allusive. His forms are not concrete nor ar...
element introduced when Utah encounters Bodhi, and is made to consider rather deeper philosophical aspects of life than the straig...
of a show called Wordpath, which is a 30-minute weekly public access television show about "Oklahoma Indian languages and the peop...
hear me? Im the perfect servant; I have no life." (Gosford Park, 2001). The idea that servants lives are insignificant is support...
desperate and louder, so too does the score, until a crescendo of grand proportions is reached. At this point in the scene, a grea...