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Postmodernism and Cinema Neo Noir

claustrophobic, hopeless and without clear moral or personal identity," suggesting that the world is a place with no clear values ...

Director Quentin Tarantino and Postmodernism

(Rombes). Rafferty (1997) explains that the postmodern film is built on the film noir genre, but that a feature of postmodernism ...

Film Analysis/Kiss Me Deadly

(Ralph Meeker) swerves to avoid her and runs off the road. Angry, he snarls, "You almost wrecked my car. Well? Get in!" (Dirks, 20...

Assessment Three Cinema Websites Using Nielsen's 10 Heuristics

advance whilst reducing queues and pressures on the box office, an effective use of resources (Nellis and Parker, 2000). Many cine...

Cinematic Comparison of 2001 A Space Odyssey and The Matrix

definitely postmodern? In some ways, that appears to be true, but in other ways that may not be the case at all. 2001 began with...

'I Have a Dream' Speech by Martin Luther King Jr. from a Neo Aristotelian Perspective

dramatize a shameful condition"(Dream.html). King already has the support of African-Americans, therefore, in order for his speec...

Paranoia, McCarthyism, and Film Noir

in the destructive power of nuclear energy. Osteen (1994) points out that few events have affected the American psyche in a manne...

Postmodernism Defined

of another direction, only to be broken apart and redeveloped by way of postmodernistic composition. Technology, as such, represe...

Artistic and Cinematic Postmodernism

In five pages this research paper examines postmodernism as it is reflected in cinema and art. Seven sources are cited in the bib...

Narrative Style Comparison Between Classic Mode and Art Cinema

In five pages these two modes of narrative cinema are examined in terms of the differences between classic and art cinema as revea...

Hollywood and Non Hollywood Films

was popular during the 1970s (Dudley, 1984). This states that the nature of the cinema is to be ideological in its representations...

American Interpretations of Film Noir

of America had suffered through more than 15 years of deprivation in one form or another. The Great Depression that began with th...

Film Noir Techniques in the Film, Kiss Me Deadly

flag down a car, but no one stops. Desperate, she positions herself in the middle of the road while holding her arms outstretched ...

Film Noir Aspects of Sunset Boulevard and The Grifters

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...

Ideology of Prisoner Reform

In eight pages this paper examines penal institutions in a consideration of various ideologies and theories with Neo Retributionis...

The Neo-Liberal State, Developing Nations and Globalization

favor private ownership of private property rights, the rule of law and free trade policies (Harvey, 2005). These policies should ...

Neo Liberal and Neo Conservative Perspectives on Child Abuse

toward personal rights the Warren Court upheld was met with great consternation by conservatives who believed the Supreme Court ju...

Defining Civilization and Explaining Liberalism and Realism

The geographical aspect has been argued as one that is essential, as all civilizations may be located in a map (Braudel and Mayne,...

Film Noir's Spatial Strategies

In six pages this paper discusses spatial imagery and the visual contrasts offered by film noir. Eight sources are cited in the b...

Feminist Cinematic Theory and Psychoanalysis

In five pages this paper examines psychoanalysis' relevance to feminist cinematic theory in a consideration of the article 'Masoch...

Film, Love, and Symposium by Plato

within the domestic sphere. Therefore, a Greek man typically took a younger male as his main love interest because only a man coul...

Black Filmmakers and the 'Burden of Representation'

Lees "Mo Better Blues", and Julie Dashs "Daughters of the Dust". The trend continued in 1991 with the release of twelve black dire...

Postmodernism's Rise and Literature's Fall

but vanished from the world, a look at the rise and fall of the New Criticism is rather appropriate. A set of practices called th...

Overview of Postmodern Cinema

In twelve pages this paper analyzes postmodern cinema's characteristic elements in a consideration of such films as Pulp Fiction, ...

Preliminary Study on the Persuasiveness of Cinema

is, this article argues that there were several factual inaccuracies in it, and that the disclaimers about it were difficult to fi...

British National Cinema in the 1980's

identity in relation to the various products of the national and international film and television industries, and the conditions ...

Cinema Industry of Korea

prison for depicting a Communist official as "a warm human being" (Slide, 1989, p. 229). The Korean film industry has evolved ver...

Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS)

Security; Governance Rule of Law & Human Rights; Infrastructure & Natural Resources; Education; Health; Agriculture & Rural Develo...

National Identity in 2 Chinese Films

in economic terms, which depends largely on equating national cinema with a countrys domestic film industry. As this suggests, thi...

Science Fiction Cinema's Portrayal of Society's Fears and Hopes

robots, coming to Earth to present power and knowledge in how people can live together. They insist that the people of Earth need ...