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whom he has already fathered two children. Charles literally drags Helen to the front door and throws her out of the house (IMDb,...
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...
Scott movie Blade Runner, the earth has become virtually uninhabitable by any sort of decent human being. Depicting Los Angeles i...
as the crime film genre became more sophisticated, the line between good/evil oftentimes became blurred. De Palma elected to take...
uses his videotapes to overstep personal boundaries with women. Important to note in his interactions with women is his revelatio...
Paradise Lost In a review of "Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills" Roger Ebert (1996) indicates that it "is uni...
The horror films of the 1960s and 70s served to continue the challenge to the legitimacy of capitalist, patriarchal rule. The evol...
specifically address black independent filmmaking. Diawara (2001) highlights the tendency of the mainstream to consistently borro...
Many of his early Star Wars films feature several shots of models and miniatures that convey realism as impressively and in less t...
provides evidence of repressed female sexuality, and reveals how the traditional patriarchy was threatened as a result of these ch...
in films today. The protagonist at the heart of Allens films is conflicted, neurotic, and a bumbler who usually manages, somehow, ...
couple of cars who happened to be drag racing. This gives the woman a chance to get away. She runs into the city and for some reas...
opening sequence has been found buried beneath the surface of the moon. While Floyd and his colleagues are standing in front of th...
Passage to India. However, his creative pinnacle is largely acknowledged to be the wildly successful (both critically as well as ...
both can be considered comedic films. Definition of film comedy Although East is East is a slice of life film that can...
which pokes fun at what might otherwise be regarded as a very unfunny subject, such as death. There is also the romantic comedy, ...
buyers wanted "show" quality puppies and the other two stated that they simply wanted to own the Maltese breed. However, the Find...
and the even larger political responses of the Truman administration created a realm in which the primary purpose was to protect t...
Film criticism and gender are discussed in relation to the horror genre. A look at sexual mores is included. This five page paper...
An analysis of these cinematic genres and how they are used are considered in an examination of Andrew Davies' A Perfect Murder an...
In five pages the 'mariachi' and Western film genres are contrasted and compared. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....
significant influence on the literature being written. Words, turns of phrases, double-meanings were all of the utmost importance ...
In twenty five pages this paper examines the 1960s' development of a genre known as the British farce in an analysis that includes...
In eight pages this 1986 film is examined in terms of the horror genre and how it has always warned against the social changes res...
In five pages this paper examines the implied genre film criticisms of Alfred Hitchcock. Six sources are cited in the bibliograph...
In a paper consisting of 5 pages the ways in which the film echos the Superman myth as described by Ecos are considered with box o...
Hoping to succeed this time, the good doctor gives his complete attention to Cole, even if it means neglecting his wife, Anna (Oli...
In five pages this paper considers Kerman's thoughtful commentary and assessment of the 'Blade Runner' film and its contribution t...
Project" serves as an excellent example of a film-maker taking full advantage of the inherent fear of all modern humans regarding ...
holding fast under the stress of combat, thereby propagandizing the need for unity. In "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1936), ...