YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Film Shaft Analyzed
Essays 211 - 240
foundation, upon which the subsequent action and characterizations are constructed. The mise-en-scene, which is featured in the o...
known in postmodern films beginning in the late 1970s because it was a significant way of breaking down the stifling barrier of ge...
feelings of forgetfulness (Marguerite Duras). In "India Song", Duras tells of the life during the 1930s in a fashionable di...
home. On reaching the age of twenty-one, Kane assumes control of his fortune, but only one of his holdings has any interest for h...
Comics and cartoons which appeared in daily newspapers and magazines in the 1930s and 1940s were considered originally to be an ex...
to hear the sound of my own voice, he says at one point, and indeed he does such a smooth and natural job of translation that the ...
of his father. At one point he goes to see his father and sees that his mother is dead while his father, too drunk to notice, sits...
ethnology, he developed an affinity for film which he would then continue to spend his life committed to (Biography of Jean-Luc Go...
Witness to Jonestown, provides a film that commemorates the thirtieth anniversary of an event that is indelibly etched in the memo...
by Billy Wilder) is regarded as a classic example of film noir. The screenplay was adapted from a novel by James M. Cain by Raymon...
The Movie "Home Alone", of first appearance seems to be a simple minded comedy. In actuality, however, the...
in Will in order to save him from going to jail after Will assaults a police officer. This in turn establishes the time frame whic...
pregnancy, and more specifically, pregnancy out of wedlock. However, each film represents a dramatically different take on the iss...
the film to perfection. He suggested that the German people should take matters into their own hands and reclaim their country by ...
organ and the heavily accented voice of the priest, which allow for "not only contrasting the pious words of the protagonists with...
film that we can interpret as a sign, with another signified added to it. It is thus a triple layer of meaning: the object itself,...
purchase expensive consumer goods. The stress and psychic pain of this situation causes chronic insomnia. A disinterested and unsy...
honest, hes not an operatic singer-his background is in rock. But he trained for a year and his voice, if not the quality of a Pav...
back first one North Vietnamese assault, then another, over a period of six days."i In writing about the film, co-author of We W...
provides evidence of repressed female sexuality, and reveals how the traditional patriarchy was threatened as a result of these ch...
above racism as he deals with his fathers death. White supremacy groups are, like many hateful groups, designed to control their...
mans face. The fish slips from his fingers and manages to make it over the side. The perspective follows the fish. The fish turn...
manicured lawns and rose gardens. But for every blooming rose, there is a thorn lurking somewhere, and through the frequent imagi...
has arranged for her so she can rejoin her husband and live in exile. Upon seeing what he believes to be the dead Juliet, Romeo s...
director was, quite literally, involved in every possible aspect of filmmaking, from raising money to hiring actors to helping to ...
rest of the film details the relationships among the three principles, as well as the crafty Police Prefect, Louis Renault (Claude...
When Julies friend Carrie leaves, but Julie lingers near the carousel, she and Billy are now along and can speak freely, if hesita...
indeed, that is what the film is about. In some ways the work is reminiscent of the black comedy Muriels Wedding. The intense lo...
He is someone who today would appear on the Jerry Springer Show. His life had always been dysfunctional and all he ever wanted was...
In six pages this report analyzes this 1957 film debut of television icon Michael Landon. Three sources are cited in the bibliogr...