YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The History of Cinematic Comedy
Essays 211 - 240
terms to refer to exaggeration and understatement within the realm of comedy. As far as I can determine, both Moliere and Aristoph...
the man is Ywain she is happy and tells him, "she ought not refuse to take as lord a good knight and the son of a king" which is s...
Censorship of any form also has the effect of promoting elitism with regard to access to...
get together, there was the typical conflict one would expect from step-siblings who are still wary of one another, but who know t...
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...
climactic as an invading force, but may take place in the acculturation of one culture from another. Even today many of the Wester...
are mediums that are used for both works of fiction or art or as devices to convey messages. However, artistic works of fiction al...
daytime and snow is falling. "Charlie" (Charles Foster Kane) is playing outside, and the camera stops on him. He rolls a snowbal...
own life. With Scottie in pursuit, Madeleine climbs a bell tower and apparently falls to her death; in reality, the Novak charact...
evolution of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment until its climactic attack on Fort Wagner, South Carolina of July 18, 1863, that resulted i...
such as Don Quixote and his tilting of Windmills(Definitions). In this story, however, two people are simply having a drink of cof...
sexual encounter with a slave girl on an island, and the discovery of a nymphomaniac (whom they must satisfy before they can move ...
flag down a car, but no one stops. Desperate, she positions herself in the middle of the road while holding her arms outstretched ...
political insights that can be gleaned from any motion picture. The major differences between a journalistic approach to a movie c...
Dantes (1999) Florentine origin, one first must ascertain the reasons why people are drawn to his work. Is it that poems are enjo...
of the couple. As Shakespeare juxtaposes their feelings of love, we find that they have not even met. Ferdinand is awakened by the...
identity. It is interesting to note that as he pulls on his "cloak of madness" that his true intellect becomes completely clouded ...
his five years at Biograph, Griffith took the raw elements of moviemaking as they had evolved up to that time -- lighting, continu...
finds that he has a natural talent for it. It is as if the emotional side of him which has been forced to remain silent finally ha...
woman. She has the ability to ruin peoples lives. This gives her a great deal of power and it corrupts absolutely. As Judge Danfor...
(Rombes). Rafferty (1997) explains that the postmodern film is built on the film noir genre, but that a feature of postmodernism ...
of tape and combines them to emphasize their meaning. It is a method by which through two unrelated shots we may create a third an...
of the classic noir characteristics, it also thumbed its nose at the use of flashbacks. There were no voice-over narrations, with ...
Likewise, Beatrice vows that she will never marry. However, the audience can see from the beginning that there is an attraction be...
and Titania, king and queen of the fairies, are introduced as well as members of an amateur acting troupe who are rehearsing the p...
Indeed, by looking at the role of the women in the movie it is a reflection of the social conditions. There is a reflection of the...
make him sick in actuality. To relieve his masters distress, Mosca tells the lady that her husband is riding off in a gondola with...
There are other types of westerns though as well. Some westerns depict life in Americas colonial times or may take place in terra...
are similar to Emilys. The characters discussed are Carrie, from the film "Carrie," Norman Bates from the film "Psycho," Eleanor f...