YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Influence of Border Films
Essays 481 - 510
lens but by the filmmakers imagination and based upon the unique New York experiences contained within a particular neighborhood e...
police detective that suspects his department is turning a blind eye to organized crime after refusing to further investigate the ...
the nonfiction novel, he appears nowhere in the text, despite the fact that all of the information contained within is based on hi...
applied to the characters at different times, but the two that seem most effective are Merton, and Shaw and MacKay. The term "Amer...
of looking at the basic format of a film noire, especially before color (Dirks). The plot as well is a confusing one, in terms of ...
the film is Allens character Alvy who seems to have so many problems it becomes hilarious and insane, often presenting psychologic...
Each Film The American Revolution (also referred to as The Revolution) was a 1994 six-hour documentary produced by A&E and shown...
ultimately meaningless and pointless. An audience member, however, wants to understand whats happening, and uses a film narrative ...
this key scene This movie is very relevant to todays issues as it causes the viewer to ponder the possible ramifications of cloni...
community in the mission is that the film portrays delays in the UN rescue mission stemming, at least partially, from faults in co...
and teachers alike (Willis). It is so out-of-control that only very strong action can tame it, and Clark provides just that action...
red interior, which contrasts with the white exterior of the car. Like the car, Ripley has a seemingly "spotless" exterior, but hi...
a thicket of vines. This is a slow tracking show that is designed to five the audience the impression that they are seeing the poi...
film taking on certain aspects of each others roles (Davis 80). Norika offers Tomi and Shukichi the respect that filial tradition ...
when Dash gets in trouble at school. His mother, Helen, is trying to talk to him and reason with him as they drive home, telling h...
her husband, and knew herself to be near death. Her digestive system had been destroyed by the disease, and, in intense pain and u...
names this "one of the great recent crime movies" (Ebert, 2002). Devil in a Blue Dress references a theme, subject and time perio...
neorealistic filmmakers, such as Rossellini, Vittorio DeSica and Cesare Zavattini, was to make a "moral statement," which forces ...
Weisman, in an article featured in The New York Times, described Indian cinema as "an all purpose dream engine delivering gaudy th...
physical state that supports the distinguishing characteristics of film noir. Though the term "film noir" is French, the st...
that are easily overcome (Carey, 2000). This is a reflection of their inventive mind where it is the message and not the mechanics...
preface of her book, author Susan Brigden confesses to the broad nature of her book "New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudo...
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...
it can be seen to have been on its way out at the dawn of all the other television competition for viewers time. Perspectives shif...
in keeping all of the people hostage while the funds are delivered. As mentioned, while it is not exactly a bank robbery film, it ...
The basic structure of most fiction stories follows a simple Act one, Act Two, Act Three kind of format. In the first part of the ...
The play is divided into two acts, containing three scenes in the first and two scenes in the second. It centers...
direction and production of a larger film. "The plan, Rodriguez said, was to make a series of three action films for this market a...
is Elektra King, unlike many of Bonds female enemies she is a rich young woman who has not become part of communist assassination ...
Hitchcocks movie, Vertigo. This whole movie is centered around one man and his inability to let go of an old love. The story, in b...