Essays on Queer Filmmakers & Films
.... re-imagined classical Hollywood presentations of homosexuals, which were either rendered invisible or pathological by a majority of previous Hollywood
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Comparison of 2 Films
Films in general are difficult to get into production, difficult to produce, and difficult to sell once they are completed. Some ....
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The Economics of Studio Films
Because of the worsening economics of studio
films, the major studios have virtually elected to make less and less quality
films in favor of box office hits ....
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Miramax Films
Miramax
Films is an independent film company that started more than 15 years ago with one film acquisition in release and that has developed into a major ....
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Gangster Films
.... The two
films have much in common, but they also reflect different views of their respective social settings and specifically of the nature of the experience ....
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Hollywood War Films
Geopolitical, cultural, and economic factors are all responsible for the shift in Hollywood "war"
films with respect to those featuring WWII and those ....
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Women In Road Films
From Kerouac's On The Road to a variety of "road"
films portraying men and women, the road represents the possibility of new beginnings and freedom from the ....
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Accuracy in Historical Films
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Films like The Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind may be considered great
films about the Civil War, but they are prevented from being considered great ....
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Costs and Films
.... made film--Bruce Willis appears in the $7 million Pulp Fiction, for instance, while he is usually paid more than that personally for studio-made
films like the ....
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"Good Amerians," and Films
Different individuals, groups, and institutions in various American
films are defined and redefined over time, bringing into question the issue of what it ....
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Films and Social Attitude
Films from a given period reflect the social attitudes of that time, no matter when they may be set in time. Thus, a science fiction ....
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The Life and Films of Alfred Hitchcock
He was noted for his
films of suspense, beginning in the silent era and extending through the development of sound and into the television era. ....
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Violence in Hollywood Films
Lawyer-turned-novelist John Grisham makes the case that Hollywood
films such as Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers play a significant role in shaping cultural ....
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American Horror Films
.... Hellraiser, produced by Roger Corman of New World Pictures, follows in the tradition of other low-budget horror
films produced by such minor production ....
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Guns in Gangster Films
The auteur theory developed by French film critics beginning in the 1950s is partly a convenient way of categorizing and analyzing
films, collecting titles as ....
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Nurses in Films
In the 1970s, nurses in
films tended to be either sex objects or harridans engendering fear, in both cases rather than caring professionals. ....
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Small Budget Films
.... Even producers of small
films try to find way to hedge their bets and turn to personalities to bring in an audience. This is a method ....
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The films of Takeshi Kitano
The
films of Takeshi Kitano mimic American genre
films in some respects but do so in a unique way, and his later
films have developed more levels of meaning ....
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Feature Films
.... Feature
films had been made from radio series in the 1940s based on the same desire--to appeal to fans of the series and to cross-advertise the series and the ....
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Films of Dorothy Arzner
.... and Gender Roles Though Beverle Houston (1994) maintains Dorothy Arzner remains "largely invisible" to the contemporary public, the
films she wrote and ....
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Marketing of Studio and Independent Films
The marketing, distribution, and promotion of
films has changed in the last decade as the result of changes in ancillary markets, notably the continuing ....
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Race Films & Black Female Filmmakers
.... Corporation. This company was founded in 1918 and would continue producing
films through the 1920s and 1930s (Sampson 42). Other ....
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Films Referencing The Holocaust
.... References to these events then made their way into a number of post-war
films, among them Crossfire, Gentleman's Agreement, and The Stranger. ....
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Billy Wilder Films
Two of Billy Wilder's most successfully directed
films are the classics Some Like It Hot and The Seven Year Itch. .... Both
films deal with sexuality. ....
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Billy Wilder Films
Two of Billy Wilder's most successfully directed
films are the classics Some Like It Hot and The Seven Year Itch. .... Both
films deal with sexuality. ....
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Rock and Roll Films The rock and roll film came into being at the ...
.... The music was popular, though, and within a short time
films specifically about the music were being produced. .... In these
films, teenage gangs ran wild. ....
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Violent Films
Although we like to maintain that real life is not as violent as the movies, there are cases that represent real life violence as recounting narratives for the ....
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Two Alfred Hitchcock Films
The two
films share certain characteristics in terms of the way the filmmaker presents women and in the relationships the female characters have with the male ....
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Films Dealing with a Subculture
Drugs and similar destructive behavior are major social problems addressed by a number of
films in recent years. .... Trainspotting. Channel 4
Films, 1995. ....
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Films of Paul Thomas Anderson
With only four feature
films to his credit, Paul Thomas Anderson has established himself as one of Hollywood's most gifted contemporary auteurs. ....
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