Cameron Crowe Cameron Crowe is one of Hollywood's premier filmmakers. He began his cinematic career by penning the screenplay for the wildly popular 1982 film Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and he made his directorial debut in 1989 with Say Anything . . . , a sophisticated teen romance. Crowe is per...

\"Double Indemnity\" is a classic example of the film noir style and also set some standards for movies to come. This paper will provide examples and show that the following film realized the success of this flick. Film noir is not necessarily a type of genre but rather a tone that branched of from ...

Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in London on August 13, 1899. His father, William Hitchcock, a grocer, and his mother, Emma Whelan Hitchcock, brought him up. As a young boy he loved to travel, and by the time he was eight he had ridden every bus line in London and explored all of its docks and sh...

A Rhetorical Analysis Of JawsJaws is horror film based on the beaches of a small island town called Amity. Within the waters of these beaches lies a killer shark, hungry for human flesh. After the terrorizing of several people by this ruthless shark, Chief Martin Brody takes it upon himself to gat...

Nick Coe BA Film & Video What value is there for you in the study of the cinema of the past? Cinema as an art form has stood the test of time for over one hundred years, since the Lumiere Brothers exhibited a series of moving images to the public in 1895. What started off as a documentary-tablea...