For Sidney Lumet, born in 1924, “12 Angry Men” was the beginning of a film career that has often sought controversial issues. Consider these titles from among his 43 films: “The Pawnbroker” (the Holocaust), “Fail-Safe” (accidental nuclear war), “Serpico” (police corruption), “Dog...
This is another specific example of a summary of a story focusing on the film sequence analysis of the 1957 film 12 Angry Men. You notice how clean and simplified the illustration is. Each bubble has a particular film sequence and describes what happens on a specific frame....
In Freud's psychoanalytic theory of personality, the pleasure principle is the driving force of the id that seeks immediate gratification of all needs, wants and urges. In other words, the pleasure principle strives to fulfill our most basic and primitive urges, including hunger, thirst, anger, ...
They were angelic-looking bohemian men, craving an ancient sense of sacred communion with the night sky and the powerful force that seems to propel its stars. Poor, ragged, sunken-eyed, and stoned, they sat smoking in the mystical-seeming darkness of cheap apartments, feeling like they were ...
Iran-Iraq War (1980–88), prolonged military conflict between Iran and Iraq. Estimates of total casualties range from one million to twice that number. Fighting was ended by a 1988 cease-fire, though the resumption of normal diplomatic relations and the
Battle of Austerlitz (December 2, 1805), the first engagement of the War of the Third Coalition and one of Napoleon’s greatest victories. His 68,000 troops defeated almost 90,000 Russians and Austrians, forcing Austria to make peace with France and keep
War of 1812, conflict fought between the United States and Great Britain over British violations of U.S. maritime rights. It ended with the exchange of ratifications of the Treaty of Ghent. Learn more about the causes, effects, and significance of the Wa