Essays 1501 - 1530
This paper examines director Zhang Yimou's commercial film success and the Western elements featured in his movies in 10 pages. F...
In seven pages this paper examines how a children's film version of this whimsical comedy by William Shakespeare could be accompli...
This paper applies existentialism to an analysis of the character Jack in the Titanic film by director James Cameron in 5 pages. ...
This 1994 film analyzes the character's behavior through a discussion of Needleman's perspective, the Aristotelian system, and Dil...
In five pages this paper compares Barbara Brackman's text and D.W. Griffith's film in terms of how each portrayed the Civil War. ...
In eight pages this paper examines how 1960s' social realism influenced such films as Loach's Poor Cow, and Brooks' The Profession...
things out? Perhaps it is just that they kept the plots simpler, certainly films were a fraction of the running time that they ar...
In ten pages this paper discusses the reunions between parents and children that take place within the Steven Spielberg films E.T....
In six pages this paper examines how filmmakers such as Hou and Orson Welles have employed the long take cinematic technique in su...
In classic science fiction style, the common people have no idea that they are nothing more than blips in a global virtual-reality...
In five pages Maximus of the Gladiator film is compared with Odysseus of Homer's epic in a five page comparative analysis. There ...
are moments when the action appears in slow motion, but it does not last long, and over all contributes to the dream quality of th...
In five pages the hand of destiny as it reveals itself in William Shakespeare's Macbeth and tin the films The Man Who Shot Liberty...
Ann Beard, in her essay The Fourth State of Matter, illustrates how a young man, Gang Lu, becamse so disgruntled with life and wit...
In seven pages this paper discusses the impact of technology upon humankind as considered in H.G. Wells' novels The War of the Wor...
portrayed in the film live in a climate of risk with "no health insurance, no drivers license, no pension and no recourse" to just...
the service of the agency" (McCarthy). Both films offer up an individual that is, in one way or another, presumed to be a bad gu...
theorists and directors," note that "Hitchcocks films are deeply infused with anxiety, guilt, and existential angst, which they tr...
his way is not going to solve anything and will only lead to more death. The film deserves a few words as...
his disposal beyond his huge physical size. It would seem no human could be safe against this creature that could easily pierce o...
gifted comedian of the era in her own right. Silent screen actors had to convey emotion, as well as personality, by establishing ...
rather how it appears to the person that is hearing or viewing the story. Does the narrative appear to distort or change what ha...
that allows the director to alter the internal pace of the scene, directing the audiences attention to specific aspects of the sce...
as icon ... you dont cast Denzel Washington unless youre willing to accept that charisma is often the secret weapon of the success...
so that when he sees himself in the mirror, "the recognition of himself is joyous in that he imagines his mirror image to be more ...
the color palette, the costumes; all of these come together to produce the picture that the director wants us to see. This is why ...
well into adulthood. However, Lorber points out, "Individual actions construct social institutions and therefore... changes in in...
same lust. At times, his meddling seems to be a good thing, as when he and his nurse/masseuse Stella (Thelma Ritter) see a neighbo...
(Dirks, 2008). There is almost nothing positive about the surveillance that Chaplin describes here; it consists solely of a powerf...
through the use of rolling chords that softly underscore the melody line in the treble, while octaves sound in the bass like dista...