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Self Reflexive Elements and Purpose of Francois Truffaut's Film The 400 Blows

In ten pages the purpose and self reflexive elements of Francois Truffaut's groundbreaking 1959 film The 400 Blows are examined. ...

Cinema and Rebellion

child who is the product of a failed system, this film seems to be saying. This film was a social commentary of sorts, which use...

Narrative Style Comparison Between Classic Mode and Art Cinema

In five pages these two modes of narrative cinema are examined in terms of the differences between classic and art cinema as revea...

Africa's Cinematic History

Africa had been claimed by one European nation or another. The nations claiming Africa were Belgium, France, Germany, Great Bri...

Beneficence and A Deadly Deception

This essay pertains to "A Deadly Deception," which is a PBS film that documents the events of the Tuskegee syphilis study, which l...

American Interpretations of Film Noir

of America had suffered through more than 15 years of deprivation in one form or another. The Great Depression that began with th...

Director Quentin Tarantino and Postmodernism

(Rombes). Rafferty (1997) explains that the postmodern film is built on the film noir genre, but that a feature of postmodernism ...

The Purpose of Film Montage

This 5 page paper discusses the viewpoints of French film critic and auteur Andre Bazin, and Russian director Sergei Eisenstein, o...

Trio of Historic Films Examined

In ten pages a trio of historic films answer questions pertaining to cinematic theories, techniques, styles, emotions, and editing...

Eyes Wide Shut Viewed Critically

Eyes Wide Shut was the last film Stanley Kubrick made. This paper offers an analysis and review of the film, including cinematic t...

Analyzing the Film Deliverance

In six pages critical cinematic theory is applied to director John Boorman's film released in 1972 and discusses how theme is depi...

Realism in Martin Scorsese's Film Raging Bull

In five pages cinematic realism is compared and contrasted with film noir and surrealism with the focus being how in the film Ragi...

Cognitive Cinema Theory and Narration

night light. It sits in bedrooms and living rooms but has become something one does in place of nothing. Rather than sitting and r...

Alfred Hitchcock, the Cinematic Suspense Master

In six pages this paper examines the cinematic mastery of film director Alfred Hitchcock and some of the techniques he employed th...

Female Characters as Spectators in Early Cinema

This paper examines the heavily male-influenced film industry as it related to the roles played by female characters. The author ...

Cinematic Technique Known as 'the Long Take'

In six pages this paper examines how filmmakers such as Hou and Orson Welles have employed the long take cinematic technique in su...

Reviewing A Long Kiss Goodnight Film

In six pages the 1996 film directed by Renny Harlin, written by Shane Black and costarring Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson is di...

Changing the Appearance of Films Through CinemaScope

In eight pages this paper examines the 1950s' introduction of the innovative CinemaScope cinematic technique that changed how film...

Stylistic and Formal Characteristics of Gus Van Sant's 'My Own Private Idaho'

Such cinematic techniques as mise-en-scene are discussed in a paper consisting of 6 pages as thematic and narrative expression are...

Analysis of the Italian Realist Film The Bicycle Thief

In five pages a cinematic analysis of Vittorio de Sica's 1948 film includes camera uses, production techniques and evaluates the e...

Hitchcock's Use of Mise en Scene in Rear Window and Vertigo

lends great insight into the cinematic development of any film, especially the films of Hitchcock. In his movies, every shot has ...

Art Spiegelman's Maus, Volumes I and II and Steven Spielberg's Film Schinder's List

influence in the life of his father and a contributing factor in the suicide of his mother. Therefore, the reader comes to underst...

An Analysis of the Film, Training Day

light of day can become obscured in the dark just as the best and brightest intentions can be compromised by allure of corruption....

Techniques of Filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock

The cuts are approximately equal in length. Finally Thornhill asks if hes supposed to meet someone and the stranger replies...

Review of Sydney Pollack's 2005 Movie The Interpreter

notes that this is the first film crew to be given permission to film extensively at the UN and this gives the movie a feeling of ...

Cradle Will Rock

water from a fire hydrant. The street scene also emphasizes the desperation of the era. A man stands next to a car that is covered...

Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night/On Film

a take on the play that is patterned after the screwball comedies of the 1930s, as "Beatrice and Benedick are surely the prototype...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

Film Noir Techniques in the Film, Kiss Me Deadly

flag down a car, but no one stops. Desperate, she positions herself in the middle of the road while holding her arms outstretched ...

Boeing 737 Structures

0in), and a height of 11.29m (37ft 0in). This aircraft has a wing area 91.1m2 (980sq ft) (Frawley, 2006). The 737-200 is comparab...