Essays 421 - 450
physical state that supports the distinguishing characteristics of film noir. Though the term "film noir" is French, the st...
preface of her book, author Susan Brigden confesses to the broad nature of her book "New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudo...
and evil (technology). Blade Runner considers the city of Los Angeles in the year 2019 as "a fragmented Third World metropolis, m...
of the classic noir characteristics, it also thumbed its nose at the use of flashbacks. There were no voice-over narrations, with ...
Chaplin appeared, it was also a film that he made use of established paradigms. The tools used focus on content emotion had experi...
(Rombes). Rafferty (1997) explains that the postmodern film is built on the film noir genre, but that a feature of postmodernism ...
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...
human being he is. This comes as a shock to Oliverio who is as bad as the rest in assuming that prostitutes have no brains. Actu...
and expression than film where the camera is able to capture the most subtle suggestions of emotion through the use of a close -up...
In nine pages this paper discusses media criticism and its types with a focus upon scholarly, journalist, and auteurist and then e...
The film's inconsistencies with regard to Mozart's and Salieri's lives are emphasized in this paper of 6 pages. There are 3 bibli...
This paper reviews the film, Amadeus. The author addresses various thematic and social elements of this film version of Motzart's...
This paper provides an analysis of the film Se7en (Seven), in terms of form, cultural-historical background, and how the film is u...
In two pages the film's satire as well as the stand it takes against certain issues are discussed as they reflect America's Great ...
This short, one page reaction paper to this film starring Kevin Costner provides an opinion of the writer. No sources aside from t...
In three pages this paper examines how filmmaker techniques are applied to advancing the film's theme, development of plot, and to...
In four pages the essays compiled by film scholar Andre Bazin are examined with the emphasis being on the ways in which it provide...
This paper provides a brief synopsis of the film's plot and analyzes the issue of historical accuracy. This three page paper has n...
This paper analyzes Ira Lee's film, Synthetic Pleasures. The author criticizes Lee's lack of any clear, organizational plot or th...
This paper examines the Fellini film, La Dolce Vita. The author discusses camera shots and angels, as well as design, decor, comp...
In seven pages historical comparisons are made between the ways in which education is depicted in such films as Stand and Deliver,...
The writer explores the plot, characters, setting and other elements of the 1942 classic film Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart...
This paper considers how the Vietnam War was depicted in the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket and the 1988 film Good Morning, Vietnam i...
This paper explores the career of comic film maker, Charles Chaplin. The author focuses mostly on his early, silent films, such a...
This five page essay examines the film by Brian DePalma in reference to the social crime theories of Walter B. Miller. This film ...
The use of sexually explicit films in the context of teaching sex education is the subject of this research paper. This report loo...
In six pages this film is reviewed from a blind person's perspective along with a consideration of negative and positive film impa...
This writer offers a detailed analysis of the Gotta Dance/Broadway Melody scene from the 1952 film Singin' In the Rain. These scen...
This paper comprised of 25 pages compares and contrasts the portrayal of homosexual men and their defined gender roles with realit...
This paper consists of five pages and examines the controversies surrounding this film director, producer, writer, and actors uses...