Essays 1981 - 2010
brash prostitute that flaunts her body and acts like a tough hooker. She is representative of women who sell their body and are al...
(Stam 54). While these terms seem extreme, they convey the disappointment of the critic, or the general viewer, towards a film tha...
one else. This rugged outdoorsman is entirely self-sufficient, and when he does interact with others, on a cattle drive for inst...
enjoy his vacation but pushes aside that vacation to help his friend find retribution for the murder of his father. There are mome...
the murder has no real basis in reality; the old man had never hurt him, and he has no desire to rob him: "Object there was none. ...
society is violent and the films reflect that. Bond is also, in truth, an anti-hero. Hes supposedly a "good guy," but in reality h...
benefit of any mutilating tool; Sands (2001) notes that to suggest this trance - or hallucination - is motivated by anything other...
errand boy to a "coke and gun dealer" (Quart). This is a twisted version of the American dream. Scorsese populates this film wit...
who were obscuring their identities by dressing as American Indians (Levine, 1994). Times have most certainly changed s...
was developing. But, when her husband was taken it was very hard for her to do nothing. She constantly ended up battling with the ...
that many books before it has looked at blurred the line between fiction and reality. The research has been undertaken and...
But, in this film remake the character seems less likeable, a character that perhaps the audience could not relate to as well for ...
never to have: schizophrenia. But Russell Crowes amazing performance as John Nash shows us what its like to suffer from this illne...
between them by the feelings they evoke in us. Walters writes that tension is one of the most important barometers of audience res...
An analysis of these cinematic genres and how they are used are considered in an examination of Andrew Davies' A Perfect Murder an...
Council Chairman Dr. Ian Bogle claimed that there is a cult of "bodily perfection" that is perpetuated by media (2000). Recommenda...
In six pages this paper emphasizes class consciousness in a discussion of how class is portrayed during the Great Depression in St...
definitely postmodern? In some ways, that appears to be true, but in other ways that may not be the case at all. 2001 began with...
characterized by works which present contemporary characters in real-life situations (Carmen). Schonberg indicates that, with Carm...
any movie as well as the larger aspect of film defined as art is to understand its relationship and associations between the uniqu...
within the domestic sphere. Therefore, a Greek man typically took a younger male as his main love interest because only a man coul...
alienate himself from his mother, uncle, fianc?e Ophelia and his old school chums, Rosencrantz and Guilderstern. The lone confide...
commit violent criminal acts" (Nottingham Screening DNA: Exploring the Cinema-Genetics Interface). Furthermore, according to "gen...
Accra's Hauka community during colonial rule as depicted in Les Maitres Fous by director Jean Rouch is the focus of this paper con...
In eight pages this paper discusses the various communication methods presented in the film and also discusses the employment of c...
This five page paper compares this classic text to the film version by Paul Mazursky. Two sources are listed....
Film criticism and gender are discussed in relation to the horror genre. A look at sexual mores is included. This five page paper...
In seven pages this report analyzes Tim Burton's film Sleepy Hollow in terms of Johnny Depp's performance and cinematic influences...
This paper addresses the artistic and historical significance of three silent films, The Battleship Potemkin, Metropolis, and, The...
An analysis of the city's role in The American Friend, a 1977 film by director Wim Wenders, is presented in seven pages. There is...