Essays 421 - 450
This essay offers discussion of "Saturday Night Fever" and "Taxi Driver" as films that exemplify the social environment of the 197...
This essay pertains to Hitchcock's "The Birds" and the strategies that Hitchcock used in the film that relate to the use of sound....
This essay presents a movie review of "Music Within," (2007, directed by Steven Sawalich). The film stars Ron Livingston as Richa...
at the other end looks miniscule (Holme, et al, 1972). This perception is based on visual assumptions, and these same assumptions ...
the Jungian archetypes developed through the influence of the ring. Its quite clear and specific, and he argues the point well. T...
a woman-suit out of women (using their skin)-the ultimate in objectification" (Vorndam). Lecter is initially contemptuous of Starl...
which is at the "heart of this piece, cannot stand such a strong dose of reality" (Brode 98). There is artificiality in abundanc...
adding to aid of gloom. As this suggests, in Frankenstein, the X factor is primarily shown overtly, using aspects of the cinemat...
This essay consists of nine pages and discusses how the U.S. romance with the use of drugs has been transferred onto celluloid thr...
This essay provides an overview of the life and career of Marguerite Duras, French novelist and film maker, specifically focusing ...
This essay pertain to Darren Aronofsky's 2000 film "Requiem for a Dream, and describes how each of the characters' lives spiral in...
This essay explains what classical and operant conditioning are. It discusses how politicians, moviemakers, and advertisers use cl...
In five pages this essay considers the social mobility, daily life, and role of women in the sixteenth century as depicted in the ...
dress of the other extras (all men) identifies them as working-class people. Theres a mug on the counter and the usual accessories...
child who was very, very much wanted, previously in the film, scenes featuring John and Jenny have shown them thrilled over her pr...
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 ...
This research paper/essay analyzes and critiques the portrayal of genocide presented in the 2004 film Hotel Rwanda. Five pages in ...
This essay offers a comparison between Flowers for Algernon and the film Charly. Similarities and differences are discussed. Four...
portrayed in the film live in a climate of risk with "no health insurance, no drivers license, no pension and no recourse" to just...
their acknowledged leaders and the only character that is not played for laughs. There are also Gordon, a middle-aged, loyal custo...
there is a certain allure to the way in which both Caine and O-Dog are portrayed. Cinema has since its inception been one of the...
In six pages post 1870 Europe is examined in a series of short essays with topics including Mussolini and Fascism, the foreign pol...
adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway short story, directed by Robert Young and produced in 1997. The protagonist of this short film ...
to abide by her decision to communicate only in sign language. Young children acquire language skills by listening. From the tim...
In six pages this essay examines how both the novel and the film depict nature as a way of showcasing the author's evil concept. ...
This essay compares and contrasts various elements of Lorraine Hansberry's, A Raisin In The Sun, and how the original play compare...
and thus stands as something that would attract audiences. Another reason why this novel would do well is in relationship to th...
to do is wait and persist and she will eventually love him. While Tod is also not successful in his goal, he realizes that the cul...
course, 28 days later, when a bicycle courier named Jim (Cillian Murphy) awakens from a coma and finds himself in an abandoned hos...
In the epic, the threat is supernatural; in the film, the menace is recast as a vicious, cannibalistic tribe who dress in animal s...