Essays 391 - 420
purchase expensive consumer goods. The stress and psychic pain of this situation causes chronic insomnia. A disinterested and unsy...
was shot on location at Big Bear Lake and Yosemite Valley in California (Magills-1920). In an interview with film historian Kevin ...
In eight pages this research essay compares the structures of the 1593 play by George Peele with the 1987 film by director Rob Rei...
This 4 page essay explores the long-lived concept of May-December romance as it is presented in the movies. Social class and age ...
same material, that is, the historical background to corporations, their basic operating motivation and specific case studies. How...
a camaraderie that is more reminiscent of Huck and Tom than future revolutionaries. However, as they begin to see the poverty and ...
Clearly, the leaders are Noah and Allie, who refuse to surrender their cause (love) despite the diversity that frequently forces t...
and thus stands as something that would attract audiences. Another reason why this novel would do well is in relationship to th...
In the epic, the threat is supernatural; in the film, the menace is recast as a vicious, cannibalistic tribe who dress in animal s...
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...
finds that her conscience has problems with this assignment and she ultimately rebels. Paralleling Janes story is that of Akiko...
McGill spins a yarn about buried ill-gotten gains ($1.2 million) that he promises to share (Berardinelli). In their journey, the...
of his life. He realizes that he has been living in an emotional vacuum, operating more as a robot than a human being, and he subs...
influence in the life of his father and a contributing factor in the suicide of his mother. Therefore, the reader comes to underst...
time. Perhaps in the distance between the time of Christ and modern times, the death of Christ by way of crucifixion has been sa...
film Braveheart is noted for its bloody battle sequences (Brackman, 2004). While The Passion is based on the Gospel of John, Brac...
not-so-classic sci-fi approach in the storytelling process allows the audience to wonder along with the main character, Neo, if it...
This essay provides an overview of the life and career of Marguerite Duras, French novelist and film maker, specifically focusing ...
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...
This essay explains what classical and operant conditioning are. It discusses how politicians, moviemakers, and advertisers use cl...
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 discusses the function and characterization of the police as they are portrayed in Mattleu Kassowitz's movie La Haine (...
This essay utilizes literature to put forth the argument that Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, both the novel and the film adap...
labor. Rather than being totally dependent on custom, these societies are held together primarily through mutual obligation betwee...
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...
This essay presents a comprehensive discussion of Allison Anders' 1993 film Mi Vida Loca, a movie that focuses on a group of young...
This essay discusses osteoporosis - what it is, risks, and incidence. It does so in the context of a film entitled Fire in the Dar...
rolling down a hillside and coming ominously to rest" (Morris, 2000). Following the template set by Caligari, Lang also delves int...