Essays 271 - 300
not intend for the work to provide the surreal aura that Emerald City became in the filmed classic. The film was a musical and thi...
In five pages this paper examines how the opening sequence of the Clint Eastwood film Unforgiven sets the movie's overall tone. F...
In eight pages this paper presents a film theoretical analysis of My Own Private Idaho with an emphasis upon the open text concept...
tending to interpret the film through the medium of his or her own perceptions and world view. Each viewer walks away from the fi...
is partly based on the experiences of one of its writers, Neil Peng), focuses on Wai-Tung, a gay yuppie and his lover, Simon -- th...
1996, p. 3), which she accepts as a way of demonstrating her unconditional support of him and his intention to literally drink him...
physical state that supports the distinguishing characteristics of film noir. Though the term "film noir" is French, the st...
a young girl who has only her inherent strength and her faith in God to help her survive. She is not especially intelligent, nor i...
In six pages this paper examines the approaches to the horror genre by directors Alfred Hitchcock and Steven Spielberg in this con...
The movie Good Will Hunting is analyzed from a Freudian perspective in 5 pages. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....
have assumed greater significance in womens lives. We learn as the film progresses that Sophie does in fact have a job; but we de...
Heritage and culture as presented in these films are contrasted and compared in five pages. There is no bibliography included....
In seven pages the film is discussed in an examination of a trio of ethical theories and the morality of capital punishment. Five...
adding to aid of gloom. As this suggests, in Frankenstein, the X factor is primarily shown overtly, using aspects of the cinemat...
as an imitation of reality, "it holds a mirror up to nature" (Durant, 1961, p. 59). Aristotle notes that human beings find pleasur...
Clearly, the leaders are Noah and Allie, who refuse to surrender their cause (love) despite the diversity that frequently forces t...
Fitts (Chris Cooper) and his wife Barbara (Allison Janney). Fitts is even more emotional remote from his teenage son than Lester i...
politics. Gore Vidal wrote the screenplay, as well as the original Broadway play on which the movie is based. Vidal was friends wi...
attempt to make to the viewer sympathetic to his ideas...the film highlights the many conflicting realities which are inherent in ...
middle of filming the commercial he has come to do and the director is attempting to give him directions in Japanese using an inte...
In five pages this report contrasts and compares the 1987 novel Beloved written by Toni Morrison with the 1998 movie adaptation. ...
but that it was shared by his friends. For clarity and to avoid further explanation of detail, the rocket academy they formed in t...
it was because of Kurosawa that the West became aware of Japanese movies and the unique views of and commentary on the world that ...
it is about a silent film star, Don Lockwood (played by Kelly) making the transition to sound pictures, a leap that not all popula...
as arrogant as they play up the fact they are noble and helping. In "The Ugly American" the authors note, "Hordes of United States...
In five pages this analysis considers how director Adrian Lyne's Fatal Attraction represents a changing suspense and horror film g...
In five pages this research paper considers how voyeurism is depicted in this 1954 suspense thriller particularly as it relates to...
In three pages this paper discusses an epic in terms of characteristics and how thee are expressed in literature and on film in a ...
This paper analyzes the murder mystery, Devil in a Blue Dress. The author divides the paper into three sections of contextual inte...
estate which is known as Wuthering Heights, and the moors which constantly reflect the mood of the homes inhabitants. A stranded ...