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Timing and Disguise in 'The Odyssey' Stories

his household. The suitors have taken it upon themselves to essentially use Odysseus home as though it was their own, killing live...

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice and Homoeroticism

It all started when Lestat, a very old vampire, gives Louis the choice to either die or have eternal life as a vampire (Berardinel...

Masculinity in Modern Cinema

the natural disaster" (Action Films, 2002). Marchetti also states that action-adventure films have long been the domain of male...

Entertainment Industry and Technology

In six pages this paper examines the online gambling, film, and music entertainment industries in a consideration of technological...

Transferring Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights to the Silver Screen

critics. The other reason that books seldom translate well to film is that in a screenplay all the senses are limited to the visu...

D.W. Griffith's Film Birth of a Nation and its Political Impact

artistic advancements, including a color sequence at the end" (Review of The Birth of a Nation, 2002). Furthermore, this film gre...

Revolution, George Orwell's Animal Farm and the Film Gandhi

farmer, the oppressor. However, once the pigs were in place and the rules established, the farm animals found themselves under a...

Overview of the Entertainment Industry

United Paramount Network (UPN), Showtime Networks, Infinity Broadcasting and Simon & Schuster publishers (Hoovers, 2002). It has h...

Films Chinatown and Raisin in the Sun and Ethnicity

element as it defines the hopes and dreams of many of the characters. Everyone faces struggles in their lives and...

Comparative Thematic Analysis of Apocalypse Now and Heart of Darkness

he was supposed to have picked up at this station has broken down, so he is delayed. He tries to make himself busy and during this...

Smoke Signals Film and 'Road' Movies

father, but the two young men are not fond of each other, at least not on the surface (Maslin, 2002). Thomas, who chatters incessa...

Social Order Visions in Police Cinematic Dramas

the beginning perhaps, a cop who felt that policeman could truly offer some form of social control that would eventually benefit a...

American Media and National Stereotypes of Germany and Great Britain

You Being Served, all serve up their own dose of British humor and stereotypes. Each show depicts the typical frouncy old woman wh...

John Ford's Films and Christian Allegory

individuals who had come before him. At the crux of the journey is the fact that the main character risks his life for his religio...

Crazy/Beautiful Film and its Themes of Social Stratification and Interracial Dating

indicate a real trend or did producers want to make the unlikely romance more intense by denoting the male protagonist as someone ...

The Use of Color in the Addams Family Values Film

somber mood, some Asian countries consider white to be a funereal color. Therefore the use of color in the movie Addams Family Va...

Landscape's Symbolic Uses in Chinese Movies Red Sorghum, The Blue Kite, and Yellow Earth

meant to symbolize the conditions of rural poverty in China and its openness and vastness is typical of Chinese art works which eq...

Human Life in the Films Man Facing Southeast, A Short Film About Killing, and Taste of Cherry

the most fundamental truths of human existence and the ways in which all human beings relate to stress and feelings of social and ...

Mercy, Goodness, and Simplicity and the Films of Frank Capra

himself because of his innocence, in many ways they begin to feel protective of the character, in the same type of way that a pare...

Nikita Mikhalkov's 1993 Film Burnt by the Sun

risen from humble origins, to be transformed by Socialism into the man that Stalin should have been, but was not (Stone, 2002). He...

Gauze and Film Dressings That Are Transparent

Therefore, the most important consideration to be made is which dressing best serves which kind of invasive would. It would certai...

Male Characters in Persuasion and Emma by Jane Austen

the novel, Frank Churchill, though a very important supporting character, for it is his contrast with the more refined George Knig...

Narratives in the Films Citizen Kane and The Usual Suspects

75). The door to the room is deep inside the frame, so when the nurse enters, it carries the eye "deep into an almost endless fram...

Development and Christian Church Influence on British Cinema

political practice. Perhaps the most obvious ways in which these influences manifested themselves were in censorship, and in the w...

1960s' Culture

come around, Americans were frantically attempting to launch a man into space, more to keep up with the Soviets (who had already l...

Film Melodrama

press appealed more in gender terms to male audiences(Neale, 63). In fact, Neale seems to think that the majority of the m...

The Day of the Locust Book and Film and Imagery

during the cock fight. Imagery as utilized in this story is perhaps best exemplified in this disturbing scene. And while there a...

Black Rain Review and Criticism

yet sympathetic short stories about ordinary people in Japanese life. Black Rain is considered a novel distinct from all other tex...

Hollywood and the California Dream

actually the perfect place for Americans to diverge from Eastern standards of rigid control as they sought a more morally ambiguou...

The “Communist Manifesto” and “All Quiet on the Western Front”

War can be seen as an event that ends in ruin for all concerned. He also says that society in general was dividing into two "grea...