Essays 31 - 60
would become his own trademark. This film, along with Obsession (1976), further developed De Palmas expressive use of cinematogra...
This 5 page paper discusses the viewpoints of French film critic and auteur Andre Bazin, and Russian director Sergei Eisenstein, o...
as other authors, date this film as 1924, not 1929, which is why this date is used. Griffith envisioned his film as an epic, but t...
group of KKK members (DuPont, et al). The film ends with snapshots of the men indicted for the murders of the three Civil Rights w...
conquer it. The focus of the film changes when it shifts to dramatizing the successful launch of the Soviet Unions Sputnik and i...
This research paper focuses on the films "Fat Head" and "Super Size Me" and discusses them in terms of the nutritional subjects br...
This essay is a movie review of "Chef," a 2014 film directed by Jon Favreau. The film tells the tory of Cal Casper, a chef, who lo...
show the director she can be seductive. When he kisses her, she bites him. His anticipation for further sexual intimacy is never r...
by Kathryn Bigelow, written by Mark Boal, 2009) offers a detailed study of the life of an Army bomb squad, Bravo Company, statione...
as "jolly, slapstick comedy," but also criticizes it for lacking the "almost eerie humanity that infused" the earlier movies, writ...
water from a fire hydrant. The street scene also emphasizes the desperation of the era. A man stands next to a car that is covered...
Jesus" (Blake, 1999, p. 20). Glicks idea is that the crucifix is too depressing as a symbol. He says, "Christ didnt come to earth ...
lessons of life the Great Depression had imposed upon my Father, but this was a new twist to a very tired story. The impact of the...
a different "historical memory of the Maori," as they remember "fierce fighters who battled against British colonizers for decades...
earning him an Academy Award (Raging Bull, 19950. De Niro made Jakes decline more believable by gaining 60 pounds over the course ...
one in which Danny Torrance, the seven-year-son of Wendy and Jack, has a vision of blood engulfing a hotel hallway in torrential w...
draw and paint, which is a "direct expression" of "her interior life" (Young 29). When she is finally able to walk again, she visi...
Frida, as a young teen, sneaking into an auditorium to watch Diego painting a mural. Diegos wife Lupe appears and confronts Diego ...
a take on the play that is patterned after the screwball comedies of the 1930s, as "Beatrice and Benedick are surely the prototype...
a "master swordsman," arriving at the Emperors fortress. Nameless explains to the Emperor how he vanquished "three deadly assassin...
history of the Civil War and the Reconstruction. In essence, Griffith is recounting the tales told to him by his father, who was a...
surrealist movement, but there is debate about that ("Frida Kahlo, The Surrealist," 2006). The film itself was replete with infor...
is not identified as a goddess except for when a servant speaks to Achilles about the legends that have begun to be spun concernin...
the others, feels compelled to protect this young bit of innocence and humanity at all costs. The symbolic way that the child co...
GDR society," which would open it up to Western "cultural and economic influences" (Berghahn 146). However, the Partys views on re...
Henrys voiceover narration.3 This narration gives the viewer insight into Henrys motivations. This narration conveys Henrys childl...
also what was happening in the world at-large. For example, OBrien relates the ideological thrust of Cinderella to the perceived...
This paper consists of a film review of John Ford's 1940 film, "The Grapes of Wrath," which encompasses a sociological analysis of...
This 8 page paper gives an overview of the works of Chinese film director Zhang Yimou. This paper includes discussions of four of ...
throughout cinematic history, Jean Mitry (1907-1988) was perhaps the most comprehensive and objective. He examined cinema from al...