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Oedipus Rex (1957)

as though by filming this story in this manner the producer was trying to invite, so to speak, the audience into a theater, make t...

A Son of Africa

thumbscrews" (California Newsreels). This particular film is clearly a film that is aimed at bringing light to the past, to the ...

Crash: Film Analysis

and if they felt justified in their actions. He decided to write a movie from their perspective" (Jet 54). Such information hel...

Sociological Analysis of “12 Angry Men”

they trust lawyers and never question things, in this case based on the assumed truth that all ethnic and impoverished people are ...

Disruption and Children Underground: Film Reviews

This 4 page paper gives a review of the films Disruption and Children Underground. This paper includes both the cultural language ...

The Joy Luck Club, a Film Review

This film review pertains to the "Joy Luck Club," which premiered in 1993 and was directed by Wayne Wang. The reviewer discusses t...

Film Review, Requiem for a Dream

This essay pertain to Darren Aronofsky's 2000 film "Requiem for a Dream, and describes how each of the characters' lives spiral in...

Film Review, Cool Hand Luke

This essay uses research to offer an overview of "Cool Hand Luke," a 1967 film directed by Stuart Rosenberg. Cinematic features, s...

Crash, A Cinematic Parable

his motivation for stealing Jean and Ricks car. However, in committing grand theft auto, Anthony objectifies Jean and Rick just as...

12 Angry Men

as an unnecessary delay to the inevitable delivery of a guilty verdict. But, the Architect eventually convinces them to go over th...

Presentations of Colonialism

on the development of an exploitative tourist industry in Antigua. Achebe takes a very different perspective than Kincaid in tha...

Eyes in Film

Schwartz towards the woman he is longing for; the disappointed gaze of his wife Lotte (Cameron Diaz). When a person is presumably ...

Hitchcock/Psycho & Shadow of a Doubt

the nature of good and evil. In "Shadow," there are the two "Charlies," Uncle Charlie and his niece, Charlotte, who is known as "C...

When A Man Loves A Woman

love for their children. However, it quickly becomes evident that there is trouble in this paradise, as Alice has a problem, as sh...

Silent v. Sound/Art in Film

"at heart, I was always a silent movie man" (Twatio 14). One reason why early silent films appear odd or stilted to modern audie...

Passion of the Christ v. The Bible

"the Son of Your handmaid" (Longhenry, 2004). Additionally, John and Peter address Mary as "mother" numerous times during the film...

American Religion and the 2003 Film Bruce Almighty

how dependent upon technology the average citizen has become in everyday life. The fact that God initially contacted Bruce via hi...

"Music Within," The Story of Richard Pimentel

This essay presents a movie review of "Music Within," (2007, directed by Steven Sawalich). The film stars Ron Livingston as Richa...

Robert Lemon, Transfusion

This film review in on Robert Lemon's 2014 documentary "Transfusion," which portrays the complex cultural issues and meaning that ...

Cinematic Depiction of Microbiology, Contagion

This research paper cites reviews in order to report on the scientific accuracy of the film and the manner in which it depicts mic...

Stage Beauty (2004), a review

This essay presents a film review of "Stage Beauty" (2004, directed by Richard Eyre). Three pages in length, no sources are cited....

Yousry Nasrallah's Film On Boys, Girls and the Veil

accurately termed "head scarf." In allowing the Egyptian men and women who are featured in the film to speak for themselves, the d...

Social Process Theory and the Film American History X

1998). Derek is induced into joining a neo-Nazi movement by a older hate-monger played by Stacy Keach, who uses him as a neighbo...

Critical Response to the Film The Gods Must Be Crazy

anthropological data on this tribe, it is impossible to say precisely where this assessment errs, but err it must, simply because ...

Film as Religion by John Lyden

What is generally missed, according to Lyden, is that regardless of cinematic content, audiences receive all the messages of a fil...

Man Against Nature in Lee Tamahori's 1997 Film The Edge

new person. This has been tradition since Gilgamesh. The hero emerges from the wilderness to contribute to society and carry out...

Review of Sydney Pollack's 2005 Movie The Interpreter

notes that this is the first film crew to be given permission to film extensively at the UN and this gives the movie a feeling of ...

Clint Eastwood's Film Million Dollar Baby

light across a coffee table may be the only thing that signals that the scene takes place in someones living room. Throughout th...

Violence in American/Bowling for Columbine

the stats that Moore cites about gun deaths, which compares the US to other countries. Yearly, there are "381 (gun deaths) in Germ...

Coach Carter/Hoosier, film comparison

when the teams losing streak continues. There is one boy in the high school, Jimmy (Maris Valainis) who is a superb player, with...