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Cinematic Neorealism

neorealistic filmmakers, such as Rossellini, Vittorio DeSica and Cesare Zavattini, was to make a "moral statement," which forces ...

Play and 1995 Film Version of William Shakespeare's Othello

an extremely abbreviated version of the play. Well over half the dialogue of the original play has been condensed or eliminated i...

Mise-en-Scene

and editing equipment to the ability to use special effects as never before. Thus, there is mise-en-scene today and some film mak...

TV Comparisons of Friends and Three's Company

democrat and one-time peanut farmer Jimmy Carter became president, there were significant differences in attitudes among the older...

Novel and Movie Versions of The French Lieutenant's Woman

novel and wholly unique to the film, it is arguably faithful to Fowles intentions in the way that the original novel is structured...

US Societal Values and the Progressive Era

since the latter 1800s facilitated greater and greater industrialization. With that industrialization the ethic of hard work beca...

Mise-En Scene in Three Films

Thompson 115). The number of possible angles is infinite since there are an infinite number of points in space that the camera can...

Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt and Use of Satire

live up to its name with a great deal of glass, chrome and a lot of managers and executives with a great deal of attitude but few ...

The Film The Heiress Analyzed

lush as one of the contemporary Merchant-Ivory or Emma Thompson movie adaptations of other literary classics that offer a view int...

M. Night Shyamalan's Unbreakable Cinematic Analysis

use the camera in the same way as an author uses words for both aesthetic and textural purposes. There are two particularly effec...

Cinematic Style, Influence, and Impact of Francis Ford Coppola

in his 30s. Coppola, born in 1939 in Detroit, Michigan to an actress mother (Italia) and musician father (Carmine) grew up in Quee...

Chantal Ackerman and Her Films Je, Tu, Il and Elle and the Eighties

attitude which pervades most of her works, even today, it can be stated. This is because feminism was asking women to redefine the...

Artist Myth and Cinema

1956 account of Vincent Van Gogh leaves that question open in his sympathetic portrayal of the artist" (TCM, 2003). When watchi...

1920s' Soviet Films and the Uses of Montage

of tape and combines them to emphasize their meaning. It is a method by which through two unrelated shots we may create a third an...

Howard Hawks' 1946 Film The Big Sleep

of the classic noir characteristics, it also thumbed its nose at the use of flashbacks. There were no voice-over narrations, with ...

Ann Ferguson's Bad Boys Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity

a child. Just as obvious, however, is the fact that we as a nation do not want or need children who have been brainwashed into th...

Middle Ages' Europe Magic and Witchcraft

understood. Externalisation of problems was far simpler than to look to rational explanations when science was only in its infancy...

William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and Other Examples of Eccentricity

are similar to Emilys. The characters discussed are Carrie, from the film "Carrie," Norman Bates from the film "Psycho," Eleanor f...

Raymond Carver's 'Cathedral'

able form a friendship with the blind man over that summer. However, it is interesting to note that he only asks to feel her face ...

Gender Roles and the Influences of Politics and the Media

makes an impression on kids today, whether its what they think they should look like or the qualities they associate with women an...

Director Quentin Tarantino and Postmodernism

(Rombes). Rafferty (1997) explains that the postmodern film is built on the film noir genre, but that a feature of postmodernism ...

Reforming the Los Angeles Police Department

and trickle down to the very last beat cop in order for there to be any improvement in how the LAPD approaches its racial inequity...

American English Compendium by Marv Rubinstein

slang and colloquialisms (of the world) smack of American English (1), and that this is true even in England. He credits this fact...

Epic Hero Luke Skywalker in Star Wars

given a task to perform and in doing so derives some sort of personal meaning from it. He may meet with a great series of misfortu...

David Fincher's The Fight Club

libidinal desire and an internal examination, which tends to idealize self (Naiman 333). The one factor which unites the two symb...

Reality and Films

Indeed, by looking at the role of the women in the movie it is a reflection of the social conditions. There is a reflection of the...

Cochran and Miller's 1941 Text The Age of Enterprise

In five pages this paper discusses the still accurate premise for American business articulated by a text originally published bac...

'Barbie Q' by Sandra Cisneros

In five pages this essay discusses how symbolism within this narrative reveals how the author feels about stereotypes, infidelity,...

Stereotyping and Ethnocentrism

In three pages stereotyping and ethnocentrism are examined in a comparisons of various concepts and the ways in which each generat...

Overview of the Human Condition

In five pages this tutorial examines the social stereotypes based upon time and place that typically emerge in the human condition...