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Complex Union of Marriage

does begin to notice the details of her life that she used to overlook, such as returning home, windblown and sunburned, and disco...

Apocolypse Now

Coppola also uses the aspect of theater, which acknowledges that each member of the audience will bring with them, to the theater,...

Comedies of the English Restoration

entertainment. This particular period of English history (1642-1660) had been called the Interregnum." Morality was closely moni...

Children's Socialization Development

In a paper consisting of 20 pages children's socialization development is considered in a discussion of various theories from thos...

A Comparison of Occidental and Islamic Cultures in 'The Venture of Islam'

This paper of 6 pages compares western culture and Islamic religion in terms of similarities and differences, providing definition...

Feminist Cinematic Theory and Psychoanalysis

In five pages this paper examines psychoanalysis' relevance to feminist cinematic theory in a consideration of the article 'Masoch...

Female Characters as Spectators in Early Cinema

This paper examines the heavily male-influenced film industry as it related to the roles played by female characters. The author ...

Comparing Fictional and Documentary Films

then put it in a corner and make it a documentary--not my life, not possibly my life " (qtd. in Lim, 1999, p.184). Roth makes a go...

Quentin Tarantino's Controversial Film Pulp Fiction

In 5 pages this paper examines the cinematic style of director Quentin Tarantino in this thematic analysis of the controversial fi...

Analyzing the Film Deliverance

In six pages critical cinematic theory is applied to director John Boorman's film released in 1972 and discusses how theme is depi...

Novel and Film Comparisons of Jurassic Park

wind up running for their lives from the dinosaurs that escape due to the computer programmer Dennis Nedrys treachery. Grant ensur...

Female Stereotypes in Post-Modern and Current Media

careerist (brunette), who slug it out on a veranda, in a lily pond, or during a mud slide .... A metaphor for the struggle between...

Hiring Practices and Gender Prejudice

not hold these prejudices, it appears that they do. Reverse stereotyping is prevalent in the workplace today. In order to underst...

Comparative Analysis of Othello Play and Film

In five pages William Shakespeare's original play is contrasted and compared with Oliver Parker's 1995 cinematic interpretation. ...

The Media and Female Stereotypes

a traditional wife (blond), the other a grasping, careerist (brunette), who slug it out on a veranda, in a lily pond, or during ...

Female Development and the Impact of Gender Stereotypes

to be the coldly practical sex, while emotionality is considered to be a trait of the masculine gender (Holme, 1972). The people o...

Person, Communication Styles, and What is Revealed by Gestures

In ten pages this paper discusses verbal and nonverbal communications in a consideration of how each along with gestures reveal in...

Stereotyping and Discrimination

In twelve pages this paper discusses how cultural stereotypes lead to incorrect assumptions that are discriminatory. Nine sources...

Television's Cultural and Ethnic Stereotyping

of television talk shows. Whatever socially redeeming qualities contemporary television talk shows may have, they have not made t...

Film Noir and McCarthyism

and the even larger political responses of the Truman administration created a realm in which the primary purpose was to protect t...

Stanley Kubrick's Auteur Film Style in A Clockwork Orange and 2001 A Space Odyssey

In eight pages this paper examines Kubrick's definitive auteur film styles as they are represented in these films and compares the...

Realism in Martin Scorsese's Film Raging Bull

In five pages cinematic realism is compared and contrasted with film noir and surrealism with the focus being how in the film Ragi...

Film Analysis of Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons

In five pages this paper presents an analysis of the 1942 motion picture The Magnificent Ambersons in an examination of director O...

Society, Power Relations, and Stereotyping

In five pages this paper discusses societal power relations and how they are reinforced through stereotyping. Five sources are ci...

Billy Elliot Film and the Depiction of Childhood

finds that he has a natural talent for it. It is as if the emotional side of him which has been forced to remain silent finally ha...

British Cinema Censorship Prior to 1945

Censorship of any form also has the effect of promoting elitism with regard to access to...

Film Industry and Revelations on Crime and Punishment

woman. She has the ability to ruin peoples lives. This gives her a great deal of power and it corrupts absolutely. As Judge Danfor...

TV and Stereotyping

the entire clan is characterized as wealthy, stuffed shirts. This proves that not only are minorities the subject of stereotyping,...

Three Stories and the Damage of Social Stereotypes and Prejudice

is duly noted is with the different names that people of all ethnic origins - including African-Americans themselves - use to iden...

Cinema and Time's Role

human being he is. This comes as a shock to Oliverio who is as bad as the rest in assuming that prostitutes have no brains. Actu...