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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...

"House of Sand and Fog" - Abnormal Psychology

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at "House of Sand and Fog". The film is explored for its thematic content related to ab...

Changing Behavior

This essay explains what classical and operant conditioning are. It discusses how politicians, moviemakers, and advertisers use cl...

"The Breakfast Club" and Group Development

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at the four stages of group development: forming, storming, norming, and performing. Eac...

Identity in the Work of Cindy

Sherman Cindy Sherman is a noted photography, with her work often categorizing her as an artist. In her work she presents images w...

Comparing Novel and Film Versions of The Color Purple

in particular is feminism and its religious heterodoxy" (12). An examination of the film and novel amply supports this observation...

Books and Films Reflecting British Realism

an exaggerated representation of the fiction from which they are culled. The realist movement of the 1960s was centered on "the ...

Cinematic Narrative in Pulp Fiction and Citizen Kane

We note he grows to be a gregarious individual who seems driven to succeed in unusual ways, always seeking some adventure and some...

Steven Spielberg and David Lean Cinematic Comparison

easy to see how Leans grasp of cinematography and his ability to create and drive plots throughout the directing and filming proce...

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...

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...

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...

Media Distribution and Storage Methods

from their computers and televisions. Everything is individualized, personalized and programmed. People have choices today that th...

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...

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...

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...

Francis Ford Coppola's Film The Godfather, Archetypes and the Hero's Journey

Furthermore, there are certain commonalties that run through the storylines of all epic writing. Examples of such include heroism,...

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...

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...

Europe and the Role of Germany

not Germany could survive unless it was intact. It had trouble assimilating. It had to maintain its strong position and upon refle...

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...

Entertainment Industry and Technology

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

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...

Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge

Luhrmann, "In Moulin Rouge, our ultimate Red Curtain gesture, music and song is the device that releases us from a naturalistic wo...

Lawrence of Arabia by Filmmaker David Lean

Passage to India. However, his creative pinnacle is largely acknowledged to be the wildly successful (both critically as well as ...

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...

Stanley Kubrick's 1960 Film Spartacus

most of the country. Thought the Roman legions are shown to be quite disorganized and are at the end of their empires zenith, they...

Humanist v. Postmodern Views on Sexuality and Gender

humanism refers to the personal worth of an individual and that individuals right to his own particular values, and freedom from p...