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Cinematic Portrayal of Greek Virtue and Philosophers

84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...

Opening Sequence Analysis of the 1979 Film Apocalypse Now

foundation, upon which the subsequent action and characterizations are constructed. The mise-en-scene, which is featured in the o...

Critique and Analysis of Wag the Dog Film by Barry Levinson

the message it conveys through incisive parody scary? Definitely. Barry Levinson is a veteran filmmaker who deftly employs a cyn...

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...

Macon in The Accidental Tourist and OCD

safe with American restaurant choices, avoiding human contact, and the like. What is interesting about this story is tha...

Artwork in the Films Basquiat and Crumb

he is the one telling us of his past and his art. He tells us that one time he took some drug that was supposedly LSD but he think...

1939 Film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington by Director Frank Capra

MGM and Warner Brothers, it had to rely on a limited group of performers. One of the most appealing was a tall, gangly young acto...

Psychological Analysis of the Film Leaving Las Vegas

1996, p. 3), which she accepts as a way of demonstrating her unconditional support of him and his intention to literally drink him...

An Analysis of the Films, Bowling for Columbine and, The Decay of Fiction

physical state that supports the distinguishing characteristics of film noir. Though the term "film noir" is French, the st...

Analysis of Literary and Film Versions of The Color Purple

a young girl who has only her inherent strength and her faith in God to help her survive. She is not especially intelligent, nor i...

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...

Black Rain Review and Criticism

yet sympathetic short stories about ordinary people in Japanese life. Black Rain is considered a novel distinct from all other tex...

Comparative Analysis of the Autobiographical Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam and the Film October Sky

but that it was shared by his friends. For clarity and to avoid further explanation of detail, the rocket academy they formed in t...

Landscape's Symbolic Uses in Chinese Movies Red Sorghum, The Blue Kite, and Yellow Earth

meant to symbolize the conditions of rural poverty in China and its openness and vastness is typical of Chinese art works which eq...

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...

Greek Styles of Government and the Film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

relationship between a city or Nations government and a person is much like that of a parent/child relationship. The state nurture...

A Genre-Based Analysis of the Film, Erin Brockovich

which pokes fun at what might otherwise be regarded as a very unfunny subject, such as death. There is also the romantic comedy, ...

Visual Themes in Cameron Crowe's 2001 Film Vanilla Sky

is until he has suffered pain and unhappiness, concepts that are foreign to David, who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth....

Literature, Film, Identity, and Travel

conversation" (Clifford, 1997, p. 37). Similarly, the identity of the Moe family remained Hawaiian, despite the fact that they t...

Sir Carol Reed's Film The Third Man

a job writing for a volunteer medical unit he runs. Harry, however, is dead by the time Holly arrives (Ebert, 2002); he has, in fa...

History and Citizen Kane

flashbacks in the movie) (Street 48). Through these interviews, the audience learns that Kane inherited a fortune at a young age, ...

D.A. Pennebaker's Film Don't Look Back Critically Analyzed

depicted in Dylans apparent treatment of many of those whom he comes into contact with. If fact, Dylan seems to be stuck in a perp...

William Shakespeare's Play Macbeth and 2 Film Interpretations

conscience. Said Macbeth: "One cried "God Bless us! And "Amen!" the other, as they had seen me with these hangmans hands. Listning...

Gender Issues and Class in Karl Reisz's Film Saturday Night, Sunday Morning

What it depicts is a picture of class prejudice and strained gender relationships. Saturday Night Sunday Morning is made ...

Cinema and Gun Symbolism

take a life in just moments. A student writing on this subject may want to consider the gun as an appendage of the bodies of Travi...

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum Film Analysis

by Heinrich Boll, on which the screenplay was based (Anonymous, 2001). Katharina Blum (played by Angela Winkler) is an innocent,...

A Seven Film Analysis

excellent example of explanatory communication. The protagonist is explaining his reasoning and the fact that he wants to do some...

Fritz Lang's Films

the audience. In many modern examples, the most creative thing that can be said about a particular movie maker is his or her abili...

Analysis of the Style and Narrative of the Film The Man Who Wasn't There

in that Ed Crane is sure that his wife is having an affair with her boss. Banking on the surety of his assumption, he sends the bo...

Analysis of Citizen Kane

the movie from the perspective of the 21st century, the movie may not seem that impressive. However, for the audiences of the earl...