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Early Film Industry and Economics

In fourteen pages this research paper considers the film industry in terms of the economic issues it struggled with during its fir...

Auteur Film Director Brian DePalma

The auteur film techniques that characterize director Brian DePalma are considered in an examination of three of his films The Unt...

A Comparison of The Green Berets and Casualties of War

days on the battlefield seemed to be but a dim memory. The Korean War was Americas first unpopular war where there were no victor...

'Oedipus the King' and 'Chinatown'

no longer walks the Chinatown beat, ever since he was promoted to lieutenant (Dirks chin.html). Chinatown is regarded as a punish...

Alexander the Great's Images

In five pages this essay considers two artistic images of Alexander the Great a woodcut print from the 16th century, 'The Three Go...

Peace, Power, Leadership, Vladimir Lenin and Mohandas K. Gandhi

In five pages this paper discusses the obvious differences but also notes surprising similarities between these 20th century leade...

Mel Gibson's Hamlet

In two pages this essay reviews the Gibson film adaptation and the writer includes a personal reaction....

A Review of the Film, Synthetic Pleasures

This paper analyzes Ira Lee's film, Synthetic Pleasures. The author criticizes Lee's lack of any clear, organizational plot or th...

A Review of the Film, The Last Emperor

This paper provides a brief synopsis of the film's plot and analyzes the issue of historical accuracy. This three page paper has n...

Africa's Cinematic History

Africa had been claimed by one European nation or another. The nations claiming Africa were Belgium, France, Germany, Great Bri...

Charles Baudelaire's Poetry

In eight pages this paper examines the 20th century modernist influence wielded by the 19th century French poet Charles Baudelaire...

Movie Versions and the Original Play Othello by William Shakespeare

In eight pages this paper discusses the theatrical portrayals of Othello, Desdemona, and Iago in comparison with the films by Well...

Return of the Jedi Science Fiction Film Review

In three pages this paper examines how filmmaker techniques are applied to advancing the film's theme, development of plot, and to...

Cinematic Neorealism

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

Universal Soldier Film and Analysis of Eroticism Analysis

UniSols have bodies of unmatched perfection and their memories have been supposedly erased, which allows their minds to be easily ...

A Comparison of Die Hard and Passenger 57

find a way to get help. He gets a message out to a security guard type cop, an overweight individual who does not wish to be activ...

Male Gaze and Cross Dressing as Featured in the 1982 Film Tootsie

In six pages this paper analyzes cross dressing featured in the 1982 film Tootsie through the male gaze theories of feminist autho...

1972 Film The Exorcist and Feminine Monstrousness Concept

a term coined by feminist film critic and professor Barbara Creed. And the young girls conversion from angel to devil is more than...

Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon

In five pages this report discusses the winner of the Best Foreign Film Academy Award for 1950 and the reasons behind its enduring...

Tragic Themes in Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, Sophocles' Antigone and William Shakespeare's Macbeth

Shakespeares characters that the audience (or the reader) immediately understands will not have an easy time of it. The story of "...

The 1980 Film Moskva Slezam ne Verit or 'Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears'

the daily lives of the general population. The Soviet View of Security Throughout the thirties Soviet leaders viewed their countr...

Film Director Gordon Parks

background is disadvantaged. Marcus is the son of a bitter, abusive man who hates whites with every fiber of his being. Marcus is,...

Yugoslavian Cultural, Political, and Social Conflict

incorporated Serbs, Croats and Slovenes - three different ethnic groups, but a country in which the Serbians formed the dominant c...

Differences Between the Novel and Film Versions of The Scarlet Letter

to it that such a crime was punishable by death. After all, behavior so unbecoming of a religious devotee deserved no less....

IRA Actions in Great Britain and Terrorism

are made define an abstract concept, there will always be some groups who are able to find exceptions to the definition because of...

PE's History

In five pages this report discusses physical education programs in an historical overview that includes eighteenth century German ...

Review of the 1999 Film The Sixth Sense

In five pages this paper critically reviews M. Night Shyamalan's 1999 film The Sixth Sense....

Poetry and the Reflection of Women's Status

rather than reality. This conclusion was probably made through the poets use of the repetition of the word "if." Any piece of lit...

American Interpretations of Film Noir

of America had suffered through more than 15 years of deprivation in one form or another. The Great Depression that began with th...

Analyzing the Barbarians at the Gate Film

ethics or lack thereof, surrounding the mystique of Wall Street. Although takeovers are not in themselves unethical, the methods ...