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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 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...

Auteur Theory and its Validity

In five pages this paper discusses autheurism's validity in an analysis of Stanley Kubrick's films. Five sources are listed in th...

Silent to Talkies Cinematic Transition from Metropolis to The Gold Diggers of 1933

simply being "filmed" theater. Metropolis offered a chilling glimpse of the future, as the film is set in the year 2000 in the cit...

Commitment and Betrayal in the Film Elizabeth

In five pages this film is considered in an analysis of its thematic portrayal of betrayal and commitment. One source is listed i...

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...

Revolution, George Orwell's Animal Farm and the Film Gandhi

farmer, the oppressor. However, once the pigs were in place and the rules established, the farm animals found themselves under a...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Rene Fortunato's Film The Power of the General

One is not expressly privy to the formative influences in his life, but the directors suppositions are obvious. Those that Trujill...

Research of Erin Brockovich

problems and the pollution of the towns water table by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E). Brockovich instinctively felt that the case ...

Analyzing Oliver Stone's Controversial 1991 Film JFK

Cuban Missile Crisis the following year. The film implies that JFK made a deal with Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev, in which h...

Fight Club Film and Crisis of Identity

whisper sweet nothings, carry a womans purse in a store, and change a babys "poopy" diapers (and be able to say the word, "poopy" ...

Cinema Industry of Great Britain

any year 68% of the population will visit a cinema (BBC New, 2003). British films tend to be very well accepted, until Harry Potte...

1960s' Life and Mike Nichols' Film The Graduate

to comment on his future and to give him advice. The viewer comes to understand that Ben is expected to follow in his fathers foot...

Style of Auteur Filmmaker Yusuf Chahine

superbly able to weave entertainment into the mix of the political statements, using the elements of good literature as he does so...

Patriarchal Concepts in Monster's Ball and Mystic River Films

mourn, and move on. He is a man raised by a patriarchal society and as such it is his duty, as he sees it, to do something. In thi...

Analysis of Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs Screenplay

After the robbery goes bad, the gang regroups in an abandoned warehouse. Here they learn that the reason their job went bad was du...

Tragic Form of Aristotle and Contemporary Cinema

had erred so completely, even though he did so unknowingly, his only recourse was to take his own life. In Fight Club, then, th...

Abnormal Psychology and the Film Copycat

is a virtual prisoner in her home (Copycat). She has withdrawn from both work and her life and the only contact she has with the o...

Analyzing the 1992 Film Version of John Steinbeck's Novel, Of Mice and Men

period scenes depicting Salinas and Soledad are reconstructed "in meticulous... detail" (Murray, 2003; Morsberger, 1993, p. 128). ...

1984 Film This is Spinal Tap and Social Assumptions

uncompromising manner that demands to be interpreted as truth (This is Spinal Tap PG). It is the perfect device for Rob Reiner to...

Finding Forrester Themes of Education and Racism

At the same time, there are two teachers in this work who are at odds. They are of course Forrester and Crawford. Forrester actua...

Analysis of the Movie Clueless

impostor of a friend. The heroines role, of course, is defined not only by her own inner convictions but also by those with whom ...

Federico Fellini's Movies and Their Cinematic Influence

he would have lent his considerable talents and boundless energy to the circus arena "because the circus is just that same mixture...