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Citizen Kane and Cinematography

In five pages the opening scene of Welles' masterpiece, its compelling use of cinematography, and the ways in which it establishes...

Feminism and Gender Issues During 1950's & 60's

a group of radical New York women who aggressively sought change (Mainardi, 1969). Others chose to work patiently behind the scen...

Cinema, Ideology and the Viewer

public, which is basically whats going on here; that is widely accepted and understood. If it were not a cultural norm for people ...

Maria Full of Grace

girl, Lucy, dies because one of the pellets broke inside her and caused an overdose. She is simply cut open and tossed aside by th...

Amelie, A Film Review

understand the main thrust of the film without subtitles, as it follows Amelie from childhood to adulthood, showing the main event...

Supportive Health Culture/My Left Foot

she grimaces, indicating that this is not an easy task fro her, she never gives the slightest sign that she feels that caring for ...

A Perfect Candidate/Film Review

directed by David Van Taylor and R.J. Cutler) is a documentary that follows the 1994 senate race between incumbent Senator Charles...

Men of Honor

www.paperwriters.com/aftersale.htm Introduction The 2000 film Men of Honor is the story of Carl Brashear. Carl was an African Am...

The Passion of the Christ and the Shared Suffering Between Jesus and the Film Audience

are the various traumatic events Christ endures from the Garden of Gethsemane until the Crucifixion. They are broken down into fo...

On the Waterfront and Character Conflict

he runs the docks. The same thing applies in the other cases. The priest, Father Barry (Karl Malden) wants to save the souls of ...

Use of Cinematography in The Truman Show

lighting, color, camera angle, types of shots, music and set design, to underscore the theme of self-determination and individual...

John Ford/The Quiet Man

and he refuses to do so. Mary Kate abides by her brothers wishes, which confuses and frustrates Sean. The plot complications tha...

Summation and Review/Brother's Keeper

in 1992 and directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky for New Video Group. It concerns the fate of Delbert Ward, one of four ba...

"Nell" and Insights into Sociology

isolation in the woods comes into contact with the more traditional culture of the people from the nearby town where she is taken ...

28 Weeks Later

confines of the city and go to parts that are not yet secure. The part they desire to see is their old home, to gather some items ...

Political Theme in Zhang's Hero

film Hero, released in 2002 and costing $30 million to produce, is the most expensive film in the history of the Chinese film indu...

Melville's "Le Samourai" - A Portrait of Existential Values

single, concise action, one cannot help but recall the inherent ambiguity and independence of Camus Mersault, the protagonist of "...

Comparing the Book and Film, Shaara's The Killer Angels

to achieve dramatic effect. In Shaaras book, Armistead simply comments to Longstreet that he would like to see his old friend one ...

Film and Communication Theory

instance), and externally (how the cinematic techniques used communicate with one another, and with the audience, to convey some t...

Overview of Food, Inc.

particularly disturbing because, as Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivores Dilemma, indicates in the film, eating such a narrowly...

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...

The Issues Addressed in The Return of the King

Abel. Smeagol is analogous to Cain; he is his brothers murderer, and the audience is aware that the Ring is both powerful and evil...

Raiders of the Lost Ark/Cinematography

the traitorous guide getting ready to shoot him in the back. The camera shifts to Indys hand, which is holding a whip, as he swift...

Grease and Westside Story

Many Splendid Thing" which is very innocent and then the viewer is presented with the images of a young woman and young man on the...

Charlie Wilson and the Parable of Unintended Consequences

Wilsons War, Gust Avrakotos (Philip Seymour Hoffman) tells Charlie (Tom Hanks) a parable about seemingly good things that can turn...

2 Films on the Holocaust

sole survivor out of the eight people who lived for three years in the lofts tiny space. The film flashes back to Otto explaining ...

Camera Politica and its Controversial Message

In five pages this text and its controversial message are examined with primary themes including films' role and their use as tool...

Mental Illness and Government in the Film Dead Man Out

This paper examines this film's complexities in terms of the intertwining government and societal factors throughout in five pages...

Pleasantville's Creative Use of Color

In five pages the powerful use of color in the film's storytelling is examined. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in “As Good As It Gets”

and the animal bond, and there is a crack in his offensive fa?ade that allows him to grow and become at least slightly human (Schw...