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Scene Analyses from Do the Right Thing, American Beauty, Thelma and Louise, and Taxi Driver

manicured lawns and rose gardens. But for every blooming rose, there is a thorn lurking somewhere, and through the frequent imagi...

Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet and Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet Compared

has arranged for her so she can rejoin her husband and live in exile. Upon seeing what he believes to be the dead Juliet, Romeo s...

2 Film Versions of 1 Novel Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

was cast as the Indian renegade Magua and a "less likely and more melodramatic Indian...is hard to imagine" (Magills-1920). Beery ...

Justice and Epiphanies

ignited in their minds the light of an epiphany of understanding. A 2005 film which won wide acclaim, Crash, largely concerns ho...

Men as Defined by Elia Kazan's Film On the Waterfront and Arthur Miller's Play A View from the Bridge

sayin nothin" (Greatest Films). In these respects the audience is presented with men who possess power and immorally take advant...

Questions About Treatment and the 1999 Film Girl Interrupted

is a misconception that can lead to problems in effective treatment Dr. Grohol believes that the best approach to treatment is to ...

Ronald Donaldon's Film Thirteen Days and Conflict Theory

escalate into World War III; if he did nothing or offered a weak response, the balance of power would clearly shift in the directi...

Film Genre Known as 'The Musical'

diegetic music and spoken/sung dialogue (Altman 297-298). This film genre has historically consisted of three evocative forms. F...

Considering 'Tucker: A Man And His Dream'

bound and determined to remain at the top of the monetary mountain; Tucker had little means to battle such inequitable market stru...

Martin Scorsese's Justification of Violence in Films Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, GoodFellas and Casino

and accumulating gambling debts he cannot possibly pay, the stage is set for a bloody confrontation when loan sharks come calling....

Russian Culture in the Film Window to Paris

to the history of this powerfully great city, "Like the magic of a Russian fairy tale, St. Petersburg grew up with such fantastic ...

Cinema Historically Examined

who attempted their own interpretations of the new application. All along, the original inventors knew of their potential finding...

Political and Social Reactions to D.W. Griffith's Film Birth of a Nation

is no "true print" of the film, but it stands as a historical film nonetheless (Lang, 1994; 37). "The film was based on former No...

Martin Scorsese's Common Themes in the Film Casino

in many works, the focus of attention on the many true stories he takes on is related to childhood friendship that seemingly last ...

Condon's Film Gods and Monsters

However, Condon never allows the characterization to slip from deliberate parody into stereotyping; his characters are complex and...

Cubicle Anonymity and Office Space

climax of the film. The history of the cubicle is that these partitions were once heralded as an innovation and, today, they rem...

Horror Genre and Death Line by Gary Sherman, The Wicker Man by Robin Hardy, and The Innocents by Jack Clayton

the content of these three films and place them in the context of the time considering the placement and the culture of the time. ...

A Trio of Cinematic Rebels

indication that the audience has that Travis is not quite normal, that is, that his combat experience has left him with mental sca...

The Male Gaze and Feminist Cinema

Cinema, being a system...

Algeria and French Colonialism

constant and effective contrast made between Eliane, who represents the beauty of the country as seen by its colonizers, and Camil...

P2P's Impact on Cinema Industry

This essay pertain to peer-to-peer (P2P) networking and the impact of film piracy on the cinema industry. Six pages in length, thr...

Avatar, A Sociological Perspective

This essay describes "Avatar," a film directed by James Cameron, and consider it from a sociological perspective. Three pages in l...

View of Women, Two 1950s Romantic Comedies

This paper presents an overview of "Pillow Talk" and "Desk Set," which are two fifties' era romantic comedies. The writer relates ...

Health Assessment/Steel Magnolias/PPT Speaker Notes

This paper consists of the speaker notes for a corresponding PowerPoint presentation, khstelmspnot.ppt. The health assessment pert...

French Ethnocentrism and Amelie

This essay pertain to the film Amelie (2001) and what the narrative tells viewers about French cultural assumptions and ethnocentr...

Two Recent Films, Human Behavior

This essay uses the relationships portrayed in Dallas Buyers Club (directed by Jean-Marc Vallee) and Nebraska (directed by Alexand...

"Music Within," The Story of Richard Pimentel

This essay presents a movie review of "Music Within," (2007, directed by Steven Sawalich). The film stars Ron Livingston as Richa...

Hitchcock's The Birds, Use of Sound

This essay pertains to Hitchcock's "The Birds" and the strategies that Hitchcock used in the film that relate to the use of sound....

70s Films, Taxi Driver and Saturday Night Fever

This essay offers discussion of "Saturday Night Fever" and "Taxi Driver" as films that exemplify the social environment of the 197...

Marguerite Duras, A Biography

This essay provides an overview of the life and career of Marguerite Duras, French novelist and film maker, specifically focusing ...