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Actor John Travolta

time Travolta began doing the leaps and pirouettes on the flashing dance floor in Saturday Night Fever, he was already a veteran a...

Authority and Power Through Language in Quentin Tarantino's Movie Pulp Fiction

from his well-received form of art. "Normally, both of you would be dead as fucking fried chicken by now, but since Im in a trans...

Pulp Fiction and Human Anxiety

this tension and anxiety. As Fried (1995) illustrates "Pulp Fiction is not simply a sensational stylistic exercise without content...

Analyzing 'Technology and Politics in the Blade Runner Dystopia' by Judith Kerman

In five pages this paper considers Kerman's thoughtful commentary and assessment of the 'Blade Runner' film and its contribution t...

Fact and Fantasy Regarding the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

In eight pages this paper contrasts and compares the findings of the Warren Commission and the US House Select Committee on Assass...

Overview of Postmodern Cinema

In twelve pages this paper analyzes postmodern cinema's characteristic elements in a consideration of such films as Pulp Fiction, ...

An Analysis of Heroism and the Journey in Star Wars

An eight page research paper considering the literary concept of the hero's journey in this classic science fiction film by direct...

Cinematic Violence

The ongoing debate onf movie violence is examined from both sides in five pages with Pulp Fiction and Natural Born Killers among t...

Jack Rabbit Slim’s Dance Contest

works for her husband, and hes supposed to show her a good time and do what she wants, so shut up and dance because she wants that...

“Pulp Fiction” and Its Literary Constructions

the inherent flexibility of a non-sequential narrative, because things get too confusing. Tarantino apparently decided to let it b...

H.G. Wells/The Time Machine

on the nature of the fourth dimension, i.e., time, as well as the astronomical features and evolutionary development that he obser...

Analysis of Raqing Bull

earning him an Academy Award (Raging Bull, 19950. De Niro made Jakes decline more believable by gaining 60 pounds over the course ...

Models, Miniatures, and the Battle for Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back

Many of his early Star Wars films feature several shots of models and miniatures that convey realism as impressively and in less t...

“The Thirteenth Floor”

Angeles finds out hes not real, he sets the rest of the film in motion. The questions are: what makes contemporary LA different f...

Native Experience: Literature and Film

different elements together to speak of ancient Aboriginal beliefs as well as a modern world. In As Long as the Rivers Flo...

Analyzing Once Upon a Time in America and Its Use of Violence

in "Once Upon a Time in America", is known for his portrayal of violent characters. Noodles, the character De Niro portrays in "O...

The Relationship of Men in Gangster Films

to each other only by code names ("Mr. Pink," "Mr. White", etc.). They relate to each other mainly by wisecracks ("Do I have to be...

Sci-Fi Films: Radiation Monsters and Homestick Aliens

(Bacchus, 2007). The atomic age is the real villain here, because its radiation from the atomic testing in New Mexico that causes ...

Mississippi Burning/A Reaction to the Film

group of KKK members (DuPont, et al). The film ends with snapshots of the men indicted for the murders of the three Civil Rights w...

Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS)

Security; Governance Rule of Law & Human Rights; Infrastructure & Natural Resources; Education; Health; Agriculture & Rural Develo...

Howard Fast's April Morning

alive to confirm conversations nor recording equipment to verify accuracy. However, an author writing historic fiction must do a g...

Fiction and Non-Fiction Narrative

literature, for he is only telling his story. For example, he states such things as "I began thinking about my friend the other da...

Brian DePalma's 'Carrie' A Cinematic Analysis

would become his own trademark. This film, along with Obsession (1976), further developed De Palmas expressive use of cinematogra...

Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing

solely for blasting rap music on his boom box. A local DJ, Mister Senor Love Daddy, who operates a radio station also acts as a co...

Scorsese/Gangs of New York

the foreign hordes defiling it" (Mattie 215). Cutting slays Vallon, consigns his son to an orphanage, and proclaims his rule ove...

Science Fiction Shakespeare

possible, but have not been invented yet. This will sound strange, because science itself is just getting started, but really, all...

If Shakespeare Wrote Science Fiction, Ariel Would Use a Transporter

machine, and cannot understand why his mother doesnt really seem to love him. Among the science fiction elements are the followi...

2 films: America and The Patriot

as other authors, date this film as 1924, not 1929, which is why this date is used. Griffith envisioned his film as an epic, but t...

The Purpose of Film Montage

This 5 page paper discusses the viewpoints of French film critic and auteur Andre Bazin, and Russian director Sergei Eisenstein, o...

Fiction and the Depiction of Women

of winning her own way in the larger society and from the beginning, the character generally takes herself very lightly (19). She ...