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Meet Joe Black, the Confessions of Augustine of Hippo, and Transformation

death in the usual manner, but rather as a good looking young man who is apparently capable of falling in love with an attractive ...

What Drams May Come and I Corinthians 13, lines 1 through 13

in an untimely accident, she further loses her capacity to love herself or others. She is so consumed by her grief and her lack of...

Joel Bakan's Corporation, Portrait of a Psychopath

same material, that is, the historical background to corporations, their basic operating motivation and specific case studies. How...

Reality and Hispanic Cinema

brutalized in this event and the historical record shows that such a background would be historically accurate. Alienated against...

Walter Salle's Motorcycle Diaries

a camaraderie that is more reminiscent of Huck and Tom than future revolutionaries. However, as they begin to see the poverty and ...

Knowledge and Whether or Not Anything Can be Truly Known

only thing that is known is what is presently occurring. In other words, if something is out of ones eyesight and experience, it i...

Overview of the Western Cinematic Genre

Battle of Summit Springs, a reenactment that showcased Cody rescuing poor white damsel Indian captives in distress (Buscombe 286)....

Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange and Depiction of Deviance

have readily characterized their discipline by a progression of determining steps beginning with the development of a sociological...

Retelling Beowulf in 13th Warrior

In the epic, the threat is supernatural; in the film, the menace is recast as a vicious, cannibalistic tribe who dress in animal s...

Othello Characterization and the Life of William Shakespeare

In six pages this paper discusses how Othello reflects the life of William Shakespeare with both the play and the film adaptation ...

Planetary Intelligent Forms of Life Probability

This paper consists of five pages and discusses the real planetary probability of other planets containing intelligent forms of li...

Kenneth J. Gergen's The Saturated Self Dilemmas of Identity in Contemporary Life and The Hunt for Red October

This paper consists of sixteen pages and applies Gergen's statement 'The fully saturated self becomes no self at all' to the film ...

Defining the Upper Class According to G. William Domhoff

In seven pages this paper discusses G. William Domhoff's definition of the upper class within the contexts of national groups and ...

Jean Pierre and Luc Dardenne and Their Cinematic Style

Palme dOr and "best actress" for its star in 1999 (Dargis). The brothers generally share the tasks of both writing and directing...

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...

1920 and 1992 Cinematic Adaptations of James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans

was shot on location at Big Bear Lake and Yosemite Valley in California (Magills-1920). In an interview with film historian Kevin ...

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...

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...

Cinema Historically Examined

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

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...

Trauma and its Lasting Life Effects

has trouble controlling his body and does not begin to feel some returning sense of normality until he reaches the Acura dealershi...

Altman's The Player

This research paper discusses significant features of the Hollywood film industry as a business system by drawing on the movie The...

Ulysses by James Joyce and the Heroic Ideal of Leopold Bloom

In five pages this paper discusses the differences in the heroic ideas presented in literature, art, and film contained within the...

Jews in Hollywood and An Empire of Their Own by Neal Gabler

In five pages this paper examines how the Hollywood studio system was created by Jewish business moguls as considered in this 1988...

Cinema and Military Technology

In five pages this paper discusses the portrayal of nuclear warfare as it has evolved in films including Braveheart, Godzilla, Dr...

Comparing Three Works Thematically

This research paper/essay discusses parallel themes in three works: Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet' and his poem "The ...

Richard III and Love

In five pages this paper discusses how love is presented through the perceptions of Richard III in William Shakespeare's historica...

Richard III Cinematic Adaptation by Laurence Olivier

In six pages Olivier's interpretation of Richard and the importance of the 5 soliloquies to the film are discussed. There are no ...

D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation

In five pages the reasons why this silent film classic should be considered the greatest of all melodramas are presented. There a...

Cinema and Women

time the roles that are culturally defined and accepted change and the roles that women play in films generally reflect these chan...