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Essays on Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, Video, and TV

at a blackboard writing words. As soon as he completes the "d" in the last word the tape is over. The running time for the tape is...

Humanist v. Postmodern Views on Sexuality and Gender

humanism refers to the personal worth of an individual and that individuals right to his own particular values, and freedom from p...

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...

Cinematic Influences of 1960s' Society

the story of twelve men (all stereotypical white and middle class) who by luck of the draw are brought together to deliberate the ...

J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, Cultural Products, and Religion

hairy feet. As this suggests, they are humble beings, not heroes. Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit who is uncle to Frodo Baggins, entrusts ...

Medical Facility Abuse and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

butchering and can only be likened to that which was utilized to produce Frankenstein. Therefore, the benefit of analyzing this...

We'll Always Have Paris

The writer analyzes the 1942 classic film Casablanca, and argues that Rick Blaine, played by Humphrey Bogart, is the archetypal re...

1993 Movie Philadelphia

of AIDS (Sullivan 42). However, Joe soon recognize that the injustice of this case is something that he cannot ignore. The fears t...

Jean Renoir's Movies

also during this period when Renoir adopted what would become his trademark style of filmmaking, by using a core ensemble cast of ...

Cinematic Style, Influence, and Impact of Francis Ford Coppola

in his 30s. Coppola, born in 1939 in Detroit, Michigan to an actress mother (Italia) and musician father (Carmine) grew up in Quee...

Gadgets Used by 007 James Bond

(Q Branch, 2002). There is the dagger pen which, "When clicking on this pens head in Moonraker, instead of a nib being revealed, y...

Using Twelve Angry Men to Evaluate Behavioral Theories

him. A coach has been appointed the foreman but he is ill equipped to do the job he has been assigned. He resents wasting his tim...

The Godfather and The Sopranos Italian American Stereotypes

that mirrors such interpretation as brought about by the likes of popular culture, but it has also been quite successful at reachi...

Steven Spielberg's The Amistad and its Historical Accuracy

Portuguese registry. The Portuguese slavers want their property back, and the Coast Guard who caught the ship wants their rights t...

Cinematic Analysis of Pierrot le Fou

ethnology, he developed an affinity for film which he would then continue to spend his life committed to (Biography of Jean-Luc Go...

Cinematic and Literary Representations of Vanity

necromantic books are heavenly!" (Marlowe, Act 1, Li 40-50). Having made his decision to...

Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas, Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather and Their Depiction of Crime and Punishment

He seems to have made up his mind at the very beginning of the saga. He has become a part of the military...

Team and Group Dynamics

The white football players talk of boycotting practice because they are certain that the black coach will not allow them to play. ...

Comparing The Yellow Wallpaper and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

wallpaper. The wallpaper can be said to have a dual symbolism. The wallpaper itself can be said to be representative of her mind....

Cinema and the Impact of Music

desperate and louder, so too does the score, until a crescendo of grand proportions is reached. At this point in the scene, a grea...

Theories of Interpersonal Communication

are set up in the course of the development which have to be worked through, and the relationship will vary from open to closed an...

Cinematic Comparison of Like Water for Chocolate and Mi Familia

characterize Mexican tradition with the contemporary realism of complex family relationships. It is a cinematic postcard for fami...

African American Youth Stereotypes

more of art imitating life rather than the other way around. II. DISCUSSION The good old days of the colorful, romantic, s...

Real Uses of Artificial Intelligence Versus Portrayals in Science Fiction

"artificial intelligence" was the choice..." Artificial intelligence involves the association of machines with comp...

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, Paradise Lost, and Cinema Verite

Paradise Lost In a review of "Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills" Roger Ebert (1996) indicates that it "is uni...

Comparative Analysis of Five Personages in Terms of Leadership Qualities

system that had failed (Keppler Associates, nd). Had the men become over-anxious, they would use more oxygen, thereby shortening t...

Central Characters, the Ideals of Strength and Devotion in Dancer in the Dark and Breaking the Waves Films by Lars von Trier

are based on a childrens story which made an impression on him when he was a child. The childrens story is a tale in which "a litt...

Reality Verses Fiction Portrayals of Terrorism Such as that in The Siege

thing as targeting other ethnic groups" (Ebert PG). Ebert goes on the draw comparisons as to the treatment given to Arab-America...

Love Stereotypes in Literature and Cinema

screen is transitory at best. This movie asks the question: Is love merely going through the motions? Is beauty a trap? Are women ...

Cinematic Comparison of Oliver Stone's Platoon and John Wayne's The Green Berets

admit he hasnt, but soon remedies that by accompanying Kirby and his men on a mission to defend their firebase from the Vietcong s...