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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...

Political Film Comparision of the Nonfiction The Fog of War and Fiction Fahrenheit 911

of cinema designed to convey a specific message about a particular government. The director may choose to present this message in...

An analysis of Beethovern's Music in Immortal Beloved

through the use of rolling chords that softly underscore the melody line in the treble, while octaves sound in the bass like dista...

Five Foreign Films on Social and Religious Identity

In five pages this research paper considers religious and social identities in such films as Omar Gatlato, My Son the Fanatic, Fea...

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 ...

The Cell Film and Costuming

sees a boy, Carls character as a child. She is dressed in a skirt and a top, very casually, as she would dress perhaps every day i...

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...

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...

Cinematic Interpretations of Hamlet

decision for Olivier to choose to embark on this project. At the age of forty, Olivier thought he was too old to play the Danish p...

Orson Welles' Citizen Kane and Frank Capra's Meet John Doe Cinematic and Comparative Analysis

tight close-up (Dirks, 1996). There is a menacing "No Trespassing" sign outside an old gate, and after panning up over a chain-li...

Empire Records Cinematic Analysis

Music Town. With $9,000 of store receipts in his pocket, Lucas goes to Atlantic City in hopes of parlaying that into enough money...

La Jetee Film by Chris Marker

how mans recollections "are motionless fragments marked by the surroundings" (La Jet?e); inasmuch as the storys underlying current...

Case Studies in Film Journalism

of film. That would alert the readers to the fact that the criticism is biased. Finally, we have to wonder if opinions really ...

How A Civil Action Demonstrates a Need for Social Action

1998, p. 67). The case is not anything new. It is based on a true situation and there are other cases of cancer clusters being tie...

Overview of the Film Good Night, Good Luck

scares involving communism. The government wanted people to be fearful of communism and Clooneys focus is clearly on the supposed ...

Film Malcolm X

presents this realistically, although perhaps also justifies his aggressive nature. Lee presents Malcolm as an incredibly real and...

Film Adaptation of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie and the Mood Function of Music

scene begins Laura Wingfield (Karen Allen) and her gentleman caller Jim OConnor (James Naughton) are looking at Lauras "glass mena...

Comparing Novel and Film Versions of The Color Purple

evolves because the men in the film are misogynist or because it is something that is a part of Celie, is unclear. Still, it seems...

Storytelling and the Film Adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates' 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'

as "a fantastic figure: he is Death, he is the elf-Knight of the ballads, he is the imagination, he is a Dream" (Easterly 543). As...

Citizen Kane, Cinematic Art

reporter investigating this issue and interviewing the various people who new Kane. From the newsreel, the audience learns that ...