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Team Strategy Formation and the Film Ocean's Twelve

boundaries of their acceptable group behavior. Forming is the stage of transition when the individuals become members of a team (C...

Three Film Versions of Richard III

foul he is that we suffer a twinge of guilt for siding with him so readily. But we tend to do it anyway. The "New York Times" rev...

The Perseverance of Feminism in Film

a woman who is a leader of her people, and yet her role is reduced to love and childbearing. War of the Worlds does not have any s...

Comparative Analysis of the Book and Film Versions of The Ugly American

as arrogant as they play up the fact they are noble and helping. In "The Ugly American" the authors note, "Hordes of United States...

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...

Singin' in the Rain Film Genre Analysis

it is about a silent film star, Don Lockwood (played by Kelly) making the transition to sound pictures, a leap that not all popula...

Combat Films and Full Metal Jacket by Director Stanley Kubrick

closer together and provide cohesiveness to the group through a single-mindedness of purpose (Gehring 93). At no time does the gr...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

We Were Soldiers/Historical Accuracy of Film

back first one North Vietnamese assault, then another, over a period of six days."i In writing about the film, co-author of We W...

Presentations of Colonialism

on the development of an exploitative tourist industry in Antigua. Achebe takes a very different perspective than Kincaid in tha...

Violence and War in Michael Cimino's Film The Deer Hunter

there are individuals who either remember it or have hand one reason or another to study it. Americans themselves, in fact, held ...

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 ...

Anthropological Assessment of the Film North Country

children. Josie gets the job, but from the first day, she is subjected to snide sexual references. The women working at the mine ...

Condon's Film Gods and Monsters

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

Blockbuster Movies And Independent Films: Compare/Contrast

whereby blockbuster movies capitalize upon it. Clearly, there is a tangible essence to the manner by which Melvin Goes to D...

Gender and Film: "Senorita Extraviada"

their jobs back, women were suddenly deemed weak and incapable of doing "mens jobs" and so were pushed out of the labor force and ...

Characterization in The Blue Max: The Novel and Film Compared

respect to the character of this man, but the film is limited to visual aspects only. This tends to be true for most any book turn...

Hollywood and Non Hollywood Films

was popular during the 1970s (Dudley, 1984). This states that the nature of the cinema is to be ideological in its representations...

Sports Films

career is winding down. Crash loves the game and helps a young pitcher, Ebby Calvin LaLoosh (Tim Robbins, hone his raw talent so t...

Film and the Shaping of Stereotypes

the Bruce Lee craze of the 1970s created a new stereotype of the Asian man: namely, the martial artist, which still permeates in H...

Analysis: “Hoosiers,” the Film

resonates with the viewers and that, in part, is why the film is so successful (Short and Short). In addition, writer and Angelo...

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 ...