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New German Cinema

many different directors today, and in the past. One notable director from the past is Alfred Hitchcock who would take a story and...

Hans Richter: “Ghosts before Breakfast”

clock; its 10 oclock. Time passes in five-minute jumps, indicating that we are not seeing it objectively. A man fights with his ti...

The Function of the "Gaze" in "Vertigo"

dizziness and dislocation. For most of the first 45 minutes of the film, Scottie (James Stewart) gazes at Madeleine (Kim Novak) f...

Film Analysis

In order to offer thorough analysis, Boggs and Petrie (2004) recommend seeing a movie at least twice. The first viewing can be dev...

Contemporary Productions and How They Have Influenced the Themes of Sophocles' Oedipus the King

to the gods, who always punish it. And that is a second theme of the play, the folly of pride. By refusing to accept his own acti...

Chinese Cinematic Art

Even today, if we look at the extent to which Chinese cultural ideology has made its way to the West via art and...

Cinema, American Youth, and Rebellion Against Authority

nation was ready for new and innovative ideas which lead to new attitudes. Immediately following the war and through the decade o...

Feminist Cinema and Psychology

political insights that can be gleaned from any motion picture. The major differences between a journalistic approach to a movie c...

Paranoia, McCarthyism, and Film Noir

in the destructive power of nuclear energy. Osteen (1994) points out that few events have affected the American psyche in a manne...

Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and Modern Cinema Fantasies

npa), the use of the fantasy genre allows the author or director to stand outside of the reality with which we are familiar, and g...

Architecture and Film Connection

only when the heart is wakened in this picture that buildings are destroyed and the human element is reintroduced. A later film ...

Object v. Spectator Types of Cinematic Gaze

is completely unique and no two are alike. Therefore, what takes place is a kind of power struggle between the subject and the ob...

Cinematic Depiction of Aliens

depicts the aliens as beings who represent communism and the fear of being consumed by such "thought." The aliens in this film ...

Stage Objections During the 1700s

film had prompted someone to commit heinous crimes. The other side claims that the society is violent and people want to see viole...

Frame Concept and Cinematic Representation

surprise twist at the end - the camera, representing the subjective perspective of the audience, is "run over" by a car rather tha...

CDC Article Summary and Media Consideration of Product Placement

of showings is taken into consideration (Turcotte, 1995). The "cost per thousand" (CPM)viewers on product placement is generally c...

Contemporary Cinema and the Use of Cyborgs

twentieth century, people are all chimeras, or mythic hybrids of machine and organism, or cyborgs (Haraway, 1991). In Western sci...

'Writing in Images' and Cinema

In three pages cinema is defined as 'writing in images' with differences between visual and written texts considered along with fi...

Cinema Persuasiveness

G-1). While such anecdotal evidence certainly suggests that films affect how we behave, the empirical evidence on this subject is ...

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...

Filmmaker Vittorio de Sica's The Bicycle Thief

influential example of neo-realism in the holistic sense and then examine this with reference to particular scenes and frames in t...

Twentieth Century Leisure and Social Change in Great Britain

agriculture is a priority and employment patterns are dependent upon it, leisure is not only constrained by the amount of "spare t...

Globalization and Pop Culture

has with the spread and popularity of American movies. Hollywoods influence and reach has long extended beyond its own shores and...

Early American Cinema, 'The Other,' and Social Tensions

makes constitutes the "others" uniqueness. "The Other" inFilm The existence of "the other" has figured prominently throughout the...

Film and Sociology

and though it was assumed that there was corruption in the government, the optimism of the time suggested that it could be reverse...

Modern Literature, Films, and the 'Courage to Be'

calls affirming the power of being. The movie brings to mind the unanswered questions of where faith and belief are one in the sam...

Russian Cinema Development

and entertainment for the evening. The entertainment was the cinematograph. Unfortunately, they severely misjudged the turn out fo...

Contemporary Oedipus Imagery

if he should have a son. Therefore, Laius took steps to prevent conceiving a son by Jocasta. However, Jocasta wanted a child and c...

Gunmen at Columbine High School and the Media's Influence

In six pages this paper presents the argument that media in the forms of music and cinema strongly influenced the Columbine High S...

Adolescent Sex and the Influence of Cinema

In seven pages this paper discusses how adolescents are influenced by the sexual activity presented in contemporary cinema. Eleve...