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The Kid and Charlie Chaplin

Chaplin appeared, it was also a film that he made use of established paradigms. The tools used focus on content emotion had experi...

Russian Cinema Development

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

Cinema and Truth

sister, Cynthia. As if to complicate matters further, Johns old college friend, Graham, shows up in town for a visit and something...

Federico Fellini's Nights of Cabiria and Existentialism

typical abused prostitute. Her boyfriend treats her badly and in fact the films opening shocks as he throws her into the water whe...

Luchino Visconti's Film Ludwig from a Sociopolitical Perspective

which attacks everything the ruling class stands for (Ludwig). The cinematic protagonist is the last Bavarian king (1845-1886), a...

Motivation and Drive of Director Steven Spielberg

he paid his dues. Many of those dues included working for other people and learning from some of the best in the industry. He wo...

Rintaro's Anime Version of Metropolis

of the city have depth. These cityscapes are incredibly beautiful. Although there are futuristic features about the city, it is la...

Australian Filmmaker Dennis O'Rourke's 1991 Film The Good Woman of Bangkok

has nothing to do with love. But the idea of ORourkes full intent of his own trip to Thailand and that it had the potential to be ...

Visual Effects Showcased in Lars Von Trier's 1991 Film Zentropa

angles that one would not normally expect, such as shooting through water. There is an underwater shot of blood slowly spreading a...

German and American Women Filmmakers Compared

This research report compares and contrasts German and American women filmmakers. Genre, topic, style and other elements are inclu...

A Film Analysis of Lewis Milestone's Arch of Triumph

successes to his credit. A total of 112 sets were built, including a scale model of Paris Arc de Triomphe and an entire reproducti...

Film as Seen Through the Feminist Eye

Laura Mulveys book, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, states "Film reflects, reveals and even plays on the straight, socially ...

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...

Lost in Translation Film and Orientalism

and its heavy use of Japanese stereotypes for humor. Such depictions perpetuate racial and cultural insensitivity and misperceptio...

Stage and Screen Adaptations of Hamlet by William Shakespeare

identity. It is interesting to note that as he pulls on his "cloak of madness" that his true intellect becomes completely clouded ...

Moonrise Film by Director Frank Borzage

post-modern culture, one more devoted to the supposed ironies of a Douglas Sirk or the wit and playfulness (amidst violence and me...

The Mirror by Andrei Tarkovsky

of human existence and the ways in which all human beings relate to stress, desire, and feelings of social and personal alienation...

Films Yol and Raise the Red Lantern Uses of Prison Metaphors

of Yol. This story, instead of focusing on four wives as in the Zhang film, focuses on the choices that will be made by four commo...

Love That Does Not Last in the Films of Woody Allen

no matter how precious we may believe ours to actually be. Some of Allens films are more consistently filled with the idea of l...

World Perspectives and Postmodern Style of Film Directors John McNaughton and Danny Boyle

In twenty pages this paper discusses the impact of postmodernism upon the views of filmmakers John McNaughton and Danny Boyle. Ei...

Danny Boyle

In five pages the work of this British filmmaker is explored in terms of whether or not they provide a radical alternative to Holl...

Nature of Revolution in Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers

In three pages this paper examines the events that ignite into revolution as captured by filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo's interpretati...

US Pop Culture and the Star Wars Trilogy

a true sense of what is American pop culture, one needs only to venture into a childs bedroom. Since 1977, it is likely that ther...

Michael Powell's 1960 Film Peeping Tom, Ideological Realism and Narrative Illusionism

In eight pages this paper examines how the filmmaker created ideological realism and narrative illusionism through such production...

Robert Drew and the Development of Cinema Vérité (Direct Cinema) in America by P.J. O'Connell

In five pages this paper provides a textual overview of Robert Drew's life and career as a documentary filmmaker with his influenc...

George Lucas Biography

In a paper consisting of five pages filmmaker George Lucas and his many contributions to cinema are discussed in terms of producti...

Film and Book Version Analysis of 'The Godfather'

outsiders who entered their orbit (such as Michaels WASP wife, Kay) represented the audience and their fascination and revulsion o...

Film Dramatizations of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales

In six pages this research paper discusses 2 cinematic interpretations of The Canterbury Tales and argues that how filmmakers fail...

Cinema of the 3rd World

are a daily event, often being disregarded by many of the citizens as well as the general public, especially the wealthy public. O...

Stylistic and Formal Characteristics of Gus Van Sant's 'My Own Private Idaho'

Such cinematic techniques as mise-en-scene are discussed in a paper consisting of 6 pages as thematic and narrative expression are...