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Cinema Industry of Great Britain

any year 68% of the population will visit a cinema (BBC New, 2003). British films tend to be very well accepted, until Harry Potte...

Postmodernism and Cinema Neo Noir

claustrophobic, hopeless and without clear moral or personal identity," suggesting that the world is a place with no clear values ...

The Portrayal of Friendship in French Cinema

considered a right" (230). In four French films in particular, Arnaud Desplechins Comment Je Me Suis Disput?... (Ma Vie Sexuelle)...

Struggling Against Racism with Realism and Hope by Gayrund Wilmore

minority group(244). Wilmore than describes a process of social evolution wherein various immigrant groups integrate themselves ...

Development and Christian Church Influence on British Cinema

political practice. Perhaps the most obvious ways in which these influences manifested themselves were in censorship, and in the w...

Cinema and 'Race Films'

back to the film "The Birth of the Nation" which lead later to a movement of "race films" in the 1920s in the cinema. Mainstream U...

Women's Roles in Western and Hindi Cinema

The movie industry in India is the largest in the world and produces over 800 films a year, twice that of Hollywood and is referre...

Rear Window Film and Feminist Theories of Cinema

the director and the male filmgoer) receive a sexual thrill from watching the victimization of women (Williams 706). As one of th...

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...

Modern Indian Cinema

Weisman, in an article featured in The New York Times, described Indian cinema as "an all purpose dream engine delivering gaudy th...

Artist Myth and Cinema

1956 account of Vincent Van Gogh leaves that question open in his sympathetic portrayal of the artist" (TCM, 2003). When watchi...

Cinema in Iran

the Chinese film makers. In order to survive as film makers, it seems as if some of the directors and producers may have resorted ...

American Cinema and Asian Culture

the majority of cases a stereotypical and inaccurate perception. As White (2001) points out, many Asian countries adopted the styl...

Cinema and Romantic Love

is very orderly and rigid and Harry is quite the opposite. In fact, many other films demonstrate that even people who do not get a...

Mainstream Cinema and the Portrayal of Women

that there is an interpretation of the films in a subconscious manner. Therefore, the reinforcing is appalling to the baser self, ...

Realism Theory

money and do not apologize for it. Realism is a good theory and it is solid, but it has its critics. It has a great deal of supp...

Cinema and Tao te Ching Edited by Michael LaFargue

This is mysterious Femininity (Tao Te Ching, p. 70). Lefargue (1992) describes this saying as indicating that femininity is the...

Books and Films Reflecting British Realism

an exaggerated representation of the fiction from which they are culled. The realist movement of the 1960s was centered on "the ...

Cognitive Cinema Theory and Narration

night light. It sits in bedrooms and living rooms but has become something one does in place of nothing. Rather than sitting and r...

Literary Realism and Social Problems

a very unexpected place: her fears. She is so terrified that life is simply going to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyze...

A Feminist Reformulation of the Main Principles of Realism

of power, and stresses the "rational objective and unemotional" (Tickner, 1988, p. 429). Of course these qualities-rationality, ob...

Realism in O’Brien’s Works

in Vietnam. As the war fades further into the past, its important that authors like OBrien continue to remind Americans of the dif...

Politics of Chinese Cinema

difficult to see how this critique could have been avoided (McDaniel, 2004). While the current political climate in China is mor...

Women's Roles in American Cinema Since 1967

bed, or even beginning to become amorous might secure a PG rating, but during that time period, blatant sexuality in film was not ...

Arab Portrayals in Cinema/The Siege

to possible terrorism direct at New York City. The hero is FBI special agent Anthony Hubbard (Denzel Washington). With his partner...

Math in Cinema

to computers to cell phones is digital in nature, that is, totally a product of math; yet, few of us understand how math makes the...

Realism and Romanticism in Literary Works

a man they dislike, saw it and pulled it so that they would not be exposed with the rest (Twain, 2006). The entire town is convuls...

A Glance at Lesbian Characters in American Cinema in the 60s, 70s, and 80s

high over the legendary kiss between two women portrayed in Morocco. Society was simply not ready for an open acknowledgement of ...

Reality and Hispanic Cinema

brutalized in this event and the historical record shows that such a background would be historically accurate. Alienated against...

'Exact' Realism or 'Wild' Romanticism in Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

her only companion during her convent days, she quickly discovers her own life does not imitate art. She learns that it is a mans...