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Alfred Hitchcock's Genius

his cinematic apprenticeship working for British studios - working first as an artist, set designer and directors assistant before...

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...

Blacks in Gone With the Wind and The Jazz Singer

mythos, Negroes were naturally more musical, more rhythmic, and better dancers than any other group. Therefore the studios scurrie...

Francis Ford Coppola's Film The Godfather, Archetypes and the Hero's Journey

Furthermore, there are certain commonalties that run through the storylines of all epic writing. Examples of such include heroism,...

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...

Lawrence of Arabia by Filmmaker David Lean

Passage to India. However, his creative pinnacle is largely acknowledged to be the wildly successful (both critically as well as ...

3 Cinematic Interpretations of William Shakespeare's Richard III

most notably, but not really missed, were Queen Margaret, and Edward IV. Some of the lengthy dialogue was taken out without detrac...

Mise-en-Scene

and editing equipment to the ability to use special effects as never before. Thus, there is mise-en-scene today and some film mak...

Mise-En Scene in Three Films

Thompson 115). The number of possible angles is infinite since there are an infinite number of points in space that the camera can...

Man and Icon John Wayne

a football player. Ford then told Duke to "try to tackle him" (PG) and Duke attempted it but was thrown roughly to the ground. W...

Novel and Movie Versions of The French Lieutenant's Woman

novel and wholly unique to the film, it is arguably faithful to Fowles intentions in the way that the original novel is structured...

Cinema and Time's Role

human being he is. This comes as a shock to Oliverio who is as bad as the rest in assuming that prostitutes have no brains. Actu...

Simon During's The Global Popular and the Pleasures of Viewers

climactic as an invading force, but may take place in the acculturation of one culture from another. Even today many of the Wester...

British Cinema Censorship Prior to 1945

Censorship of any form also has the effect of promoting elitism with regard to access to...

German Expressionism in Cinema

early years of the century. George Albert Smith was the first to experiment with composing scenes from individual shots and camera...

Types of Art Forms

are mediums that are used for both works of fiction or art or as devices to convey messages. However, artistic works of fiction al...

Shakespearean Film Productions and the Depiction of Women

a women faced with the types of situations that they face in his plays. Twelfth Night examples this most concisely. The plot of T...

Comparing Stage and Film Versions of Othello

the audience a close up of Othellos face and the audience is able to watch the doubt creep over Othellos face. Without saying anyt...

An Analysis of Three Classic Films From the Mid-Twentieth Century

politics. Gore Vidal wrote the screenplay, as well as the original Broadway play on which the movie is based. Vidal was friends wi...

Auteur Theory and Art Cinema

it is quite obviously going to have a lot of action throughout the film. However, too much action and the theme and characterizati...

Hitchcock's Use of Mise en Scene in Rear Window and Vertigo

lends great insight into the cinematic development of any film, especially the films of Hitchcock. In his movies, every shot has ...

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...

1920s' Soviet Films and the Uses of Montage

of tape and combines them to emphasize their meaning. It is a method by which through two unrelated shots we may create a third an...

Howard Hawks' 1946 Film The Big Sleep

of the classic noir characteristics, it also thumbed its nose at the use of flashbacks. There were no voice-over narrations, with ...

Billy Elliot Film and the Depiction of Childhood

finds that he has a natural talent for it. It is as if the emotional side of him which has been forced to remain silent finally ha...

Film Industry and Revelations on Crime and Punishment

woman. She has the ability to ruin peoples lives. This gives her a great deal of power and it corrupts absolutely. As Judge Danfor...

William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and Other Examples of Eccentricity

are similar to Emilys. The characters discussed are Carrie, from the film "Carrie," Norman Bates from the film "Psycho," Eleanor f...

Reinvention of Western Films

There are other types of westerns though as well. Some westerns depict life in Americas colonial times or may take place in terra...

Director Quentin Tarantino and Postmodernism

(Rombes). Rafferty (1997) explains that the postmodern film is built on the film noir genre, but that a feature of postmodernism ...

Reality and Films

Indeed, by looking at the role of the women in the movie it is a reflection of the social conditions. There is a reflection of the...