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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...

Alfred Hitchcock's Genius

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

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,...

Epic Hero Luke Skywalker in Star Wars

given a task to perform and in doing so derives some sort of personal meaning from it. He may meet with a great series of misfortu...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

British Cinema Censorship Prior to 1945

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

Review of Sydney Pollack's 2005 Movie The Interpreter

notes that this is the first film crew to be given permission to film extensively at the UN and this gives the movie a feeling of ...

Cinematic Auteur M. Night Shyamalan

director was, quite literally, involved in every possible aspect of filmmaking, from raising money to hiring actors to helping to ...

Character Transitions and Narrative Technique of Alfred Hitchcock

own life. With Scottie in pursuit, Madeleine climbs a bell tower and apparently falls to her death; in reality, the Novak charact...

Early American Film Director D.W Griffith

his five years at Biograph, Griffith took the raw elements of moviemaking as they had evolved up to that time -- lighting, continu...

Comparing Soviet Film Directors Sergei Eisenstein and V.I. Pudovkin

(Manvell 37). While Pudovkin would occasionally use non-professional actors in the name of realism, he preferred relying on profe...

Citizen Kane's Film Techniques

daytime and snow is falling. "Charlie" (Charles Foster Kane) is playing outside, and the camera stops on him. He rolls a snowbal...

Sense and Sensibility Novel and Film

who are unfamiliar with the novels premise, it concerns the Dashwood family (a mother and her three young daughters) who have been...

Techniques of Filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock

The cuts are approximately equal in length. Finally Thornhill asks if hes supposed to meet someone and the stranger replies...

Robert Altman and Jean Luc Godard

Altman dusted Mr. Marlowe off and brought him back, but his vision was very different from the earlier films. This Marlowe was a d...

Cinematic and Text Versions of Literature A Comparative Analysis

a person or persons involved in the action, or told by a detached third-person observer or observers. In written texts, the found...

Mise en Scene in the Spanish Film All About My Mother

and their interactions clearly let us know that the two are very good friends. In fact, we quickly see that Esteban is perhaps the...

Art Spiegelman's Maus, Volumes I and II and Steven Spielberg's Film Schinder's List

influence in the life of his father and a contributing factor in the suicide of his mother. Therefore, the reader comes to underst...

An Analysis of the Film, Training Day

light of day can become obscured in the dark just as the best and brightest intentions can be compromised by allure of corruption....

Alternative Film Director Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

by todays standards because almost everything this film did, has been done over and over since. The paper, therefore, focuses on h...

Cinematic Explanation of Sciences' Gender Gap

crashes several hours flying time from a scientific research station in the Arctic. An Air Force crew is ordered to go and pick up...

A Trio of Cinematic Rebels

indication that the audience has that Travis is not quite normal, that is, that his combat experience has left him with mental sca...

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 ...