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The Positions of Katie Cannon and Alasdair MacIntyre

and the construction of "local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life can be sustained" (19...

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 ...

The Happiness Key According to Aristotle

it" (Aristotle, 350 B.C.E., p. PG). Here he brings up the subject of lying, a principle in society that seems to be upheld. Certai...

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 ...

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...

Ethics and the Practice of Organ Trafficking

well as] hard physical work and unhealthy lifestyle" and most donors are sent home after only five days (Tomiuc, 2003). While the ...

Aristotle on Virtue

one is virtuous, and that their actions are virtuous, but that might be illusive. Can virtue be whittled down to intrinsic right o...

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...

Othello by William Shakespeare and 3 Different Perspectives

directors. Because of the intimacy between stage performers and the audience, Shakespeares prose is able to serve as a feature pe...

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...

Virtue Defined

hand, argued that people would be attracted to others and be willing to help others, if they are virtuous (Lorenz, 2003). Virtue i...

Cinematic Style, Influence, and Impact of Francis Ford Coppola

in his 30s. Coppola, born in 1939 in Detroit, Michigan to an actress mother (Italia) and musician father (Carmine) grew up in Quee...

New Republic of the Eighteenth Century, Women, and Marriage

this child is not identified in the book (Fairbanks, 2002). It seems as if in this book he doesnt necessarily chastise himself fo...

David Fincher's The Fight Club

libidinal desire and an internal examination, which tends to idealize self (Naiman 333). The one factor which unites the two symb...

Cinematic Structure and Coding of the Film Gone with the Wind

in structuralist models, researchers often examine the underlying structures which occur beneath the actions or speech of the indi...

Contemporary Life and an Application of Virtue in The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

warning regarding change: "Changes in estate also issue from this, for if, to one who governs himself with caution and patience, t...

Yearley's Religious Plurality Perspectives in 'New Religious Virtues and the Study of Religion'

having inherent familiarity and truth, and others as alien in the sense of irrevocably different, and tempting in the sense that o...

M. Night Shyamalan's Unbreakable Cinematic Analysis

use the camera in the same way as an author uses words for both aesthetic and textural purposes. There are two particularly effec...

Human Cloning and Virtue Ethics

Kantian ethical system as an impartial viewpoint: however, when one considers virtue ethics, it is evident that these come from ev...

Chantal Ackerman and Her Films Je, Tu, Il and Elle and the Eighties

attitude which pervades most of her works, even today, it can be stated. This is because feminism was asking women to redefine the...

Comparative Analysis of The Wizard of Oz Text and 1939 Film

not intend for the work to provide the surreal aura that Emerald City became in the filmed classic. The film was a musical and thi...

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Director James Whale's 1931 Film Interpretation

In five pages the original nineteenth century novel by Mary Shelley is compared with the 1931 cinematic production by director Jam...

Silent to Talkies Cinematic Transition from Metropolis to The Gold Diggers of 1933

simply being "filmed" theater. Metropolis offered a chilling glimpse of the future, as the film is set in the year 2000 in the cit...

1999 Film Sleepy Hollow by Director Tim Burton

In seven pages this report analyzes Tim Burton's film Sleepy Hollow in terms of Johnny Depp's performance and cinematic influences...

Moral Defects and Virtues

be beneficial in the long run. Do the ends justify the means? Can virtue be whittled down to intrinsic right or wrong, or what one...

Film Genres Thriller and Comedy

An analysis of these cinematic genres and how they are used are considered in an examination of Andrew Davies' A Perfect Murder an...

Values, Virtues, and the Poetry of Robert Frost

was someone who, as Derek Walcott classified him, was ". . . the icon of Yankee values, the smell of wood smoke, the sparkle of de...

Steven Spielberg and David Lean Cinematic Comparison

easy to see how Leans grasp of cinematography and his ability to create and drive plots throughout the directing and filming proce...