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Films Based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

novel. However, the film adaptation was to have the monster say nothing at all, something which led Lugosi to declining the part. ...

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...

Alfred Hitchcock's Genius

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

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

British Cinema Censorship Prior to 1945

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

Comparing the Cinematic Versions of Hamlet by Franco Zeffirelli and Kenneth Branagh

has come forth with a version that wholly eclipses the standard. What can easily be argued is the fact that Branaghs film version...

Comparative Analysis of the Book and Film Versions of The Ugly American

as arrogant as they play up the fact they are noble and helping. In "The Ugly American" the authors note, "Hordes of United States...

Three Film Versions of Richard III

foul he is that we suffer a twinge of guilt for siding with him so readily. But we tend to do it anyway. The "New York Times" rev...

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 ...

Scene Analysis from The Godfather

of an older man, with full jowls and thinning hair. Reportedly, Brando wore a prosthetic device in his mouth to produce the protr...

Use of Cinematography in The Truman Show

lighting, color, camera angle, types of shots, music and set design, to underscore the theme of self-determination and individual...

Coen Brothers' O Brother, Where Art Thou Sirens and KKK Scenes Analyzed

of a directors wish to go into a more exciting creative direction by deviating from his formulaic musical comedies and instead mak...

Analysis of Rashomon

has probably viewed this film, this writer/tutor has not. Also, the Paper Store charges a considerable fee for watching a film in ...

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...