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Martin Scorsese's Justification of Violence in Films Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, GoodFellas and Casino

and accumulating gambling debts he cannot possibly pay, the stage is set for a bloody confrontation when loan sharks come calling....

Double Indemnity Film Noir and Auteur Director Billy Wilder

the ordinary man can screw those in authority then he should do it. One of the themes of Double Indemnity is shown in that it is...

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...

Steven Spielberg's Film Jaws and its Impact

dunk below the surface. There is no surprise on her face. There is no horror on her face. What is happening? The...

Actress Julia Roberts

of his life. He realizes that he has been living in an emotional vacuum, operating more as a robot than a human being, and he subs...

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....

French Films La Regle du Jeu, Zero de Conduite, Meaning and Ending

another toots a miniature horn through his nose. When they arrive at the station, the boys join the rest of their peers, who are...

3D Computer Graphics and Film Special Effects

72). Morrow and the two children were killed instantly. While tighter safety precautions were immediately instituted by the film i...

An Analysis of the Film, Imitation of Life

rings. At the door is Delilah Johnson (Louise Beavers), an African American woman who has come to apply for a job as cook and hous...

Fahrenheit 911 and Portrayal of Minority Issues by Filmmaker Michael Moore

the senate and the man these black officials believed had won the election. Gore is seen repeatedly banging his gavel to restore ...

1984 Film This is Spinal Tap and Social Assumptions

uncompromising manner that demands to be interpreted as truth (This is Spinal Tap PG). It is the perfect device for Rob Reiner to...

Depiction of Asian Americans

(Benshoff and Griffin 132). A voiceover at the beginning of the film explains that because of this law, 1940s Chinatown was exclus...

Movie Fight Club and Gender in Culture

this when Edward Nortons character slowly develops the alter ego played by Brad Pitt. Edward Nortons character wants nothing to do...

The Last Samurai Film Historical Analysis

Japan should become more westernized so that it could prosper economically and protect its territorial independence. Suddenly, a ...

Dead Poets Society Film

was no evidence of peeling paint on anything. Schools like Welton do exist in the United States. They are generally very clos...

Brian De Palma's Scarface

as the crime film genre became more sophisticated, the line between good/evil oftentimes became blurred. De Palma elected to take...

Urban Aesthetic and the Films of Martin Scorsese

large urban environment, humanity is even more vulnerable to the cruel and capricious winds of fate than at any other time in hist...

Film Dead Poets' Society Portrayal of Students, Parents, and Teachers

poetry, philosophy and other topics. The club...would be completely unacceptable to the conservative school, which discourages stu...

A Narrative Analysis of the American Beauty Film

Fitts (Chris Cooper) and his wife Barbara (Allison Janney). Fitts is even more emotional remote from his teenage son than Lester i...

Analyzing Oliver Parker's Film Version of Othello

military prestige and marriage to a well-to-do Caucasian, was little more than a savage who was ultimately enslaved by primal pass...

An Overview of Alfred Kinsey

- but his dominating persona was not very favorable to colleagues (though he could be friendly and helpful on certain occasions) (...

Popular Culture, Gender Constructs, and 'New Femininities'

and behaviours, and seen as being in direct opposition to "femininity", which is equally constrained in its parameters, and define...

Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind Cinematic Analysis

harrowing to watch, with Nash suffering several climactic breakdowns and brief moments of lucidity and temporary remission. The u...

Critical Response to the Film The Gods Must Be Crazy

anthropological data on this tribe, it is impossible to say precisely where this assessment errs, but err it must, simply because ...

A Rogerian Perspective Documentary

The assignment asks how the student relates to Annas problem. This writer/tutor imagines that it is quite easy for many women to r...

Film Review of Diary of a Mad Black Woman

whom he has already fathered two children. Charles literally drags Helen to the front door and throws her out of the house (IMDb,...

Coen Brothers' Film O Brother Where Art Thou? and Marxist Themes

McGill spins a yarn about buried ill-gotten gains ($1.2 million) that he promises to share (Berardinelli). In their journey, the...

Analyzing the Bowling for Columbine Film

is an unfortunate event, but the event takes place not because the boy did not have a good mother, but because his mother was poor...

Social Process Theory and the Film American History X

1998). Derek is induced into joining a neo-Nazi movement by a older hate-monger played by Stacy Keach, who uses him as a neighbo...

Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma

but always something that is made in a four-party meaning-situation. An author... circulates a text... to an audience... whose pe...