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The Secret History by Donna Tartt, Alfred Hitchcock's Rope and Education

who do not know how to live life and are brainwashed by books and academia" (Chan). In essence, the professor understands the more...

Meet Joe Black, the Confessions of Augustine of Hippo, and Transformation

death in the usual manner, but rather as a good looking young man who is apparently capable of falling in love with an attractive ...

Love Stereotypes in Literature and Cinema

screen is transitory at best. This movie asks the question: Is love merely going through the motions? Is beauty a trap? Are women ...

Analysis of the Movie Clueless

impostor of a friend. The heroines role, of course, is defined not only by her own inner convictions but also by those with whom ...

Violating the Law and Social Control Theory

to "study things in their natural setting, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people br...

The Royal Family Depression Era Comedy by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber

between a life in the theater and the offer of a stable marriage to a sensible stockbroker. Fanny Cavendish is the family matriar...

Dinner at Eight Depression Era Comedy by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber

and one-time suitor Oliver sell her stock in his company. Carlotta does not consider returning to the stage as an option to her fi...

Reception Theory and Films Star Wars and Star Trek

viewers (Sklar, 1998). In this regard, reception studies seek empirical evidence, either "historical or ethnographic research," th...

Eat Drink Man Woman, To Live, and Survival of the Asian Family

This begins to change with the comment, "I have an announcement to make." Whatever follows is guaranteed to prompt anger and trial...

The Manchurian Candidate Conspiracy

his father did not approve (Maier, 1986). The article does not mention his relationship with individual family members beyond this...

A 'Pulp Fiction' Marxist Analysis

pick of meat as well as salad ingredients that can also run up a bill. Food is expensive and can be considered as something that e...

Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Film Brazil

women and have no true knowledge of what life is like in a society with two sexes. These men fall in love, and eventually are kick...

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 ...

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...

1969 Film Topaz by Alfred Hitchcock

aided in this aspect of the film by production designer Henry Bumstead, who "carried the masters color ideas out in ingenious desi...

Sundiata Film Historical Analysis

returns. If this plotline sounds familiar to modern audiences, it should. Sundiata is often referred to as the Lion King. Disneys ...

The Film Moonstruck and Dionysian Love versus Apollonial Security

and stability and this is comfortable for each of them. But, as time will show, it does not provide excitement in the relationship...

Themes of Fantasy and Reality in Woody Allen's Film The Purple Rose of Cairo

her favorite actor in it, Tom Baxter. After the movie is over she finds herself unable to go home to face the reality of a man who...

Films The Bicycle Thief and Double Indemnity and Representations of Family and Work

In three pages this paper examines how family and work attitudes are represented in these films from the 1940s. Two sources are c...

Historically Analyzing Racism Regarding Jews and Blacks in America

end, he assimilates, as they want him to as he is continually beaten and harassed. Though the author tries to make it seem as if t...

Roman Polanski's Film Chinatown and Characters Katherine Cross and Evelyn Mulwray

When Gittes is contacted to monitor the activities of supposedly philandering husband Hollis Mulwray, a successful Los Angeles wat...

The Passion of the Christ Film by Mel Gibson

film Braveheart is noted for its bloody battle sequences (Brackman, 2004). While The Passion is based on the Gospel of John, Brac...

Edward Zwick's Film Glory

evolution of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment until its climactic attack on Fort Wagner, South Carolina of July 18, 1863, that resulted i...

An Analysis of the Film, Lost In Translation

middle of filming the commercial he has come to do and the director is attempting to give him directions in Japanese using an inte...

William Shakespeare's Othello Cinematic Adaptations

box office. Welles was a product of his time and though he had tremendous creativity when it came to camera angles and budgets,...

1960s' Life and Mike Nichols' Film The Graduate

to comment on his future and to give him advice. The viewer comes to understand that Ben is expected to follow in his fathers foot...

Turner's Theory and the Use of Text in Film as Interactive Social Practice

the change - dwindling audience numbers, and the need to cope with more complex narrative structures, for instance - were the outw...

Cinematic Gender Representation

choice to live and abide by a certain set of unwritten expectations. The movie, Menage, directly challenges this idea. Powrie al...

Films My Darling Clementine, Manhattan, and Identity

character and Brian, however, are that Brian did not go through a stage where he involved himself in an affair to ease the transit...

Detailed Cinematic Analysis of American Beauty

of confines. The overall metaphor of this movie is the symbol of the rose. At one point a neighbor asks how the roses are grown s...