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American Family Depiction in Television Situation Comedies of the 1950s and 1960s

In fourteen pages this paper discusses TV sitcoms during this time period and how they portrayed the American family with past and...

Cinematic Classification of Documentaries, Comedies, and Dramas

expectations of the movies plot. The believability of characters is directly proportionate to the credibility of the plot. If a ...

Group Process and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

In five pages the novel and film versions of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest are featured in this discussion of the group process,...

Second World War's Nazi Death Camps

need at the front lines. The special death squads were responsible for killing about two million people (Weiss, 1996). Because ...

Environmental Factors in Analyzing Schindler's List

This paper examines the importance of geographical and environmental factors that helped to tell the story of the film, Schindler'...

Film Reviews and Business History

In eighteen pages film reviews consisting of seven reactions and summaries of approximately two and a half pages each consider suc...

A Review of the Film, My Life

This paper analyzes thematic elements of the film, My Life, which stars Michael Keaton as a young man facing death from cancer. T...

A Production Analysis of Citizen Kane

This research report looks at camera angles used as well as characterization in this classic film. A comprehensive analysis is pr...

Neorealism of Italian Director Roberto Rossellini

In eight pages this paper discusses the post Second World War neorealist cinema that was characterized by Roberto Rossellini in su...

An Analysis of the Film, When Harry Met Sally

This paper analyzes the relationship between the two main characters in this film, Harry and Sally. This four page paper has no b...

An Analysis of the Film, Eight Men Out

This paper addresses the 1919 White Sox scandal in Major League Baseball that the film, Eight Men Out, is based on. This five pag...

An Analysis of the Film, White Man's Burden

the viewer, who comes to the startling realization that the movie must be a true reversal of the races. The black man and the whi...

An Analysis of the Film, Homicide

This paper examines and analyzes various thematic aspects of the film, Homicide by David Mamet. This six page paper has two sour...

TV Situation Comedies and the Portrayal of Women

on society and human interactions. Even in family situations on evening sitcoms, the depiction of men and women and their roles ...

Women in the French Cinema of Jean Luc Godard and Louis Malle

In ten sources this paper examines women's roles in the films by these French auteurs with mise en scene among the topics of discu...

Character Analysis/Singin' In The Rain

This essay offers a character analysis of the two major characters from the film classic Singin' In The Rain, specifically Don Lo...

Andrei Tarkovsky's Cinematic Poetry

This in-depth research paper puts forth the argument that the films of director Andrei Tarkovsky are best seen as cinematic poetry...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...