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Film Melodrama

press appealed more in gender terms to male audiences(Neale, 63). In fact, Neale seems to think that the majority of the m...

D.W. Griffith's Film Birth of a Nation and its Political Impact

artistic advancements, including a color sequence at the end" (Review of The Birth of a Nation, 2002). Furthermore, this film gre...

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,...

Transferring Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights to the Silver Screen

critics. The other reason that books seldom translate well to film is that in a screenplay all the senses are limited to the visu...

Portrayals of Minorities in America in The Color of Fear and True Colors

to the daughter of the influential and powerful Senator Stiles" (Anonymous Cusack and Spader show their True Colors, 2002; 5937&Se...

Nineteenth Century America and Being White

be. 2. Agricultural economic base and need for labor. 3. Slavery introduced with indentured servants. Taken to the next level in ...

Artwork in the Films Basquiat and Crumb

he is the one telling us of his past and his art. He tells us that one time he took some drug that was supposedly LSD but he think...

Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, Neil Jordan's The Crying Game, and Male Identity

out Dil, Jodys girlfriend. Ironically, painfully, and even humorously, Dil is actually a man (Hooper 43). It is worth noting t...

The Divine Comedy, Man's Search for Understanding and Truth Represented by Dante

also called La Commedia (The Comedy) by Dante. In the poem, the poet Dante, travels to hell (Inferno) then purgatory (Purgatorio) ...

J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, Cultural Products, and Religion

hairy feet. As this suggests, they are humble beings, not heroes. Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit who is uncle to Frodo Baggins, entrusts ...

2001 A Space Odyssey Film by Director Stanley Kubrick

opening sequence has been found buried beneath the surface of the moon. While Floyd and his colleagues are standing in front of th...

Jean Renoir's Movies

also during this period when Renoir adopted what would become his trademark style of filmmaking, by using a core ensemble cast of ...

Simone de Beauvoir, Emma Goldman, Foucault's Power Structure, and the Film The Matrix

who is a software programmer by day and a hacker known as Neo by night. Becoming increasingly disillusioned with his life, Neo se...

Comparative Analysis of Wladislaw Szpilman's Book The Pianist and Roman Polanski's Film Adaptation

true to the book? When Szpilman took pen to paper, he seemingly did so to relay the events of his life. Realizing that he had sur...

Social Construct of Gender Identity and Illusion

Indeed, boys tend to like football and rough house almost from birth where girls seem to mature into beings who like to talk on th...

Cinematic Analysis of Children of a Lesser God

to hear the sound of my own voice, he says at one point, and indeed he does such a smooth and natural job of translation that the ...

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...

Novel and Film Versions of The Rainmaker

the hospital commissary where Rudy is studying for the bar exam. In the book, Kelly and Rudy have met previously. Rudy comments ...

Team Strategy Formation and the Film Ocean's Twelve

boundaries of their acceptable group behavior. Forming is the stage of transition when the individuals become members of a team (C...

Analysis of the Carousel Musical by Rogers and Hammerstein

When Julies friend Carrie leaves, but Julie lingers near the carousel, she and Billy are now along and can speak freely, if hesita...

Cubicle Anonymity and Office Space

climax of the film. The history of the cubicle is that these partitions were once heralded as an innovation and, today, they rem...

Ronald Donaldon's Film Thirteen Days and Conflict Theory

escalate into World War III; if he did nothing or offered a weak response, the balance of power would clearly shift in the directi...

An analysis of Beethovern's Music in Immortal Beloved

through the use of rolling chords that softly underscore the melody line in the treble, while octaves sound in the bass like dista...

Men as Defined by Elia Kazan's Film On the Waterfront and Arthur Miller's Play A View from the Bridge

sayin nothin" (Greatest Films). In these respects the audience is presented with men who possess power and immorally take advant...

Use of Cinematography in Orson Welles' Citizen Kane

wealthy man puts his emphasis on money, power and manipulation; fails at politics and his domestic life and dies friendless and al...

Cartesian Rationalism from a Critical Viewpoint

experience, will readily be admitted with regard to such objects, as we remember to have once been altogether unknown to us..." (A...

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 ...

Overview of the Film Good Night, Good Luck

scares involving communism. The government wanted people to be fearful of communism and Clooneys focus is clearly on the supposed ...