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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...

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...

Cinematic and Literary Representations of Vanity

necromantic books are heavenly!" (Marlowe, Act 1, Li 40-50). Having made his decision to...

Profit in the Film Industry - An Economic Analysis

In a paper of sixteen pages, the writer looks at profit in the film industry. The live action industry is compared to the animatio...

Scorsese to the Second Power: "Goodfellas" and "Casino"

errand boy to a "coke and gun dealer" (Quart). This is a twisted version of the American dream. Scorsese populates this film wit...

Hitchcock's The Birds, Use of Sound

This essay pertains to Hitchcock's "The Birds" and the strategies that Hitchcock used in the film that relate to the use of sound....

Family in A Raisin in the Sun and American Beauty

kind of money people like Lester makes. He has all these schemes and dreams and he ultimately learns they are pointless, just as L...

Native Experience: Literature and Film

different elements together to speak of ancient Aboriginal beliefs as well as a modern world. In As Long as the Rivers Flo...

Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Historical Context

1852.5 Stowes portrayal of the cruelty of slavery generated "horror in the North and outrage in the South," as Southerners perceiv...

Editing and Narrative

are used to match up, such as a person getting out of a chair and then being shown form a different angle entering a room. The use...

Three American Families

someone was sick, or out of a job, or when things were going wrong, they asked God for help (Rodriguez). At home, "God the Father ...

Chaucer’s The Franklin’s Tale and the Film Indecent Proposal

these stories are both very similar for the couple love one another and share their lives in a very equal and meaningful manner. ...

Sci-Fi Films: Radiation Monsters and Homestick Aliens

(Bacchus, 2007). The atomic age is the real villain here, because its radiation from the atomic testing in New Mexico that causes ...

D.O.A.: 1950 and 1988

But, in this film remake the character seems less likeable, a character that perhaps the audience could not relate to as well for ...

Political Film Comparision of the Nonfiction The Fog of War and Fiction Fahrenheit 911

of cinema designed to convey a specific message about a particular government. The director may choose to present this message in...

Masculinity Crisis in The Color Purple by Alice Walker, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

supervision of impoverished farm tenant Edward Covey, who had established a notorious reputation as being a "nigger breaker," youn...

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...

Comparative Analysis of The Old Wives Tale by George Peele and Rob Reiner's Film The Princess Bride

In eight pages this research essay compares the structures of the 1593 play by George Peele with the 1987 film by director Rob Rei...

Cinematic Comparison of Smoke Signals and Simon Burch

saved Thomass life) and to explore the meaning their culture has for each of them (Berardinelli, 1998). Its also notable, Berardi...

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...

Joel Bakan's Corporation, Portrait of a Psychopath

same material, that is, the historical background to corporations, their basic operating motivation and specific case studies. How...

Knowledge and Whether or Not Anything Can be Truly Known

only thing that is known is what is presently occurring. In other words, if something is out of ones eyesight and experience, it i...

Comparative Analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's Film Vertigo and Billy Wilder's Film Some Like It Hot

Jerry and chase them through the hotel. The two hide under a table in a banquet room, only to discover that its the very room in ...

Retelling Beowulf in 13th Warrior

In the epic, the threat is supernatural; in the film, the menace is recast as a vicious, cannibalistic tribe who dress in animal s...

Hesse & Le Guin/Views on Dichotomy

finds it difficult to escape from his lifetime habit of dichotomous thinking when it comes to gender. Therefore, he tends to think...

Hitchcock/Strangers On A Train

an accidental meeting, as they have lunch in Guys private compartment, Bruno makes comments that reveal that he has detailed knowl...

We Were Soldiers/Historical Accuracy of Film

back first one North Vietnamese assault, then another, over a period of six days."i In writing about the film, co-author of We W...

W.W. Brown/Clotel

into the pen during the day. After the best of the gang were sold off, the balance was taken to the Exchange coffee-house auction ...

Actor John Travolta

time Travolta began doing the leaps and pirouettes on the flashing dance floor in Saturday Night Fever, he was already a veteran a...