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3 Postmodern Works Analyzed

In six pages this research paper compares how postmodern perspectives manifest themselves in director Peter Greenaway's film The C...

Arthurian Legend in Bernard Cornwell's Excalibur A Novel of Arthur and John Boorman's Film Excalibur

The different Arthurian legend portrayals of this novel and film are contrasted and compared in eight pages. There are no other s...

Cinematic Comparison of 2001 A Space Odyssey and The Matrix

definitely postmodern? In some ways, that appears to be true, but in other ways that may not be the case at all. 2001 began with...

A Comparison of Film and Text for Text The Tempest

This five page paper compares this classic text to the film version by Paul Mazursky. Two sources are listed....

Comparing Novel and Film Versions of The Color Purple

in particular is feminism and its religious heterodoxy" (12). An examination of the film and novel amply supports this observation...

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...

Cinematic Narrative in Pulp Fiction and Citizen Kane

We note he grows to be a gregarious individual who seems driven to succeed in unusual ways, always seeking some adventure and some...

Steven Spielberg and David Lean Cinematic Comparison

easy to see how Leans grasp of cinematography and his ability to create and drive plots throughout the directing and filming proce...

Representations of Taiwan

legitimate government of both Taiwan and China began to change in the 1990s when democracy was introduced and new leaders were ele...

'The Creature From the Black Lagoon' vs. 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers'

wrong. Young Jimmy Grimaldi is saying that the woman who looks like his mother isnt really his mother, and Wilma claims that the ...

Inner City Life in Cinema

The ways in which life in the inner cities are portrayed are contrasted and compared in an examination of the films La Haine by Ka...

A Comparison and Contrasting Analysis of Sholem Aleichem's 'Fiddler on the Roof' (a.k.a. 'Tevye') and 'Tevye the Dairyman'

only one of 21 collected stories. However, it was the force of Tevyes energetic personality which made him appear dominant in the...

Burlesque and Fear in Films Dr. Strangelove and The China Syndrome

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares these films by directors Stanley Kubrick and James Bridges in terms of their portra...

Comparative Analysis of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Cool Hand Luke

In five pages the themes featured in each of these films such as questioning authority are contrasted and compared. There are no ...

Stylistic and Formal Characteristics of Gus Van Sant's 'My Own Private Idaho'

Such cinematic techniques as mise-en-scene are discussed in a paper consisting of 6 pages as thematic and narrative expression are...

Comparing and Contrasting Patterns of Communication in Films Cousin, Cousine, and Cousins

In twelve pages the communication patterns exhibited in the French film Cousin, Cousine and its American counterpart Cousins are c...

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...

Traditional Staging vs. Contemporary Cinematic Interpretations of William Shakespeare's Plays

inexperienced actors in the lead roles (Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey). The play opens with the servants, Samson and Gregory,...

Film and Novel Versions of The Green Mile

of just a few prisoners, including John Coffey. Edgecombes reflections, though, address some major themes, including his own effo...

Mr. Death Film and The Picture of Dorian Gray

In many ways, the evil and rotten-ness which the portrait comes to represent are exemplifying the monstrousness of society as a wh...

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,...

Mildred Pierce and Daughter of Earth

She does not confine herself to a single domestic location, and is overtly...

A Clockwork Orange and 1984

Burgess poses basic questions regarding the...

The Manchurian Candidate Conspiracy

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

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 Bible and Mel Gibson's Film The Passion of the Christ

depiction was not anti-Semitic: "Most of good people in this movie are Jewish, including not only Jesus and Mary, but Mary Magdale...

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...

Role of Religion in Far and Away and The Gangs of New York Films

the children in orphanages" (Rieneck). It is not, however, the Irish immigrant or Irish Catholic who are trying to change the regi...

The Character of Alex in A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess and in Stanley Kubrick's Film Adaptation

primary theme within the whole novel, as well as the film, is that which asks us to look at ourselves, and our society, and see ho...

Beatrice and Hero in William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing

love for her. It 8s also worth noting, that despite the clear and eloquent words, t no point in the pay do we see Hero and Claudio...