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Gangster Genre and 2 Representative British Films

and defined crime as a "problems that we--the public--must solve" (Cavaliero 50). These films attempted to shift attention from t...

Review of Sydney Pollack's 2005 Movie The Interpreter

notes that this is the first film crew to be given permission to film extensively at the UN and this gives the movie a feeling of ...

Increasing Film Studios' Profitability

in a film that only a percentage of moviegoers even remember. This represents the crapshoot movie studios were forced to endure w...

Cinematic Depiction of Hong Kong

that it has always been a colony of sorts. Its independence is illusive and while things have changed since 1997, it seems as if H...

Analyzing the Film Educating Rita

for Rita. The result is that not only does Frank tutor Rita, but Franks learns from Rita as well. Initially Rita is portrayed as...

Controversy Surrounding the Historical Drama, Lean on Me.

In this we see that the principal, wielding a bat, may be seen as a violent individual himself, thus not offering the students a g...

Symbolism in the Star Wars Film Trilogy

powerful and perhaps confusing mentor, Luke is angered and frustrated as he feels he is learning nothing at all. He struggles on t...

Cinematic Comparison of Jean Renoir's The Rules of the Game and Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times

homeless man, or a prison inmate that has been arrested for some outrageous reason (Nissley 165). To illustrate how technology ha...

Director Quentin Tarantino and Postmodernism

(Rombes). Rafferty (1997) explains that the postmodern film is built on the film noir genre, but that a feature of postmodernism ...

Greed in the Corporate Sector

to consider who has helped the most people, Michael Milken or Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa spent her life helping the poor, while ...

Reality and Films

Indeed, by looking at the role of the women in the movie it is a reflection of the social conditions. There is a reflection of the...

Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver and the Use of Narrative

hard to draw oppositions between Travis and the Villain, Sport, as both are strong males who use forceful methods and generally th...

Les Miserables (1998)/A Film Review and Analysis

David Ansen goes on to speculate that the film may be more thrilling to viewers who are encountering the story for the first time,...

1960s Music and Film Authenticity

truth and the search for meaning in life. It was no longer a time for people to sleep and hide in their supposedly perfect illusor...

Contemporary Executions and George Orwell's 'A Hanging'

them on their journey to death are, more often than not, lacking in any sympathy or emotion, just as the characters in the end of ...

The Bourne Identity Cinematic Analysis

to tell what might appear on first glance to be a tired old story. First, there is the scintillating color that enables the film ...

The Fight Scene from Romeo and Juliet

Montague explode into a deadly brawl, comes directly after the secret wedding between Romeo and Juliet, a time during which Romeo,...

Cognitive Cinema Theory and Narration

night light. It sits in bedrooms and living rooms but has become something one does in place of nothing. Rather than sitting and r...

Singapore and Criminal Justice

the primary influences in the restructuring and rebuilding of the civilian forces. A womens unit was added and new uniforms were s...

Look Both Ways at Death

praised as one of the best and most moving stories ever made. This paper briefly considers the way the characters react to Nicks m...

A Perfect Candidate/Film Review

directed by David Van Taylor and R.J. Cutler) is a documentary that follows the 1994 senate race between incumbent Senator Charles...

Budget Variance

possible that there has been wage inflation, or wage rises that have been implemented which were not allowed for in the budget. Th...

Cinema, Ideology and the Viewer

public, which is basically whats going on here; that is widely accepted and understood. If it were not a cultural norm for people ...

Excalibur, A Cinematic Representation of Arthurian Legend

his sword and kneels commanding that his enemy should knight him. Overcome with Arthurs bravery, as the noble could just as easily...

Film and Communication Theory

instance), and externally (how the cinematic techniques used communicate with one another, and with the audience, to convey some t...

Criminology Theories, Mafioso

that he is "like a stopwatch" (Emerson). Having established this background information, the movie focuses on his long-awaited vac...

Political Theme in Zhang's Hero

film Hero, released in 2002 and costing $30 million to produce, is the most expensive film in the history of the Chinese film indu...

Annie Hall

the film is Allens character Alvy who seems to have so many problems it becomes hilarious and insane, often presenting psychologic...

“The Castle”

They have decided to acquire it so that the airport can be expanded. Thus, the working class Kerrigan family is pitted against th...

12 Angry Men

as an unnecessary delay to the inevitable delivery of a guilty verdict. But, the Architect eventually convinces them to go over th...