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An Overview of Alfred Kinsey

- but his dominating persona was not very favorable to colleagues (though he could be friendly and helpful on certain occasions) (...

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 ...

Movie Fight Club and Gender in Culture

this when Edward Nortons character slowly develops the alter ego played by Brad Pitt. Edward Nortons character wants nothing to do...

The Last Samurai Film Historical Analysis

Japan should become more westernized so that it could prosper economically and protect its territorial independence. Suddenly, a ...

Controversial Mel Gibson Film The Passion of the Christ

time. Perhaps in the distance between the time of Christ and modern times, the death of Christ by way of crucifixion has been sa...

The Furies Construct and Toni Morrison's Beloved in Novel and Film Form

that most people believe to be haunted. A friend, Paul D determines to exorcise the ghost for her. After he has done so, Sethe is ...

Mississippi Masala and the Immigration Experience

this Southern town oppose the relationship between a woman of Indian extraction and an African American. In a climatic scene, De...

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...

Review of 'A Room With a View' Film

times appears to be a prune. In one memorable scene, as the plot thickens, George is standing in the middle of a waving...

Blue Steel Film's Reality and Fiction

Today, there are more female police officers on the force and so, Hollywood had made an attempt to portray the female officer as l...

Aristotelian Ethics and Groundhog Day

with pleasure, which is why they "love the life of enjoyment" (Aristotle). Considering this stance, the next development in the m...

Animation Advancements in Geri's Game Short Film by Pixar

won in 1998. While "Geris Game" was clearly an innovative technical film, it did not win this award based on this aspect alone. Wh...

Analyzing Oliver Stone's Controversial 1991 Film JFK

Cuban Missile Crisis the following year. The film implies that JFK made a deal with Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev, in which h...

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 ...

Analysis of Martin Scorsese's Film Raging Bull

in Raging Bull (127). Thus, part of the reason for the success of the film has to do with the choreographed movements of the acto...

The Matrix Film, Epistemology and Metaphysics

In three pages this paper examines how epistemology and metaphysics are both featured in the film The Matrix. There are no other ...

Richard Brooks' Film The Blackboard Jungle

In eight pages this film by director Richard Brooks is examines in an overview that considers its portrayal of youth problems. Th...

Social Propaganda and Utopian Qualities in Adam Sandler's Big Daddy

of marriage, he also does not want to lose the one person in his life who helps to give him direction. This dichotomy is instrume...

Luchino Visconti's Film The Damned, Its Political Content and Sociopolitical Subtexts

In five pages this paper analyzes the 1969 film The Damned by director Luchino Visconti in terms of the political contents as well...

Authority and Rebellion in Thelma and Louise, Easy Rider, and Rebel Without a Cause

In five pages this paper examines men, social, and paternal types of rebelling against authority in an examination of this trio of...

Gene Fowler Jr.'s 1957 Film I Was a Teenage Werewolf

In six pages this report analyzes this 1957 film debut of television icon Michael Landon. Three sources are cited in the bibliogr...

Corporations and Globalization

150 years ago, corporations had an insignificant impact on human society. However, after Congress passed the Fourteenth Amendmen...

Spielberg/Catch Me If You Can

Frank Abagnale issued a statement on his companys web site that explains his perspective on the literary design of both his book a...

Cultural Context of Silent Film

This paper addresses the artistic and historical significance of three silent films, The Battleship Potemkin, Metropolis, and, The...

Boyz N the Hood and Communication Theories

Ultimately, however, Tre grows out of the necessity of needing the peer approval, begins to loathe the sound of gunfire and the...

Analyzing Bowling for Columbine from a Sociological Perspective

Marx). In other words, Marx saw societies as being composed of classes in constant conflict. Differing markedly from his predecess...

Formalism in the Films, Great Expectations and, The Night of the Hunter

them" (Trbic, 2005). At the same time there was a very powerful visual style that was insistence on losing the "polite look of his...

Historical Accuracy of Michael Collins Film by Director Neil Jordan

an uneasy political alliance with Sinn Fein President Eamon De Valera, and this fueled the romantic rivalry between Collins and hi...

Clint Eastwood's Film Million Dollar Baby

light across a coffee table may be the only thing that signals that the scene takes place in someones living room. Throughout th...

Film Review of Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas

the voiceover. According to reviewer Patricia Kowal, this inclusion of a female perspective furthers the gangster genre because it...