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Film Analysis: On the Beach (1959)

Soviet Union were busy building up their nuclear arms arsenals, the specter of the nuclear holocaust hung over society and haunted...

A Review of Walker's "Hollywood UK"

steps back. Critics have largely agreed on the substandard quality of British cinema in the years immediately following World War ...

On the Waterfront and Character Conflict

he runs the docks. The same thing applies in the other cases. The priest, Father Barry (Karl Malden) wants to save the souls of ...

Marching to War with Mel Gibson

Weapon movie directed by Norman Rockwell" (Mitchell). Thats a very good, if snarky, description. That being the case, its not sur...

Grease and Westside Story

Many Splendid Thing" which is very innocent and then the viewer is presented with the images of a young woman and young man on the...

Raiders of the Lost Ark/Cinematography

the traitorous guide getting ready to shoot him in the back. The camera shifts to Indys hand, which is holding a whip, as he swift...

The Issues Addressed in The Return of the King

Abel. Smeagol is analogous to Cain; he is his brothers murderer, and the audience is aware that the Ring is both powerful and evil...

Cinema and Time's Role

human being he is. This comes as a shock to Oliverio who is as bad as the rest in assuming that prostitutes have no brains. Actu...

Cinema and Rebellion

child who is the product of a failed system, this film seems to be saying. This film was a social commentary of sorts, which use...

'Dark City Tech Noir Science Fiction' of Alex Proyas' Dark City and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner

and evil (technology). Blade Runner considers the city of Los Angeles in the year 2019 as "a fragmented Third World metropolis, m...

A Review of the 1965 Film The Greatest Othello?

and expression than film where the camera is able to capture the most subtle suggestions of emotion through the use of a close -up...

The Kid and Charlie Chaplin

Chaplin appeared, it was also a film that he made use of established paradigms. The tools used focus on content emotion had experi...

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...

Comparing the Movie 'Elizabeth' with 'New Worlds, Lost Worlds The Rule of the Tudors 1485-1603' by Brigden

preface of her book, author Susan Brigden confesses to the broad nature of her book "New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudo...

Discussing Modern Entertainment and its Utopian Possibilities

that are easily overcome (Carey, 2000). This is a reflection of their inventive mind where it is the message and not the mechanics...

Modern Indian Cinema

Weisman, in an article featured in The New York Times, described Indian cinema as "an all purpose dream engine delivering gaudy th...

An Analysis of the Films, Bowling for Columbine and, The Decay of Fiction

physical state that supports the distinguishing characteristics of film noir. Though the term "film noir" is French, the st...

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...

Howard Hawks' 1946 Film The Big Sleep

of the classic noir characteristics, it also thumbed its nose at the use of flashbacks. There were no voice-over narrations, with ...

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 ...

Critique and Analysis of Wag the Dog Film by Barry Levinson

the message it conveys through incisive parody scary? Definitely. Barry Levinson is a veteran filmmaker who deftly employs a cyn...

Issues of Emotional Identification in Film

Hitchcocks movie, Vertigo. This whole movie is centered around one man and his inability to let go of an old love. The story, in b...

Play and Film Versions of Glengarry Glen Ross Compared

The play is divided into two acts, containing three scenes in the first and two scenes in the second. It centers...

Robbery in Films

in keeping all of the people hostage while the funds are delivered. As mentioned, while it is not exactly a bank robbery film, it ...

Documentary Evolution

it can be seen to have been on its way out at the dawn of all the other television competition for viewers time. Perspectives shif...

The Role of Conflict in Literature and Film

The basic structure of most fiction stories follows a simple Act one, Act Two, Act Three kind of format. In the first part of the ...

Rock 'n' Roll is Here to Pay by Chapple and Garofalo

In four pages this rock music text is analyzed in terms of the musical form's reflection of 20th century pop culture, the economy,...

An Article of Cultural Identity Issues Involving British Asians Reviewed

S. Johal's article 'Brimful of ‘brasia;' British Asians and Issues of Culture and Identity' is reviewed with an emphasis upo...

20th Century White Male Culture

In ten pages this paper discusses the impact of 'white male culture' upon 20th century society's politics, economics, and culture....

Protectionism in Japan

Japan's protectionist practices under the Meiji government have come under attack from the west, as a more open market for importe...