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David Lean's Film Version of Great Expectations and Confusing Appearances for Reality

In five pages this paper considers the 1946 film adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel by director David Lean in a discussion of ho...

Modernism in the Film Pierrot Le Fou by Director Jean Luc Godard

economic policy; the once-independent populations lost their identity as a people. The post-colonial Americas yearned for the abi...

Natural Born Killers Film by Director Oliver Stone

In five pages this 1994 film is analyzed in terms of story with character, cinematics with editing, and meaning with theme. Three...

John Woo's Film The Killer

In five pages this paper reviews the 1989 film by director John Woo entitled The Killer and considers the influence of Western mav...

Irish Filmmaker Neil Jordan

puzzle understand that they are nearly always involved in the penetration of a seemingly depthless surface of one person. However...

Alfred Hitchcock, the Cinematic Suspense Master

In six pages this paper examines the cinematic mastery of film director Alfred Hitchcock and some of the techniques he employed th...

The 1925 Film The Gold Rush by Star and Director Charlie Chaplin

The second full length feature Chaplin made in 1925 is the subject of this paper consisting of five pages. There is one movie pos...

Film Versions of William Shakespeare's Othello by Directors Orson Welles and Oliver Parker

In five pages this paper critiques 2 film interpretations of William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello. One source is cited in the bi...

Filmmaker Tim Burton

In seven pages this eccentric and innovative film director is examined in terms of craft, cinematic output, and human insights. Si...

Film Director John Schlesinger

In five pages this research paper examines the cinematic career of filmmaker John Schlesinger in an artistic consideration of such...

A Review of Europa, Europa

A 5 page essay exploring the work of the film by Polish writer-director Agnieszka Holland. An eye-opening look at the lengths som...

Films of Director Steven Spielberg

In seven pages this paper examines the diverse films of director Steven Spielberg from a variety of different viewpoints. Five ...

Film Director Gordon Parks

background is disadvantaged. Marcus is the son of a bitter, abusive man who hates whites with every fiber of his being. Marcus is,...

Boxers and Boxing in the Films When We Were Kings and Raging Bull

conscientiously misanthropic" (pp. 55). "Raging Bull" was about the life of a man who actually had something of a heart and was de...

Silence of the Lambs Novel and Cinematic Versions

remained amazingly faithful to the book, in his commitment to retaining its essence, there were some changes that needed to be mad...

Woody Allen's Films and Women

(1975) but in the 1977 movie "Annie Hall" he was truly embraced and celebrated by the mainstream public. In many ways, it was "Ann...

Platoon Film by Director Oliver Stone

Platoons top-notch portrayals by the actors were a joy. Ensemble performances are all first-rate with Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe ...

Film Bonnie and Clyde and the Uses of Color and Light

In eight pages this research paper examines how the director created imagery in the film Bonnie and Clyde through the employment o...

3 Postmodern Works Analyzed

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

1999 Film Sleepy Hollow by Director Tim Burton

In seven pages this report analyzes Tim Burton's film Sleepy Hollow in terms of Johnny Depp's performance and cinematic influences...

Appearance of Place in The American Friend Film by Director Wim Wenders

An analysis of the city's role in The American Friend, a 1977 film by director Wim Wenders, is presented in seven pages. There is...

Review of the 1997 Film Gattaca

the genetic attributes of their offspring in advance and their wishes are accomplished under laboratory conditions through the gen...

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Director James Whale's 1931 Film Interpretation

In five pages the original nineteenth century novel by Mary Shelley is compared with the 1931 cinematic production by director Jam...

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

the reader imagines and sees through the eyes of the character is a world with shocking parallels to modern humanitys own question...

Film Mulholland Drive and David Lynch's Editing

In five pages the theme of Lynch's film is discussed in an examination of the editing techniques the director employed. Three sou...

Literature and Human Relationships

sense one gets at the end of the work, that under the humorous aspects, there is something very sad occurring. It does appear that...

Different Ethnic Cultures and Diane Keaton's Characters in Annie Hall and The Godfather

The ways in which directors Woody Allen and Francis Ford Coppola use Diane Keaton's characters to provide ethnic and cultural insi...

The Crowd 1928 Silent Film by Director King Vidor

People simply do not flock to see silent films anymore. At the time, the film was well reviewed by both the New York Times and Var...

Analyzing the Sequence of Dreams in 8 1/2 by Filmmaker Federico Fellini

In seven pages the sequence of dreams are analyzed and considered in the context in which the director elected to produce them in ...

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...