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David Fincher's The Fight Club

libidinal desire and an internal examination, which tends to idealize self (Naiman 333). The one factor which unites the two symb...

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Postmodernism

symbolic, it can be said to the juxtaposition of Martha to George(Clurman 12). Martha is high energy and ambitious, whereas George...

Novel and Film Versions of The Rainmaker

the hospital commissary where Rudy is studying for the bar exam. In the book, Kelly and Rudy have met previously. Rudy comments ...

3 Films and Their Structures

is no truly artistic use of the camera aside from working towards presenting us perhaps with the perspective of every day life. Th...

Analysis of the Movie Clueless

impostor of a friend. The heroines role, of course, is defined not only by her own inner convictions but also by those with whom ...

Finding Forrester Themes of Education and Racism

At the same time, there are two teachers in this work who are at odds. They are of course Forrester and Crawford. Forrester actua...

Films One Night at McCool's, The Usual Suspects and Their Narratives

one central character which functions as the narrative object (Telotte, 2003). In other words, this character is typically define...

Federico Fellini's Movies and Their Cinematic Influence

he would have lent his considerable talents and boundless energy to the circus arena "because the circus is just that same mixture...

Themes of Fantasy and Reality in Woody Allen's Film The Purple Rose of Cairo

her favorite actor in it, Tom Baxter. After the movie is over she finds herself unable to go home to face the reality of a man who...

Comparing 'A Clockwork Orange' by Anthony Burgess with Stanley Kubrick's Film A Clockwork Orange

other supporting characters. In order to streamline the storytelling even more, the screen adaptation of A Clockwork Orange focus...

The Matrix Film and Visual Culture

in their own construction (1991). Genetic engineering is used as an example here (1991). However, more than cloning or genetic t...

Culture and Humanity: Things Fall Apart and The Gods Must Be Crazy

that offer the viewer/reader a different look at the western worlds involvement in other cultures. In offering these different v...

"O Brother Where Art Thou?"

The film follows the three hapless goofballs as they come across the sirens (three gorgeous women washing clothes in a river); alm...

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...

Cultural Scene Analysis of Paul Haggis’ 2005 Film Crash

on the marquee, the classic Frank Capra holiday film starring James Stewart. The night is clear as evidenced by the lack of umbre...

William Shakespeare's Play Macbeth and 2 Film Interpretations

conscience. Said Macbeth: "One cried "God Bless us! And "Amen!" the other, as they had seen me with these hangmans hands. Listning...

Gender Issues and Class in Karl Reisz's Film Saturday Night, Sunday Morning

What it depicts is a picture of class prejudice and strained gender relationships. Saturday Night Sunday Morning is made ...

Sir Carol Reed's Film The Third Man

a job writing for a volunteer medical unit he runs. Harry, however, is dead by the time Holly arrives (Ebert, 2002); he has, in fa...

History and Citizen Kane

flashbacks in the movie) (Street 48). Through these interviews, the audience learns that Kane inherited a fortune at a young age, ...

Visual Themes in Cameron Crowe's 2001 Film Vanilla Sky

is until he has suffered pain and unhappiness, concepts that are foreign to David, who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth....

Literature, Film, Identity, and Travel

conversation" (Clifford, 1997, p. 37). Similarly, the identity of the Moe family remained Hawaiian, despite the fact that they t...

Cinema and Gun Symbolism

take a life in just moments. A student writing on this subject may want to consider the gun as an appendage of the bodies of Travi...

Analysis of the Style and Narrative of the Film The Man Who Wasn't There

in that Ed Crane is sure that his wife is having an affair with her boss. Banking on the surety of his assumption, he sends the bo...

Fritz Lang's Films

the audience. In many modern examples, the most creative thing that can be said about a particular movie maker is his or her abili...

The Film The Heiress Analyzed

lush as one of the contemporary Merchant-Ivory or Emma Thompson movie adaptations of other literary classics that offer a view int...

Greek Styles of Government and the Film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

relationship between a city or Nations government and a person is much like that of a parent/child relationship. The state nurture...

Landscape's Symbolic Uses in Chinese Movies Red Sorghum, The Blue Kite, and Yellow Earth

meant to symbolize the conditions of rural poverty in China and its openness and vastness is typical of Chinese art works which eq...

Comparative Analysis of the Autobiographical Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam and the Film October Sky

but that it was shared by his friends. For clarity and to avoid further explanation of detail, the rocket academy they formed in t...

Black Rain Review and Criticism

yet sympathetic short stories about ordinary people in Japanese life. Black Rain is considered a novel distinct from all other tex...

The Hunchback of Notre Dame in the 1923 Film Adaptation

were quite memorable. Jehan is an evil man who desires Esmerelda, like most of the men in the story, and Esmerelda is a very helpl...