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Broadway Musical Chicago

displaying the familiar bent wrists, arched heads and thrusting pelvises that are characteristic of Fosses style (Kilpatrick, 2003...

Man Against Nature in Lee Tamahori's 1997 Film The Edge

new person. This has been tradition since Gilgamesh. The hero emerges from the wilderness to contribute to society and carry out...

Brazilian Film/Behind the Sun

backlands that appears to be totally worthless. The feud dictates a continuous cycle of murder. The shirt of a victim is hung out ...

Marley and Me/True meaning

child who was very, very much wanted, previously in the film, scenes featuring John and Jenny have shown them thrilled over her pr...

The Village/Directed by M. Night Shymalan

funeral, which is for seven-year-old Daniel Nicholson. Edward Walker, played by William Hurt, the apparent leader of this colony, ...

Sociologically Implications of a Comedy

their acknowledged leaders and the only character that is not played for laughs. There are also Gordon, a middle-aged, loyal custo...

A Review of A Bronx Tale

A 6 page essay reviewing both the film and print versions of this popular tale. Both the negative and positive aspects of America...

Gender Identity Patient Disorder Diagnosis, Treatment, and the Film Boys Don’t Cry

by persistent discomfort with ones sex" (Meyenburg, 1999, p. 305). This gender identification with the opposite sex typically com...

A Comparison of Film and Print for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

a strong and masculine man, though perhaps not too intelligent, or so Ichabod thinks. One night at a party people are telling s...

Cinema and Romantic Love

is very orderly and rigid and Harry is quite the opposite. In fact, many other films demonstrate that even people who do not get a...

Reality Verses Fiction Portrayals of Terrorism Such as that in The Siege

thing as targeting other ethnic groups" (Ebert PG). Ebert goes on the draw comparisons as to the treatment given to Arab-America...

Costuming in The Patriot

necessary in order to reconstruct the aspects of needlework, fabric and even the most intricate details not otherwise available th...

2001 A Space Odyssey Film by Director Stanley Kubrick

opening sequence has been found buried beneath the surface of the moon. While Floyd and his colleagues are standing in front of th...

My Father, My Brother and Me

on using this paper properly! Parkinsons disease takes a tremendous toll on people around...

A Review of the Political Strategies of Robert S. McNamara

2155 Robert S. McNamara is one of the most memorable twentieth century figures. In "Fog of...

Gang-Rape on Screen

(Ebert, 1988). As Ebert says in his review, "`The Accused demonstrates that rape victims often are suspects in their own cases. .....

Violence in American/Bowling for Columbine

the stats that Moore cites about gun deaths, which compares the US to other countries. Yearly, there are "381 (gun deaths) in Germ...

Coach Carter/Hoosier, film comparison

when the teams losing streak continues. There is one boy in the high school, Jimmy (Maris Valainis) who is a superb player, with...

Hitchcock's Rebecca

Danvers seems almost supernatural in her ability to simply appear, starling the current Mrs. De Winter, who is played by Joan Font...

Review of Pontecorvo's Burn! (1969)

Portugal, which makes more sense from a historical perspective, as Spains colonial possession are the most prominent, Brazil being...

La Haine

the focus on multicultural individuals. In the United States multicultural conditions appear far more accepting than those in Pari...

Three Israeli Films

the veneer of cultural, ideological and linguistic differences is also reflects in Kazablan (1974, directed by Menahem Golan). Thi...

Themes in The Blind Side

son, S.J., talking to him outside of school. S.J., which is short for "Sean Jr.," is a talkative youngster who is irrepressibly f...

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...

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 ...

Film Version of Charlotte Bronte's Novel Jane Eyre

In five pages Julian Aymes' film adaptation of this famous novel is reviewed in terms of faithfulness to Bronte's dialogue with th...

Vampire Movies and How They Have Evolved

conversations -- yet as McNally & Florescu (1994) describe, it remains eminently readable even in an "age of novelettes and journa...

A Film Documenting Growing Old and Dying

"Tuesdays with Morrie" is based on the book by Mitch Albom. Mitch was a previous student of sociology professor Morrie...

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...

Stage Beauty (2004), a review

This essay presents a film review of "Stage Beauty" (2004, directed by Richard Eyre). Three pages in length, no sources are cited....