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Neorealism in "Voyage to Italy" and "Open City"

In a paper of seven pages, the writer looks at Rossellini and Italian neorealism. Two films, "Open City" and "Voyage to Italy" are...

D.A. Pennebaker's Film Don't Look Back Critically Analyzed

depicted in Dylans apparent treatment of many of those whom he comes into contact with. If fact, Dylan seems to be stuck in a perp...

Families in the Movies Soul Food and My Family

one gets to that point, there is something that changes or something that does not fit well. For example, we could get a good look...

Film Violence is Not Necessary

on whether or not the title or plotline of the story focuses on violence. Some movies and television shows contain violent themes ...

French Director Jean Renoir

his daughters fiance, Anatole. They are observed by two young men, Henri and Rodolphe, who propose to seduce the women in the part...

A Review of the Documentary Film, The Ax Fight

first place in response to a conflict between the villagers of Mishimishimabowei-teri and their visitors from another village (Ax ...

War Films Made by the Soviet Union

the USSR, World War II served as "the great patriotic war," and filmmakers would often examine the war from the human perspective ...

Authority and Power Through Language in Quentin Tarantino's Movie Pulp Fiction

from his well-received form of art. "Normally, both of you would be dead as fucking fried chicken by now, but since Im in a trans...

Mise en Scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Film Vertigo

know the woman, named Madeline, he falls in love with her. However, Madeline succeeds in committing suicide and Scotty is helpless...

Visual Design Within Theatre Arts

takes. It would seem that to incorporate so much history into so little time that these works would be awash with busyness, myria...

Fictional Family Unit and Application of Family Theory

brief excursion into heterosexuality twenty years earlier, who Armand and Albert raised. Son Val (Dan Futterman) does not share A...

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 ...

Cinematic Analysis of Oliver Parker's Othello

"right hand" man despite Iagos longer term of service (Null, 2002). Iago manages to incite a jealousy rage in Othello that results...

Not Wanted Film by Director Ida Lupino

in reality is not one of the "good girls." She is living an illusion. Her need for self improvement has reached an emergency lev...

Bronx Primitive by Kate Simon

them after the war. In America, there would be "raisins and chocolate, cookies and dolls, white slippers and pink hair bows, all ...

Play and 1995 Film Version of William Shakespeare's Othello

an extremely abbreviated version of the play. Well over half the dialogue of the original play has been condensed or eliminated i...

Hitchcock’s Auteur Vision: “Rear Window”

they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. In The Birds, for instance, Melanie (Tippi Hedren) pursues Mitch (Rod Taylor), a m...

1940s Black Cinema

fell considerably short of avoiding stereotypes. For example, one review, that is typical of those produced by white critics, de...

1984 Film This is Spinal Tap and Social Assumptions

uncompromising manner that demands to be interpreted as truth (This is Spinal Tap PG). It is the perfect device for Rob Reiner to...

An Analysis of the Film, Training Day

light of day can become obscured in the dark just as the best and brightest intentions can be compromised by allure of corruption....

Actress Julia Roberts

of his life. He realizes that he has been living in an emotional vacuum, operating more as a robot than a human being, and he subs...

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 ...

3D Computer Graphics and Film Special Effects

72). Morrow and the two children were killed instantly. While tighter safety precautions were immediately instituted by the film i...

The Portrayal of Schizophrenia in “A Beautiful Mind”

seems to ring true" (Rosenstock, 2003). In the film, Nashs hallucinations take a visual form; his roommate, the man he believes re...

Three American Families

someone was sick, or out of a job, or when things were going wrong, they asked God for help (Rodriguez). At home, "God the Father ...

Editing and Narrative

are used to match up, such as a person getting out of a chair and then being shown form a different angle entering a room. The use...

“The Thirteenth Floor”

Angeles finds out hes not real, he sets the rest of the film in motion. The questions are: what makes contemporary LA different f...

Family Systems Theory

equilibrium" (Christian, 2006). Each of these features lies within their own continuum. For instance, while all families establish...

Social Theory: Recreation, Leisure And Play

Peer Group Affiliation And Differences According To Residential Status, Subsistence Patterns, And Use Of Services" provide empiric...

1969 Film Topaz by Alfred Hitchcock

aided in this aspect of the film by production designer Henry Bumstead, who "carried the masters color ideas out in ingenious desi...