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Film Review of Diary of a Mad Black Woman

whom he has already fathered two children. Charles literally drags Helen to the front door and throws her out of the house (IMDb,...

Critical Response to the Film The Gods Must Be Crazy

anthropological data on this tribe, it is impossible to say precisely where this assessment errs, but err it must, simply because ...

Abnormal Psychology and the Film Copycat

is a virtual prisoner in her home (Copycat). She has withdrawn from both work and her life and the only contact she has with the o...

The Portrayal of Friendship in French Cinema

considered a right" (230). In four French films in particular, Arnaud Desplechins Comment Je Me Suis Disput?... (Ma Vie Sexuelle)...

Elements That Make Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ a Movie Worth Viewing

of a horror film, and the crucifixion of Jesus is without question one of the most horrific episodes in world history. There are ...

Film Gone With the Wind and Black Representation

darkies" (Leab 99). Focusing on the Atlanta plantation of Gerald and Ellen OHara, Gone With the Wind represented life for souther...

Analysis of Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs Screenplay

After the robbery goes bad, the gang regroups in an abandoned warehouse. Here they learn that the reason their job went bad was du...

Film as Religion by John Lyden

What is generally missed, according to Lyden, is that regardless of cinematic content, audiences receive all the messages of a fil...

Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind Cinematic Analysis

harrowing to watch, with Nash suffering several climactic breakdowns and brief moments of lucidity and temporary remission. The u...

Comparing Black Nationalism and Identity in Benedict Anderson's 'Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism' and the Film 'Gone With the Wind'

contemplate how individual and cultural identities are constructed in the first place. In the opinion of Benedict Anderson, autho...

Evil in Alfred Hitchcock's Films Rope and North by Northwest

the most louche, laidback villains in screen history" (Brooke, 2005, PG) emphasises Thornhills naivety as far as espionage and mur...

Ethical Views of the Movie Saving Private Ryan

the face of it, to go against the utilitarian principle of the "greatest good of the greatest number", taking a more long-term vie...

Tragic Form of Aristotle and Contemporary Cinema

had erred so completely, even though he did so unknowingly, his only recourse was to take his own life. In Fight Club, then, th...

Analyzing the 1992 Film Version of John Steinbeck's Novel, Of Mice and Men

period scenes depicting Salinas and Soledad are reconstructed "in meticulous... detail" (Murray, 2003; Morsberger, 1993, p. 128). ...

Communication in Film Dead Poets Society

formula that proposes to plot the poems value on a graph, Keating denounces it and commands his students to rip the offending page...

Cinema and the Placement of Products

as did the movie companies, which realiszed that the sweet manufacturer hadnt paid a cent" (Goodwin, 2002). With these realities p...

Angels and Demons Should be Put Into Film

and thus stands as something that would attract audiences. Another reason why this novel would do well is in relationship to th...

Malcolm X Film by Spike Lee Historically Reviewed

also shows how the Nation of Islam similarly rehabilitated other prostitutes and drug dealers during the time, "providing moral gu...

Using Mass Media to Argue for Gun Control

incidence of fire breaking out during operations. In one of ABCs 20/20 episodes in 1998, the audience was cautioned that this ha...

Film as Nightmare '28 Days Later'

course, 28 days later, when a bicycle courier named Jim (Cillian Murphy) awakens from a coma and finds himself in an abandoned hos...

American Culture and Actress Bette Davis

or rouged (Brabazon, 2000, p. 98). At an awards ceremony, Davis was asked if she regretted not being the sort of movie star that w...

Film, Identity, and Language

has remade her into a woman who is now his equal, at least in terms of speech, and since she is "suitable" he finds her intriguing...

Film Entertainment and Native Americans

out of the selection" (Mikiro). They have never really been presented in film, showing how Natives were actually treated. One o...

Los Angeles and Its Cinematic Images

to do is wait and persist and she will eventually love him. While Tod is also not successful in his goal, he realizes that the cul...

The Film Chicago and Rick Altman's Guidelines

necessarily a love triangle, more like opportunists trying to manipulate each other. Both of the women attempt to seduce Flynn an...

Posting Responses to the Positions of Michael Moore and Barry Glassner

killer bees were responsible for an attack in Tipton, Oklahoma. They are currently in six Southwestern states and they are dangero...

Hollywood's Classic Film Maltese Falcon

employed, whose most significant feature is to make the cut seem invisible. This is achieved through such devices as shot/reverse-...

Techniques of Filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock

The cuts are approximately equal in length. Finally Thornhill asks if hes supposed to meet someone and the stranger replies...

Critics of Michael Moore's Films

the facts themselves wrong, but that he manipulated them to mislead people (Nyhan). In one instance, Moore apparently "do...

A Critical Interpretation of Fight Club

is bored out of his skull with his job and his life. His doctor advises him to go to support club meetings for people who are rea...