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Essays 1921 - 1950

Use of Cinematography in Orson Welles' Citizen Kane

wealthy man puts his emphasis on money, power and manipulation; fails at politics and his domestic life and dies friendless and al...

Traditional Staging vs. Contemporary Cinematic Interpretations of William Shakespeare's Plays

inexperienced actors in the lead roles (Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey). The play opens with the servants, Samson and Gregory,...

Children and Media Violence

games and the computer, it rises up between 35 and 55 hours a week (Gentile et al., 2004; 1235). Through this much media exposure ...

The Film Traffic as a Statement on U.S. Drug Policy

editorializing, but this fits well within the boundaries of the film. For example, at one point a character says that "at any give...

Golden Age of Hollywood and Exploitation

between studio systems and exhibitors, alliances established through vertical integration. One of the most important inclusions i...

Cinematic Comparison of Jean Renoir's The Rules of the Game and Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times

homeless man, or a prison inmate that has been arrested for some outrageous reason (Nissley 165). To illustrate how technology ha...

Review of Sydney Pollack's 2005 Movie The Interpreter

notes that this is the first film crew to be given permission to film extensively at the UN and this gives the movie a feeling of ...

2001 A Space Odyssey and Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick's Visual Style

the moon base known as Clavius (Falsetto 44). In perhaps the most memorable sequence, when Bowman travels "Beyond the Infinite," ...

Film She's Gotta Have It by Director Spike Lee

of her three suitors, a sex therapist, her father and her former roommate, and a lesbian acquaintance (Shes Gotta Have It). Nolas ...

Film Review of Robert Zemeckis' Forrest Gump

is picked to become part of a US Ping-Pong team that plays in newly opened Communist China. After his discharge from the army, For...

Cartesian Rationalism from a Critical Viewpoint

experience, will readily be admitted with regard to such objects, as we remember to have once been altogether unknown to us..." (A...

Film Reflections of Confucianism

ethics with virtue ethics. Confucian ethics generally embrace the idea of righteousness and goes to the notion that people should...

Twelve Angry Men Film and the Barriers of Linguistics

throughout the film involves barriers to listening and questioning as well as dialogical processes that can break down these barri...

Sound Use by Martin Scorsese in Goodfellas

is But a Dream" by the Harptones and "Speedo" by the Cadillacs, combine seamlessly with additional orchestration to convey a "let ...

Film Adaptation of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie and the Mood Function of Music

scene begins Laura Wingfield (Karen Allen) and her gentleman caller Jim OConnor (James Naughton) are looking at Lauras "glass mena...

Comparing Novel and Film Versions of The Color Purple

evolves because the men in the film are misogynist or because it is something that is a part of Celie, is unclear. Still, it seems...

Storytelling and the Film Adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates' 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'

as "a fantastic figure: he is Death, he is the elf-Knight of the ballads, he is the imagination, he is a Dream" (Easterly 543). As...

How A Civil Action Demonstrates a Need for Social Action

1998, p. 67). The case is not anything new. It is based on a true situation and there are other cases of cancer clusters being tie...

Overview of the Film Good Night, Good Luck

scares involving communism. The government wanted people to be fearful of communism and Clooneys focus is clearly on the supposed ...

Citizen Kane, Cinematic Art

reporter investigating this issue and interviewing the various people who new Kane. From the newsreel, the audience learns that ...

Cinematic Interpretations of Hamlet

decision for Olivier to choose to embark on this project. At the age of forty, Olivier thought he was too old to play the Danish p...

La Jetee Film by Chris Marker

how mans recollections "are motionless fragments marked by the surroundings" (La Jet?e); inasmuch as the storys underlying current...

Case Studies in Film Journalism

of film. That would alert the readers to the fact that the criticism is biased. Finally, we have to wonder if opinions really ...

Media and Film Documentaries in China

which provided free education, pensions, and social services to the people and peasants. Instead, the self-sacrificing citizen of ...

Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas, Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather and Their Depiction of Crime and Punishment

He seems to have made up his mind at the very beginning of the saga. He has become a part of the military...

Richard III by William Shakespeare and Looking for Richard Film

offer some different scenes, though ultimately only about one quarter of Shakespeares Richard III is actually presented in the fil...

Gods and Monsters and Its Message Regarding Society and Culture

sex, and they can be both works of sexuality, and still be considered works of art. Heterosexual women may paint women who are cle...

Predator Film and Fantasy Rewriting of History

group of weapons specialists embark on their latest hunting mission. The film is a consistent metaphor of the predator (hunter) a...

Noble Enchaining the Soul as a Philosophical Proposition

human being from conception to death is encapsulated in a pod. In Platos Cave the only thing that they can see is...

Beatrice and Hero in William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing

love for her. It 8s also worth noting, that despite the clear and eloquent words, t no point in the pay do we see Hero and Claudio...