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Mrs. Doubtfire/Film Review

her away from home and the kids. Daniel seeks the help of his flamboyantly gay brother, Frank, to help him disguise himself as a w...

Hollywood and Non Hollywood Films

was popular during the 1970s (Dudley, 1984). This states that the nature of the cinema is to be ideological in its representations...

Blockbuster Movies And Independent Films: Compare/Contrast

whereby blockbuster movies capitalize upon it. Clearly, there is a tangible essence to the manner by which Melvin Goes to D...

Comparative Analysis of the Book and Film Versions of The Ugly American

as arrogant as they play up the fact they are noble and helping. In "The Ugly American" the authors note, "Hordes of United States...

The Cell Film and Costuming

sees a boy, Carls character as a child. She is dressed in a skirt and a top, very casually, as she would dress perhaps every day i...

Russian Culture in the Film Window to Paris

to the history of this powerfully great city, "Like the magic of a Russian fairy tale, St. Petersburg grew up with such fantastic ...

Film & Graphic Novel/Diabolique & Persepolis

staff and the students (Diabolique). The camera perspective enters the school. It is break time and other characters make their ...

Visual Effects Showcased in Lars Von Trier's 1991 Film Zentropa

angles that one would not normally expect, such as shooting through water. There is an underwater shot of blood slowly spreading a...

Untitled Film Stills of Cindy Sherman from 1977 to 1980

she is thinking or what has occurred. Surrounded by a halo of light, Shermans face is a "shadowed" mask and it is this melodramati...

Comparison of Wim Wenders' Film Wings of Desire and Plato's Phaedrus

Naucratis in Egypt there dwell one of the old gods of the country, the god to whom the bird called Ibis is sacred, his own name be...

Film Review of To Kill a Mockingbird

of play. The summer is very representative of a simplistic and conservative community, giving us an ideal setting in a simpler tim...

Elements of the Television Series and Film, MASH

was basically antiwar in its theme. FIRST SEASON The film was not much of a success, but the concept for the film intrigued those...

The Films Taxi Driver and Angels with Dirty Faces and the Portrayals of Antiheros

America, the concept of the antihero was revised to better reflect the attitudes of its citizens, and was defined to be an individ...

Film as Seen Through the Feminist Eye

Laura Mulveys book, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, states "Film reflects, reveals and even plays on the straight, socially ...

Russian Film and Sexual Politics

and destiny must have been in the air. Certainly the idea of freedom and destiny, of purpose and potential are embodied in the cha...

Alternative Film Director Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

by todays standards because almost everything this film did, has been done over and over since. The paper, therefore, focuses on h...

Conflict in the Sherlock Holmes Film Dressed to Kill

counterfeiting, with the messages in the music box containing the whereabouts of the missing plates. Though the inmate was in pris...

Analysis of Tom Tykwer's 1999 Film Run Lola Run

as an imitation of reality, "it holds a mirror up to nature" (Durant, 1961, p. 59). Aristotle notes that human beings find pleasur...

Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy and the Film Radio

progressive needs of safety and security, love and belonging and the need for esteem (Boeree, 2004). If, at any time, individuals ...

Futuristic Visions in the Films Metropolis and Blade Runner

against his father. Meanwhile, Fredersen orders the scientist Rotwang to create a robot that looks like Maria; he plans to use th...

Themes of the Film Cocoon

Every day, people seek medical treatments, surgery and extensive and costly procedures to reduce the physical impacts of aging and...

Film Sliding Doors, Determinism, and Free Will

is, there is both free will and determinism. The idea that free will and determinism are one in the same is rare, but it seems ...

Remember the Titans Film and Coach Boone's Leadership

to know one another. The tactic worked and real friendships were formed between black and white team members. Of course, this did ...

Director Spike Lee's Film 'Do the Right Thing'

the place and burns it to the ground (Albright, 2003). Ambiguity Is the Point One of the reasons why the film remains controvers...

The Wizard of Oz Film as Categorized by Rick Altman

adventure" would seem to fit those films in which were not sure of the way the two leads feel about each other, but which hold out...

Tim Burton's Big Fish Film Narrative

and makes sense in our world (Fournier, 2005). Then, we check the narrative fidelity and compare it to whether or not it matches o...

1964 Film Fail Safe and the Character of the President

man who feels he must do everything himself. He is seeking the advice of others, and balancing that advice with perhaps gut feelin...

Sense and Sensibility Novel and Film

who are unfamiliar with the novels premise, it concerns the Dashwood family (a mother and her three young daughters) who have been...

A Review of the Film, Ocean's Eleven

In some scenes featuring very dark-skinned Bernie Mac, the only thing absolutely visible on the screen was the whites of the actor...

Offensive Art Forms in Stanley Kubrick's Film A Clockwork Orange

most fundamental theme or issue in this particular film involves the title. This title refers to an individual who is nothing more...