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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...

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...

Battleship Potemkin Film by Director Sergei Eisenstein

a civil engineer. He was extremely interested in anything to do with "the arts" and theater. His background, including his experie...

Visual Themes in Cameron Crowe's 2001 Film Vanilla Sky

is until he has suffered pain and unhappiness, concepts that are foreign to David, who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth....

James Bond Films and Female Protagonists Electra King and Rosa Klebb

Enough" (2000) she poses little threat to him, as her role is different, it is merely to delay and keep him occupied whilst anoth...

Searches in 2 Films by Orson Welles

series of flashback scenes, it becomes apparent that Kane, though quite wealthy, does not know who he is anymore. Having risen fro...

Saints and Soldiers, A Discussion

This essay pertains to "Saints and Soldiers," a 2003 film directed by Ryan Little. The writer provides a brief summary of the plot...

Disruption and Children Underground: Film Reviews

This 4 page paper gives a review of the films Disruption and Children Underground. This paper includes both the cultural language ...

Jefferson & Contradictions

and a pragmatic one. From its inception, the Constitutional Convention was more concerned with economics than ideals. The majori...

Comparing and Contrasting Dumbo (1941) with The Little Mermaid (1989)

in fact, alcohol is flaunted, despite the fact that the cartoon is made for a young audience. Dumbo also has a "drunken vision" (L...

Mis-En-Scene & Midnight Cowboy

dress of the other extras (all men) identifies them as working-class people. Theres a mug on the counter and the usual accessories...

Historical Accuracy of Michael Collins Film by Director Neil Jordan

an uneasy political alliance with Sinn Fein President Eamon De Valera, and this fueled the romantic rivalry between Collins and hi...

Conflict in the 1939 Film Stagecoach

clear example of this conflict (Dinks, 2005). Ringo, who doesnt know Dallass background, seats her close to Lucy, which makes her...

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...

Joel Bakan's Corporation, Portrait of a Psychopath

same material, that is, the historical background to corporations, their basic operating motivation and specific case studies. How...

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 ...

Comparative Analysis of Silence of the Lambs Book and Movie

and Banks 109). Theatrically trained and critically acclaimed screenwriter Ted Tally impressively translated Harriss text onto ce...

Orson Welles' Citizen Kane and Frank Capra's Meet John Doe Cinematic and Comparative Analysis

tight close-up (Dirks, 1996). There is a menacing "No Trespassing" sign outside an old gate, and after panning up over a chain-li...

First Person Fictional Narrative on an 'Ideal' Trip

doors. We prepared for some time and I wanted the trip to be perfect. He asked if this trip lived up to my expectations. I said ye...

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...

Ideals of Plato and Contemporary Education

employee believes a child is abused, they must call the authorities. If a child has a fight in school, the latest trend is to file...

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," ...

Meet Joe Black, the Confessions of Augustine of Hippo, and Transformation

death in the usual manner, but rather as a good looking young man who is apparently capable of falling in love with an attractive ...

Ideal of the Courtly Love Concept

the romantic saga of Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere, wife of King Arthur, as depicted in Chretien de Troyes Lancelot or, the Kni...

Analyzing the Bowling for Columbine Film

is an unfortunate event, but the event takes place not because the boy did not have a good mother, but because his mother was poor...

Historical Revisionist Oliver Stone's Films Born on the Fourth of July and Platoon

come to overestimate his own value as a singular entity amidst an enormous universe. There is no doubt that Stones intention when...

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...

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...

Describing a New and Ideal School System

would want a school system whose hidden curriculum included higher expectations for students and that provided students the instru...

Contemporary Cinema and the Use of Cyborgs

twentieth century, people are all chimeras, or mythic hybrids of machine and organism, or cyborgs (Haraway, 1991). In Western sci...