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The French Lieutenant's Woman

fact is not as clear in the film. The film is allowed the benefit of constant juxtapositions out of place and time. The book depen...

Gang-Rape on Screen

(Ebert, 1988). As Ebert says in his review, "`The Accused demonstrates that rape victims often are suspects in their own cases. .....

Do Not Speak the Speech, I Pray You

who are unfamiliar with it; then if the instructor has any sense he or she will run the Kenneth Branagh uncut version the followin...

Film Review of Coach Carter

Carter and takes a swing at him, which Carter blocks and then, with an arm pended behind his back, Carter pushes Cruz against a wa...

The American Revolution in Fiction and in Film

to the settlement of the American frontier, Drums Along the Mohawk. It is the story of farmer Gil Martin and his privileged bride...

Reflections of Poverty In Film

This paper examines Oscar Lewis' film, The Children of Sanchez, as well as Luis Bunnel's work, Los Olvidados. This four page pape...

John Ford Films Young Mr. Lincoln and The Searchers Compared

This research paper compares these two Ford's films in five pages terms of differences but also notes the similar filmmaker perspe...

Analysis of 2 Horror Films

adding to aid of gloom. As this suggests, in Frankenstein, the X factor is primarily shown overtly, using aspects of the cinemat...

"Freaky Friday" And Multiculturalism

very essence of what it means to be a human being, demonstrating how and why a person acts the way she does, how she attributes mo...

Erotic Journeys and the film Maid in America

portrayed in the film live in a climate of risk with "no health insurance, no drivers license, no pension and no recourse" to just...

Sociologically Implications of a Comedy

their acknowledged leaders and the only character that is not played for laughs. There are also Gordon, a middle-aged, loyal custo...

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 ...

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...

Anomies According to Emile Durkheim and Robert Merton

This paper discusses typology of individual adaptations as is evidenced in the 1999 film American Beauty. There are two sources i...

Robert Lemon, Transfusion

This film review in on Robert Lemon's 2014 documentary "Transfusion," which portrays the complex cultural issues and meaning that ...

Avatar, A Sociological Perspective

This essay describes "Avatar," a film directed by James Cameron, and consider it from a sociological perspective. Three pages in l...

View of Women, Two 1950s Romantic Comedies

This paper presents an overview of "Pillow Talk" and "Desk Set," which are two fifties' era romantic comedies. The writer relates ...

French Ethnocentrism and Amelie

This essay pertain to the film Amelie (2001) and what the narrative tells viewers about French cultural assumptions and ethnocentr...

Cardiac Surgery in Africa

This paper discusses a documentary film that follows eight Rweandan children as they go to a hospital for cardiac surgery. The chi...

"Music Within," The Story of Richard Pimentel

This essay presents a movie review of "Music Within," (2007, directed by Steven Sawalich). The film stars Ron Livingston as Richa...

Conflict Theory and Crash (2004)

This essay pertains to the scene in Crash (2004), a film directed by Paul Haggis, in which two black men steal a car. The writer u...

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...

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...

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...

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," ...

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...

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...

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...