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Style of Auteur Filmmaker Yusuf Chahine

superbly able to weave entertainment into the mix of the political statements, using the elements of good literature as he does so...

Combat Films and Full Metal Jacket by Director Stanley Kubrick

closer together and provide cohesiveness to the group through a single-mindedness of purpose (Gehring 93). At no time does the gr...

Yousry Nasrallah's Film On Boys, Girls and the Veil

accurately termed "head scarf." In allowing the Egyptian men and women who are featured in the film to speak for themselves, the d...

Money Theme in The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

In Dashiell Hammetts novel, "The Maltese Falcon," many people are given such an opportunity, and the story is filled with corrupt ...

Rene Fortunato's Film The Power of the General

One is not expressly privy to the formative influences in his life, but the directors suppositions are obvious. Those that Trujill...

Anthropological Assessment of the Film North Country

children. Josie gets the job, but from the first day, she is subjected to snide sexual references. The women working at the mine ...

Trauma and its Lasting Life Effects

has trouble controlling his body and does not begin to feel some returning sense of normality until he reaches the Acura dealershi...

Biloxi Blues by Neil Simon

towards the end of World War II. In Biloxi, Mississippi, Eugene faces "authority and danger, anti-Semitism and assimilation" (Henr...

Classic Animation/Disney's Little Mermaid

mans face. The fish slips from his fingers and manages to make it over the side. The perspective follows the fish. The fish turn...

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Postmodernism

symbolic, it can be said to the juxtaposition of Martha to George(Clurman 12). Martha is high energy and ambitious, whereas George...

1939 Film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington by Director Frank Capra

MGM and Warner Brothers, it had to rely on a limited group of performers. One of the most appealing was a tall, gangly young acto...

David Fincher's The Fight Club

libidinal desire and an internal examination, which tends to idealize self (Naiman 333). The one factor which unites the two symb...

Macon in The Accidental Tourist and OCD

safe with American restaurant choices, avoiding human contact, and the like. What is interesting about this story is tha...

Cinematic Portrayal of Greek Virtue and Philosophers

84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...

Revolution, George Orwell's Animal Farm and the Film Gandhi

farmer, the oppressor. However, once the pigs were in place and the rules established, the farm animals found themselves under a...

M. Night Shyamalan's Unbreakable Cinematic Analysis

use the camera in the same way as an author uses words for both aesthetic and textural purposes. There are two particularly effec...

Artwork in the Films Basquiat and Crumb

he is the one telling us of his past and his art. He tells us that one time he took some drug that was supposedly LSD but he think...

D.A. Pennebaker's Film Don't Look Back Critically Analyzed

depicted in Dylans apparent treatment of many of those whom he comes into contact with. If fact, Dylan seems to be stuck in a perp...

The Film The Heiress Analyzed

lush as one of the contemporary Merchant-Ivory or Emma Thompson movie adaptations of other literary classics that offer a view int...

Greek Styles of Government and the Film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

relationship between a city or Nations government and a person is much like that of a parent/child relationship. The state nurture...

Black Rain Review and Criticism

yet sympathetic short stories about ordinary people in Japanese life. Black Rain is considered a novel distinct from all other tex...

Landscape's Symbolic Uses in Chinese Movies Red Sorghum, The Blue Kite, and Yellow Earth

meant to symbolize the conditions of rural poverty in China and its openness and vastness is typical of Chinese art works which eq...

Culture and Humanity: Things Fall Apart and The Gods Must Be Crazy

that offer the viewer/reader a different look at the western worlds involvement in other cultures. In offering these different v...

"O Brother Where Art Thou?"

The film follows the three hapless goofballs as they come across the sirens (three gorgeous women washing clothes in a river); alm...

1984 Film This is Spinal Tap and Social Assumptions

uncompromising manner that demands to be interpreted as truth (This is Spinal Tap PG). It is the perfect device for Rob Reiner to...

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). ...

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...

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...

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...

Films One Night at McCool's, The Usual Suspects and Their Narratives

one central character which functions as the narrative object (Telotte, 2003). In other words, this character is typically define...