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Spike Lee’s ‘New York State of Mind’

lens but by the filmmakers imagination and based upon the unique New York experiences contained within a particular neighborhood e...

1960s Music and Film Authenticity

truth and the search for meaning in life. It was no longer a time for people to sleep and hide in their supposedly perfect illusor...

The Bourne Identity Cinematic Analysis

to tell what might appear on first glance to be a tired old story. First, there is the scintillating color that enables the film ...

The Mirror by Andrei Tarkovsky

of human existence and the ways in which all human beings relate to stress, desire, and feelings of social and personal alienation...

The Breakfast Club/A View of Adolescence

"poor little rich girl or the princess," and is drive to school by her father in a BMW (The Breakfast Club, 1995). Allison is the ...

Henry Giroux/Dangerous Minds

academic as being relevant or meaningful to their lives (Giroux 46). The plot of this movie is obviously the story of a plucky, ca...

Guinevere and Lancelot/Their Love in 2 Films

no adultery, save for stolen kisses, which of course are observed and thereby cause conflict, anguish for Arthur; exile for Lance...

Holocaust Through Film

people who died from typhus, malnutrition as well as exhaustion from being overworked was very high and it appears as though this ...

Assessing the Optimum Level of Product Placement within a Film

have on the how memorable the product is to the audience. The research will also have to assess the optimum level for the audience...

Society through the Lens of John Landis’s “Trading Places”

the streets? Will Valentine disgrace himself in the commodities market? Since this is a comedy, we know the answer to both questio...

Raiders of the Lost Ark/Cinematography

the traitorous guide getting ready to shoot him in the back. The camera shifts to Indys hand, which is holding a whip, as he swift...

Grease and Westside Story

Many Splendid Thing" which is very innocent and then the viewer is presented with the images of a young woman and young man on the...

The Issues Addressed in The Return of the King

Abel. Smeagol is analogous to Cain; he is his brothers murderer, and the audience is aware that the Ring is both powerful and evil...

Charlie Wilson and the Parable of Unintended Consequences

Wilsons War, Gust Avrakotos (Philip Seymour Hoffman) tells Charlie (Tom Hanks) a parable about seemingly good things that can turn...

2 Films on the Holocaust

sole survivor out of the eight people who lived for three years in the lofts tiny space. The film flashes back to Otto explaining ...

Use of Cinematography in The Truman Show

lighting, color, camera angle, types of shots, music and set design, to underscore the theme of self-determination and individual...

War Requiem by Jarman

Brittens music in this work, his primary identification is with deeply felt emotion that emanates from Owens poetry (Gomez 92). So...

Gangster Genre and 2 Representative British Films

and defined crime as a "problems that we--the public--must solve" (Cavaliero 50). These films attempted to shift attention from t...

Group Development in Films

and training in the group development process. Studying groups in the 1960s, Tuckman observed that groups of individuals transiti...

Marching to War with Mel Gibson

Weapon movie directed by Norman Rockwell" (Mitchell). Thats a very good, if snarky, description. That being the case, its not sur...

Aspects of Formalism in the Film, The Graduate

women will play in the film (The Graduate). Throughout the film, Nichols uses images, including an extensive series of montages, t...

Cinema and Time's Role

human being he is. This comes as a shock to Oliverio who is as bad as the rest in assuming that prostitutes have no brains. Actu...

Cinema and Rebellion

child who is the product of a failed system, this film seems to be saying. This film was a social commentary of sorts, which use...

A Review of the 1965 Film The Greatest Othello?

and expression than film where the camera is able to capture the most subtle suggestions of emotion through the use of a close -up...

An Analysis of Three Classic Films From the Mid-Twentieth Century

politics. Gore Vidal wrote the screenplay, as well as the original Broadway play on which the movie is based. Vidal was friends wi...

Compare and Contrast Two Versions of Romeo and Juliet

exact) and the censorship had begun to relax. Other firsts included showing the two lovers naked on their wedding night. What one...

Film Marketing by Genre

the whole trilogy and uses a heavily layered story that involves high action sequences that are purely designed to attract those w...

Analysis of the Sound Characteristics in the Movie Uing Xiong (Hero)

of these men (Broken Sword, Sky, and Flying Snow). In essence, the central protagonist in the film takes it on himself to find an...

Transferring 'A River Runs Through It' from Text to Celluloid

understand and come to terms with life as they know it. Their father is a small town minister. Fly fishing seems to be their only ...

The Notebook (2004), Psychological Aspects

This film review examines the social aspects of the 2004 film, "The Notebook." Four pages in length, three sources are cited. ...