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Beauty in Film Noir and Personal Aesthetics

Spots of neon and carlights poke through the night - there is a dream like quality to the film, with spots of beauty contrasting t...

Detailed Cinematic Analysis of American Beauty

of confines. The overall metaphor of this movie is the symbol of the rose. At one point a neighbor asks how the roses are grown s...

An Analysis of the Film, American Beauty

troubled home life. To escape, Ricky retreated into his own world of drugs and voyeurism. Simply stated, American Beauty was an ...

Perspectives on the Movie American Beauty

In five pages this essay contrasts and compares the perspectives of critics and the film's writers with regard to 1999's American ...

Modern Dysfunctional Culture as Embodied by the Film 'American Beauty'

culture in the discontentment of one mans desire to live more of his life than merely being a cookie cutout of average people. Le...

A Narrative Analysis of the American Beauty Film

Fitts (Chris Cooper) and his wife Barbara (Allison Janney). Fitts is even more emotional remote from his teenage son than Lester i...

How American Beauty Serves as American Social Criticism

The ways in which the style and storyline of this film can be regarded as critiquing the superficiality of American culture and so...

Reviewing Closing of the American Mind Closing of the American Mind / Book Review

In The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom decries the lapse of teaching of traditional American values in American universi...

The Right Stuff & Technology

conquer it. The focus of the film changes when it shifts to dramatizing the successful launch of the Soviet Unions Sputnik and i...

The Myth of the American Family as Discredited in Death of a Salesman and An American Beauty

play, if we only look at the man, Willy Loman, and examine him from his perspective, concerning his hopes and desires for himself ...

Good Night, and Good Luck, Film Review

This film review primarily profiles the film's protagonist, Edward R. Murrow, using an existential perspective. The writer argues ...

Review of the Film Version of Stephen King's The Green Mile

we see an older man who doesnt sleep well at night any more; his long walks and an old clip of Fred and Ginger dressed in their fi...

Analysis of the Movie How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days

be funny, but it winds up just being painful, sad, and unpleasant to watch. Since Andies goal is to drive Ben away, she delibera...

Vera Drake

to deviance, one can not that most people remain controlled and those who do not remain controlled become deviant. But, in the fil...

Amistad

for some sense of enlightenment and friendship transcends all boundaries, as demonstrated in the film. There is the main African, ...

Mel Gibson's Hamlet

In two pages this essay reviews the Gibson film adaptation and the writer includes a personal reaction....

Charles Chaplin's The Gold Rush

In a paper consisting of 1 page what many regard as one of Chaplin's finest films is reviewed....

Gandhi Film Review

This film starring Ben Kingsley is discussed in an overview and reviewed in three pages....

Review of the 1999 Film The Sixth Sense

In five pages this paper critically reviews M. Night Shyamalan's 1999 film The Sixth Sense....

Seven Samurai

and precise technical skill" (Seven Samurai, 2007). He is the true hero in many ways for he is generous, sincere and stands a nobl...

Analyzing Colonel Fitts in American Beauty

Burnham and his mid-life angst., a compelling subplot provides a telling commentary on the manner in which homosexuality is percei...

Media and Illusion

are not our leaders, but terrorists, such as the Unabomber and Timothy McVeigh. Within this mass of confusing images and media mes...

Family in A Raisin in the Sun and American Beauty

kind of money people like Lester makes. He has all these schemes and dreams and he ultimately learns they are pointless, just as L...

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...

Stage Beauty (2004), a review

This essay presents a film review of "Stage Beauty" (2004, directed by Richard Eyre). Three pages in length, no sources are cited....

Love Stereotypes in Literature and Cinema

screen is transitory at best. This movie asks the question: Is love merely going through the motions? Is beauty a trap? Are women ...

Review of Cotton Belt to Sun Belt by Bruce Schulman

in Southern states, rather than Northern ones). But Roosevelt wasnt helping the South out of the goodness of his heart - h...

American English Compendium by Marv Rubinstein

slang and colloquialisms (of the world) smack of American English (1), and that this is true even in England. He credits this fact...

Book Review of Thomas Paine's Common Sense

was apparently encouraged by leading minds of the time the work was completely his, indicating he was not working, so to speak, fo...

A.H.M. Jones' Athenian Democracy

In four pages this text is reviewed and comparisons are made between Athenian and American democracies....