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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...

Media Technology Pioneer Lee de Forest

In five pages this paper celebrates the virtually unknown film and radio contributions of inventor Lee de Forest. Six sources are...

A 'Norman Bates' Analysis

studying the film Psycho, does Norman represent a typical psychopath? First, does Hitchcocks film create an accurate repres...

Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale' and the Film Adaptation

This 5 page paper compares and contrasts the Medieval story with the film version. There are 2 bibliographic sources that are cit...

South America's Yanomami and the Ethnographic Film Magical Death

on the day-to-day life of the Yanomami and have titles such as Weeding the Garden, A Man and His Wife Make a Hammock, and Firewood...

The Matrix Film and Philosophies

In five pages this paper discusses the philosophies of Locke and Berkeley featured in The Matrix film as they pertain to the mater...

Michael Powell's film 'Peeping Tom'

of the film as we witness his actions and we become powerful voyeurs in the process, immersing ourselves in his world, and his sym...

Film Mulholland Drive and David Lynch's Editing

In five pages the theme of Lynch's film is discussed in an examination of the editing techniques the director employed. Three sou...

A Seven Film Analysis

excellent example of explanatory communication. The protagonist is explaining his reasoning and the fact that he wants to do some...

Martin Scorcese's Raging Bull and Jake La Motta

powerful subject for a director like Scorcese and an actor such as DeNiro. Based on La Mottas autobiography, the student working o...

Comparing Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai with Homer's 'The Iliad'

heroic ideal of the young and noble combatant who appears to be destined to die at an early age on the battlefield. Achilleus is ...

Fritz Lang's Films

the audience. In many modern examples, the most creative thing that can be said about a particular movie maker is his or her abili...

Cool Hand Luke Film and Luke Character Symbolic of Rebirth

chain gang convicts with brutal honesty and has fewer moments of levity than the movie. (Pearce also write the screenplay for the ...

Cinema and Romantic Love

is very orderly and rigid and Harry is quite the opposite. In fact, many other films demonstrate that even people who do not get a...

Fear Levels in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

of my being" (Frankenstein). As with any newborn, his sensory impressions of the world are at first indistinct. He began to attemp...

A Comparison of Huck Finn and the Misfit From A Good Man is Hard to Find

footsteps. This is demonstrated through the parallels between Huck and his father. In the part of the novel where Huck is abducted...

Carmen by Georges Bizet

characterized by works which present contemporary characters in real-life situations (Carmen). Schonberg indicates that, with Carm...

1952 Film Singin' in the Rain

any movie as well as the larger aspect of film defined as art is to understand its relationship and associations between the uniqu...

Searching from the Hero Within in Hamlet by William Shakespeare

alienate himself from his mother, uncle, fianc?e Ophelia and his old school chums, Rosencrantz and Guilderstern. The lone confide...

Women and the Impact of the Media

Council Chairman Dr. Ian Bogle claimed that there is a cult of "bodily perfection" that is perpetuated by media (2000). Recommenda...

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

the reader imagines and sees through the eyes of the character is a world with shocking parallels to modern humanitys own question...

'The Way of Duty' and 'Mary Silliman's War'

This paper consists of 6 pages and compares the book The Way of Duty by Joy and Richard Buel and the film version, Mary Silliman's...

Review of the 1997 Film Gattaca

the genetic attributes of their offspring in advance and their wishes are accomplished under laboratory conditions through the gen...

Cinematic Comparison of 2001 A Space Odyssey and The Matrix

definitely postmodern? In some ways, that appears to be true, but in other ways that may not be the case at all. 2001 began with...

Book and Film Versions of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath

In six pages this paper emphasizes class consciousness in a discussion of how class is portrayed during the Great Depression in St...

The Blair Witch Project Film, the Newtonian Revolution, and Phaedo by Plato

In six pages this report examines individual understanding of the world as considered in Plato's Phaedo, in the scientific inquiry...

A Comparison of Film and Text for Text The Tempest

This five page paper compares this classic text to the film version by Paul Mazursky. Two sources are listed....

Horror Films and Gender

Film criticism and gender are discussed in relation to the horror genre. A look at sexual mores is included. This five page paper...

1999 Film Sleepy Hollow by Director Tim Burton

In seven pages this report analyzes Tim Burton's film Sleepy Hollow in terms of Johnny Depp's performance and cinematic influences...

Cultural Context of Silent Film

This paper addresses the artistic and historical significance of three silent films, The Battleship Potemkin, Metropolis, and, The...