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Death of a Salesman/Pursuit of Happyness

he has always valued charisma over actual skill or knowledge. This point is shown in a flashback in which Willy asks his oldest ...

Peaceful Warrior, A Film Review

and shown how Dan could overcome his greatest fear-"how to live life when unable to one thing he does well: gymnastics" (Petruska)...

"The Stepford Wives" Then And Now: Opposites

movie is how one family uprooted from the rat race to resettle in a slower paced community. Shortly thereafter it becomes clear t...

Birth of a Nation/Racism in 2 Scenes

"historical facsimile" of the House of Representatives for the State of South Carolina in 1870 (Dirks). In this scene, the audienc...

Role of Environment in 3 Burials

him, has him exhume Estradas body and for Norton to accompany him on a journey across country to Mexico in order to keep his promi...

Spielberg/Catch Me If You Can

Frank Abagnale issued a statement on his companys web site that explains his perspective on the literary design of both his book a...

Hollywood Depiction: Cultural Consequences Of Negative Imagery

it offers little appeal to what Hollywood filmmakers perceive their audiences want to see: cookie-cutter molds. Bach points out h...

Last Samurai & Breakfast at Tiffany's

pain and trying to find herself as she divorces herself mentally from her poor beginnings when she was married at fifteen to a hor...

12 Angry Men

as an unnecessary delay to the inevitable delivery of a guilty verdict. But, the Architect eventually convinces them to go over th...

Crash, A Cinematic Parable

his motivation for stealing Jean and Ricks car. However, in committing grand theft auto, Anthony objectifies Jean and Rick just as...

Presentations of Colonialism

on the development of an exploitative tourist industry in Antigua. Achebe takes a very different perspective than Kincaid in tha...

Quentinn Tarantino's Jackie Brown Film Examining Quentin Taratino's film Jackie Brown by the "isms."

and political concept that refers to "growth oriented planning and production, with a pluralist political system in which class po...

Human Life in the Films Man Facing Southeast, A Short Film About Killing, and Taste of Cherry

the most fundamental truths of human existence and the ways in which all human beings relate to stress and feelings of social and ...

Cross-Cultural Awareness through Films and Interviews

still evident and part of the legal system in which case provided some legal standing for peoples separatist attitudes. Since the ...

Crash, A Central Theme

Graham is having an affair with his partner, Ria, who is of Latin American descent; however, Graham cannot seem to remember that ...

National Identity in 2 Chinese Films

in economic terms, which depends largely on equating national cinema with a countrys domestic film industry. As this suggests, thi...

Product Placement

prove equally beneficial to businesses? Turcotte (1995) argues that it does and lists a variety of reasons. First of all, produc...

Ella Enchanted/Cinderella

opens just after her birth. Like all babies, she is crying. Lucinda, a rather stupid fairy, is intent on giving Ella a "gift" and ...

Fight Club/Injured Male Egos & Dystopia

film is much more complicated than the "how." On the day that Tyler emerges from Jacks subconscious, the airline loses Jacks lugga...

A Beautiful Mind

abuse (cocaine, alcohol and amphetamines), brain tumor, Huntingtons disease and Alzheimers (Durand et al, 2006). III. PORTRAYAL ...

Philadelphia, Legal Issues in the Film

and complicated issue of AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) in any notable fashion" prior to this movie (Tepper, 1995). Fi...

Presentations of the Media in Film

indicates that a well-written interview with Williams could show that the murder was not premeditated, but due to his psychologica...

Fritz Hippler's Film The Eternal Jew

the film to perfection. He suggested that the German people should take matters into their own hands and reclaim their country by ...

Adventure in John Eldredge's 'Wild at Heart'

lives, stating, "The idea is almost laughable, if it werent so tragic, laments Eldredge. Men have been taken out right and left. S...

Film Comparison of Sergei Eisenstein's The Battleship Potemkin and Vittorio de Sica's Bicycle Thieves

realistically with the rise of Fascism in Italy, as well as with the war itself and with the social problems that it left behind"....

Psychoanalytic View of Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 Film Psycho

film manipulates the audience at every turn, so that the audience is compelled to examine their own sympathies and perspective. ...

Spectator in Alfred Hitchcock's Film Rear Window

action shot at a car race. To rely on an old clich?, he is "bored to tears." He spends most of his convalescent time sitting at th...

Postmodern Artifact Film A Chinese Ghost Story

and contexts will merge in the production of the film. In examining the film as a post-modern artefact it may be argued that as...

Film Versions of The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

pairing of Burton and Taylor in the lead roles was certain to result in a box office success for virtually any movie. Add Shakespe...

Comparing 'A Clockwork Orange' by Anthony Burgess with Stanley Kubrick's Film A Clockwork Orange

other supporting characters. In order to streamline the storytelling even more, the screen adaptation of A Clockwork Orange focus...