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Film as Seen Through the Feminist Eye

Laura Mulveys book, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, states "Film reflects, reveals and even plays on the straight, socially ...

Russian Film and Sexual Politics

and destiny must have been in the air. Certainly the idea of freedom and destiny, of purpose and potential are embodied in the cha...

Alternative Film Director Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

by todays standards because almost everything this film did, has been done over and over since. The paper, therefore, focuses on h...

Blockbuster Movies And Independent Films: Compare/Contrast

whereby blockbuster movies capitalize upon it. Clearly, there is a tangible essence to the manner by which Melvin Goes to D...

Hollywood and Non Hollywood Films

was popular during the 1970s (Dudley, 1984). This states that the nature of the cinema is to be ideological in its representations...

Film / Novel Color Purple

her, told her, "You better not never tell nobody but God. Itd kill your mammy (1)" which resulted in her writing letters that "are...

Mrs. Doubtfire/Film Review

her away from home and the kids. Daniel seeks the help of his flamboyantly gay brother, Frank, to help him disguise himself as a w...

Analyzing Kenneth Branagh's Film Adaptation of William Shakespeare's Hamlet

"Hamlet" examines numerous concerns that are central to the fundamental tribulations and despairs of being human. Hamlet questions...

Identical Twin Loss in the Film Nell

her mother who did not want anyone to know the two girls existed. We gather, gradually, that Nell had a twin sister who died at ap...

Film and TV Adaptations of King Lear, Hamlet, and Othello

of Hamlets famous soliloquies, except for the ones which heightened dramatic impact, such as "To Be or Not to Be." He shrewdly ch...

Clinical Issues in the Film “Transamerica”

who were obscuring their identities by dressing as American Indians (Levine, 1994). Times have most certainly changed s...

Mexican Film/Maria Candelaria

establishing the "image" for the decade is "director Emilio "El Indio" Fernandez, cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa and actress Dol...

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Director James Whale's 1931 Film Interpretation

In five pages the original nineteenth century novel by Mary Shelley is compared with the 1931 cinematic production by director Jam...

British Film Genre Classifications of Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and East and Lock

both can be considered comedic films. Definition of film comedy Although East is East is a slice of life film that can...

Horror Film Evolution

mindless conformists, and sought to sound a warning through the medium of film (Caligari, in the figure of the mad doctor compelli...

Interaction Between Humans and Machines in Popular Films

longer inhabitable for the decent. The psychological perspective of Blade Runner addresses virtually every fear that humanity cou...

Mise-En Scene in Three Films

Thompson 115). The number of possible angles is infinite since there are an infinite number of points in space that the camera can...

Steven Warbeck's Film Review of Captain Corelli's Mandolin

they were loosely allied to the Nazis. The Italians viewed the circumstances of the war somewhat differently than did their allie...

Saving Private Ryan Film by Director Steven Spielberg and its Importance

did not think the film appropriate for anyone under the age of 14 (Gordinier, 1998). Grown men would weep after being through it. ...

Richard Attenborough's Gandhi Film Reviewed

the faith had a salient influence on him throughout his adult life....

Analyzing the Portrayal of the Media in the Film Bob Roberts

himself completely to his ambition (Roberge, 2002). This is evidenced by his decision to run for political office (Roberge, 2002)...

Female Protagonists in the Chinese Films Ermo and The Road Home

The depiction of women protagonists in these Chinese movies is the focus of this comparative analysis consisting of seven pages. ...

Sam Spade and the Film Genre Represented by The Maltese Falcon

role after years as a Warner contract player" (Galloway, 2002; maltesefalcon.shtml). As we can see from this simple description...

Comparison of Films Robert Altman's Nashville and Robert Drew's Primary

Dean Story, was far more interested in film as an expansive theatrical art, represented by the Hollywood blockbuster features (ONe...

Character of Melanie in Alfred Hitchcock's Film The Birds

Mitch, a man completely under the control of his mother. But, we really do not necessarily believe that Melanie wants this man. Sh...

Doomed Romance Between Tony Manero and Stephanie Mangano in the Film Saturday Night Fever

2001 Disco, a place where he and his friends are converted from lower-class boys into "The Faces," i.e., masculine dancers who can...

Films Based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

novel. However, the film adaptation was to have the monster say nothing at all, something which led Lugosi to declining the part. ...

Godfather Films of Francis Ford Coppola

Godfather realizes that his son, Michael, has yet to arrive. He refuses to take the picture until Michael arrives. In thi...

Chameleon Street Film and Black Aesthetic Theory

art and cinema are those which rely on their meaning to particular expressions and traditions of black culture and experiences (Ly...

The Birdcage Film and Interpersonal Communication

Keeley (Gene Hackman). Armand owns a drag club by the name of The Birdcage, where Albert is a star performer. The pair...