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Tragic Form of Aristotle and Contemporary Cinema

had erred so completely, even though he did so unknowingly, his only recourse was to take his own life. In Fight Club, then, th...

Abnormal Psychology and the Film Copycat

is a virtual prisoner in her home (Copycat). She has withdrawn from both work and her life and the only contact she has with the o...

Critical Response to the Film The Gods Must Be Crazy

anthropological data on this tribe, it is impossible to say precisely where this assessment errs, but err it must, simply because ...

Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind Cinematic Analysis

harrowing to watch, with Nash suffering several climactic breakdowns and brief moments of lucidity and temporary remission. The u...

Ethical Views of the Movie Saving Private Ryan

the face of it, to go against the utilitarian principle of the "greatest good of the greatest number", taking a more long-term vie...

Film as Religion by John Lyden

What is generally missed, according to Lyden, is that regardless of cinematic content, audiences receive all the messages of a fil...

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...

Analysis of Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs Screenplay

After the robbery goes bad, the gang regroups in an abandoned warehouse. Here they learn that the reason their job went bad was du...

Film Gone With the Wind and Black Representation

darkies" (Leab 99). Focusing on the Atlanta plantation of Gerald and Ellen OHara, Gone With the Wind represented life for souther...

Comparing Black Nationalism and Identity in Benedict Anderson's 'Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism' and the Film 'Gone With the Wind'

contemplate how individual and cultural identities are constructed in the first place. In the opinion of Benedict Anderson, autho...

Evil in Alfred Hitchcock's Films Rope and North by Northwest

the most louche, laidback villains in screen history" (Brooke, 2005, PG) emphasises Thornhills naivety as far as espionage and mur...

Popular Culture, Gender Constructs, and 'New Femininities'

and behaviours, and seen as being in direct opposition to "femininity", which is equally constrained in its parameters, and define...

Coen Brothers' Film O Brother Where Art Thou? and Marxist Themes

McGill spins a yarn about buried ill-gotten gains ($1.2 million) that he promises to share (Berardinelli). In their journey, the...

A Rogerian Perspective Documentary

The assignment asks how the student relates to Annas problem. This writer/tutor imagines that it is quite easy for many women to r...

Film Review of Diary of a Mad Black Woman

whom he has already fathered two children. Charles literally drags Helen to the front door and throws her out of the house (IMDb,...

Analyzing the Bowling for Columbine Film

is an unfortunate event, but the event takes place not because the boy did not have a good mother, but because his mother was poor...

Religion in America

in the United States as follows: "On a map, these show up as Roman Catholics in the Northeast and Southwest, Baptists in the South...

Hitchcock/Strangers On A Train

an accidental meeting, as they have lunch in Guys private compartment, Bruno makes comments that reveal that he has detailed knowl...

Characterization in The Blue Max: The Novel and Film Compared

respect to the character of this man, but the film is limited to visual aspects only. This tends to be true for most any book turn...

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something like a locomotive. The difference is one small degree and all things become possible. That indicates that the student ju...

Does Obedience Encourage Stability or Prompt Corruption?

act, is subject to debate. Any politician who has an emotional outburst, or simply shows enthusiasm, seems to violate normative be...

"The Hunchback of Notre Dame" 1923

murder and he saves her-for another man (Ashlin). There are many other subplots in the film but the real story is of the love Quas...

The Depression as Backdrop

for anything-they cant save, they cant take any vacations, they can barely manage to pay their bills. They cannot afford to go to ...

"Shortbus"

to come to terms with life when it seems to have spun out of control. Eric Snider says its a film about "people who fear loneline...

Analyzing Oliver Stone's Controversial 1991 Film JFK

Cuban Missile Crisis the following year. The film implies that JFK made a deal with Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev, in which h...

Animation Advancements in Geri's Game Short Film by Pixar

won in 1998. While "Geris Game" was clearly an innovative technical film, it did not win this award based on this aspect alone. Wh...

Summary and Analysis of the Film Daddy Day Care

care center. The woman who runs this other day care center tries to foil all efforts of Charlie and his buddies. But, as would be ...

China of the 20th Century and the Connection Between Property and the Individual

up going over a cliff in his rickshaw. At the bottom of the cliff, however, he finds three camels, apparently having ended up th...

Aristotelian Ethics and Groundhog Day

with pleasure, which is why they "love the life of enjoyment" (Aristotle). Considering this stance, the next development in the m...

MGM and Universal's Cinematic Styles

their advertising campaigns asserted) more stars than there are in the heavens" (The Thin Man, 1995). Mordden (1988) asks, "What, ...