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Documentary Evolution

it can be seen to have been on its way out at the dawn of all the other television competition for viewers time. Perspectives shif...

Director Quentin Tarantino and Postmodernism

(Rombes). Rafferty (1997) explains that the postmodern film is built on the film noir genre, but that a feature of postmodernism ...

Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver and the Use of Narrative

hard to draw oppositions between Travis and the Villain, Sport, as both are strong males who use forceful methods and generally th...

Reality and Films

Indeed, by looking at the role of the women in the movie it is a reflection of the social conditions. There is a reflection of the...

Formalism and Realism in the Film, Citizen Kane

This paper addresses Orson Welles' film, Citizen Kane. The author focuses on formalism and realism in the film. This five page p...

An Analysis of Patriarchy in Casablanca

A 5 page discussion of the ever present force of patriarchy in this classic film. This author observes that the dramatic ending i...

Dorothy Shaw and Lorelei Lee in the Film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

In seven pages the relationship between the film's two featured female characters are explored in terms of choices and situational...

The Film Finding Forrester, Thomas Hobbes, and Aristotle

In five pages this paper consides how films reflect some type of philosophy and the example of the 2000 film staring Sean Connery ...

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 ...

Establishing a Genre Movie in 'Singin' In The Rain'

This 9 page essay considers how the theatrical presence in the film is developed stylistically through textural characteristics of...

Pleasantville's Creative Use of Color

In five pages the powerful use of color in the film's storytelling is examined. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

Film Director Gordon Parks

background is disadvantaged. Marcus is the son of a bitter, abusive man who hates whites with every fiber of his being. Marcus is,...

A Discussion of Babette's Feast

This 5 page essay illuminates the message and presentation in Babette's Feast. Based on the book by Isaak Dineson this film prese...

Character Ethics and the Film 'L.A. Confidential'

cost, even when it calls for doing things against his or the departments ethical code. His golden boy status within the police fo...

“The Castle”

They have decided to acquire it so that the airport can be expanded. Thus, the working class Kerrigan family is pitted against th...

Two Versions of Frankenstein

and had been released some months earlier (Biodrowski). The novel, which has the subtitle of "The Modern Prometheus," is "a sort o...

Characterization in Crash

Rican descent. Graham would undoubtedly not identity himself as racist, yet he fails to remember that Ria is Puerto Rican, not Mex...

“The Castle” : A Messenger

their idea of the Australian dream. The Kerrigans home, in their minds at least, is indeed their "castle". They willingly disreg...

Sherman Alexie's Smoke Signals, and 'It's a good day to be indigenous'

determine the dramatic strengths and weaknesses of one version compared to another. The movie This is a "coming of age" story and...

Comparing Novel and Film Versions of The Silence of the Lambs

seriously short-handed, and in desperation, he enlists Starlings services. In the novel, Starling is portrayed as an ambitious an...

Mental Illness and Government in the Film Dead Man Out

This paper examines this film's complexities in terms of the intertwining government and societal factors throughout in five pages...

Camera Politica and its Controversial Message

In five pages this text and its controversial message are examined with primary themes including films' role and their use as tool...

Palestinians as Victims of War in Paradise Now, Making Of, and Palestine

acknowledging responsibility for their own deaths if Israeli forces fired upon them (Twair 56). Abu-Assad later revealed that his...

Blood In, Blood Out

applied to the characters at different times, but the two that seem most effective are Merton, and Shaw and MacKay. The term "Amer...

Narrative Construction in “Rear Window”

ultimately meaningless and pointless. An audience member, however, wants to understand whats happening, and uses a film narrative ...

Cuckoo's Nest and Nursing Ethics

frees him from this indignity and travesty of life by smothering him with a pillow and then escapes from the asylum (One Flew, 199...

Comparative Analysis of the Films The American Revolution (Part I: ‘The Conflict Ignites’), Williamsburg: The Story of a Patriot, and John Adams (Part I: ‘Join or Die’)

Each Film The American Revolution (also referred to as The Revolution) was a 1994 six-hour documentary produced by A&E and shown...

Annie Hall

the film is Allens character Alvy who seems to have so many problems it becomes hilarious and insane, often presenting psychologic...

Media Messages, Gender Stereotypes & Baby Mama

to be Kates surrogate is Angie Ostrowiski, who is characterized as "white trash," a high school dropout who has a common law marri...

Les Miserables (1998)/A Film Review and Analysis

David Ansen goes on to speculate that the film may be more thrilling to viewers who are encountering the story for the first time,...