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Martin Scorsese's Film GoodFellas and the Subculture It Portrays

In five pages this paper examines normal and deviant types of behavior, socialization, symbols, values, folkways, and mores within...

Schlosser: "Fast Food Nation"

Perris, California or Paris, France. Buying fast food has become so routine that we no longer think about it. If we really did sto...

Unforgettable 1996 Film Sling Blade

asylum where he had been sent as a youngster for killing his abusive mother and her boyfriend. A young boy named Frank befriends h...

Film Critic Pauline Kael's Life and Influence

In seven pages this paper discusses New Yorker movie critic Pauline Kael's life, how her passion for cinema translated into a care...

Easy Rider

This 5 page paper delineates the importance of political expression as it manifests in this blockbuster movie. Mainstream cultur...

Relationship Between Adolescence and Horror Films

In five pages this paper considers Aristotle's genre definition and the psychological theories of Sigmund Freud in this examinatio...

Horror Films and How They Have Evolved

Project" serves as an excellent example of a film-maker taking full advantage of the inherent fear of all modern humans regarding ...

Political Worldviews and Ideologies in the Films To Live and The Mission

In eleven pages this paper contrasts and compares the political worldviews and ideologies that are represented in Zhang Yimou's fi...

Fritz Lang's M and the Hollywood Impact of German Cinema

According to Kreimeier (1996), at its peak in 1921, the German film industry was literally cranking out some 600 films annually, m...

Women and the Film Portrait of Teresa

In seven pages this paper examines the movie Portrait of Teresa in an examination of women's struggles and the control exerted by ...

Comedy Filmmaker Charles 'Little Tramp' Chaplinker

The filmmaking career of Charles Chaplin from the 'little tramp' movies to Modern Times in 1936 is explored in five pages. Six so...

A Critique of Fantasia

clips from the video version, was astounded that Disney could ever have been associated with prejudice of any kind. "Its sort of ...

The Film The Glass Shield and Decision Making

In five pages a protagonist's difficult decisions are examined within the context of the 1994 movie with an analysis of ethical co...

Ethnic Poetry of Tato Laviera and Chitra Divakaruni

all whistle as she seductively moves her hips. The lover-hero of the film dances in, lip syncing to a song, which is "a little off...

Information Quantification

In five pages the qualification, quantification, and flow of information are considered within the context of the 1996 movie The R...

Dangerous Beauty Film and Roles Based on Gender

In five pages this 1998 movie is considered in a discussion of gender based roles and how sixteenth century Venetians managed to c...

Hollywood's 'Dream Factories' Powered by Special Effects

In five pages this paper examines special effects in films from a feminist point of view in a consideration of such movies as The ...

The Movie that Changed Lives 'To Kill a Mockingbird'

This paper is 5 pages in length and considers the 1962 movie To Kill A Mockingbird in terms of the impact it had on society. Ther...

JFK, a Critical Overview

Few movies have sparked more controversy than JFK, Oliver Stone's 1991 descent into conspiracy theory. This paper offers a critica...

Motion Picture Industry and Future of Computer Graphics

In ten pages an evaluation of whether the creation of special effects through computer generated graphics is merely a passing tren...

British Film and Art Cinema

In five pages the British movie When in London is used in a discussion of the definitions and elements of art cinema. Ten sources...

British Cinema and 'Otherness'

In eight pages this paper examines how 1980s and 1990s' British movies depicted 'otherness' with such films as Cold Fish, Blood, a...

Female Stereotypes in Post-Modern and Current Media

careerist (brunette), who slug it out on a veranda, in a lily pond, or during a mud slide .... A metaphor for the struggle between...

Music in Martin Scorsese's Film Casino

something. Traditionally, music in films have performed seven distinct functions (Bobker 101). At least six of these functions ap...

Luis Bunuel's Movies and the Uses of Violence

In ten pages this paper discusses how violence appears as social commentary and surrealism in director Luis Bunuel's movies L'Age ...

Cinematic Comparative Analysis of Rushmore and The Graduate

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the similarities and differences of these movies and how they represent the 'comin...

2000 Film Gladiator and its Accuracy

In five pages this research paper argues that the movie Gladiator was not accurate in its portrayal of history during that time pe...

Portrayals of Women in Sunset Boulevard and Breakfast at Tiffanys

A 6 page essay reviewing how women are portrayed in these classic movies. The plots are outlined and compared. Societal circums...

Ethnic Promotion, Spike Lee, and John Woo

In five pages these film directors are discussed in terms of the way they use their movies to promote their own ethnic backgrounds...

Crested Kimono Questions

In five pages this paper compares the image of Mother in Navajo and Japanese families as represented in Kinship and Gender and in ...