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1940s' Support of the French in Vietnam by the United States

An overview of this topic is presented in three pages. One source is cited in the bibliography....

Analyzing the 1995 Film Seven by David Fincher

taking his time. He halts, turns to one wall where the current wallpaper is torn away to reveal flowery wallpaper underneath. So...

Book and Film Versions of Empire of the Sun

and he never becomes completely embittered. In this book (made later into a film by Steven Spielberg), Ballard relates the life o...

Alfred Hitchcock, the Cinematic Suspense Master

In six pages this paper examines the cinematic mastery of film director Alfred Hitchcock and some of the techniques he employed th...

Martin Scorsese's Cinematography Intimacy in the Biographical Film Raging Bull

are moments when the action appears in slow motion, but it does not last long, and over all contributes to the dream quality of th...

Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Postmodernism

In three pages this report analyzes the postmodern characteristics of these 1992 and 1994 films by director Quentin Tarantino. Th...

Filmmaker Tim Burton

In seven pages this eccentric and innovative film director is examined in terms of craft, cinematic output, and human insights. Si...

A Review of Europa, Europa

A 5 page essay exploring the work of the film by Polish writer-director Agnieszka Holland. An eye-opening look at the lengths som...

Cinematic Analysis of Dead Man Walking and Schindler's List

This paper examines how character action is used by the director of Dead Man Walking, and commercially motivated criticisms of Sch...

1995 Film By John Singleton, Higher Learning

In five pages this report examines the 3rd film effort by director John Singleton in a discussion of content, prejudice, and issue...

Novel and Film Versions of The English Patient

physical gestures clearly demonstrate her anguish as she drops her head to the table, leaving the audience only to imagine the pai...

Characteristics of an Independent Filmmaker

This 5 page paper discusses the characteristics that distinguish independent filmmakers from those working in the mainstream enter...

Comparison of English and French Governments

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares governments of England and France with particular attention paid to the highest of...

French Artist James Tissot

Although he served in the Franco-Prussian war, he was also accused of being part of the short-lived Paris Commune. Consequently t...

Romanticism's Dark Side and French Poet Charles Baudelaire

In five pages this research paper explores how Baudelaire unlike his Romantic contemporaries Shelley, Wordsworth, and Keats probed...

James Cameron's Film Titanic and the Existentialist Philosophy of Jean Paul Sartre

This paper applies existentialism to an analysis of the character Jack in the Titanic film by director James Cameron in 5 pages. ...

Filmmakers Stanley Donen and Vincent Minnelli

In ten pages the directing styles of film musical directors Stanley Donen and Vincent Minnelli are contrasted and compared in term...

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 ...

Realism in Martin Scorsese's Film Raging Bull

In five pages cinematic realism is compared and contrasted with film noir and surrealism with the focus being how in the film Ragi...

Causes of World War I and French Participation in the Conflict

insecurity "swept away all regimes from Vladivostok to the Rhine" (Hobsbawm, 1995, p. 67), which originated in Central Europe. Be...

Film Analysis of Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons

In five pages this paper presents an analysis of the 1942 motion picture The Magnificent Ambersons in an examination of director O...

Analyzing the Film Deliverance

In six pages critical cinematic theory is applied to director John Boorman's film released in 1972 and discusses how theme is depi...

Luchino Visconti's Film The Damned, Its Political Content and Sociopolitical Subtexts

In five pages this paper analyzes the 1969 film The Damned by director Luchino Visconti in terms of the political contents as well...

Quentin Tarantino's Controversial Film Pulp Fiction

In 5 pages this paper examines the cinematic style of director Quentin Tarantino in this thematic analysis of the controversial fi...

Literature and Human Relationships

sense one gets at the end of the work, that under the humorous aspects, there is something very sad occurring. It does appear that...

Cinematography in the Opening Scene of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window

In five pages this paper discusses Rear Window by director Alfred Hitchcock in an analysis of its opening scene cinematography. F...

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...

Narrative Style and Theme of Citizen Kane

In six pages a cinematic analysis of director Orson Welles' masterpiece Citizen Kane focuses upon the auteur's themes of capitalis...

French School Sport and the Roles of Coaches and Government

In six pages school sport in France is examined in a consideration of the roles played by both coaches and the government. Seven ...

1995 Film Critique of The American President

and well-thought out film. This film makes us ask the question, however, about whether our United States Presidents truly have pe...