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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...

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...

Cinematic Neorealism

neorealistic filmmakers, such as Rossellini, Vittorio DeSica and Cesare Zavattini, was to make a "moral statement," which forces ...

1972 Film The Exorcist and Feminine Monstrousness Concept

a term coined by feminist film critic and professor Barbara Creed. And the young girls conversion from angel to devil is more than...

The Fight Scene from Romeo and Juliet

Montague explode into a deadly brawl, comes directly after the secret wedding between Romeo and Juliet, a time during which Romeo,...

Cognitive Cinema Theory and Narration

night light. It sits in bedrooms and living rooms but has become something one does in place of nothing. Rather than sitting and r...

Female Protagonists' Bondage of James Bond

is Elektra King, unlike many of Bonds female enemies she is a rich young woman who has not become part of communist assassination ...

A Trio of Actresses Jessica Lange, Meryl Streep, and Sally Field

way for actresses who were interested not simply in portraying stylish roles but were also interested in exploring characters of s...

Baby Boy vs. White Man's Burden

Belafonte, and the two eventually become sympathetic toward each other. The movie portrays a culture which is seemingly opposite t...

Film Scream and Editing

other horror films. For example, in many subtle ways there is the age old suspense that we often saw in Hitchcock films as subtle ...

Pat Conroy's Novel The Prince of Tides Compared with 1991 Film Adaptation

the event of Savannahs hospitalization after a second suicide attempt and Toms journey to New York to assist her psychologist, Dr....

Feminist Versus Material View Points in Film and Television

her husband, and knew herself to be near death. Her digestive system had been destroyed by the disease, and, in intense pain and u...

Carl Franklin's Filmmaking and Screenwriting Works

names this "one of the great recent crime movies" (Ebert, 2002). Devil in a Blue Dress references a theme, subject and time perio...

Issues of Emotional Identification in Film

Hitchcocks movie, Vertigo. This whole movie is centered around one man and his inability to let go of an old love. The story, in b...

Play and Film Versions of Glengarry Glen Ross Compared

The play is divided into two acts, containing three scenes in the first and two scenes in the second. It centers...

Robert Rodriguez's Films and Cultural Identities

direction and production of a larger film. "The plan, Rodriguez said, was to make a series of three action films for this market a...

Critique and Analysis of Wag the Dog Film by Barry Levinson

the message it conveys through incisive parody scary? Definitely. Barry Levinson is a veteran filmmaker who deftly employs a cyn...

Comparing Dan T. Carter's The Politics of Rage With the Film The Best Years of Our Lives

meet while returning to their hometown of Boone City, are symbolic of the American social class structure (Beidler 589). Upper-cl...

The Role of Conflict in Literature and Film

The basic structure of most fiction stories follows a simple Act one, Act Two, Act Three kind of format. In the first part of the ...

Modern Indian Cinema

Weisman, in an article featured in The New York Times, described Indian cinema as "an all purpose dream engine delivering gaudy th...

An Analysis of the Films, Bowling for Columbine and, The Decay of Fiction

physical state that supports the distinguishing characteristics of film noir. Though the term "film noir" is French, the st...

Robbery in Films

in keeping all of the people hostage while the funds are delivered. As mentioned, while it is not exactly a bank robbery film, it ...

Discussing Modern Entertainment and its Utopian Possibilities

that are easily overcome (Carey, 2000). This is a reflection of their inventive mind where it is the message and not the mechanics...

All About Eve and the Introduction by Marilyn Monroe.

she chooses to apply it in the wrong manner. It is interesting that the film never shows Baxter acting in front of the camera, but...

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...

Tarantino and the director as auteur

This research paper argues that director Quentin Tarantino has earned the perspective of being considered the auteur of his films,...

Cinema Realism and Audience Reaction

In a paper consisting of five pages viewing audience passivity, activity, and impact of film realism is explored in terms of the p...

Defining a Classic - Casablanca

to watch everyone else who comes for the same reason. Intrigue is served with each glass. The plot clinks with the cubes about w...