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Cronenberg: "A History of Violence"

in films today. The protagonist at the heart of Allens films is conflicted, neurotic, and a bumbler who usually manages, somehow, ...

Teaching History Through Cinema Evaluation

This paper consists of five pages and evaluates cinema as a history teaching tool in a consideration of Brubaker, Dirty Harry, and...

The Wedding Banquet Film by Ang Lee and What it Reveals About Chinese Identity

In nine pages insights about Chinese identity that are revealed in the 1993 film are discussed and how this identity serves both t...

Historical Changes Made to the Film Braveheart

Gibson. From a simple understanding of history and the constant struggle between Scotland and England, as Scotland fought to rem...

D.W. Griffith's Film Birth of a Nation and its Political Impact

artistic advancements, including a color sequence at the end" (Review of The Birth of a Nation, 2002). Furthermore, this film gre...

History, Movies, First Knight and Jabberwocky

In five pages this essay examines how Middle Ages history and life are portrayed in the films Jabberwocky and First Knight. Two s...

The Last Emperor Film by Bernardo Bertolucci

related to this period, and some of the socio-political reasons for wanting Pu Yi to take the throne within the constructs of the ...

Cinema, Discrimination, and Prejudice

sociologist, Erving Goffman and Elaine Pagels, a historian of religion. The concept of otherness as a proponent of discriminator...

The Last Samurai Film Historical Analysis

Japan should become more westernized so that it could prosper economically and protect its territorial independence. Suddenly, a ...

Review of the Productions of Cabaret

however, other provides insight into the minds of the typical German citizen and the manner in which they interacted with others o...

Historically Analyzing Racism Regarding Jews and Blacks in America

end, he assimilates, as they want him to as he is continually beaten and harassed. Though the author tries to make it seem as if t...

The Battleship Potemkin and Birth of a Nation

Two sets of lovers from these families evolve over the course of the film: Ben Cameron and Elsie Stoneman and Phil Stoneman and Ma...

Ben Jonson's Play Epicoene, the Silent Woman

"The stylish young Ned Clerimont, apparently drunk, stumbles in, sips a cup of who-knows-what, sips another cup, and then proceeds...

Analysis of a Biography: Silent Victim Running Free by Lisa Brassard Mayer

setting so that it, too, reveals the contours of life instead of appearing as flat as the printed page. Lisa Brassard Mayer was n...

Silent Crisis in A Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

In four pages a thematic analysis of The Glass Menagerie is presented. There are no other sources listed....

Strangers in Good Company/Women and Old Age

in their lives when they are accustoming themselves to their impeding morality and the problems that come with old age. Catherine ...

Hitchcock/Psycho & Shadow of a Doubt

the nature of good and evil. In "Shadow," there are the two "Charlies," Uncle Charlie and his niece, Charlotte, who is known as "C...

Independence Day/Film Review

in low Earth orbit would cause tidal waves, which is never mentioned, and one of the criticisms leveled at the film. There are oth...

When A Man Loves A Woman

love for their children. However, it quickly becomes evident that there is trouble in this paradise, as Alice has a problem, as sh...

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

her communist sympathies" (Lean 46). On the other hand, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas pronounced Silent Spring to be ...

Edward T. Hall's The Silent Language

In five pages this text is reviewed in which nonverbal elements of language are discussed with the emphasis upon the role culture ...

Jonathan Rauch's Demosclerosis The Silent Killer of Americna Government

In six pages Rauch's term 'demosclerosis' is defined and applied to the U.S. government system in the assertion that in Washington...

Analysis of The Silent Language by Edward T. Hall

In eight pages an analysis of this book and the social theory it addresses are presented. Three sources are cited in the bibliogr...

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson and its Ecological Relevance

In 6 pages this paper examines the points the author raises which such topics as BSE, genetic engineering, and global warming cons...

Eyes in Film

Schwartz towards the woman he is longing for; the disappointed gaze of his wife Lotte (Cameron Diaz). When a person is presumably ...

Judith Ortiz Cofer’s Silent Dancing

words ONLY is a little over 9 pgs!!! 11 14 3037 (5-10-10) 3150 12 15 3375 13 16 3600 14 18 15 19 16 20 4500...

'Silent Killer' High Cholesterol

in earnest to determine what it is, what it does, and its health consequences. What exactly is cholesterol? It is fatty material...

Judith Ortiz Cofer's Silent Dancing

two worlds, the tropical island and the cold city, and which would later surface in my dreams and in my poetry" (Cofer 1990, 15). ...

The Illusionist as Myth

The God of the Waning Year is associated with the sacrificial victim, whose death was believed necessary in order for the earth to...

Passion of the Christ v. The Bible

"the Son of Your handmaid" (Longhenry, 2004). Additionally, John and Peter address Mary as "mother" numerous times during the film...