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Film Comparison of Sergei Eisenstein's The Battleship Potemkin and Vittorio de Sica's Bicycle Thieves

realistically with the rise of Fascism in Italy, as well as with the war itself and with the social problems that it left behind"....

Montclair, New Jersey History

This research paper consists of seven pages and presents a historical oveview of Montclair that starts with the precolonial time p...

Auteur Film Director John Ford

Valance (1962). The films beginning, breathtaking shots of Monument Valley (which the director would make repeated use of in subs...

Sneakers and Their History

tended to be rigid and lacked any color, and could be described as utilitarian but hardly fashionable (Flusser, 2003). It wasnt u...

Writing Fashion Histories

the future. It is true that many science fiction writers and producers of sci-fi films dress their characters in classic, monotone...

Categorizing Films Through Genre

in that the main character, Abdel, has been abused by the police. He has been beaten so badly that he has had to be hospitalized. ...

Harry Potter Film Marketing

The books all remained accurate translations, but the marketing in terms of covers were highly customised to each market. The imag...

Psychoanalytic View of Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 Film Psycho

film manipulates the audience at every turn, so that the audience is compelled to examine their own sympathies and perspective. ...

Spectator in Alfred Hitchcock's Film Rear Window

action shot at a car race. To rely on an old clich?, he is "bored to tears." He spends most of his convalescent time sitting at th...

Postmodern Artifact Film A Chinese Ghost Story

and contexts will merge in the production of the film. In examining the film as a post-modern artefact it may be argued that as...

Adventure in John Eldredge's 'Wild at Heart'

lives, stating, "The idea is almost laughable, if it werent so tragic, laments Eldredge. Men have been taken out right and left. S...

Wealth and its History

"common" birth (Defoe). She enlists the help of many aids along the way, and finds money to be an especially interesting and infl...

The Secret History by Donna Tartt and Henry's Suicide

relationships. We often think we know someone only to realize when tragedy strikes that we dont really know them at all. Such wa...

Microphones and Their History

a magnetic cap, so in theory this is essentially a speaker in reverse (Microphone History, 2003). Other than the dynamic...

History of the Wright Amendment

any of these deals simply because they didnt fly at the time the deals were made (Irving, 2003). After fighting many legal battle...

Film Representations of the Holocaust

of Train of Life (or its original French title - "Train de vie") is that the "village idiot" of a tiny Jewish community learns th...

A History of Law Enforcement in the US

complaints. A sort of checks and balances was also put in place with the development of the tything unit(Monkkonen 2003). The t...

Australian Filmmaker Dennis O'Rourke's 1991 Film The Good Woman of Bangkok

has nothing to do with love. But the idea of ORourkes full intent of his own trip to Thailand and that it had the potential to be ...

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, Paradise Lost, and Cinema Verite

Paradise Lost In a review of "Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills" Roger Ebert (1996) indicates that it "is uni...

Evolutionary History of the Tuatara

(Dino Die-Off, 2007, p. 11). These creatures of the night tend to live in seabird burrows like those of Fairy Prions because they...

“The Thirteenth Floor”

Angeles finds out hes not real, he sets the rest of the film in motion. The questions are: what makes contemporary LA different f...

"Native Son" And American History X" - Dual Racial Intolerance

indication of just how racial intolerance has guided history. Wrights (1987) "popular and perennial African-American characters" ...

True History of the Kelly Gang

soul it would seem and clearly accustomed to oppression and anger. He represented the people, the Irish people and others who had ...

Relevance of “The Doctor” to Assessment and Appraisal

a doctor has to treat the whole person. Many studies have shown that patients resent it when doctors think of them simply as their...

Jesus Of History, Jesus Of Faith

means of research" (Merrigan and Haers, 2000, p. 61). In other words, Meier was saying it is impossible for us, today, to obtain t...

A Sociological Interpretation of Million Dollar Baby

death, Maggies family comes to see her just to secure their inheritance, something that brings money into the picture. Clearly, th...

Realism and Expressionism in Film

"realists," saying that what they "had in common was a desire to put cinema at the service of what ... [he] called a fundamental f...

“Gattaca”: Analysis

and society would become even more fragmented than it already is. The question also arises: do we have the right to design our chi...

Northrup on History

This 4 page paper discusses David Northrup’s idea that history should be considered as comprising two periods, before and after ...

Tokyo Story as a Reflection of Conditions in Post World War II Japan

such a level of significance which allows it to be seen as a representation of the issues which are applicable to the society, and...