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Two Prominent Cult Movies

as seen in the more recent Rocky Horror Picture Show, the cult classic appeals to audiences because it portrays a different perspe...

Comparative Analysis of Film Directors Alfred Hitchcock and Steven Spielberg

In six pages this paper examines the approaches to the horror genre by directors Alfred Hitchcock and Steven Spielberg in this con...

Sigmund Freud's 'The Uncanny' and Fiction's Messages

In eight pages this paper examines the messages that exist within horror or ghost stories. Eleven sources are cited in the biblio...

'The Company of Wolves' by Angela Carter

The feminist rewriting of fairytales as reflected in this short story by Angela Carter is considered in a paper consisting of five...

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 ...

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...

Silent v. Sound/Art in Film

"at heart, I was always a silent movie man" (Twatio 14). One reason why early silent films appear odd or stilted to modern audie...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

The Horrors and Hope of Hurricane Katrina

to those impacts than are others. The normative, i.e. not so unique, stressors of Hurricane Katrina are characterized best ...

Stephen King's 1981 Essay 'Why We Crave Horror Movies'

we are all insane, than sanity becomes a matter of degree." The difference is, according to King, is that those who are completely...

The Horrors of WWI

often referred to as a trench war. And, as one author notes, "There had never been anything like it before and there wont ever be ...

Horrors of War in 2 Poems by Wilfred Owen

obviously take the most tragic of subjects and place the words in a way that would make us, the reader, want more, and yet cause u...

The Lottery, A Classic Horror Story

anthologized works in literature and for good reason. The story is simple, follows a linear structure, and within that basic frame...

Horror Genre Icon Stephen King

In six pages this report examines the life and writings of Stephen King with his works The Stand, Insomnia, and The Green Mile amo...

The Horror Genre and "The Exorcist"

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at "The Exorcist". Elements of terror, suspense, and revulsion are analyzed. Paper use...

Gone with the Wind's Cinematography

that "Tara is the whole story" as the plot revolves around Tara" (Schreibman, 2004, p. 41). The cinematography particularly unde...

Sense and Sensibility/Novel v. Film

mother, Elinor and Marianne (who are both young women) and younger sister Margaret, by beginning with the death of Henry Dashwood,...

Thin Blue Line

sixteen at the time, had stolen a neighbors car and his fathers guns. Harris gave Adams a lift when his vehicle ran out of gas. H...

My Left Foot/Social Responsibility

suggests, the filmmakers show him as very human and the script does a good job of dramatizing his imperfections as well as his rem...

Hitchcock/Rear Window & North by Northwest

film. More credits fall and slide into place, which foreshadows how Thornhill will later slide, nearly falling off the face of Lin...

His Girl Friday and Screwball Comedy

romantic leads ("Screwball comedy"). Another feature of the screwball was its "reverse class snobbery," where to be poor was, so...

Robert Duvall’s Apostle

who is also a preacher, and conspires to have him evicted from his congregation (Alleva, 1998). Enraged, Sonny takes his sons base...

Rowlandson & Dances With Wolves

read, she immediately attributes these events to the action of Providence. When her captors, which is a band of American Natives m...

12 Angry Men/TV's Law and Order

entitled "House of Cards," the detectives and attorneys who are featured in the show similarly face what seems like a case of cert...

Metropolis Film's Social Importance

notions of the division between the "haves" and "have nots" and in fact supported his ideas with the theory of alienation. Further...

Blue Steel Film's Reality and Fiction

Today, there are more female police officers on the force and so, Hollywood had made an attempt to portray the female officer as l...