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1939 Film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington by Director Frank Capra

MGM and Warner Brothers, it had to rely on a limited group of performers. One of the most appealing was a tall, gangly young acto...

Analysis of Literary and Film Versions of The Color Purple

a young girl who has only her inherent strength and her faith in God to help her survive. She is not especially intelligent, nor i...

Flaming Creatures, a Film by Jack Smith

clowning" (Hoberman, 1997, p. 42). In his critical history on underground film, Parker Tyler refers to Smiths acting as "sloughing...

German Films Verzweiflung and Angst Essen Seele Auf and Political Themes

begins to notice how Emmi takes on attitudes attributable to racial intolerance, as well. "While the theme of racial prejudice is...

Psychological Analysis of the Film Leaving Las Vegas

1996, p. 3), which she accepts as a way of demonstrating her unconditional support of him and his intention to literally drink him...

The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari Film and Expressionist Painting

some style to the films. "One group of filmmakers who were experimenting with cinematic technique were those who emerged from B...

Fathers' Positive and Negative Characteristics in Films

the boy soon comes to look upon Butch as a father figure, and the sole source of excitement in his heretofore colorless world. In...

1954 Blacklisted Film Salt of the Earth

In fact, information included in the DVD release of the film explains that Biberman was arrested while filming the movie and had t...

Clint Eastwood's Film Play Misty for Me and Obsession

In five pages this report considers the depiction of obsession in 1971's Play Misty for Me, a film which is directed by and stars ...

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...

Baby Boy Film by John Singleton

vulnerable in all their humanity - authentically reveal their most personal hopes and aspirations. Ten years after Boyz N T...

Comparison of 'Mariachi' and Western Film Genres

In five pages the 'mariachi' and Western film genres are contrasted and compared. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

Analyzing Text and Film Interpretations of All the Pretty Horses

and the ancient road was shaped before him in the rose and canted light like a dream of the past where the painted ponies and the ...

Commitment and Betrayal in the Film Elizabeth

In five pages this film is considered in an analysis of its thematic portrayal of betrayal and commitment. One source is listed i...

G.I. Jane and Disclosure Sociological and Film Analysis

noted for her androgynous performances, is clearly a woman who is unafraid to exert a mans strength and predatory nature, has soug...

Themes in Some of Alfred Hitchcoc's Films

In eleven pages this paper discusses the themes of sexual neurosis, voyeurism, moralism, and transference of guilt as featured in ...

Comparing The Rainmaker Novel and Film

legal contemporaries, has grandiose dreams of landing for his firm "a client worth at least twenty million [and becoming] an insta...

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...

Film, Theater, and Rhetoric

both about rhetoric and about the nature of its tradition. Further still, the true rhetoric of any age and of any people is to be...

Film and Book 'Short Cuts'

highly stylized, live-action staging of the cartoon characters of POPEYE (1980), director Robert Altman was banished from Hollywoo...

Francis Ford Coppola's Film The Godfather and the HBO Cable Series The Sopranos

to a casino owner in The Godfather who had his eye shot out after refusing to do business with the Corleones, is the Soprano crews...

Conclusion of the Film The Graduate

In five pages a thematic analysis of the entire film is presented with the primary focus being upon the ending and the use of musi...

Jane Campion's Film The Piano and Conventions of Melodrama

In seven pages this report examines melodrama conventions within the context of this 1993 film directed by Jane Campion. Seven so...

Human Resource Management and the Film Remember the Titans

In five pages this essay examines how HR management can apply the film Remember the Titans. One source is cited in the bibliograp...

A Comparison of The Film and Stage Versions of Macbeth

This paper compares and contrasts Shakespeare's original play with Roman Polanski's 1971 film version of Macbeth. This seven page...

Novel and Film Adaptation of The Perfect Storm

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the book and movie versions of The Perfect Storm and how each portrays man and natu...

Novel and Film Versions of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

In five pages this paper presents scene comparisons between Jane Austen's novel and a film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Two...

Film The Battle of Algiers

an organization led by the people of French Algeria in opposition to the racist imperial control of the French. The FNL sought an...

Emma by Jane Austen and the Film Clueless

In five pages cultural expectations and social norms in the novel Emma by Jane Austen and the film Clueless are compared. Five so...

An Analysis of the Film, American Beauty

troubled home life. To escape, Ricky retreated into his own world of drugs and voyeurism. Simply stated, American Beauty was an ...