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Film Genres Thriller and Comedy

An analysis of these cinematic genres and how they are used are considered in an examination of Andrew Davies' A Perfect Murder an...

Comparison of The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Spike Lee's 1992 Malcolm X Film

into the life of his protagonist. That beginning, the slow burning of an American flag until nothing is left but a red, white, an...

'News on the March' Scene Opening the Film Citizen Kane

last word of Citizen Kane as he dies in his bed. That word is the infamous "Rosebud." First time viewers, viewers who know nothing...

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...

German Occupation of France and French Films

?vident que le Fran?ais avait appris quelque chose de WWI quand beaucoup dindustries ont ?t? arr?t?es et ont nui ? la nation. En t...

Film Review of Citizen Kane

home. On reaching the age of twenty-one, Kane assumes control of his fortune, but only one of his holdings has any interest for h...

Comparative Analysis of Wladislaw Szpilman's Book The Pianist and Roman Polanski's Film Adaptation

true to the book? When Szpilman took pen to paper, he seemingly did so to relay the events of his life. Realizing that he had sur...

Gregg Toland's Contributions the Film Citizen Kane

a woman from his past perhaps. But, those familiar with the film know better. This opening scene is also one, instilled by the w...

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...

Comparative Analysis of The Wizard of Oz Text and 1939 Film

not intend for the work to provide the surreal aura that Emerald City became in the filmed classic. The film was a musical and thi...

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...

My Left Foot Film Analysis

a childs graduation or see a grandchild give birth. A poor person giving away his or her last dollar is a more moving scenario tha...

Rear Window, Vertigo, and Psycho Films by Alfred Hitchcock

of eyes, camera angles (such as the shower scene), and a real solid play on the psychological. Norman Bates is, perhaps first a...

3 Film Adaptations of Frankenstein

In five pages a review of 3 interpretations of Mary Shelley's Gothic novel are compared with the nineteenth century text with plot...

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 ...

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...