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'The Importance of Being Earnest' vs. 'While You Were Sleeping'

even a bit further back to Madge Evans and Florence Rice. Most of their films seemed to derive from Colliers Magazine stories that...

Life and Achievements of Photographer Bruce Weber

opened doors for the gay community in terms of securing truly complimentary photography of men. Webers experience in homoerotic ...

Contrasting Modern Psychiatry with Treatments Featured in 'Girl Interrupted' and 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'

Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest", produced during the 1970s. "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest" presents a bleak yet amusing picture of ...

Silence of the Lambs Novel and Cinematic Versions

remained amazingly faithful to the book, in his commitment to retaining its essence, there were some changes that needed to be mad...

American Culture and Actress Bette Davis

or rouged (Brabazon, 2000, p. 98). At an awards ceremony, Davis was asked if she regretted not being the sort of movie star that w...

Posting Responses to the Positions of Michael Moore and Barry Glassner

killer bees were responsible for an attack in Tipton, Oklahoma. They are currently in six Southwestern states and they are dangero...

Los Angeles and Its Cinematic Images

to do is wait and persist and she will eventually love him. While Tod is also not successful in his goal, he realizes that the cul...

Analyzing Bowling for Columbine from a Sociological Perspective

Marx). In other words, Marx saw societies as being composed of classes in constant conflict. Differing markedly from his predecess...

Boyz N the Hood and Communication Theories

Ultimately, however, Tre grows out of the necessity of needing the peer approval, begins to loathe the sound of gunfire and the...

Urban Life and Violence in America

people remember many strong disagreements with their first families. Battles during toddlerhood and adolescence are common and wil...

Bend It Like Beckham and Intercultural Communications

her bedroom wall and uses this to confide in. However, even at this very early level there are indication of the culture clash and...

Contemporary Cinema and the Use of Cyborgs

twentieth century, people are all chimeras, or mythic hybrids of machine and organism, or cyborgs (Haraway, 1991). In Western sci...

The Multi-Phobic 'What About Bob?'

again and make everyone else in my life think you are wonderful and Im a shmuck. But Im not a shmuck Bob, and Im not going to let...

A Critical Interpretation of Fight Club

is bored out of his skull with his job and his life. His doctor advises him to go to support club meetings for people who are rea...

Popular Culture, Gender Constructs, and 'New Femininities'

and behaviours, and seen as being in direct opposition to "femininity", which is equally constrained in its parameters, and define...

Coen Brothers' Film O Brother Where Art Thou? and Marxist Themes

McGill spins a yarn about buried ill-gotten gains ($1.2 million) that he promises to share (Berardinelli). In their journey, the...

A Rogerian Perspective Documentary

The assignment asks how the student relates to Annas problem. This writer/tutor imagines that it is quite easy for many women to r...

Analysis of Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs Screenplay

After the robbery goes bad, the gang regroups in an abandoned warehouse. Here they learn that the reason their job went bad was du...

Comparing Black Nationalism and Identity in Benedict Anderson's 'Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism' and the Film 'Gone With the Wind'

contemplate how individual and cultural identities are constructed in the first place. In the opinion of Benedict Anderson, autho...

Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind Cinematic Analysis

harrowing to watch, with Nash suffering several climactic breakdowns and brief moments of lucidity and temporary remission. The u...

Ethical Views of the Movie Saving Private Ryan

the face of it, to go against the utilitarian principle of the "greatest good of the greatest number", taking a more long-term vie...

Tragic Form of Aristotle and Contemporary Cinema

had erred so completely, even though he did so unknowingly, his only recourse was to take his own life. In Fight Club, then, th...

Techniques of Filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock

The cuts are approximately equal in length. Finally Thornhill asks if hes supposed to meet someone and the stranger replies...

Using Mass Media to Argue for Gun Control

incidence of fire breaking out during operations. In one of ABCs 20/20 episodes in 1998, the audience was cautioned that this ha...

Cinema and the Placement of Products

as did the movie companies, which realiszed that the sweet manufacturer hadnt paid a cent" (Goodwin, 2002). With these realities p...

Black English in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara

you wants to. Dats just de same as me cause mah tongue is in mah friends mouf" (Hurston, 1999, p. 6). Reaching out through the i...

Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma

but always something that is made in a four-party meaning-situation. An author... circulates a text... to an audience... whose pe...

Looking But Not Necessarily Seeing

restore eyesight that has been gone since early childhood, he is met with a conundrum of confusion and skewed interpretation that ...

Cinema and Gun Symbolism

take a life in just moments. A student writing on this subject may want to consider the gun as an appendage of the bodies of Travi...

Media Perception Differences

Okay, a few people noticed that there was symbolism that could be indicative of homosexuality and so forth. Does that make a chara...