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A Comparison of the Book and Film Versions of Alcott's Little Women

the only ones allowed to have money, only serve to reinforce the institutions which helped them rise to power in the first place. ...

The Literary and Film Versions of Alcott's Little Women

are pleasant individuals who go through many different dilemmas, relatively simple dilemmas in the beginning. They become friends ...

Postmodernism and Cinema Neo Noir

claustrophobic, hopeless and without clear moral or personal identity," suggesting that the world is a place with no clear values ...

Wag the Dog: The Barry Levinson Film From a Cultural Perspective

an eerily accurate cultural commentary on gender, class, and race in the United States. In the film, all of the major power broke...

Analyzing John Nash's Mental Illness in A Beautiful Mind Film by Director Ron Howard

original consensus among mental health professionals the schizophrenia developed during late teens or early adulthood. However, a...

King Arthur and Henry II, Comparing Two Films

such as Eleanor of Aquitaine ("History," 2012). Arthurs pride interferes with his sense of compassion when he sees Lancelot and ...

Foreign Films

is made to truly feel for them, fear for them, and hope they survive. However, anyone who has watched both of the films will clear...

Boccaccio's book/Pasolini's film/Decameron

subsequently preaches sermons about him, leading people to believe that he led the life of a saint. Ciapelletto is such a hypocri...

'Sicko' Michael Moore's Film Commentary on Healthcare

in part: "Edgar Kaiser is running his Permanente deal for profit. And the reason he can do it, I had Edgar Kaiser come in and tal...

Two Recent Films, Human Behavior

This essay uses the relationships portrayed in Dallas Buyers Club (directed by Jean-Marc Vallee) and Nebraska (directed by Alexand...

Comparing Three War Films

This essay presents the thesis that All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), Apocalypse Now (1979), and Saving Private Ryan (1999) s...

The Raven, 1963 Film and Poe's Poem

of its first publication in 1845, Edgar Allan Poes poem "The Raven" has been an element in American cultural influencing the publi...

A Film About the Elderly

This essay is based on a movie about old age and family dynamics. The essay uses scenes from the move to discuss: friendship, sand...

Sense and Sensibility Novel and Film

who are unfamiliar with the novels premise, it concerns the Dashwood family (a mother and her three young daughters) who have been...

The Wizard of Oz Film as Categorized by Rick Altman

adventure" would seem to fit those films in which were not sure of the way the two leads feel about each other, but which hold out...

Director Spike Lee's Film 'Do the Right Thing'

the place and burns it to the ground (Albright, 2003). Ambiguity Is the Point One of the reasons why the film remains controvers...

Analysis of Tom Tykwer's 1999 Film Run Lola Run

as an imitation of reality, "it holds a mirror up to nature" (Durant, 1961, p. 59). Aristotle notes that human beings find pleasur...

Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy and the Film Radio

progressive needs of safety and security, love and belonging and the need for esteem (Boeree, 2004). If, at any time, individuals ...

Conflict in the Sherlock Holmes Film Dressed to Kill

counterfeiting, with the messages in the music box containing the whereabouts of the missing plates. Though the inmate was in pris...

Greta Garbo's Character in the Film Ninotchka

capitalists, wining and dining them all through Paris" (Nugent). In this we see the psychology of the seriousness of the Russia...

Futuristic Visions in the Films Metropolis and Blade Runner

against his father. Meanwhile, Fredersen orders the scientist Rotwang to create a robot that looks like Maria; he plans to use th...

Depiction of Tom Wingfield in the 1987 Film Adaptation of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

Tom, then, is the central male figure in the family. Their father has abandoned them some many years before, and so it has fallen...

Ethical Treatment of Patients and the 1975 Film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

some of the inmates to play poker with pornographic cards. He smuggles hookers in for several of the ward mates, and he threatens ...

Themes of the Film Cocoon

Every day, people seek medical treatments, surgery and extensive and costly procedures to reduce the physical impacts of aging and...

Film Sliding Doors, Determinism, and Free Will

is, there is both free will and determinism. The idea that free will and determinism are one in the same is rare, but it seems ...

Citizen Kane's Film Techniques

daytime and snow is falling. "Charlie" (Charles Foster Kane) is playing outside, and the camera stops on him. He rolls a snowbal...

Hollywood and Non Hollywood Films

was popular during the 1970s (Dudley, 1984). This states that the nature of the cinema is to be ideological in its representations...

Blockbuster Movies And Independent Films: Compare/Contrast

whereby blockbuster movies capitalize upon it. Clearly, there is a tangible essence to the manner by which Melvin Goes to D...

Life and Early Film Career of Howard Hawks

of that would come out in his work. The truth, however, is that his films never held any true kind of message of social or religio...

Comparing Soviet Film Directors Sergei Eisenstein and V.I. Pudovkin

(Manvell 37). While Pudovkin would occasionally use non-professional actors in the name of realism, he preferred relying on profe...