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Yousry Nasrallah's Film On Boys, Girls and the Veil

accurately termed "head scarf." In allowing the Egyptian men and women who are featured in the film to speak for themselves, the d...

Black Rain Review and Criticism

yet sympathetic short stories about ordinary people in Japanese life. Black Rain is considered a novel distinct from all other tex...

Sociologically Implications of a Comedy

their acknowledged leaders and the only character that is not played for laughs. There are also Gordon, a middle-aged, loyal custo...

America's Ailing Healthcare as Depicted in Michael Moore's Documentary 'Sicko'

have reattached since he could not afford the cost of both. According to Rick, the hospital priced the reattachment of his middle...

Marley and Me/True meaning

child who was very, very much wanted, previously in the film, scenes featuring John and Jenny have shown them thrilled over her pr...

Brazilian Film/Behind the Sun

backlands that appears to be totally worthless. The feud dictates a continuous cycle of murder. The shirt of a victim is hung out ...

The Village/Directed by M. Night Shymalan

funeral, which is for seven-year-old Daniel Nicholson. Edward Walker, played by William Hurt, the apparent leader of this colony, ...

Hitchcock's Rebecca

Danvers seems almost supernatural in her ability to simply appear, starling the current Mrs. De Winter, who is played by Joan Font...

Review of Pontecorvo's Burn! (1969)

Portugal, which makes more sense from a historical perspective, as Spains colonial possession are the most prominent, Brazil being...

Cinematic Analysis of Oliver Parker's Othello

"right hand" man despite Iagos longer term of service (Null, 2002). Iago manages to incite a jealousy rage in Othello that results...

Gender Issues and Class in Karl Reisz's Film Saturday Night, Sunday Morning

What it depicts is a picture of class prejudice and strained gender relationships. Saturday Night Sunday Morning is made ...

American Religion and the 2003 Film Bruce Almighty

how dependent upon technology the average citizen has become in everyday life. The fact that God initially contacted Bruce via hi...

Gender Identity Patient Disorder Diagnosis, Treatment, and the Film Boys Don’t Cry

by persistent discomfort with ones sex" (Meyenburg, 1999, p. 305). This gender identification with the opposite sex typically com...

Cinema and Romantic Love

is very orderly and rigid and Harry is quite the opposite. In fact, many other films demonstrate that even people who do not get a...

A Review of A Bronx Tale

A 6 page essay reviewing both the film and print versions of this popular tale. Both the negative and positive aspects of America...

A Comparison of Film and Print for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

a strong and masculine man, though perhaps not too intelligent, or so Ichabod thinks. One night at a party people are telling s...

Man Against Nature in Lee Tamahori's 1997 Film The Edge

new person. This has been tradition since Gilgamesh. The hero emerges from the wilderness to contribute to society and carry out...

A Film Documenting Growing Old and Dying

"Tuesdays with Morrie" is based on the book by Mitch Albom. Mitch was a previous student of sociology professor Morrie...

A Review and Analysis of Singin' in the Rain

This paper analyzes and reviews the 1952 film, Singin' in the Rain. This two page paper has one source listed in the bibliography...

John Woo's Film The Killer

In five pages this paper reviews the 1989 film by director John Woo entitled The Killer and considers the influence of Western mav...

Clint Eastwood's Film Million Dollar Baby

light across a coffee table may be the only thing that signals that the scene takes place in someones living room. Throughout th...

Vampire Movies and How They Have Evolved

conversations -- yet as McNally & Florescu (1994) describe, it remains eminently readable even in an "age of novelettes and journa...

Film Version of Charlotte Bronte's Novel Jane Eyre

In five pages Julian Aymes' film adaptation of this famous novel is reviewed in terms of faithfulness to Bronte's dialogue with th...

2001 A Space Odyssey Film by Director Stanley Kubrick

opening sequence has been found buried beneath the surface of the moon. While Floyd and his colleagues are standing in front of th...

Roberto Benigni's Film Life is Beautiful

and laughter will come into play in the second section of the film. Film is an emotional medium. And, like it or...

Film as Religion by John Lyden

What is generally missed, according to Lyden, is that regardless of cinematic content, audiences receive all the messages of a fil...

Reality Verses Fiction Portrayals of Terrorism Such as that in The Siege

thing as targeting other ethnic groups" (Ebert PG). Ebert goes on the draw comparisons as to the treatment given to Arab-America...

Social Process Theory and the Film American History X

1998). Derek is induced into joining a neo-Nazi movement by a older hate-monger played by Stacy Keach, who uses him as a neighbo...

Critical Response to the Film The Gods Must Be Crazy

anthropological data on this tribe, it is impossible to say precisely where this assessment errs, but err it must, simply because ...

Gang-Rape on Screen

(Ebert, 1988). As Ebert says in his review, "`The Accused demonstrates that rape victims often are suspects in their own cases. .....