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The Dominance of the U.S. in Films

for American dominance in films. History Historical studies dealing with responses to American film dominance have tended to emph...

Book and Movie Versions of The Natural by Bernard Malamud

stories in that it takes the form of the medieval morality play. In this discussion we will examine the contrast between the nove...

1930s and 1940s' British Cinema and its Heterogeneous Mix

In seven pages the heterogeneity of such British films of the period as Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 The Lady Vanishes and Zoltan Korda...

'1791' and 'Amadeus'

post as court composer and imperial Kapellmeister). In the movie Salieris music is simpleminded - this could have never been the ...

Tom Hanks film Cast Away and an Application of the Neuman Systems Model

ears becoming accustomed to the competing moral attitudes found in such terms as co-operation, teamwork and, especially, community...

Chinese Director Zhang Yimou's Western Film Elements

This paper examines director Zhang Yimou's commercial film success and the Western elements featured in his movies in 10 pages. F...

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Great Race, and Cinematic Slapstick

" or literally "slapping the stick"(Von Busack ppg). It is a physical humor, reminding us that we are physical beings in a real w...

Comparison of Richard Loncraine's Film Richard III and William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Richard the Third

The caricature representation of Richard in both film and play is discussed in ten pages. Nine sources are cited in the bibliograp...

Media Law and People v. Larry Flynt Film

around the Supreme Court Case of Jerry Falwell v. Larry Flynt. A few months prior to Hustlers magazine interpretation of the prin...

Elizabethan Theatrical Drama Represented by the Film Shakespeare in Love

significant influence on the literature being written. Words, turns of phrases, double-meanings were all of the utmost importance ...

Communication Skills Teaching and the Movie To Sir with Love

way to get a job and keep it. By treating the kids as adults and giving respect, he begins to get it back in turn, along with at...

Filmmakers Stanley Donen and Vincent Minnelli

In ten pages the directing styles of film musical directors Stanley Donen and Vincent Minnelli are contrasted and compared in term...

Feminist Cinematic Theory and Psychoanalysis

In five pages this paper examines psychoanalysis' relevance to feminist cinematic theory in a consideration of the article 'Masoch...

Female Characters as Spectators in Early Cinema

This paper examines the heavily male-influenced film industry as it related to the roles played by female characters. The author ...

Shaping History Through Cinematic Narratives

rather how it appears to the person that is hearing or viewing the story. Does the narrative appear to distort or change what ha...

Allegorical Film The Truman Show

In five pages this paper discusses the final scene of the film The Truman Show in an analysis of its allegorical characteristics. ...

Film Versions of William Shakespeare's Othello by Directors Orson Welles and Oliver Parker

In five pages this paper critiques 2 film interpretations of William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello. One source is cited in the bi...

The Immigrant and Charlie Chaplin

things out? Perhaps it is just that they kept the plots simpler, certainly films were a fraction of the running time that they ar...

Reunion Between Children and Parents in the Films of Steven Spielberg

In ten pages this paper discusses the reunions between parents and children that take place within the Steven Spielberg films E.T....

Pulp Fiction and Human Anxiety

this tension and anxiety. As Fried (1995) illustrates "Pulp Fiction is not simply a sensational stylistic exercise without content...

Cultural Imperialism in the Film The Mission

This report examines the film The Mission from a perspective of European cultural imperialism in twelve pages. Four sources are c...

Self Reflexive Elements and Purpose of Francois Truffaut's Film The 400 Blows

In ten pages the purpose and self reflexive elements of Francois Truffaut's groundbreaking 1959 film The 400 Blows are examined. ...

Filmmaker Tim Burton

In seven pages this eccentric and innovative film director is examined in terms of craft, cinematic output, and human insights. Si...

Gladiator Compared with 'The Odyssey' by Homer

In five pages Maximus of the Gladiator film is compared with Odysseus of Homer's epic in a five page comparative analysis. There ...

Martin Scorsese's Cinematography Intimacy in the Biographical Film Raging Bull

are moments when the action appears in slow motion, but it does not last long, and over all contributes to the dream quality of th...

Hand of Destiny

In five pages the hand of destiny as it reveals itself in William Shakespeare's Macbeth and tin the films The Man Who Shot Liberty...

Cinematic Technique Known as 'the Long Take'

In six pages this paper examines how filmmakers such as Hou and Orson Welles have employed the long take cinematic technique in su...

Social Psychology and the 1999 Movie The Matrix

In classic science fiction style, the common people have no idea that they are nothing more than blips in a global virtual-reality...

Children's Film Version of A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

In seven pages this paper examines how a children's film version of this whimsical comedy by William Shakespeare could be accompli...

James Cameron's Film Titanic and the Existentialist Philosophy of Jean Paul Sartre

This paper applies existentialism to an analysis of the character Jack in the Titanic film by director James Cameron in 5 pages. ...