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Reception Theory and Films Star Wars and Star Trek

viewers (Sklar, 1998). In this regard, reception studies seek empirical evidence, either "historical or ethnographic research," th...

Clerks Film Analysis

mindless it can make a person who is not aware of its power. This is a powerful universal theme that transcends the fact that it i...

Suburban Dream Subverted

In eight pages this paper examines the shift from Orson Welles' perceptions of the American Dream to the subversion represented in...

European Cinematic Depiction of Gender from the 1920s to the Twenty First Century

story, mise-en-scene, editing, and music, they collectively provide a common theme that speaks of the uniqueness of the feminist e...

Three Film Classics and Social Issues

love, but have to ultimately abide by their previous obligations, as they are both happily married. Death of a Salesman (1985, pro...

Religious Attitudes Represented in Hollywood Films

Scott movie Blade Runner, the earth has become virtually uninhabitable by any sort of decent human being. Depicting Los Angeles i...

Eat Drink Man Woman, To Live, and Survival of the Asian Family

This begins to change with the comment, "I have an announcement to make." Whatever follows is guaranteed to prompt anger and trial...

Leonard Peltier Murder Case

The LPDC states that the AIM members came to oppose the Guardians Of the Oglala Nation (GOONS) (LPDC, Quick Facts, 2004). The GOON...

The Manchurian Candidate Conspiracy

his father did not approve (Maier, 1986). The article does not mention his relationship with individual family members beyond this...

Conventional Theology and The Passion of the Christ Film by Mel Gibson

slapped him and said, "Prophesy to us, Christ, Who hit you?" All Gospel accounts agree that Jesus was brutalized at this point, bu...

Promotional Analysis of Harry Potter Books and Films

in a British field weeks before the books release (msn, 2004). Both of the above hits are sandwiched in between the ads...

Fight Club Film and Crisis of Identity

whisper sweet nothings, carry a womans purse in a store, and change a babys "poopy" diapers (and be able to say the word, "poopy" ...

Cinema Industry of Great Britain

any year 68% of the population will visit a cinema (BBC New, 2003). British films tend to be very well accepted, until Harry Potte...

Mississippi Masala and the Immigration Experience

this Southern town oppose the relationship between a woman of Indian extraction and an African American. In a climatic scene, De...

Modern Hollywood Cinema, Class and Gender Politics

terms of interpretation, due to different apparent political agendas and a different political environment, as such we will use on...

Immigration and the Gangs of New York

The film opens with a dramatization of a gang battle that occurred in 1846 between Irish gang, principally the "Dead Rabbits" led ...

Paranoia, McCarthyism, and Film Noir

in the destructive power of nuclear energy. Osteen (1994) points out that few events have affected the American psyche in a manne...

Critiquing the Vietnam War Through Film

one-man conjecture about how Americas involvement in the Vietnam War according to the directors consistently biting tone; by provi...

Analyzing White and Blue by Kieslowski

In eight pages the trio of color symbolic components along with themes and plots from the films White and Blue are analyzed. Ther...

The Godfather Film and Leadership

give them the power to obstruct justice, play by their own rules and literally attend to life in any manner they see fit. They ha...

Style of Auteur Filmmaker Yusuf Chahine

superbly able to weave entertainment into the mix of the political statements, using the elements of good literature as he does so...

Stage and Screen Adaptations of Hamlet by William Shakespeare

identity. It is interesting to note that as he pulls on his "cloak of madness" that his true intellect becomes completely clouded ...

President Kennedy's Assassination According to Jim Garrison and Oliver Stone's 1991 Film JFK

(Garrison, 1988). Garrisons book chronicles his investigation into what was perhaps the most notable murder case in America. Gar...

The History of Cinematic Comedy

parodies American consumer culture as evidenced by the hilarious scene when grilled cheese sandwiches and coleslaw are ordered for...

Comparative Analysis of J.J. Bigas Luna's Jamon, Jamon and Cyril Collard's Savage Nights

pictures the "ineffectual male figure" as being displaced by the more "aggressive female" (DLugo 65). Cinematography underscore...

Film - A Study in Characterization

pregnancy, and more specifically, pregnancy out of wedlock. However, each film represents a dramatically different take on the iss...

Representations of Taiwan

legitimate government of both Taiwan and China began to change in the 1990s when democracy was introduced and new leaders were ele...

Comparing "The Shining" and "A Clockwork Orange" - The Diversity of Kubrick's Style

the closing shot of "The Shining", where the camera again slowly pans, this time from a wide view of the wall of a hotel ballroom ...

Kassovitz's "La Haine" - a Marxist Criticism

as a document of ongoing social struggles in disenfranchised urban ghettos, or "banlieues" around Paris (Cartelli, 2008). The titl...

Bamboozled by Spike Lee

and animated hand movements, as well as constantly smiling face (Elam and Jackson 349). In contrast, Manrays upper body is relaxed...