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JFK Assassination as Explained by Filmmaker Oliver Stone

In seven pages this paper discusses the failure of director Oliver Stone to explain the assassination of John F. Kennedy in his fl...

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...

JFK, a Critical Overview

Few movies have sparked more controversy than JFK, Oliver Stone's 1991 descent into conspiracy theory. This paper offers a critica...

Fact and Fantasy Regarding the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

In eight pages this paper contrasts and compares the findings of the Warren Commission and the US House Select Committee on Assass...

Analyzing Oliver Stone's Controversial 1991 Film JFK

Cuban Missile Crisis the following year. The film implies that JFK made a deal with Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev, in which h...

Oliver Stone's Film Natural Born Killers and Postmodernism

In seven pages this paper discusses how in 1994's Natural Born Killers filmmaker Oliver Stone employed postmodernist techniques. ...

Platoon Film by Director Oliver Stone

Platoons top-notch portrayals by the actors were a joy. Ensemble performances are all first-rate with Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe ...

Tragedy or Conspiracy Regarding the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

In ten pages this paper discusses whether or not JFK's assassination was just an unfortunate tragedy initiated by a lone gunman or...

Oliver Stone's Films

In 5 pages this paper examines Vietnam War vet Oliver Stone's films about the war Platoon and Born on the 4th of July. There are ...

Resistance and Protest in Vietnam War Films

the commercialism introduced to the Vietnamese during the war, has brought about new economic and political goals. Oliver Stones ...

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...

Films and Books on the Vietnam War

watching Vietnam films, but if I had to pick one that seems to capture the horror, blood, panic, humor, and sheer waste of the who...

Wall Street, the film and Psychopathy

the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R), which includes measures that assesses an individual in regards to the four defining fea...

Analysis of When Death Comes by Mary Oliver

and be a part of it, she feels her connection with "everything" (line 11), which means she perceives the world in terms of connec...

The Irving Stone Novel Lust for Life

assumption that a bourgeois young man could move into this environment, sprinkle a little Gospel around like holy water, and grow ...

'Bonnie and Clyde' Theme in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers

In four pages this paper examines the films of Oliver Stone with the focus being a social analysis of Natural Born Killers. Three...

Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers and Criminological Theories

commit violent criminal acts" (Nottingham Screening DNA: Exploring the Cinema-Genetics Interface). Furthermore, according to "gen...

Historical Revisionist Oliver Stone's Films Born on the Fourth of July and Platoon

come to overestimate his own value as a singular entity amidst an enormous universe. There is no doubt that Stones intention when...

Cinematic Comparison of Oliver Stone's Platoon and John Wayne's The Green Berets

admit he hasnt, but soon remedies that by accompanying Kirby and his men on a mission to defend their firebase from the Vietcong s...

Oliver Stone's Film Nixon

own personality but also by the circumstances of the time. Stone does succeed in introducing at least some of these circumstances...

Changing American Ideology and the John F. Kennedy Assassination

John Fitzgerald Kennedy is one of the more vividly remembered presidents in US history....

Controversy Regarding the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

that she got too close to the truth and got herself killed. It is possible that her influence had gotten the president killed. But...

American's Government Distrust and the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

acted on his own to kill the President (Spencer, John and Spencer, Anne, nd). They believe there is a very strong cover-up in this...

The Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln

Civil War. It was originally planned that Lincoln would be kidnapped and used for ransom to set Confederate soldiers free so that ...

First World War and Franz Ferdinand's Assassination

joined the crowd lining the Archdukes route to City Hall" and were successful in killing not only Franz but his wife Sofia, who wa...

Born on the Fourth of July

person that John F. Kennedy was addressing when he said "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your co...

Conspiracy and the JFK Assassination

In eight pages this paper examines the conspiracy theories that continue to swirl around the assassination of President John F. Ke...

Life and Career of Oliver Wendell Holmes

In five pages this paper discusses the connection between Oliver Wendell Holmes' life and works....

The Snow Cricket by Mary Oliver

seems to be unable to really remain and listen to the lonely song, stating, "in truth I couldnt wait to see if another would come ...

Filmmaker Tim Burton

B horror movies, or direct "Pee Wee Hermans Big Adventure?" Some what of a chameleon, himself isnt he? Lets see how much. Biogra...