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Actor John Travolta

time Travolta began doing the leaps and pirouettes on the flashing dance floor in Saturday Night Fever, he was already a veteran a...

Movie Verses Novel in Depictions of Fellowship of the Ring

any film based on a novel, there is much that is left out. And, interestingly enough, if it were up to anyone but Peter Jackson, t...

Contemporary Women's Lives and Backlash by Susan Faludi

progress because of the biased portrayal of women by the media and society at large. In this regard, this book is...

Landscape's Symbolic Uses in Chinese Movies Red Sorghum, The Blue Kite, and Yellow Earth

meant to symbolize the conditions of rural poverty in China and its openness and vastness is typical of Chinese art works which eq...

Erin Brockovich, Scarlett O'Hara, and Film's Independent Women

associated with roles from other films (Magills Survey of Cinema). During that time in Hollywood, women were not as indepen...

Narratives in the Films Citizen Kane and The Usual Suspects

75). The door to the room is deep inside the frame, so when the nurse enters, it carries the eye "deep into an almost endless fram...

Comparison of Cinematography in Citzen Kane and Casablanca

"More importantly, the innovative, bold film is an acknowledged milestone in the development of cinematic technique. It uses film ...

Profit in the Film Industry - An Economic Analysis

In a paper of sixteen pages, the writer looks at profit in the film industry. The live action industry is compared to the animatio...

Hitchcock's The Birds, Use of Sound

This essay pertains to Hitchcock's "The Birds" and the strategies that Hitchcock used in the film that relate to the use of sound....

An Example of Investment Appraisal Using NPV

Net present value is a method used to compare and contrast different potential investments. The process discount future net cash ...

Hamlet and the Film Adaptations by Laurence Olivier and Kenneth Branagh

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares these 1948 and 1996 film interpretations of William Shakespeare's tragedy with the ...

19th Century Literature A Comparison of Heroines from Two Stories

This paper compares Charlotte Bronte's heroine of Villette with Jane Austen's heroine of Persuasion. It discusses the roles of the...

Comparative Interpretations of Clan of the Cave Bear

This paper consisting of five pages contrasts and compares contemporary historical adaptations of Clan of the Cave Bear with the f...

Analyzing the Cowardly Lion, Scarecrow, and Tin Man from the 1939 Film The Wizard of Oz

These characters as they are depicted in the film are compared and contrasted in a paper that consists of five pages. One source ...

The God Kings' Age in Ancient Egyptian Civilization

A paper consisting of seven pages considers the period from 3500 until 1500 BC in ancient Egyptian civilization referred to as the...

Comparative Analysis of Francis Ford Coppola's Film Apocalypse Now and Joseph Conrad's Novel Heart of Darkness

appears to be an observer in many ways, merely retelling a tale, Willard is a man who is driven by some uncontrollable force. It i...

Conflict and Captain Benjamin Willard and Colonel Walter Kurtz in Apocalypse Now

This 8 page essay explores the conflict that characterizes the relationship between Willard and Kurt in Francis Ford Coppolas movi...

Political Worldviews and Ideologies in the Films To Live and The Mission

In eleven pages this paper contrasts and compares the political worldviews and ideologies that are represented in Zhang Yimou's fi...

The Prairie Novel by James Fenimore Cooper and the Film Dances with Wolves

In five pages the depiction of Native Americans in the novel by James Fenimore Cooper and in the film by Kevin Costner is contrast...

Autistic Savant Featured in the Film Rain Man

In seven pages autism is considered in an overview that includes symptoms and available treatments and the actual condition is com...

Comparative Analysis of the Novel and Film Versions of The Hunt for Red October

This paper contrasts and compares Tom Clancy's novel The Hunt for Red October with the film adaption in eight pages. Seven source...

Liberty According to Jean Jacques Rousseau and John Locke

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares these philosophers' perspectives on liberty based upon Rousseau's First and Second...

Plantation Mistresses and Slaves

In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares how slaves and plantation mistresses were depicted in The Plantation Mistress by ...

Comparative Analysis of Francis Ford Coppola's Film Apocalypse Now and Joseph Conrad's Novel Heart of Darkness

Development in the Book and the Movie Marlow and Willard each see themselves as men of action. Both believe themselves to b...

Goodfellas, The Godfather, Crime and Punishment

actions to be taken in the name of family honor. The crime, in this view, was to do nothing when disgraced. In contrast, the vie...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Home Alone 3

In five pages this essay compares the film with the novel by Mark Twain in the commonality of the popular theme in each of childre...

A Review of the Print and Film Versions of The Joy Luck Club

A 6 essay comparing and contrasting the film version of Amy Tan's popular book and the book. The essay emphasizes Hollywood's ten...

Richard Taylor, Fatalism, and Determinism

states that all events are reliant on previous events (Honderich 194). In other words, any event is an effect of a prior series of...

Desert Hearts by Donna Deitch and Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule

In five pages this report compares Donna Deitch's 1985 film to Jane Rule's 1964 novel. There are no secondary sources listed....

Comparative Analysis of Georege Orwell's 1984 and Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

In four pages this paper of two parts compares Orwell's Winston Smith and Kesey's Randall McMurphy and in the second part 'the boo...