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Director Quentin Tarantino and Postmodernism

(Rombes). Rafferty (1997) explains that the postmodern film is built on the film noir genre, but that a feature of postmodernism ...

Billy Elliot Film and the Depiction of Childhood

finds that he has a natural talent for it. It is as if the emotional side of him which has been forced to remain silent finally ha...

German Expressionism in Cinema

early years of the century. George Albert Smith was the first to experiment with composing scenes from individual shots and camera...

Cinema and Time's Role

human being he is. This comes as a shock to Oliverio who is as bad as the rest in assuming that prostitutes have no brains. Actu...

Simon During's The Global Popular and the Pleasures of Viewers

climactic as an invading force, but may take place in the acculturation of one culture from another. Even today many of the Wester...

Film Industry and Revelations on Crime and Punishment

woman. She has the ability to ruin peoples lives. This gives her a great deal of power and it corrupts absolutely. As Judge Danfor...

British Cinema Censorship Prior to 1945

Censorship of any form also has the effect of promoting elitism with regard to access to...

Analysis of Filmmaker Federico Fellini's Satyricon

sexual encounter with a slave girl on an island, and the discovery of a nymphomaniac (whom they must satisfy before they can move ...

Film Noir Genre

be made about film noir and its enduring popularity is that it strikes a chord at the depth of nearly every viewer. Film noir focu...

Edward Zwick's Film Glory

evolution of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment until its climactic attack on Fort Wagner, South Carolina of July 18, 1863, that resulted i...

Shakespearean Film Productions and the Depiction of Women

a women faced with the types of situations that they face in his plays. Twelfth Night examples this most concisely. The plot of T...

Types of Art Forms

are mediums that are used for both works of fiction or art or as devices to convey messages. However, artistic works of fiction al...

Hitchcock's Use of Mise en Scene in Rear Window and Vertigo

lends great insight into the cinematic development of any film, especially the films of Hitchcock. In his movies, every shot has ...

An Analysis of Three Classic Films From the Mid-Twentieth Century

politics. Gore Vidal wrote the screenplay, as well as the original Broadway play on which the movie is based. Vidal was friends wi...

Cinematic Analysis of The Day the Earth Stood Still

across, and thus get the power of the film across. The predominant focus of the film is the story and the man who is an alien. It ...

Auteur Theory and Art Cinema

it is quite obviously going to have a lot of action throughout the film. However, too much action and the theme and characterizati...

Comparing Stage and Film Versions of Othello

the audience a close up of Othellos face and the audience is able to watch the doubt creep over Othellos face. Without saying anyt...

Films and the Issue of Privacy

somewhat difficult; she appears to be one of those writers who will not use one word where she can cram in three. In addition, she...

Hannibal Lecter as Hero

a woman-suit out of women (using their skin)-the ultimate in objectification" (Vorndam). Lecter is initially contemptuous of Starl...

Models, Miniatures, and the Battle for Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back

Many of his early Star Wars films feature several shots of models and miniatures that convey realism as impressively and in less t...

Imperialism in the Movies

the River (1935), The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935), King Solomons Mines (1937), Gunga Din (1939), Beau Geste (1939), and The Fo...

Analysis of Rashomon

has probably viewed this film, this writer/tutor has not. Also, the Paper Store charges a considerable fee for watching a film in ...

Use of Cinematography in The Truman Show

lighting, color, camera angle, types of shots, music and set design, to underscore the theme of self-determination and individual...

The Tempest Play by William Shakespeare and the Film Version by Julie Taymor

focused on Shakespeares perspectives on innocence and its consequences. As envisioned by Shakespeare according to his stage direc...

Cradle Will Rock

water from a fire hydrant. The street scene also emphasizes the desperation of the era. A man stands next to a car that is covered...

Coen Brothers' O Brother, Where Art Thou Sirens and KKK Scenes Analyzed

of a directors wish to go into a more exciting creative direction by deviating from his formulaic musical comedies and instead mak...

Analysis of 2 Horror Films

adding to aid of gloom. As this suggests, in Frankenstein, the X factor is primarily shown overtly, using aspects of the cinemat...

Scene Analysis from The Godfather

of an older man, with full jowls and thinning hair. Reportedly, Brando wore a prosthetic device in his mouth to produce the protr...

Math in Cinema

to computers to cell phones is digital in nature, that is, totally a product of math; yet, few of us understand how math makes the...

Classic Animation/Disney's Little Mermaid

mans face. The fish slips from his fingers and manages to make it over the side. The perspective follows the fish. The fish turn...