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Film Critic Pauline Kael's Life and Influence

In seven pages this paper discusses New Yorker movie critic Pauline Kael's life, how her passion for cinema translated into a care...

Martin Scorsese's Film GoodFellas and the Subculture It Portrays

In five pages this paper examines normal and deviant types of behavior, socialization, symbols, values, folkways, and mores within...

Guilt of Hamlet in Mel Gibson's Film Adaptation

In 5 pages this paper analyzes how Hamlet's revenge transformed him into a man very much like his adversary Claudius as represente...

An Analysis of the Films, The Sacrifice, Stalker, and Daughters of the Dust

tending to interpret the film through the medium of his or her own perceptions and world view. Each viewer walks away from the fi...

Literature of Early America

In nine pages the religious messages of William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation, A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of...

The Police as Portrayed in La Haine by Mattleu Kassowitz

This essay discusses the function and characterization of the police as they are portrayed in Mattleu Kassowitz's movie La Haine (...

Dune Film by Dino de Laurentiis and Perspective

In ten pages the symbolism and meaning evoked within the 1984 movie through sexual, performative, and queer angles are analyzed. ...

Cinema and Sexuality

crisis of Lester Burnham, a subplot provides a telling commentary on way that homosexuality has been perceived in this culture. Th...

Film Analysis of Claude Jutra's Mon Oncle Antoine

brutally and perhaps unfairly with death. The work is moving. Uncle Antoine, carefully acted by Jean Duceppe, is a pathetic char...

Novel and Film Comparisons of Maya Angelou's I Know Where the Caged Bird Sings

In five pages this paper presents a comparative analysis of Angelou's novel and the TV movie adaptation in a discussion of strengt...

'News on the March' Scene Opening the Film Citizen Kane

last word of Citizen Kane as he dies in his bed. That word is the infamous "Rosebud." First time viewers, viewers who know nothing...

Mike Nichols' The Birdcage Cinematic Content Analysis

a good impression on his prospective in-laws, Armand and Albert pretend to be straight (Bawer). Instead of going for the easy lau...

Lying and Infidelity

In nine pages this paper examines infidelity as a form of lying as represented in the movie Random Hearts and in literature in the...

Hollywood's 'Talkie' Motion Pictures

phonograph - and when the record skipped, so did the sound synchronization. The results, predictably, were humorous - the movie-go...

The 1982 film Gandhi and its Historical Accuracy

Indian commune where everyone shares the work, no matter how demeaning. Gandhis years in South Africa are spent in a series of tac...

Ben Younger's Film Boiler Room

saying: "Either youre slinging crack rock or youve got a wicked jump shop -- nobody wants to work for it any more. Theres no honor...

Defining a Classic - Casablanca

to watch everyone else who comes for the same reason. Intrigue is served with each glass. The plot clinks with the cubes about w...

Good Will Hunting Film Freudian Analysis

The movie Good Will Hunting is analyzed from a Freudian perspective in 5 pages. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

Cinematography in Battleship Potemkin and Citizen Kane

The cinematography in these movie classics are discussed in five pages. There are no other sources listed....

Rear Window Film and Feminist Theories of Cinema

the director and the male filmgoer) receive a sexual thrill from watching the victimization of women (Williams 706). As one of th...

Ethnic Promotion, Spike Lee, and John Woo

In five pages these film directors are discussed in terms of the way they use their movies to promote their own ethnic backgrounds...

Portrayals of Women in Sunset Boulevard and Breakfast at Tiffanys

A 6 page essay reviewing how women are portrayed in these classic movies. The plots are outlined and compared. Societal circums...

Cinematic Comparative Analysis of Rushmore and The Graduate

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the similarities and differences of these movies and how they represent the 'comin...

2000 Film Gladiator and its Accuracy

In five pages this research paper argues that the movie Gladiator was not accurate in its portrayal of history during that time pe...

Crested Kimono Questions

In five pages this paper compares the image of Mother in Navajo and Japanese families as represented in Kinship and Gender and in ...

The Dear Hunter Film's Vietnam War Rhetoric and Reality

In five pages this paper examines the rhetoric and reality of the Vietnam War within the contexts of the book Hollywood's Vietnam ...

20th Century Cinema and Racism

In five pages this paper examines racism as it is represented in society and in the movies Higher Learning, A Raisin in the Sun, a...

Juvenile Delinquency, Rebel Without a Cause, and Sociology

social factors can be used as the best method to explain juvenile delinquency. Differential Association In 1939 Criminologist Edw...

Stephen King's Film The Green Mile from a Sociological Perspective

murdered children, the horrific scene caused the searchers to assume the worse. Their own thoughts of tragedy and terror took ove...

Critique of Stanley Kramer's Film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

In eight pages this paper critiques the 1967 film in terms of history and the social changes the movie was attempting to address r...