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Alfred Hitchcock's Genius

his cinematic apprenticeship working for British studios - working first as an artist, set designer and directors assistant before...

Blue Velvet and the Surrealistic Vision of Filmmaker David Lynch

everyday life" (Gott, 1993, p. 126). However, the surrealists were not only disturbed by the horrors of war. They were equally tro...

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...

Film Melodrama

press appealed more in gender terms to male audiences(Neale, 63). In fact, Neale seems to think that the majority of the m...

Cinematic Portrayal of Greek Virtue and Philosophers

84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...

Hollywood's 'Talkie' Motion Pictures

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

'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...

Visual Effects Showcased in Lars Von Trier's 1991 Film Zentropa

angles that one would not normally expect, such as shooting through water. There is an underwater shot of blood slowly spreading a...

Untitled Film Stills of Cindy Sherman from 1977 to 1980

she is thinking or what has occurred. Surrounded by a halo of light, Shermans face is a "shadowed" mask and it is this melodramati...

Russian Film and Sexual Politics

and destiny must have been in the air. Certainly the idea of freedom and destiny, of purpose and potential are embodied in the cha...

Architecture and Film Connection

only when the heart is wakened in this picture that buildings are destroyed and the human element is reintroduced. A later film ...

1984 Film This is Spinal Tap and Social Assumptions

uncompromising manner that demands to be interpreted as truth (This is Spinal Tap PG). It is the perfect device for Rob Reiner to...

Film Review of To Kill a Mockingbird

of play. The summer is very representative of a simplistic and conservative community, giving us an ideal setting in a simpler tim...

Remember the Titans Film and Coach Boone's Leadership

to know one another. The tactic worked and real friendships were formed between black and white team members. Of course, this did ...

1964 Film Fail Safe and the Character of the President

man who feels he must do everything himself. He is seeking the advice of others, and balancing that advice with perhaps gut feelin...

Tim Burton's Big Fish Film Narrative

and makes sense in our world (Fournier, 2005). Then, we check the narrative fidelity and compare it to whether or not it matches o...

Remember the Titans and Cultures

why. There is one black student who is very bitter and much of that bitterness is because of oppression of his race. For the most ...

Anti Semitism and Adolf Hitler

the ideals are those that encourage seeing others in a light that is negative and threatening. Hitler made use of such realities. ...

Citizen Kane's Film Techniques

daytime and snow is falling. "Charlie" (Charles Foster Kane) is playing outside, and the camera stops on him. He rolls a snowbal...

Film Sliding Doors, Determinism, and Free Will

is, there is both free will and determinism. The idea that free will and determinism are one in the same is rare, but it seems ...

Analysis of Tom Tykwer's 1999 Film Run Lola Run

as an imitation of reality, "it holds a mirror up to nature" (Durant, 1961, p. 59). Aristotle notes that human beings find pleasur...

Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy and the Film Radio

progressive needs of safety and security, love and belonging and the need for esteem (Boeree, 2004). If, at any time, individuals ...

The Matrix and Meaning

and rejected, as older paradigms seem to fit closer with an individuals concept of reality. On the other hand, sometimes exploring...

Director Spike Lee's Film 'Do the Right Thing'

the place and burns it to the ground (Albright, 2003). Ambiguity Is the Point One of the reasons why the film remains controvers...

Portrayal of Time in Works by Terence Davies and T.S. Eliot

his films. In so doing we look at one line from the film and two lines from Eliots poem. Lily states, "I thought that I could ma...