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Overview of Postmodern Cinema

In twelve pages this paper analyzes postmodern cinema's characteristic elements in a consideration of such films as Pulp Fiction, ...

Robert Drew and the Development of Cinema Vérité (Direct Cinema) in America by P.J. O'Connell

In five pages this paper provides a textual overview of Robert Drew's life and career as a documentary filmmaker with his influenc...

Postmodern Cinema and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

For example, the film focuses away from the traditional violence of the western film and the identification of the main characters...

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 ...

Assessment Three Cinema Websites Using Nielsen's 10 Heuristics

advance whilst reducing queues and pressures on the box office, an effective use of resources (Nellis and Parker, 2000). Many cine...

Postmodernism and Great Britain

influences as well as reflects the society in which it manifests. Here we may see a post-modern attitude. The influence of many ot...

Cinema Industry of Korea

prison for depicting a Communist official as "a warm human being" (Slide, 1989, p. 229). The Korean film industry has evolved ver...

Hollywood and Non Hollywood Films

was popular during the 1970s (Dudley, 1984). This states that the nature of the cinema is to be ideological in its representations...

Narrative Style Comparison Between Classic Mode and Art Cinema

In five pages these two modes of narrative cinema are examined in terms of the differences between classic and art cinema as revea...

Criminology in the Postmodern Era

with power and crime: "Not only can the power of the word be exposed as creating domination; in addition, one means of resistance ...

Preliminary Study on the Persuasiveness of Cinema

is, this article argues that there were several factual inaccuracies in it, and that the disclaimers about it were difficult to fi...

Black Filmmakers and the 'Burden of Representation'

Lees "Mo Better Blues", and Julie Dashs "Daughters of the Dust". The trend continued in 1991 with the release of twelve black dire...

Film, Love, and Symposium by Plato

within the domestic sphere. Therefore, a Greek man typically took a younger male as his main love interest because only a man coul...

Feminist Cinematic Theory and Psychoanalysis

In five pages this paper examines psychoanalysis' relevance to feminist cinematic theory in a consideration of the article 'Masoch...

British National Cinema in the 1980's

identity in relation to the various products of the national and international film and television industries, and the conditions ...

Overview of a Postmodern World

the later part of the 20th century as the world saw two world wars and numerous small wars such as the Korean and the Vietnam wars...

Overview of Postmodern Science Fiction

mind. For example, the "flowers" of Edo is a term that refers to the citys tendency to have many fires. Within this reality frame...

Overview of Postmodern Views on William Shakespeare

In ten pages this paper examines postmodern philosopher Stanley Cavell's views on William Shakespeare's tragic plays Antony and Cl...

Does The Self-Referentiality Of Postmodern Art Speak Only To The Elite Audience?

classification (Fulcher, 2001). The influence of modernisms political and aesthetic projects of resistance and revolution, recoop...

Science Fiction Cinema's Portrayal of Society's Fears and Hopes

robots, coming to Earth to present power and knowledge in how people can live together. They insist that the people of Earth need ...

Expectancy Violation Theory

actor, that individuals evaluation of the behavior of the person conducting the interview are also likely to be positive according...

Hong Kong Cinema and Female Warriors

In eight pages this research paper examines Hong Kong cinema in an overview of the genre characterized by female warriors. Six so...

Third Cinema and Documentary Film

In eleven pages this paper examines the development of documentary films in this Third Cinema practice and theory overview. Nine ...

French Cinema's 'New Wave'

In 5 pages this paper discusses the Nouvelle Vague or New Wave French cinematic movement of the Fifties and Sixties in a considera...

Chinese Cinema in the early 2000's

This 4 page paper gives an overview of the Chinese cinema from 2000-2007. This paper includes four different film from China and t...

National Identity in 2 Chinese Films

in economic terms, which depends largely on equating national cinema with a countrys domestic film industry. As this suggests, thi...

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Postmodernism

symbolic, it can be said to the juxtaposition of Martha to George(Clurman 12). Martha is high energy and ambitious, whereas George...

Humanist v. Postmodern Views on Sexuality and Gender

humanism refers to the personal worth of an individual and that individuals right to his own particular values, and freedom from p...

Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips

vessel. The children are Nash, Martha and Travis, and their stories form the basis for the three major divisions in the text. The ...

Popular Culture and Postmodernism

the nineteenth century, or so, the art world seemed to go into a slump. Quite like writers block, this slump saw a lull in the art...