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Essays 541 - 570

How A Civil Action Demonstrates a Need for Social Action

1998, p. 67). The case is not anything new. It is based on a true situation and there are other cases of cancer clusters being tie...

Michael Ondaatje's The Skin of the Lion and the Film Monsoon Wedding in Terms of Ethnicity and Gender Representation

7). In the third section of the novel, Patrick, the boy from the first section is now twenty-one years old and arrives in Toronto....

Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, Neil Jordan's The Crying Game, and Male Identity

out Dil, Jodys girlfriend. Ironically, painfully, and even humorously, Dil is actually a man (Hooper 43). It is worth noting t...

Cinematic Influences of 1960s' Society

the story of twelve men (all stereotypical white and middle class) who by luck of the draw are brought together to deliberate the ...

David Lynch's Film Mulholland Drive

couple of cars who happened to be drag racing. This gives the woman a chance to get away. She runs into the city and for some reas...

My Left Foot/Social Responsibility

suggests, the filmmakers show him as very human and the script does a good job of dramatizing his imperfections as well as his rem...

Comparing and Contrasting Dumbo (1941) with The Little Mermaid (1989)

in fact, alcohol is flaunted, despite the fact that the cartoon is made for a young audience. Dumbo also has a "drunken vision" (L...

"Shortbus"

to come to terms with life when it seems to have spun out of control. Eric Snider says its a film about "people who fear loneline...

Film Gung Ho

relied formerly on oil, for instance, Japan was able to diversify during the oil crises of the 1970s into the manufacture of elect...

Comparative Thematic Analysis of Apocalypse Now and Heart of Darkness

he was supposed to have picked up at this station has broken down, so he is delayed. He tries to make himself busy and during this...

Philadelphia and Chicago Historic Restoration and Preservation

possess buildings and locations that should be preserved to further embrace the history of the United States. In relationship to...

Retelling Beowulf in 13th Warrior

In the epic, the threat is supernatural; in the film, the menace is recast as a vicious, cannibalistic tribe who dress in animal s...

First Amendment Issues in the Film, The People vs. Larry Flint

This paper examines First Amendment issues seen in the film, the People vs. Larry Flint, which is based on actual events and case ...

A Social Worker's Perspective of Judith Guest's 'Ordinary People'

please all. They do not understand that they are hiding their real emotions, that they are running from their life, and from each ...

Psychoanalyzing the Film Good Will Hunting

In five pages the protagonist of the film is subjected to a psychoanalytic discussion that includes issues of abandonment and the ...

Authority and Power in Edward Zwick's Film Glory

In five pages Zwick's film based on Col. Robert G. Shaw's letters is analyzed in terms of how a multiracial setting addresses auth...

1995 Film By John Singleton, Higher Learning

In five pages this report examines the 3rd film effort by director John Singleton in a discussion of content, prejudice, and issue...

Scripts: Imagery

(What About Bob Script - Dialogue Transcript, 2007).. He proudly claims later, "Im a sailor!" (What About Bob Script - Dialogue Tr...

Hitchcock/Rear Window & North by Northwest

film. More credits fall and slide into place, which foreshadows how Thornhill will later slide, nearly falling off the face of Lin...

Robert Duvall’s Apostle

who is also a preacher, and conspires to have him evicted from his congregation (Alleva, 1998). Enraged, Sonny takes his sons base...

Three American Families

someone was sick, or out of a job, or when things were going wrong, they asked God for help (Rodriguez). At home, "God the Father ...

Gone with the Wind's Cinematography

that "Tara is the whole story" as the plot revolves around Tara" (Schreibman, 2004, p. 41). The cinematography particularly unde...

Reaction to the Film “Hotel Rwanda”

arrives, its not to help the Tutsis, but to evacuate the Europeans (Taylor, 2004). Oliver, a decent man whose hands are tied by re...

Gender Identity Patient Disorder Diagnosis, Treatment, and the Film Boys Don’t Cry

by persistent discomfort with ones sex" (Meyenburg, 1999, p. 305). This gender identification with the opposite sex typically com...

U.S. Public Education as Shown in “Teachers”

Brussat, 2007). A student bites a teacher; a gym coach "has sex with three students"; a boy is shot and killed; and the school, wh...

His Girl Friday and Screwball Comedy

romantic leads ("Screwball comedy"). Another feature of the screwball was its "reverse class snobbery," where to be poor was, so...

Juno

lightly and surely not a topic that one could conceive of as being used as the foundation of a comedy film that would actually rec...

A Visit to Philadelphia

almost unimaginable and the exhaust fumes practically overwhelming the uninitiated. There is a constant roar of cars and trucks, ...

A Review of Bowen's Miracle at Philadelphia

This paper analyzes and reviews this book on the US' Constitutional Convention. This five page paper has no additional sources li...

Violence in American/Bowling for Columbine

the stats that Moore cites about gun deaths, which compares the US to other countries. Yearly, there are "381 (gun deaths) in Germ...