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Essays 271 - 300

The Nature of Documentaries

This essay pertains to documentaries. The writer defines the genre and then discusses the strategies it employs and the way in whi...

2 films: America and The Patriot

as other authors, date this film as 1924, not 1929, which is why this date is used. Griffith envisioned his film as an epic, but t...

'Sicko' Michael Moore's Film Commentary on Healthcare

in part: "Edgar Kaiser is running his Permanente deal for profit. And the reason he can do it, I had Edgar Kaiser come in and tal...

Portraying Character on Screen

of the play, which is the fact that Toms continues to love his sister, miss her and long for a different past, as he pursues a dif...

John Ford Films Young Mr. Lincoln and The Searchers Compared

This research paper compares these two Ford's films in five pages terms of differences but also notes the similar filmmaker perspe...

Gender, Film, the Male Gaze and Female Filmmakers

so that when he sees himself in the mirror, "the recognition of himself is joyous in that he imagines his mirror image to be more ...

Walter Salle's Motorcycle Diaries

a camaraderie that is more reminiscent of Huck and Tom than future revolutionaries. However, as they begin to see the poverty and ...

Women's Roles in American Cinema Since 1967

bed, or even beginning to become amorous might secure a PG rating, but during that time period, blatant sexuality in film was not ...

Film Adaptation/Shoeless Joe & Field of Dreams

(Stam 54). While these terms seem extreme, they convey the disappointment of the critic, or the general viewer, towards a film tha...

Cinematic Director Fatih Akin

as reflecting reality depicting unusual events or situations, but presenting real conflicts and issues that reflect this history o...

Film Genre Known as 'The Musical'

diegetic music and spoken/sung dialogue (Altman 297-298). This film genre has historically consisted of three evocative forms. F...

Approaches to Other Cultures by the French and British in a Quintet of Movies

a conversation with Colonel Brighton (Anthony Quale), Feisal shows that he understands that the British are there to protect their...

Jean Pierre and Luc Dardenne and Their Cinematic Style

Palme dOr and "best actress" for its star in 1999 (Dargis). The brothers generally share the tasks of both writing and directing...

Condon's Film Gods and Monsters

However, Condon never allows the characterization to slip from deliberate parody into stereotyping; his characters are complex and...

Spike Lee’s ‘New York State of Mind’

lens but by the filmmakers imagination and based upon the unique New York experiences contained within a particular neighborhood e...

Romanticism, Modernism, and Victorian Literature

throughout the novel. This is adventure and romance and in essence offers up a very tense story that is filled with emotions, fear...

Jazz as Modernism

Jazz breaks free of restrictions of form and structure, melody and harmony. Jazz allows composers to take "freer liberties with a ...

Modernism And Religion

new, more modernistic approach. During this period, there was a particular emphasis placed upon rationalism, which was a theory a...

Architecture and Modernism

with evident truths (39). It was clearly a break away from convention. No longer did rules dominate but rather, the eye of the art...

Aesthetics Definition and Modernism

such as slavery, racism, imperialism and World War I (Lavender, 2000). Modernists, in contrast to the Victorians, focused on human...

Literary Periods Romanticism, Realism, Neo-Classicism, and Modernism

As the Renaissance reflected the continued influence of the Crusades, it also sprouted a period of romanticism that was more than ...

Comparative Analysis of the Renaissance and Modernism

status of the individual" (Burns, 1969, p. 395). The context of culture changed as cities expanded and increasing trade brought in...

Literary Genres Modernism and Postmodernism

it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was" (Hemingway 13). He is a man lost in a world with no dire...

Modernism, James Joyce, and Lu Xun

In five pages the modernist parallels between authors James Joyce and Lu Xun are examined. Nine sources are cited in the bibliog...

Literature and Modernism

In six pages this paper examines 20th century modernist literature in a consideration of such concepts as impressionism, postmoder...

Comparative Analysis of French Modernism and French Impressionism Art

led the way to new forms of automatic and purely abstract painting (Stuckey, 36). If the Impressionists opened the door for new t...

Comparative Literary Analysis of William Faulkner's Modernism and Toni Morrison's Postmodernism

(without excluding the importance of the past), where everything is not spelled out neatly for the reader. The reader must interp...

Modernism, Postmodernism, and The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

the surface than was accessible through the conscious mind, and that there were ways to evoke feeling through words without flat s...

Modernism and Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

She received an associates degree from Howard, which did not benefit her in any material way; following her college graduation, sh...

Literary Modernism in the Works of Virginia Woolf and James Joyce

the most important elements of modernist literature is that which involves perspective. With modernist literature this involves "t...