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Pre Hollywood 1930s and the Production of Motion Pictures

Bloomingdales by subway. Astorias focus was the silent films, necessarily so because there were no others when the studio opened ...

Hollywood's 'Talkie' Motion Pictures

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

Overview of the Hollywood Ten

In fifteen pages this paper examines the so called 'Hollywood Ten' or list of ten members of the motion picture industry that were...

Golden Age of Hollywood and Economic Strategy

alliance between studio systems and exhibitors, alliances established through vertical integration. One of the most important inc...

Great Depression and Deception by the Media

In eight pages this essay examines the 1930s Great Depression and the optimist deception engaged in by the motion picture industry...

Cinema and the Impact of Music

desperate and louder, so too does the score, until a crescendo of grand proportions is reached. At this point in the scene, a grea...

Government Regulations And American Cinema

the Code and ended with its demise" (Doherty, 1999, p. 1). While some hollered censorship, others countered those conjectures by...

Past and Present Motion Picture Special Effects Technology

actual event with which the audience is familiar with an example being the Pearl Harbor catastrophe of December 1941 that was repr...

Citizen Kane

of Thatchers diary. Film components: Dissolves, flashback, deep-focus shots, long shots, close-ups. In the establishing long sho...

Steven Spielberg's Film Jaws and its Impact

dunk below the surface. There is no surprise on her face. There is no horror on her face. What is happening? The...

Working With Celebrities is Not Fun and Games

In eight pages this paper dispels the myth that working with motion picture celebrities is a pleasant experience. Fourteen source...

Contextual Approach to Media Criticism in 'Star Wars' and 'Jaws'

This is an historical research paper of 8 pages that discusses the impact these films had on popular culture, economics, technolog...

Pursuing Creativity

In five pages the business and artistic effects of creativity on people are examined with examples of the fine arts and the motion...

Old and New Hearts of Darkness

The Francis Ford Coppola motion picture Apocalypse Now served as a remake of Robert Conrad's Heart of Darkness. This paper compare...

The Motion Picture Business and Its Impact on the Inventor Thomas Edison

Edison was more than an inventor. This paper explores the role the motion picture industry and the industry giant Eastman played ...

Modern Day Print and Film, Cultural Clashes, Chaos or Conformity

two of the popular films that marked the 1980s, James Camerons Terminator, released in 1984, and Michael Lehmanns 1989 Heathers, a...

Film Analysis of Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons

In five pages this paper presents an analysis of the 1942 motion picture The Magnificent Ambersons in an examination of director O...

Depiction of Reality by Woody Allen in Mighty Aphrodite, Purple Rose of Cairo, Zelig, and Annie Hall

In ten pages this paper discusses filmmaker Allen's portrayal of reality in four of his most critically acclaimed motion pictures....

Women's Changing Roles and Movie Remakes

In five pages this research paper examines 3 motion picture remakes and how this reflects women's changing social roles. Six sour...

Identical Twin Loss in the Film Nell

her mother who did not want anyone to know the two girls existed. We gather, gradually, that Nell had a twin sister who died at ap...

Movie Theater Evaluation Report

are handed an envelope with instructions that they will be attending the next brush-up class in hospitality/customer care (Barsky ...

A Consideration of 'The Day Of The Locust'

indifferent to their fellow human beings because of the tremendous disappointment and disillusion heaved upon them. "Scattered am...

MGM and Universal's Cinematic Styles

their advertising campaigns asserted) more stars than there are in the heavens" (The Thin Man, 1995). Mordden (1988) asks, "What, ...

Pre Second World War Policy of the US

opting to abstain from joining the League of Nations when it was formed. If one had to point at a single cause of World War II and...

A History of Racism in the Motion Picture Industry

This paper addresses two films from each decade, beginning with the 1950s and continuing to the 1990s, and cites examples of racis...

Canada's Great Depression

it changed the way that Canadians looked at money. It also changed life as it was known. During the depression of the thirties, ...

Neville Chamberlain's Policies of Appeasement

This paper examines the pre World War II appeasement policies of British prime minister Neville Chamberlain in tewnty seven pages....

Motion Picture Industry and Future of Computer Graphics

In ten pages an evaluation of whether the creation of special effects through computer generated graphics is merely a passing tren...

Original Motion Picture Celebrities

In five pages this paper discusses the original stars of film and considers how and why they became celebrities. Five sources are...

1930s' Banking Crisis

In eight pages this paper discusses the 1930s' banking crisis and how it led to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation creation...