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The Consumption of the Da Vinci Code

that many books before it has looked at blurred the line between fiction and reality. The research has been undertaken and...

Cronenberg: "A History of Violence"

in films today. The protagonist at the heart of Allens films is conflicted, neurotic, and a bumbler who usually manages, somehow, ...

Brokeback Mountain: The "Great Outdoors" as a Trap

one else. This rugged outdoorsman is entirely self-sufficient, and when he does interact with others, on a cattle drive for inst...

Scorsese to the Second Power: "Goodfellas" and "Casino"

errand boy to a "coke and gun dealer" (Quart). This is a twisted version of the American dream. Scorsese populates this film wit...

Antwone Fisher and Menace II Society

there is a certain allure to the way in which both Caine and O-Dog are portrayed. Cinema has since its inception been one of the...

The Portrayal of Schizophrenia in “A Beautiful Mind”

seems to ring true" (Rosenstock, 2003). In the film, Nashs hallucinations take a visual form; his roommate, the man he believes re...

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 ...

Hitchcock’s Auteur Vision: “Rear Window”

they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. In The Birds, for instance, Melanie (Tippi Hedren) pursues Mitch (Rod Taylor), a m...

Editing and Narrative

are used to match up, such as a person getting out of a chair and then being shown form a different angle entering a room. The use...

D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation

In five pages the reasons why this silent film classic should be considered the greatest of all melodramas are presented. There a...

Female Subjectivity in the Films Cleo from 5 to 7 and Now, Voyager

Female subjectivity is the focus of a comparative analysis of these films in six pages. There are no other sources listed....

Stagecoach (Film Review)

This short, one page review contains many insights. The fact that this film contains some social commentary should be noted. There...

Grapes of Wrath (Film Review)

This one page reaction paper looks at the well known film Grapes of Wrath and the political statement that seems to come through i...

Analysis: “Hoosiers,” the Film

resonates with the viewers and that, in part, is why the film is so successful (Short and Short). In addition, writer and Angelo...

Sci-Fi Films: Radiation Monsters and Homestick Aliens

(Bacchus, 2007). The atomic age is the real villain here, because its radiation from the atomic testing in New Mexico that causes ...

Inherit the Wind and Religion

the majority of people in the United States today still disbelieve that people actually evolved from another species, it seems acc...

The “Communist Manifesto” and “All Quiet on the Western Front”

War can be seen as an event that ends in ruin for all concerned. He also says that society in general was dividing into two "grea...

Hamlet and Ofelia and the Threats They Face

the not-too-distant past; the guards on the battlements talk about how the previous King Hamlet "smote the sledded [Polacks] on th...

Will Hunting

inherently linked to learned and imitated processes. Will Hunting is a character who demonstrates vast intelligence and a...

Babel

her friends are at a diner of sorts, prior to the scene with her father, where all the kids hang out, she is laughed at by some yo...

American Religion and the 2003 Film Bruce Almighty

how dependent upon technology the average citizen has become in everyday life. The fact that God initially contacted Bruce via hi...

Reaction: “The Heart Broken in Half”

that adolescence is a time of life that skews peoples thinking. People the age of the Latin Kings have a terrifying illusion of im...

Rome as Perceived in the Modern World

still essentially the same (HBO, 2007). In this series, therefore, it seems as though the image of Rome is one that is historical ...

Hollywood and the California Dream

actually the perfect place for Americans to diverge from Eastern standards of rigid control as they sought a more morally ambiguou...

Apocalypse Now and the Vietnam War

but be of a military mind and take such realities as par for the course in warfare. There may be others who used the war to make t...

1940s Black Cinema

fell considerably short of avoiding stereotypes. For example, one review, that is typical of those produced by white critics, de...

“Antz” & Emile Durkheim

labor. Rather than being totally dependent on custom, these societies are held together primarily through mutual obligation betwee...

Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World by Bertolt Brecht

an author playwright before ever thinking of him as a cinematographer. As the inventor of the Epic Theater, Brechts believed that ...

Born on the 4th of July, The Deer Hunter, and the Vietnam War

In five pages this paper examines how the Vietnam War was depicted in a contrasting and comparison of these 2 films. There are tw...

Comparative Interpretations of Clan of the Cave Bear

This paper consisting of five pages contrasts and compares contemporary historical adaptations of Clan of the Cave Bear with the f...