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Golden Age of Hollywood and Economic Strategy

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

Early American Film Director D.W Griffith

his five years at Biograph, Griffith took the raw elements of moviemaking as they had evolved up to that time -- lighting, continu...

Film Preservation Techniques

the more stable cellulose acetate film to preserve the content (De Stefano, 2003). Unfortunately, these efforts were limited, bec...

Analysis of the 1999 Film Tuesdays with Morrie

documentary, that his most beloved college professor, Morrie Schwartz, played by Jack Lemmon, is dying from what is commonly refer...

Film 'Kramer vs. Kramer' and Adolescent Development

by his mother. He becomes angry and withdrawn, mistrusting others around him and as a result constantly tests the boundaries Ted ...

Joel Bakan's Corporation, Portrait of a Psychopath

same material, that is, the historical background to corporations, their basic operating motivation and specific case studies. How...

Clint Eastwood's Film Million Dollar Baby

light across a coffee table may be the only thing that signals that the scene takes place in someones living room. Throughout th...

Seabiscuit Film Historical Review

portrays? Are the facts sacrificed in the name of entertainment? Seabiscuit is not only the story of a horse but also of the rea...

The Hunchback of Notre Dame in the 1923 Film Adaptation

were quite memorable. Jehan is an evil man who desires Esmerelda, like most of the men in the story, and Esmerelda is a very helpl...

Film Review of Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas

the voiceover. According to reviewer Patricia Kowal, this inclusion of a female perspective furthers the gangster genre because it...

Knowledge and Whether or Not Anything Can be Truly Known

only thing that is known is what is presently occurring. In other words, if something is out of ones eyesight and experience, it i...

Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange and Depiction of Deviance

have readily characterized their discipline by a progression of determining steps beginning with the development of a sociological...

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...

Overview of the Western Cinematic Genre

Battle of Summit Springs, a reenactment that showcased Cody rescuing poor white damsel Indian captives in distress (Buscombe 286)....

Formalism in the Films, Great Expectations and, The Night of the Hunter

them" (Trbic, 2005). At the same time there was a very powerful visual style that was insistence on losing the "polite look of his...

Illusion in Ingmar Bergman's 1982 Film Fanny and Alexander and Different Interpretations

child with the family maid, Maj (Fanny and Alexander PG). The Ekdahl family mantra is, according to Helena, that actors are not t...

Orson Welles' Citizen Kane and Frank Capra's Meet John Doe Cinematic and Comparative Analysis

tight close-up (Dirks, 1996). There is a menacing "No Trespassing" sign outside an old gate, and after panning up over a chain-li...

Empire Records Cinematic Analysis

Music Town. With $9,000 of store receipts in his pocket, Lucas goes to Atlantic City in hopes of parlaying that into enough money...

Historical Accuracy of Michael Collins Film by Director Neil Jordan

an uneasy political alliance with Sinn Fein President Eamon De Valera, and this fueled the romantic rivalry between Collins and hi...

Conflict in the 1939 Film Stagecoach

clear example of this conflict (Dinks, 2005). Ringo, who doesnt know Dallass background, seats her close to Lucy, which makes her...

Urban Life and Violence in America

people remember many strong disagreements with their first families. Battles during toddlerhood and adolescence are common and wil...

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson and Films Inspired by This Novel

Hyde. Mr. Hyde is a hideous man who engages in murder and essentially allows his most animalistic, most primitive, nature to come ...

Analyzing Bowling for Columbine from a Sociological Perspective

Marx). In other words, Marx saw societies as being composed of classes in constant conflict. Differing markedly from his predecess...

Producing and Distributing Short Films

mistakes will occur. A novice director frequently has difficulty keeping a "clear head" in regards to the scenes as they unfold ...

A Critical Interpretation of Fight Club

is bored out of his skull with his job and his life. His doctor advises him to go to support club meetings for people who are rea...

Contemporary Cinema and the Use of Cyborgs

twentieth century, people are all chimeras, or mythic hybrids of machine and organism, or cyborgs (Haraway, 1991). In Western sci...

Bend It Like Beckham and Intercultural Communications

her bedroom wall and uses this to confide in. However, even at this very early level there are indication of the culture clash and...

Film as Nightmare '28 Days Later'

course, 28 days later, when a bicycle courier named Jim (Cillian Murphy) awakens from a coma and finds himself in an abandoned hos...

American Culture and Actress Bette Davis

or rouged (Brabazon, 2000, p. 98). At an awards ceremony, Davis was asked if she regretted not being the sort of movie star that w...

Los Angeles and Its Cinematic Images

to do is wait and persist and she will eventually love him. While Tod is also not successful in his goal, he realizes that the cul...