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Second World War and Vietnam War on Film

In six pages this paper examines how the Second World War and Vietnam War are portrayed in the films Sands of Iwo Jima, Hamburger ...

Thibaut and Kelley's Social Exchange Theory of Communication

to determine the best possible behavior is not a new idea. This is basically what John Stuart Mill proposed with his philosophy of...

Cinematic Neorealism

neorealistic filmmakers, such as Rossellini, Vittorio DeSica and Cesare Zavattini, was to make a "moral statement," which forces ...

Comparing Dan T. Carter's The Politics of Rage With the Film The Best Years of Our Lives

meet while returning to their hometown of Boone City, are symbolic of the American social class structure (Beidler 589). Upper-cl...

Second World War's Nazi Death Camps

need at the front lines. The special death squads were responsible for killing about two million people (Weiss, 1996). Because ...

Difficulties Associated with Fighting the Vietnam War

Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon - worked to make the institutions of a "free society" available to that half of the nation to which ci...

Auteur Film Director Brian DePalma

The auteur film techniques that characterize director Brian DePalma are considered in an examination of three of his films The Unt...

Films on the Vietnam War and the War Itself

This paper considers how the Vietnam War was depicted in the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket and the 1988 film Good Morning, Vietnam i...

Oliver Stone's Films

In 5 pages this paper examines Vietnam War vet Oliver Stone's films about the war Platoon and Born on the 4th of July. There are ...

War and Its Futility as Conveyed by Poetry

In five pages this paper analyzes war's futility in a comparative poetic analysis of 'Poor Man' and 'WPA.'...

Second World War Newsreels

In five pages the Second World War's black and white newsreels are examined in terms of their historical importance and also discu...

The Purpose of Film Montage

This 5 page paper discusses the viewpoints of French film critic and auteur Andre Bazin, and Russian director Sergei Eisenstein, o...

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...

Knowledge Creation and Tesco; The Successful Use of Technology and a Loyalty Scheme

1. Introduction The commercial environment is becoming increasingly competitive. Companies need to find ways of keeping and then...

Scorsese/Gangs of New York

the foreign hordes defiling it" (Mattie 215). Cutting slays Vallon, consigns his son to an orphanage, and proclaims his rule ove...

Brian DePalma's 'Carrie' A Cinematic Analysis

would become his own trademark. This film, along with Obsession (1976), further developed De Palmas expressive use of cinematogra...

Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing

solely for blasting rap music on his boom box. A local DJ, Mister Senor Love Daddy, who operates a radio station also acts as a co...

Mississippi Burning/A Reaction to the Film

group of KKK members (DuPont, et al). The film ends with snapshots of the men indicted for the murders of the three Civil Rights w...

The First Persian Gulf War

to it as the First Gulf War (Zwier and Weltig, 2004). It is also known as the First Persian Gulf War. In Kuwait it is referred t...

Aspects of Formalism in the Film, The Graduate

women will play in the film (The Graduate). Throughout the film, Nichols uses images, including an extensive series of montages, t...

Schools R Us and Analysis of Business Ethics Case Study

where nothing detrimental occurs. In fact, Fast Company publishes ethical problems and lies that contributors send in on an annual...

Cinema and Time's Role

human being he is. This comes as a shock to Oliverio who is as bad as the rest in assuming that prostitutes have no brains. Actu...

The Cold War: Causes, Treaties, and Ongoing Tensions

be desired from the Russian perspective. At the Teheran Conference Stalin was indifferent to the division of Germany into separa...

Film and Communication Theory

instance), and externally (how the cinematic techniques used communicate with one another, and with the audience, to convey some t...

The Dear Hunter Film's Vietnam War Rhetoric and Reality

In five pages this paper examines the rhetoric and reality of the Vietnam War within the contexts of the book Hollywood's Vietnam ...

Cognitive Cinema Theory and Narration

night light. It sits in bedrooms and living rooms but has become something one does in place of nothing. Rather than sitting and r...

Past and Present War Propaganda and the Media

has essentially been an ineffective battle so far. In other words, while the media and government espouses the "was on terrorism"...

JFK, a Critical Overview

Few movies have sparked more controversy than JFK, Oliver Stone's 1991 descent into conspiracy theory. This paper offers a critica...

Analyzing the Film Deliverance

In six pages critical cinematic theory is applied to director John Boorman's film released in 1972 and discusses how theme is depi...

How to Review and Assess Movies

In seven pages this paper examines how films are critically reviewed and analyzed with such films as The Crying Game, GoodFellas, ...