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In six pages this paper examines how the Second World War and Vietnam War are portrayed in the films Sands of Iwo Jima, Hamburger ...
to determine the best possible behavior is not a new idea. This is basically what John Stuart Mill proposed with his philosophy of...
neorealistic filmmakers, such as Rossellini, Vittorio DeSica and Cesare Zavattini, was to make a "moral statement," which forces ...
meet while returning to their hometown of Boone City, are symbolic of the American social class structure (Beidler 589). Upper-cl...
need at the front lines. The special death squads were responsible for killing about two million people (Weiss, 1996). Because ...
Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon - worked to make the institutions of a "free society" available to that half of the nation to which ci...
The auteur film techniques that characterize director Brian DePalma are considered in an examination of three of his films The Unt...
This paper considers how the Vietnam War was depicted in the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket and the 1988 film Good Morning, Vietnam i...
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 ...
In five pages this paper analyzes war's futility in a comparative poetic analysis of 'Poor Man' and 'WPA.'...
In five pages the Second World War's black and white newsreels are examined in terms of their historical importance and also discu...
This 5 page paper discusses the viewpoints of French film critic and auteur Andre Bazin, and Russian director Sergei Eisenstein, o...
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...
1. Introduction The commercial environment is becoming increasingly competitive. Companies need to find ways of keeping and then...
the foreign hordes defiling it" (Mattie 215). Cutting slays Vallon, consigns his son to an orphanage, and proclaims his rule ove...
would become his own trademark. This film, along with Obsession (1976), further developed De Palmas expressive use of cinematogra...
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...
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...
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...
women will play in the film (The Graduate). Throughout the film, Nichols uses images, including an extensive series of montages, t...
where nothing detrimental occurs. In fact, Fast Company publishes ethical problems and lies that contributors send in on an annual...
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...
be desired from the Russian perspective. At the Teheran Conference Stalin was indifferent to the division of Germany into separa...
instance), and externally (how the cinematic techniques used communicate with one another, and with the audience, to convey some t...
In five pages this paper examines the rhetoric and reality of the Vietnam War within the contexts of the book Hollywood's Vietnam ...
night light. It sits in bedrooms and living rooms but has become something one does in place of nothing. Rather than sitting and r...
has essentially been an ineffective battle so far. In other words, while the media and government espouses the "was on terrorism"...
Few movies have sparked more controversy than JFK, Oliver Stone's 1991 descent into conspiracy theory. This paper offers a critica...
In six pages critical cinematic theory is applied to director John Boorman's film released in 1972 and discusses how theme is depi...
In seven pages this paper examines how films are critically reviewed and analyzed with such films as The Crying Game, GoodFellas, ...