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The American Revolution in Fiction and in Film

to the settlement of the American frontier, Drums Along the Mohawk. It is the story of farmer Gil Martin and his privileged bride...

Faulkner: “The Reivers”

whats wrong, one character yells, "HES SLOW!" But Ned knows a secret: the horse will run through almost anything for a sardine! He...

Miyazaki: “Spirited Away”

showing that her concerns are animalistic as well. From this beginning, she grows into a person of worth and awareness. Miyazaki ...

The Messages of “Forrest Gump”

is just surplus" (Ebert) But the "surplus" is everything that a "normal" person experiences. While there is a definite charm to t...

What Literature Does

is: Platos account of how Socrates defended himself. When he is condemned to death in spire of his eloquence, he accepts it with d...

“House of Sand”

is Torres mother; Do?a Maria is a frail woman but apparently stronger of character than her daughter. Since they are going to live...

Moral and Physical Resistance During the Holocaust Depicted in The Book and Film Versions of Jacob the Liar and Defiance: The Bielski Partisans

scholar Terrence Des Pres remarked that Jewish resistance might not have been a huge revolt; these movements were instead several ...

Tennessee Williams' Cat On a Hot Tin Roof Play and Film Versions

severity of the Bricks grief at Skippers death causes his relatives to speculate, but this is dispelled in the crucial scene that...

Analysis of the Style and Narrative of the Film The Man Who Wasn't There

in that Ed Crane is sure that his wife is having an affair with her boss. Banking on the surety of his assumption, he sends the bo...

'The Importance of Being Earnest' vs. 'While You Were Sleeping'

even a bit further back to Madge Evans and Florence Rice. Most of their films seemed to derive from Colliers Magazine stories that...

Kenneth Branagh's Film Hamlet Contrasted with William Shakespeare's Play

with a series of mini-climaxes before reaching the final and most significant final climax just prior to its conclusion. The Dani...

1976 Film The Town that Dreaded Sundown

it outlines all of the major action of the film. It is also one of the most positive reviews on this movie, as the author actually...

Boxers and Boxing in the Films When We Were Kings and Raging Bull

conscientiously misanthropic" (pp. 55). "Raging Bull" was about the life of a man who actually had something of a heart and was de...

Looking But Not Necessarily Seeing

restore eyesight that has been gone since early childhood, he is met with a conundrum of confusion and skewed interpretation that ...

Cinema and Gun Symbolism

take a life in just moments. A student writing on this subject may want to consider the gun as an appendage of the bodies of Travi...

Life and Achievements of Photographer Bruce Weber

opened doors for the gay community in terms of securing truly complimentary photography of men. Webers experience in homoerotic ...

Auteur Theory and its Validity

In five pages this paper discusses autheurism's validity in an analysis of Stanley Kubrick's films. Five sources are listed in th...

Silent to Talkies Cinematic Transition from Metropolis to The Gold Diggers of 1933

simply being "filmed" theater. Metropolis offered a chilling glimpse of the future, as the film is set in the year 2000 in the cit...

A Comparison of Huck Finn and the Misfit From A Good Man is Hard to Find

footsteps. This is demonstrated through the parallels between Huck and his father. In the part of the novel where Huck is abducted...

Analysis of Citizen Kane

the movie from the perspective of the 21st century, the movie may not seem that impressive. However, for the audiences of the earl...

Modern Dysfunctional Culture as Embodied by the Film 'American Beauty'

culture in the discontentment of one mans desire to live more of his life than merely being a cookie cutout of average people. Le...

Media Technology Pioneer Lee de Forest

In five pages this paper celebrates the virtually unknown film and radio contributions of inventor Lee de Forest. Six sources are...

Analyzing Kenneth Branagh's Film Adaptation of William Shakespeare's Hamlet

"Hamlet" examines numerous concerns that are central to the fundamental tribulations and despairs of being human. Hamlet questions...

The 1993 Film Version of Randy Shilts's And The Band Played On

In five pages the ways in which the film depicts the AIDS epidemic, the frustrations, social attitudes, and lack of funding associ...

Ang Lee's Eat Drink Man Woman Overview and Film Review

depth, grace, and often touching humor with which the story is actually presented. Family, love, and tradition are all presented, ...

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...

Film and TV Adaptations of King Lear, Hamlet, and Othello

of Hamlets famous soliloquies, except for the ones which heightened dramatic impact, such as "To Be or Not to Be." He shrewdly ch...

A Seven Film Analysis

excellent example of explanatory communication. The protagonist is explaining his reasoning and the fact that he wants to do some...

Martin Scorcese's Raging Bull and Jake La Motta

powerful subject for a director like Scorcese and an actor such as DeNiro. Based on La Mottas autobiography, the student working o...

Comparing Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai with Homer's 'The Iliad'

heroic ideal of the young and noble combatant who appears to be destined to die at an early age on the battlefield. Achilleus is ...