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Analysis of To Kill A Mockingbird

of Harper Lees novel To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Robert Mulligan, is a cinema classic that continues to move each new gener...

Scene Analysis, Election (1999)

who also co-wrote the screenplay with Jim Taylor, is a comedy that satires an election for student government president, which is ...

Cinematic Neorealism

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

The Shape of Things and Nietzsche's Ideas

that has been crafted by man. Is Evelyn a beguiling sculptor who wants to mold Adam? There are other thematic elements in the wor...

Director Quentin Tarantino and Postmodernism

(Rombes). Rafferty (1997) explains that the postmodern film is built on the film noir genre, but that a feature of postmodernism ...

Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver and the Use of Narrative

hard to draw oppositions between Travis and the Villain, Sport, as both are strong males who use forceful methods and generally th...

Reality and Films

Indeed, by looking at the role of the women in the movie it is a reflection of the social conditions. There is a reflection of the...

Modern Indian Cinema

Weisman, in an article featured in The New York Times, described Indian cinema as "an all purpose dream engine delivering gaudy th...

An Analysis of the Films, Bowling for Columbine and, The Decay of Fiction

physical state that supports the distinguishing characteristics of film noir. Though the term "film noir" is French, the st...

Comparing the Movie 'Elizabeth' with 'New Worlds, Lost Worlds The Rule of the Tudors 1485-1603' by Brigden

preface of her book, author Susan Brigden confesses to the broad nature of her book "New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudo...

The Role of Conflict in Literature and Film

The basic structure of most fiction stories follows a simple Act one, Act Two, Act Three kind of format. In the first part of the ...

Documentary Evolution

it can be seen to have been on its way out at the dawn of all the other television competition for viewers time. Perspectives shif...

Discussing Modern Entertainment and its Utopian Possibilities

that are easily overcome (Carey, 2000). This is a reflection of their inventive mind where it is the message and not the mechanics...

Robbery in Films

in keeping all of the people hostage while the funds are delivered. As mentioned, while it is not exactly a bank robbery film, it ...

Play and Film Versions of Glengarry Glen Ross Compared

The play is divided into two acts, containing three scenes in the first and two scenes in the second. It centers...

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...

Robert Rodriguez's Films and Cultural Identities

direction and production of a larger film. "The plan, Rodriguez said, was to make a series of three action films for this market a...

Critique and Analysis of Wag the Dog Film by Barry Levinson

the message it conveys through incisive parody scary? Definitely. Barry Levinson is a veteran filmmaker who deftly employs a cyn...

Issues of Emotional Identification in Film

Hitchcocks movie, Vertigo. This whole movie is centered around one man and his inability to let go of an old love. The story, in b...

Group Development in Films

and training in the group development process. Studying groups in the 1960s, Tuckman observed that groups of individuals transiti...

Grease and Westside Story

Many Splendid Thing" which is very innocent and then the viewer is presented with the images of a young woman and young man on the...

Marching to War with Mel Gibson

Weapon movie directed by Norman Rockwell" (Mitchell). Thats a very good, if snarky, description. That being the case, its not sur...

Raiders of the Lost Ark/Cinematography

the traitorous guide getting ready to shoot him in the back. The camera shifts to Indys hand, which is holding a whip, as he swift...

The Classic Film Casablanca

The writer explores the plot, characters, setting and other elements of the 1942 classic film Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart...

American Cinema, Historical and Education Ideology

In seven pages historical comparisons are made between the ways in which education is depicted in such films as Stand and Deliver,...

The Many Forms of The Seventh Seal

The writer examines the development of Ingmar Bergman's classic movie The Seventh Seal, tracing it from a series of acting exercis...

Trio of Historic Films Examined

In ten pages a trio of historic films answer questions pertaining to cinematic theories, techniques, styles, emotions, and editing...

Alfonso Arau's A Walk in the Clouds and the Use of Cinematography

In five pages the 1995 film's use of cinematography as reinforcement of the filmmaker's vision is analyzed. Two sources are cited...

John Cheever's 'The Swimmer' Short Story and Frank Perry's Film Adaptation

This paper consists of 5 pages and discusses the film's inability to transfer Cheever's internal monologue visually on the big scr...

Film Review of Outremer

to answer but is subject to interpretation. The title might be referring to an American point of view perhaps or even the division...