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Cinematic Portrayal of Greek Virtue and Philosophers

84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...

Rear Window Film and Feminist Theories of Cinema

the director and the male filmgoer) receive a sexual thrill from watching the victimization of women (Williams 706). As one of th...

Hollywood's 'Talkie' Motion Pictures

phonograph - and when the record skipped, so did the sound synchronization. The results, predictably, were humorous - the movie-go...

Film Melodrama

press appealed more in gender terms to male audiences(Neale, 63). In fact, Neale seems to think that the majority of the m...

Blue Velvet and the Surrealistic Vision of Filmmaker David Lynch

everyday life" (Gott, 1993, p. 126). However, the surrealists were not only disturbed by the horrors of war. They were equally tro...

Narratives in the Films Citizen Kane and The Usual Suspects

75). The door to the room is deep inside the frame, so when the nurse enters, it carries the eye "deep into an almost endless fram...

Alfred Hitchcock's Genius

his cinematic apprenticeship working for British studios - working first as an artist, set designer and directors assistant before...

Play and 1995 Film Version of William Shakespeare's Othello

an extremely abbreviated version of the play. Well over half the dialogue of the original play has been condensed or eliminated i...

A Comparison of Shelley's Frankenstein and Scott's Blade Runner

forever hovering overhead beckon to the fleeing people that their safety exists in the off-world colonies, demonstrating that eart...

Saving Private Ryan Film by Director Steven Spielberg and its Importance

did not think the film appropriate for anyone under the age of 14 (Gordinier, 1998). Grown men would weep after being through it. ...

Steven Warbeck's Film Review of Captain Corelli's Mandolin

they were loosely allied to the Nazis. The Italians viewed the circumstances of the war somewhat differently than did their allie...

Character of Melanie in Alfred Hitchcock's Film The Birds

Mitch, a man completely under the control of his mother. But, we really do not necessarily believe that Melanie wants this man. Sh...

Female Protagonists in the Chinese Films Ermo and The Road Home

The depiction of women protagonists in these Chinese movies is the focus of this comparative analysis consisting of seven pages. ...

Women's Roles in Western and Hindi Cinema

The movie industry in India is the largest in the world and produces over 800 films a year, twice that of Hollywood and is referre...

US Sexuality and the Media

up, an idea that is still being felt in many rape cases where women are asked if they were acting seductively, wearing revealing c...

Once Were Warriors Cinematic Marxist Analysis

yield a very different analysis. In the film, Jake is unemployed. The family lives off the dole but it seems that whatever money...

Architecture and Film Connection

only when the heart is wakened in this picture that buildings are destroyed and the human element is reintroduced. A later film ...

Personal Identity in David Lynch's Film Blue Velvet

producers and directors have found that they have a truly unique power to significantly influence the attitudes and emotions of th...

Modes of Stardom

inspires awe within the general public that longs to become one of them, and miraculously change from ordinary to extraordinary. ...

Female Relationships in The Color Purple

experiences with her stepfather, has a warped and hurtful view of her own sexuality. The very definition of love is foreign to her...

Films Yol and Raise the Red Lantern Uses of Prison Metaphors

of Yol. This story, instead of focusing on four wives as in the Zhang film, focuses on the choices that will be made by four commo...

Flawless Film and Character Polarization

except that they happen to live very close to one another in the same building and they are thrown together for a simple reason, t...

Plato's Allegory of the Cave and the Film Men in Black

humans cannot readily draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of ...

Russian Film and Sexual Politics

and destiny must have been in the air. Certainly the idea of freedom and destiny, of purpose and potential are embodied in the cha...

Visual Effects Showcased in Lars Von Trier's 1991 Film Zentropa

angles that one would not normally expect, such as shooting through water. There is an underwater shot of blood slowly spreading a...

1984 Film This is Spinal Tap and Social Assumptions

uncompromising manner that demands to be interpreted as truth (This is Spinal Tap PG). It is the perfect device for Rob Reiner to...

Untitled Film Stills of Cindy Sherman from 1977 to 1980

she is thinking or what has occurred. Surrounded by a halo of light, Shermans face is a "shadowed" mask and it is this melodramati...

Citizen Kane's Film Techniques

daytime and snow is falling. "Charlie" (Charles Foster Kane) is playing outside, and the camera stops on him. He rolls a snowbal...

Film Sliding Doors, Determinism, and Free Will

is, there is both free will and determinism. The idea that free will and determinism are one in the same is rare, but it seems ...

The Matrix and Meaning

and rejected, as older paradigms seem to fit closer with an individuals concept of reality. On the other hand, sometimes exploring...