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The Film White Mile and Analyzing Dan's Behavior

This 1994 film analyzes the character's behavior through a discussion of Needleman's perspective, the Aristotelian system, and Dil...

Peer Review of a Fellow Student's Paper

the Jungian archetypes developed through the influence of the ring. Its quite clear and specific, and he argues the point well. T...

The Film Clueless and Jane Austen’s Emma

of Emma, or Cher in the film. Ferriss notes how "Heckerling offers a series of suggestive parallels between Austens heroine and he...

Battle Scenes: Saving Private Ryan and The Return of the King

graphic violence, others praised the realism, while some questioned whether war is really like that at all" (Haflidason, 2000). Th...

Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V

king. In many ways Branagh is quite believable as such a man. He seems to have the looks of a young man who would be seen in a t...

Response to Preminger's "Saint Joan"

who committed suicide in 1979 at age 40, is a tragic figure in world cinema. Shes probably best known for ? bout de souffle (Breat...

The Function of the "Gaze" in "Vertigo"

dizziness and dislocation. For most of the first 45 minutes of the film, Scottie (James Stewart) gazes at Madeleine (Kim Novak) f...

Forrest Gump and Agents of Socialization

him. As such one could well argue that the agent of school as a socialization agent, made Forrest realize there were dangers from ...

Scorsese to the Second Power: "Goodfellas" and "Casino"

errand boy to a "coke and gun dealer" (Quart). This is a twisted version of the American dream. Scorsese populates this film wit...

Cronenberg: "A History of Violence"

in films today. The protagonist at the heart of Allens films is conflicted, neurotic, and a bumbler who usually manages, somehow, ...

Women in the American Revolution

was developing. But, when her husband was taken it was very hard for her to do nothing. She constantly ended up battling with the ...

Brokeback Mountain: The "Great Outdoors" as a Trap

one else. This rugged outdoorsman is entirely self-sufficient, and when he does interact with others, on a cattle drive for inst...

The Titanic

a historical event and also its creation of a fictional love story. In this film there is a woman, Rose, who is very wealthy and...

Mis-En-Scene & Midnight Cowboy

dress of the other extras (all men) identifies them as working-class people. Theres a mug on the counter and the usual accessories...

The Consumption of the Da Vinci Code

that many books before it has looked at blurred the line between fiction and reality. The research has been undertaken and...

D.O.A.: 1950 and 1988

But, in this film remake the character seems less likeable, a character that perhaps the audience could not relate to as well for ...

"A Beautiful Mind" with Reference to Cooper

never to have: schizophrenia. But Russell Crowes amazing performance as John Nash shows us what its like to suffer from this illne...

"Psycho" with Reference to Walters

between them by the feelings they evoke in us. Walters writes that tension is one of the most important barometers of audience res...

California and the 1992 Film Adaptation of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men

featured performer in the action. It visually depicts why Americans have answered the call to Go West since the pioneer days. In...

Methodology Used in An Inconvenient Truth

to emanate from the Tufte piece, one of which is the fact that PowerPoint presentations have aesthetic problems and so, they are u...

Is "Malcolm X" and Orientalist Film?

as an alien, dangerous and strange religion, Said says that he has "not been able to discover any period in European or American h...

The Relationship of Men in Gangster Films

to each other only by code names ("Mr. Pink," "Mr. White", etc.). They relate to each other mainly by wisecracks ("Do I have to be...

"Flatliners": Do the Ends Justify the Means?

of the participants brings something nasty back from the "other side" (James, 1990). It appears that at least one of the things th...

Comparing and Contrasting Dumbo (1941) with The Little Mermaid (1989)

in fact, alcohol is flaunted, despite the fact that the cartoon is made for a young audience. Dumbo also has a "drunken vision" (L...

James Bond and Violence from Connery to Craig

society is violent and the films reflect that. Bond is also, in truth, an anti-hero. Hes supposedly a "good guy," but in reality h...

Hallucinations, Possession Trance And Religious Authenticity: Hollywood's Accurate Interpretation

benefit of any mutilating tool; Sands (2001) notes that to suggest this trance - or hallucination - is motivated by anything other...

Robert McNamara and Sun Tzu

and dodged the most important matters, continually laying the blame for the killing of millions at the feet of others (Cockburn, 2...

Margaret Mead's Contribution to Ethnographic Film

to capturing reality, and artistic flair was considered, but they were not privy to the aesthetic possibilities that exist today. ...

Forest Gump, Ray, And Dangerous Minds

Association for Retarded Citizens was organized (Education Encyclopedia, 2006). In the 1960s, parents became even stronger in thei...

History and Evolution of Documentary Film

number has increased to 1,000; by 1901, to 1,299 titles" (Adventures in Cybersound, 2007). This was the beginning of the documenta...