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Depiction of the Civil War in Barbara Brackman's Civil War Women and the Film Birth of a Nation

In five pages this paper compares Barbara Brackman's text and D.W. Griffith's film in terms of how each portrayed the Civil War. ...

Black Rain Review and Criticism

yet sympathetic short stories about ordinary people in Japanese life. Black Rain is considered a novel distinct from all other tex...

Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge

Luhrmann, "In Moulin Rouge, our ultimate Red Curtain gesture, music and song is the device that releases us from a naturalistic wo...

Revolution, George Orwell's Animal Farm and the Film Gandhi

farmer, the oppressor. However, once the pigs were in place and the rules established, the farm animals found themselves under a...

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...

Comparative Analysis of The Old Wives Tale by George Peele and Rob Reiner's Film The Princess Bride

In eight pages this research essay compares the structures of the 1593 play by George Peele with the 1987 film by director Rob Rei...

The Perseverance of Feminism in Film

a woman who is a leader of her people, and yet her role is reduced to love and childbearing. War of the Worlds does not have any s...

Analysis of the Carousel Musical by Rogers and Hammerstein

When Julies friend Carrie leaves, but Julie lingers near the carousel, she and Billy are now along and can speak freely, if hesita...

Cultures and Film Spaceships Nebuchadnezzar from The Matrix, the Nostromo from Alien, and the Enterprise from First Contact

to prevent a Borg takeover of Earth, and to make sure that Zefram Cochrane (James Cromwell) makes the flight that will attract the...

Everyday Life 'Masks'

win. Finally, the student concludes: " Once the game is over, the game face mask is lifted and its back to the normal mask." In ma...

Vietnam War and the Agency Concept

can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...

The Magnificent Seven Film and the Cowboy Mentality

clearly an attempt to redefine the modern cowboy for modern audiences by penetrating the invincible stereotype and revealing vulne...

Team Strategy Formation and the Film Ocean's Twelve

boundaries of their acceptable group behavior. Forming is the stage of transition when the individuals become members of a team (C...

Post-Modernism and Filmmaker David Lynch

of modernism, with particular emphasis upon modernisms elitist social, political and economic structure of upper and lower classif...

1920 and 1992 Cinematic Adaptations of James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans

was shot on location at Big Bear Lake and Yosemite Valley in California (Magills-1920). In an interview with film historian Kevin ...

Jean Pierre and Luc Dardenne and Their Cinematic Style

Palme dOr and "best actress" for its star in 1999 (Dargis). The brothers generally share the tasks of both writing and directing...

Scene Analyses from Do the Right Thing, American Beauty, Thelma and Louise, and Taxi Driver

manicured lawns and rose gardens. But for every blooming rose, there is a thorn lurking somewhere, and through the frequent imagi...

Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet and Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet Compared

has arranged for her so she can rejoin her husband and live in exile. Upon seeing what he believes to be the dead Juliet, Romeo s...

2 Film Versions of 1 Novel Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

was cast as the Indian renegade Magua and a "less likely and more melodramatic Indian...is hard to imagine" (Magills-1920). Beery ...

Justice and Epiphanies

ignited in their minds the light of an epiphany of understanding. A 2005 film which won wide acclaim, Crash, largely concerns ho...

Men as Defined by Elia Kazan's Film On the Waterfront and Arthur Miller's Play A View from the Bridge

sayin nothin" (Greatest Films). In these respects the audience is presented with men who possess power and immorally take advant...

Trauma and its Lasting Life Effects

has trouble controlling his body and does not begin to feel some returning sense of normality until he reaches the Acura dealershi...

Martin Scorsese's Justification of Violence in Films Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, GoodFellas and Casino

and accumulating gambling debts he cannot possibly pay, the stage is set for a bloody confrontation when loan sharks come calling....

Cinema Historically Examined

who attempted their own interpretations of the new application. All along, the original inventors knew of their potential finding...

Political and Social Reactions to D.W. Griffith's Film Birth of a Nation

is no "true print" of the film, but it stands as a historical film nonetheless (Lang, 1994; 37). "The film was based on former No...

Questions About Treatment and the 1999 Film Girl Interrupted

is a misconception that can lead to problems in effective treatment Dr. Grohol believes that the best approach to treatment is to ...

Ronald Donaldon's Film Thirteen Days and Conflict Theory

escalate into World War III; if he did nothing or offered a weak response, the balance of power would clearly shift in the directi...

Film Genre Known as 'The Musical'

diegetic music and spoken/sung dialogue (Altman 297-298). This film genre has historically consisted of three evocative forms. F...

Considering 'Tucker: A Man And His Dream'

bound and determined to remain at the top of the monetary mountain; Tucker had little means to battle such inequitable market stru...

Singin' in the Rain Film Genre Analysis

it is about a silent film star, Don Lockwood (played by Kelly) making the transition to sound pictures, a leap that not all popula...