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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...

Cinderella: Text and Film

clean and cook and be their servant. In both of the versions Cinderella becomes a slave to the step mother and step sisters. In th...

Mrs. Doubtfire/Film Review

her away from home and the kids. Daniel seeks the help of his flamboyantly gay brother, Frank, to help him disguise himself as a w...

Film / Novel Color Purple

her, told her, "You better not never tell nobody but God. Itd kill your mammy (1)" which resulted in her writing letters that "are...

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...

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...

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...

Representation of African Americans in Film: Rush Hour 2

enjoy his vacation but pushes aside that vacation to help his friend find retribution for the murder of his father. There are mome...

The Film Ordinary People & Carl Rogers

capacity of the individual to be expressed and to strengthen (Kirschenbaum, 2004, p. 116). In pursuing this line of thinking, Ro...

American Religion and the 2003 Film Bruce Almighty

how dependent upon technology the average citizen has become in everyday life. The fact that God initially contacted Bruce via hi...

Realism and Expressionism in Film

"realists," saying that what they "had in common was a desire to put cinema at the service of what ... [he] called a fundamental f...

Native Experience: Literature and Film

different elements together to speak of ancient Aboriginal beliefs as well as a modern world. In As Long as the Rivers Flo...

Communication Skills Teaching and the Movie To Sir with Love

way to get a job and keep it. By treating the kids as adults and giving respect, he begins to get it back in turn, along with at...

Filmmakers Stanley Donen and Vincent Minnelli

In ten pages the directing styles of film musical directors Stanley Donen and Vincent Minnelli are contrasted and compared in term...

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Great Race, and Cinematic Slapstick

" or literally "slapping the stick"(Von Busack ppg). It is a physical humor, reminding us that we are physical beings in a real w...

Shaping History Through Cinematic Narratives

rather how it appears to the person that is hearing or viewing the story. Does the narrative appear to distort or change what ha...

Feminist Cinematic Theory and Psychoanalysis

In five pages this paper examines psychoanalysis' relevance to feminist cinematic theory in a consideration of the article 'Masoch...

Female Characters as Spectators in Early Cinema

This paper examines the heavily male-influenced film industry as it related to the roles played by female characters. The author ...

The Immigrant and Charlie Chaplin

things out? Perhaps it is just that they kept the plots simpler, certainly films were a fraction of the running time that they ar...

Social Psychology and the 1999 Movie The Matrix

In classic science fiction style, the common people have no idea that they are nothing more than blips in a global virtual-reality...

Gladiator Compared with 'The Odyssey' by Homer

In five pages Maximus of the Gladiator film is compared with Odysseus of Homer's epic in a five page comparative analysis. There ...

Cinematic Technique Known as 'the Long Take'

In six pages this paper examines how filmmakers such as Hou and Orson Welles have employed the long take cinematic technique in su...

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. ...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Gender Relationships

In five pages this paper discusses the portrayal of men and women within the context of this work as it has been presented in the ...

Pulp Fiction and Human Anxiety

this tension and anxiety. As Fried (1995) illustrates "Pulp Fiction is not simply a sensational stylistic exercise without content...

Filmmaker Tim Burton

In seven pages this eccentric and innovative film director is examined in terms of craft, cinematic output, and human insights. Si...

Comparative Analysis of Animal Farm Novel and Movie

This paper contrasts and compares the narrative that appears in the film version of Animal Farm and that of the novel penned by Ge...

1960s' and the Development of the British Farce

In twenty five pages this paper examines the 1960s' development of a genre known as the British farce in an analysis that includes...

First Amendment Issues in the Film, The People vs. Larry Flint

This paper examines First Amendment issues seen in the film, the People vs. Larry Flint, which is based on actual events and case ...

Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Postmodernism

In three pages this report analyzes the postmodern characteristics of these 1992 and 1994 films by director Quentin Tarantino. Th...