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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...

Africa's Cinematic History

Africa had been claimed by one European nation or another. The nations claiming Africa were Belgium, France, Germany, Great Bri...

John Ford/The Quiet Man

and he refuses to do so. Mary Kate abides by her brothers wishes, which confuses and frustrates Sean. The plot complications tha...

Uhry's Driving Miss Daisy

by employing a chauffeur. Miss Daisy has strict ideas of what is right and proper, and having been brought up in Jewish social cul...

The Journalist in Combat

The history of reporting in war is the history of telling America's story. This paper explores that history and how the war story ...

Tremors Science Fiction Film Review

to avoid being consumed, Bacon, Ward, Finn and a number of townspeople spend a significant amount of time on the roof of houses, h...

Martin Scorsese Cinematic Comparison

In nine pages Bringing Out the Dead and Taxi Driver are contrasted and compared in terms of themes, characterization, and cinemati...

Great Men of Industry Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, James Duke, and John D. Rockefeller

In seven pages this paper discusses how the Industrial Revolution in America was shaped by these corporate kingpins....

Medieval History Bias

In a paper consisting of 8 page the influence of bias in Medieval history telling is considered along with the ways in which histo...

Walton: "Mississippi: An American Journey"

the American one" (Bernstein, 1996). Walton says that there is "something almost unspeakably primal and vicious about Mississippi...

Shaping the Narrative: The Narrators in “Ethan Frome” and “The Secret Sharer”

bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story" (Wharton). Its his c...

Issues in African History

peoples, while accepting these belief systems, sought to integrate them into their existent cultures, rather than overthrowing the...

Use of Cinematography in The Truman Show

lighting, color, camera angle, types of shots, music and set design, to underscore the theme of self-determination and individual...

Character Transitions and Narrative Technique of Alfred Hitchcock

own life. With Scottie in pursuit, Madeleine climbs a bell tower and apparently falls to her death; in reality, the Novak charact...

Comparing Soviet Film Directors Sergei Eisenstein and V.I. Pudovkin

(Manvell 37). While Pudovkin would occasionally use non-professional actors in the name of realism, he preferred relying on profe...

Film Review, Cool Hand Luke

This essay uses research to offer an overview of "Cool Hand Luke," a 1967 film directed by Stuart Rosenberg. Cinematic features, s...

Psycho Film Critically Analyzed

In thirteen pages Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 suspense masterpiece is analyzed in terms of effect, form, and function with a cinematic...

Feminist Cinematic Theory and Psychoanalysis

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

Narrative Style and Theme of Citizen Kane

In six pages a cinematic analysis of director Orson Welles' masterpiece Citizen Kane focuses upon the auteur's themes of capitalis...

Roots of Avant Garde's Visual Arts

In eight pages the roots of avant garde regarding film are argued to be in the visual arts as opposed to the narrative cinematic t...

Stylistic and Formal Characteristics of Gus Van Sant's 'My Own Private Idaho'

Such cinematic techniques as mise-en-scene are discussed in a paper consisting of 6 pages as thematic and narrative expression are...

Andrei Tarkovsky's Cinematic Poetry

This in-depth research paper puts forth the argument that the films of director Andrei Tarkovsky are best seen as cinematic poetry...

Consideration of Cinematic Art

In nine pages two stylistic modes Hollywood's classical narrative realism and modernist or avant garde are examined in terms of ho...

"Dry September" by William Faulkner

This essay pertains to Faulkner's short story "Dry September." The writer offers analysis of the plot and argues that Faulkner use...

Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

This book review is on Stacy Schiff's fascinating biography of Cleopatra, which relates the life narrative of a woman who was an i...

Men’s Opinions of Women’s Narratives

no man would accept the restrictions put on womens lives by these practices: they simply would not stand for earning less, or bein...

Comparing Rudyard Kipling's Prose with John Huston's Cinematic Narrative in The Man Who Would Be King

In five pages the voices used in these very different ways of telling the same story are compared and contrasted in terms of artis...

Cinematic Narrative in Pulp Fiction and Citizen Kane

We note he grows to be a gregarious individual who seems driven to succeed in unusual ways, always seeking some adventure and some...

Cinematic Techniques and Narrative in The Graduate

by the same name and so was translated to the silver screen. When this is done it is always a touchy business. Much of the motivat...

Wild Swans and the Realities of Communism

"Slaves Who Have No Country of Your Own-Ruled by Different Masters (1945-1947)" (Chang, 1991, p. 75). This title conveys the attit...