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Tort Reform and HBO's Hot Coffee

had to undergo numerous skin grafts and almost died because McDonalds was serving coffee at absurdly high temperatures ("Synopsis,...

Bamboozled by Spike Lee

and animated hand movements, as well as constantly smiling face (Elam and Jackson 349). In contrast, Manrays upper body is relaxed...

White Man's Burden, A Film Analysis

of racism. However, viewing John Travoltas portrayal of Louis Pinnock through the stereotype of the "brute Negro," that is the s...

An Inconvenient Truth: Analysis of the 2006 Motion Picture

A review and analysis of the 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth are presented in 3 pages. The bibliography cites 4 sources....

Overview of Food, Inc.

particularly disturbing because, as Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivores Dilemma, indicates in the film, eating such a narrowly...

Documentary about Sergio Vieira de Mello

documentary effectively tells the story of his life and death, and his concern for others and good works. Sergio Vieira de Mello...

Witness to Jonestown, An Analysis

Witness to Jonestown, provides a film that commemorates the thirtieth anniversary of an event that is indelibly etched in the memo...

Boxers and Boxing in the Films When We Were Kings and Raging Bull

conscientiously misanthropic" (pp. 55). "Raging Bull" was about the life of a man who actually had something of a heart and was de...

Documentary Photography Defined

1980s and things change. From the 1980s to contemporary times, theoretical writing on art, film, popular culture, feminism and pol...

Medium Cool Film by Haskell Wexler

In five pages this paper examines the surrealism and documentary styles featured in Haskell Wexler's 1969 film with behaviorism an...

Documentary 'The West' by Ken Burns and Stephen Ives

This paper examines how information on the history of the West was presented in this PBS documentary series in five pages. There ...

Maverick Filmmaker Sam Fuller

been said that his films were against anything that he perceived as "anti-American." According to von Busack (1997), after Fulle...

Michel Foucault on Knowledge, Power, and Video Art

In six pages this paper examines how human interaction study can apply Michel Foucault's philosophies of knowledge and power as il...

Documentary Objectivity and Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will

In eight pages this paper considers the objectivity of documentary style filmmaking in this examination of Leni Riefensthahl's Tri...

A Comparison of Two Depictions of WWII

Soldiers of Destruction by Charles Sydnor and How Hitler Lost the War, the film documentary, are compared and contrasted in this t...

Third Cinema and Documentary Film

In eleven pages this paper examines the development of documentary films in this Third Cinema practice and theory overview. Nine ...

'Colored Journalism' in Michael Moore's 1989 Docudrama Roger and Me

a powerful and effective piece of cinematography, for in its subtlety and simplicity it displays the mark of excellence in tastefu...

Parts 2-5 of 'Eyes on the Prize'

voter registration of blacks, or talking back to a white person (38). One of these victims was Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old b...

A Review of the Television Presentation The Real Malcolm X

This five page paper analyzes the CBS television program. The documentary reviews the Nation of Islam alongside Malcolm X's belie...

Documentary Paradise Lost The Child Murders At Robin Hood Hills

more than the rest: mental illness. Indeed, an adolescent individual who is suffering from any one of many forms of mentally inst...

Cuba of Fidel Castro

Castro's Cuba is examined in terms of the book and subsequent documentary about Castro's 1959 Cuban Revolution and discusses the f...

Life and Works of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King

In three pages this paper that is based upon documentaries compares and contrasts Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. in terms of...

Analysis of 1976 Documentary The Kawelka Ongka's Big Moka

In two pages this documentary on the Papua, New Guinea tribe known as the Kawelka is discussed in terms of what an uncivilized cul...

Analysis of 1987 Documentary Cannibal Tours

In two pages Dennis O'Rourke's 1987 documentary is analyzed especially in terms of its effective employment of both irony and humo...

Analysis of 1964 Dead Birds Documentary

In two pages this ethnographic documentary that focuses on Western New Guinea's primitive tribe known as Dani is examined in terms...

Documentary Film on the Impact of the Tet Offensive on the Vietnam War

In three pages this essay considers a documentary on the Vietnam War and the impact of the infamous Tet Offensive. There is no bi...

Characteristics of Mexican Cinema

(Mexican Film Institute) and the British Film Institute, a major two-month season of Mexican Cinema presented at the National Fil...

Documentary Film Introduction to an End of an Argument

In four pages the Israelites are considered in a discussion of this film documentary. There are no other sources listed....

Overview of Documentary Television

to make it irrelevant whether or not the details are portrayed correctly. The distinction between narrative and fiction is that n...

Robert Drew and the Development of Cinema Vérité (Direct Cinema) in America by P.J. O'Connell

In five pages this paper provides a textual overview of Robert Drew's life and career as a documentary filmmaker with his influenc...