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The Police as Portrayed in La Haine by Mattleu Kassowitz

This essay discusses the function and characterization of the police as they are portrayed in Mattleu Kassowitz's movie La Haine (...

Female Stereotypes in Post-Modern and Current Media

careerist (brunette), who slug it out on a veranda, in a lily pond, or during a mud slide .... A metaphor for the struggle between...

Literature of Early America

In nine pages the religious messages of William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation, A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of...

Dune Film by Dino de Laurentiis and Perspective

In ten pages the symbolism and meaning evoked within the 1984 movie through sexual, performative, and queer angles are analyzed. ...

Martin Scorsese's Film GoodFellas and the Subculture It Portrays

In five pages this paper examines normal and deviant types of behavior, socialization, symbols, values, folkways, and mores within...

Film Critic Pauline Kael's Life and Influence

In seven pages this paper discusses New Yorker movie critic Pauline Kael's life, how her passion for cinema translated into a care...

Unforgettable 1996 Film Sling Blade

asylum where he had been sent as a youngster for killing his abusive mother and her boyfriend. A young boy named Frank befriends h...

Relationship Between Adolescence and Horror Films

In five pages this paper considers Aristotle's genre definition and the psychological theories of Sigmund Freud in this examinatio...

Horror Films and How They Have Evolved

Project" serves as an excellent example of a film-maker taking full advantage of the inherent fear of all modern humans regarding ...

Women and the Film Portrait of Teresa

In seven pages this paper examines the movie Portrait of Teresa in an examination of women's struggles and the control exerted by ...

Comedy Filmmaker Charles 'Little Tramp' Chaplinker

The filmmaking career of Charles Chaplin from the 'little tramp' movies to Modern Times in 1936 is explored in five pages. Six so...

The Many Forms of The Seventh Seal

The writer examines the development of Ingmar Bergman's classic movie The Seventh Seal, tracing it from a series of acting exercis...

Easy Rider

This 5 page paper delineates the importance of political expression as it manifests in this blockbuster movie. Mainstream cultur...

Joyce Chopra's Smooth Talk Film and Joyce Carol Oates' 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'

attracts someone she doesnt anticipate -- an considerably older man named Arnold Friend. Vaguely sinister from the beginning, Arno...

A Critique of Fantasia

clips from the video version, was astounded that Disney could ever have been associated with prejudice of any kind. "Its sort of ...

The Film The Glass Shield and Decision Making

In five pages a protagonist's difficult decisions are examined within the context of the 1994 movie with an analysis of ethical co...

Ethnic Poetry of Tato Laviera and Chitra Divakaruni

all whistle as she seductively moves her hips. The lover-hero of the film dances in, lip syncing to a song, which is "a little off...

Information Quantification

In five pages the qualification, quantification, and flow of information are considered within the context of the 1996 movie The R...

Dangerous Beauty Film and Roles Based on Gender

In five pages this 1998 movie is considered in a discussion of gender based roles and how sixteenth century Venetians managed to c...

Political Worldviews and Ideologies in the Films To Live and The Mission

In eleven pages this paper contrasts and compares the political worldviews and ideologies that are represented in Zhang Yimou's fi...

Fritz Lang's M and the Hollywood Impact of German Cinema

According to Kreimeier (1996), at its peak in 1921, the German film industry was literally cranking out some 600 films annually, m...

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...

Fact, Legend, and Fiction of King Arthur

In five pages this paper discusses the various depictions of King Arthur in the 1960 musical Camelot by Alan Jay Lerner and Freder...

Chinese Director Zhang Yimou's Western Film Elements

This paper examines director Zhang Yimou's commercial film success and the Western elements featured in his movies in 10 pages. F...

Critique of Stanley Kramer's Film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

In eight pages this paper critiques the 1967 film in terms of history and the social changes the movie was attempting to address r...

Cinematography in Battleship Potemkin and Citizen Kane

The cinematography in these movie classics are discussed in five pages. There are no other sources listed....

Defining a Classic - Casablanca

to watch everyone else who comes for the same reason. Intrigue is served with each glass. The plot clinks with the cubes about w...

Good Will Hunting Film Freudian Analysis

The movie Good Will Hunting is analyzed from a Freudian perspective in 5 pages. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

Persuasion in Print and Film

Modern movie adaptations of classic novels are often hard to compare to the originals. This report discusses the film version of P...

Tarantino and the director as auteur

This research paper argues that director Quentin Tarantino has earned the perspective of being considered the auteur of his films,...