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The Classic Film Casablanca

The writer explores the plot, characters, setting and other elements of the 1942 classic film Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart...

An Analysis of Patriarchy in Casablanca

A 5 page discussion of the ever present force of patriarchy in this classic film. This author observes that the dramatic ending i...

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...

Casablanca Film's Propaganda and History

In five pages this 1943 film by director Michael Curtiz is examined in terms of both its Second World War period history and how i...

Second World War and Casablanca Film

to matter little, since the war upon which the story was based also, at that time, had no end in sight. In order to ensure the sc...

Purple Heart and Casablanca, Messages to the American Public in the Turbulent Years of World War II

foreign war" (Nachbar). In 1941, the House of Representatives the measure to continue the military draft passed by a single vote ...

We'll Always Have Paris

The writer analyzes the 1942 classic film Casablanca, and argues that Rick Blaine, played by Humphrey Bogart, is the archetypal re...

Film Noir Techniques in the Film, Kiss Me Deadly

flag down a car, but no one stops. Desperate, she positions herself in the middle of the road while holding her arms outstretched ...

Trio of Historic Films Examined

In ten pages a trio of historic films answer questions pertaining to cinematic theories, techniques, styles, emotions, and editing...

Play It, Sam

rest of the film details the relationships among the three principles, as well as the crafty Police Prefect, Louis Renault (Claude...

"The Asphalt Jungle" and "Citizen Kane" as Classics of Film Noir

before. Perhaps the iconic model here is Barbara Stanwyck luring Fred MacMurray to his doom in Double Indemnity. But there is an...

Film Noir Techniques in the Film, Gilda

what the audience is viewing with his own subjective observations. In his consideration of film noir, Jon Tuska (1984) noted that...

An Analysis of Heroism and the Journey in Star Wars

An eight page research paper considering the literary concept of the hero's journey in this classic science fiction film by direct...

Narrative Construction in “Rear Window”

ultimately meaningless and pointless. An audience member, however, wants to understand whats happening, and uses a film narrative ...

Two Versions of Frankenstein

and had been released some months earlier (Biodrowski). The novel, which has the subtitle of "The Modern Prometheus," is "a sort o...

Power, Sexuality, and Impotence in The Trial

abuse of this abstract hierarchy of power, which can so easily be turned against an innocent man. The propensity of human beings t...

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...

Establishing a Genre Movie in 'Singin' In The Rain'

This 9 page essay considers how the theatrical presence in the film is developed stylistically through textural characteristics of...

Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night/On Film

a take on the play that is patterned after the screwball comedies of the 1930s, as "Beatrice and Benedick are surely the prototype...

Something Wicked This Way Comes (Book Review)

the work very quickly and this is attributable to the quality of the writing. An example comes from the first paragraph in the fir...

The Illusionist as Myth

The God of the Waning Year is associated with the sacrificial victim, whose death was believed necessary in order for the earth to...

Whitman: "Song of Myself"

except "en-masse" (Morace). Whitman refers to equality again in Section 5 when he says "...all the men ever born are also my brot...

Beowulf

(VII). In this he is telling Beowulf that he had many apparently noble men claiming they would get rid of the beast but they drank...

A New England Tradition: Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall”

they are lifting boulders and at others, they only have to worry about shifting small stones (Frost). The main thing is, they are ...

Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

rules. Dr. Jekyll was the perfect example of such a man, a man who did the right things, acted in the correct manner, and never st...

A Comparison of Communist Manifesto and Candide

proletariat. Marx notes firstly that the interests of communists do not differ from the interests of the proletariat as a class; t...

An Overview of Fellowship of the Ring

result of Bilbos leaving, is given possession of the ring. He is informed by Gandalf, a wizard and friend, that he must keep the r...

Forms, Immortal Soul, and Defining Virtue in Phaedo and Meno by Plato

different aspects of individual virtue can be seen to be included. Meno offers the suggestion that virtue can be defined as the wi...

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

This 5 page paper examines some of the themes in Tolstoy's classic novel of love, betrayal, social ostracism and death....

'Aeneid' and 'The Odyssey' Number Three

In four pages this paper examines evaluates the acceptability of the protagonists' actions in these classic literary works by Virg...