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This paper considers the continuing relevance of this Shakespearean comedy through its themes of men and women, love and marriage ...
This essay pertains to Annie Hall (1977), which was directed and co-written by Woody Allen. The writer maintains that this was a g...
This essay pertains to Pillow Talk (1959), which the writer describes as a classic sex comedy. To support this position, the write...
William Shakespeare's comedy is analyzed in terms of how the relationships of Olivia and Orsino, Cesario/Viola and Orsino, and Ces...
This paper examines how scapegoats propel the comedy of William Shakespeare's play in the characterizations of Don John, Claudio, ...
adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway short story, directed by Robert Young and produced in 1997. The protagonist of this short film ...
1895 play, The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde created a work that many critics feel is the epitome of the Victorian come...
of its first publication in 1845, Edgar Allan Poes poem "The Raven" has been an element in American cultural influencing the publi...
as relatively nonthreatening throughout the course of the film, which actually makes it even more sinister. The theme of go...
of Harper Lees novel To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Robert Mulligan, is a cinema classic that continues to move each new gener...
adaptation of Harper Lees novel To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Robert Mulligan, is a cinema classic that continues to move eac...
plays make it clear that Shakespeare is being funny. However, one of the many examples of Shakespeares masterful skills is demonst...
neorealistic filmmakers, such as Rossellini, Vittorio DeSica and Cesare Zavattini, was to make a "moral statement," which forces ...
an extremely abbreviated version of the play. Well over half the dialogue of the original play has been condensed or eliminated i...
its ruler and padding back to America in search of the woman who scorned his advances when he was nothing more than a lowly consum...
easy to see how Leans grasp of cinematography and his ability to create and drive plots throughout the directing and filming proce...
statement that Social Fascism and Nazism actually worked. At the time, the Games did the job: Shirer noted that "the athletes from...
the boy some cookies. Marlow meets one of the men from his company, on the street and joins him in his hut office, but after a sh...
series of flashback scenes, it becomes apparent that Kane, though quite wealthy, does not know who he is anymore. Having risen fro...
money, not religion. Organ, a simplistic, but good man, has allowed Tartuffe to come into his home and take dominance over his fam...
This 9 page paper gives an overview of the book The Divine Comedy by Dante. This paper includes examples form the test to explain ...
This paper discusses the work of French film director Chris Marker. The writer address his cinematic style, his topics and his psy...
This essay pertains to "The Comedy of Errors" (1594) and "Twelfth Night" (1601) by William Shakespeare and "The Rivals" (1775) by ...
This essay provides analysis of several aspects of this 1940 screwball comedy directed by Howard Hawks. The analysis focuses on as...
This essay presents an overview of how love is used thematic in various texts, which includes Dante's Divine Comedy, Chaucer's Can...
This essay describes how comedy was achieved in two science fiction films, "Star Trek IV: the Voyage Home" and "Galaxy Quest." Th...
This essay uses research to offer an overview of "Cool Hand Luke," a 1967 film directed by Stuart Rosenberg. Cinematic features, s...
This paper presents an overview of "Pillow Talk" and "Desk Set," which are two fifties' era romantic comedies. The writer relates ...
This paper pertains to Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of "Hamlet." The writer describes the overall film and the cinematic devices ...
This essay focuses on the 1773 play by Oliver Goldsmith, "She Stoops to Conquer," which is an eighteenth century play that is stil...