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Howard Hawks' 1946 Film The Big Sleep

of the classic noir characteristics, it also thumbed its nose at the use of flashbacks. There were no voice-over narrations, with ...

Character Noting in William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing

Likewise, Beatrice vows that she will never marry. However, the audience can see from the beginning that there is an attraction be...

Two Different Viewpoints on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

and Titania, king and queen of the fairies, are introduced as well as members of an amateur acting troupe who are rehearsing the p...

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...

Analysis of 2 Horror Films

adding to aid of gloom. As this suggests, in Frankenstein, the X factor is primarily shown overtly, using aspects of the cinemat...

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare and its Theme of 'Taming'

strong man to dominate his wife. There were few constraints placed upon male behavior whereas for women it was quite the opposite...

Analysis of Rashomon

has probably viewed this film, this writer/tutor has not. Also, the Paper Store charges a considerable fee for watching a film in ...

The Situation Comedy from the 1950s through the Present

would be addressed. Todays comedies are less stereotypical and generally contain a message. Douglass explains that the "succes...

Coen Brothers' O Brother, Where Art Thou Sirens and KKK Scenes Analyzed

of a directors wish to go into a more exciting creative direction by deviating from his formulaic musical comedies and instead mak...

Significance of Vernacular in "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer and "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri

Comedy." His Italian allegory depicts the Christian hereafter that is subdivided into cantos of Inferno (hell), Purgatorio (purga...

Scene Analysis from The Godfather

of an older man, with full jowls and thinning hair. Reportedly, Brando wore a prosthetic device in his mouth to produce the protr...

The Tempest Play by William Shakespeare and the Film Version by Julie Taymor

focused on Shakespeares perspectives on innocence and its consequences. As envisioned by Shakespeare according to his stage direc...

Melodrama as Both Tragedy and Comedy

retelling of the Faust legend; the story of the man who sells his soul to the devil in return for success and love in this world. ...

"It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" - Analysis

show Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia an unlikely success is something of an understatement. It dares to joke about abortion, the...

Minor Characters in Candide

views of his day through his commentary. James, as an Anabaptist, was considered less than human by many of Europes more conventio...

“The Castle”

They have decided to acquire it so that the airport can be expanded. Thus, the working class Kerrigan family is pitted against th...

The Golden Age Comedy of Voltaire And Moliere

For many historians, the comedy styles and content of the works of Moliere and Voltaire represent the pinnacle of 18th century Fre...

Artistic Expression in Film

This paper examines how artistic expression can be conveyed through cinematic expression. The author also addresses censorship, c...

Historical Literature and Family Dynamics

In five pages this report examines how family dynamics were portrayed in epic literature in a consideration of Sappho's poetry, Ar...

French Cinema's 'New Wave'

In 5 pages this paper discusses the Nouvelle Vague or New Wave French cinematic movement of the Fifties and Sixties in a considera...

Apocolypse Now

Coppola also uses the aspect of theater, which acknowledges that each member of the audience will bring with them, to the theater,...

Comedies of the English Restoration

entertainment. This particular period of English history (1642-1660) had been called the Interregnum." Morality was closely moni...

Feminist Cinematic Theory and Psychoanalysis

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

Female Characters as Spectators in Early Cinema

This paper examines the heavily male-influenced film industry as it related to the roles played by female characters. The author ...

The Theme of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: Things Aren’t Always What They Seem

run away, thus setting up the main action of the plot, because the man she loves, Lysander, agrees to run away with her. They end ...

Films and the Issue of Privacy

somewhat difficult; she appears to be one of those writers who will not use one word where she can cram in three. In addition, she...

Stanley Kubrick's Auteur Film Style in A Clockwork Orange and 2001 A Space Odyssey

In eight pages this paper examines Kubrick's definitive auteur film styles as they are represented in these films and compares the...

Film Noir and McCarthyism

and the even larger political responses of the Truman administration created a realm in which the primary purpose was to protect t...

Realism in Martin Scorsese's Film Raging Bull

In five pages cinematic realism is compared and contrasted with film noir and surrealism with the focus being how in the film Ragi...

The Sociological Phenomenon That Was Andy Kaufman

In six pages the conflicting views on this late comic's career are noted while the writer applauds his uncompromising slice of Ame...