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About Those Incredible Incredibles

happen to a society that no longer needed or wanted its superheroes. This paper argues that the film is much more than a "cartoon"...

The Cider House Rules/John Irving

are complex works, as this narrative relates strongly held beliefs on the controversial issue of abortion. While the student resea...

Blood Diamond - Paying for Death with Luxury

horrifying story of the evil of greed, set against the backdrop of the Sierra Leone civil war. This paper explores the messages of...

The Little Horse That Could

entirely different media. It is unfair of movie audiences to expect a director to put their favorite book on screen, scene-for-sce...

The Hours

situation and her death. In addition, Cunningham illustrates the importance of the subject of suicide, setting the stage for under...

Modern Masculinity/Tough Guise

of women include cosmetics, clothes, anything having to do with food preparation or childrearing. Products sold using images of me...

Stand By Me as a Model of Male Friendship

when we have loving families and a circle of friends than we do on our own. This paper considers the psychology of the male/male f...

Organized Crime from the Personal Viewpoint

This paper explores some of the beliefs regarding these criminal organizations. Discussion Its probably fair to say that most peo...

QUALITY COMMITMENT - INDEPENDENT FILMS

Scripts go through many rewrites up to the day of the scene production (and sometimes even through the scene production (Sherwood,...

Television and Film Production

growth spurt following the war and, at that time, the relationship between the film and television industries was one of antagonis...

Othello on the Stage and on Film

the others are Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear and all of them display a writer at the height of his powers. They have been popular ...

Reality on the Screen: District 9

and unexpected, hit for its makers. Shot in South Africa by a newcomer and with a cast of unknowns, the film did have one big name...

Racial Profiling: The Classroom as the Base of Societal Change

consequences. It can lead to children repeating the actions of perceived heroes that may get them incarcerated. It also leads to e...

James Bond and Violence from Connery to Craig

society is violent and the films reflect that. Bond is also, in truth, an anti-hero. Hes supposedly a "good guy," but in reality h...

Hallucinations, Possession Trance And Religious Authenticity: Hollywood's Accurate Interpretation

benefit of any mutilating tool; Sands (2001) notes that to suggest this trance - or hallucination - is motivated by anything other...

Forest Gump, Ray, And Dangerous Minds

Association for Retarded Citizens was organized (Education Encyclopedia, 2006). In the 1960s, parents became even stronger in thei...

History and Evolution of Documentary Film

number has increased to 1,000; by 1901, to 1,299 titles" (Adventures in Cybersound, 2007). This was the beginning of the documenta...

Representation of African Americans in Film: Rush Hour 2

enjoy his vacation but pushes aside that vacation to help his friend find retribution for the murder of his father. There are mome...

Analysis: "The Tell Tale Heart"

the murder has no real basis in reality; the old man had never hurt him, and he has no desire to rob him: "Object there was none. ...

Robert McNamara and Sun Tzu

and dodged the most important matters, continually laying the blame for the killing of millions at the feet of others (Cockburn, 2...

Margaret Mead's Contribution to Ethnographic Film

to capturing reality, and artistic flair was considered, but they were not privy to the aesthetic possibilities that exist today. ...

A Sociological Analysis of Hannibal Lecter

in a particular human being, but it recognizes that a set of behaviors, socioeconomic status, biology and so forth create predicto...

Is "Malcolm X" and Orientalist Film?

as an alien, dangerous and strange religion, Said says that he has "not been able to discover any period in European or American h...

The Relationship of Men in Gangster Films

to each other only by code names ("Mr. Pink," "Mr. White", etc.). They relate to each other mainly by wisecracks ("Do I have to be...

"Flatliners": Do the Ends Justify the Means?

of the participants brings something nasty back from the "other side" (James, 1990). It appears that at least one of the things th...

Methodology Used in An Inconvenient Truth

to emanate from the Tufte piece, one of which is the fact that PowerPoint presentations have aesthetic problems and so, they are u...

The Titanic

a historical event and also its creation of a fictional love story. In this film there is a woman, Rose, who is very wealthy and...

Mis-En-Scene & Midnight Cowboy

dress of the other extras (all men) identifies them as working-class people. Theres a mug on the counter and the usual accessories...

Clinical Issues in the Film “Transamerica”

who were obscuring their identities by dressing as American Indians (Levine, 1994). Times have most certainly changed s...

Cronenberg: "A History of Violence"

in films today. The protagonist at the heart of Allens films is conflicted, neurotic, and a bumbler who usually manages, somehow, ...