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Film Comparison of Sergei Eisenstein's The Battleship Potemkin and Vittorio de Sica's Bicycle Thieves

realistically with the rise of Fascism in Italy, as well as with the war itself and with the social problems that it left behind"....

Psychoanalytic View of Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 Film Psycho

film manipulates the audience at every turn, so that the audience is compelled to examine their own sympathies and perspective. ...

Spectator in Alfred Hitchcock's Film Rear Window

action shot at a car race. To rely on an old clich?, he is "bored to tears." He spends most of his convalescent time sitting at th...

Postmodern Artifact Film A Chinese Ghost Story

and contexts will merge in the production of the film. In examining the film as a post-modern artefact it may be argued that as...

Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Identity and the Film Version of the Novel

also accompanied by his assistant researcher, Allen Fuso, an Irish-Italian Catholic who is much more comfortable with statistics t...

American History X Film and Portrayal of Group Norms

commit violence on anyone who is not white and protestant for any small reason. They will deliberately instigate events so as to d...

Finding Forrester Themes of Education and Racism

At the same time, there are two teachers in this work who are at odds. They are of course Forrester and Crawford. Forrester actua...

1920s' Soviet Films and the Uses of Montage

of tape and combines them to emphasize their meaning. It is a method by which through two unrelated shots we may create a third an...

Cinematic Comparison of Threads, The Day After, and Testament

(originally produced to be shown on PBS, but later received theatrical distribution), which starred Jane Alexander and focused upo...

Portrayals of Minorities in America in The Color of Fear and True Colors

to the daughter of the influential and powerful Senator Stiles" (Anonymous Cusack and Spader show their True Colors, 2002; 5937&Se...

Opening Sequence Analysis of the 1979 Film Apocalypse Now

foundation, upon which the subsequent action and characterizations are constructed. The mise-en-scene, which is featured in the o...

Modern Africa and Education's Significance

and attitudes from the Western world that are needed as the first step towards development (Lewis, 2002). Unfortunately, Western m...

Cinematic Portrayal of Greek Virtue and Philosophers

84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...

Lawrence of Arabia by Filmmaker David Lean

Passage to India. However, his creative pinnacle is largely acknowledged to be the wildly successful (both critically as well as ...

Films One Night at McCool's, The Usual Suspects and Their Narratives

one central character which functions as the narrative object (Telotte, 2003). In other words, this character is typically define...

Luchino Visconti's Film Ludwig from a Sociopolitical Perspective

which attacks everything the ruling class stands for (Ludwig). The cinematic protagonist is the last Bavarian king (1845-1886), a...

Relationship Between Sacajawea and Lewis and Clark

follows the expedition of these men, going in sequential order to the actual places the "real" Lewis and Clark had many years befo...

Comparison of Cinematography in Citzen Kane and Casablanca

"More importantly, the innovative, bold film is an acknowledged milestone in the development of cinematic technique. It uses film ...

A Difficult Death v. A 'Good' Death

film we have Joe who has suffered incredible wounds in WWI. He cannot talk nor can he see. He cannot hear and his arms and legs ar...

Reality Verses Fiction Portrayals of Terrorism Such as that in The Siege

thing as targeting other ethnic groups" (Ebert PG). Ebert goes on the draw comparisons as to the treatment given to Arab-America...

The Film 'A Thousand Acres' Four Psychological Theoretical Reviews

Cordelia character actually evolves as more of a villain than victim. Dramatic Interpretation From a dramatic perspective, it is ...

Love Stereotypes in Literature and Cinema

screen is transitory at best. This movie asks the question: Is love merely going through the motions? Is beauty a trap? Are women ...

Cinematic Comparison of Oliver Stone's Platoon and John Wayne's The Green Berets

admit he hasnt, but soon remedies that by accompanying Kirby and his men on a mission to defend their firebase from the Vietcong s...

3 Films and Their Structures

is no truly artistic use of the camera aside from working towards presenting us perhaps with the perspective of every day life. Th...

The Siege Film by Edward Zwick

a bus bombing incident and after the attacks intensify in violence and frequency, he becomes convinced these are not isolated inci...

Novel and Film Versions of The Rainmaker

the hospital commissary where Rudy is studying for the bar exam. In the book, Kelly and Rudy have met previously. Rudy comments ...

An Analysis of the Film, Big Fat Liar

evidence of the mixed critical reaction to this film, The Tampa Tribune critic Bob Ross disagrees, calling Big Fat Liar "a showbiz...

Controversy Surrounding the Historical Drama, Lean on Me.

In this we see that the principal, wielding a bat, may be seen as a violent individual himself, thus not offering the students a g...

Central Characters, the Ideals of Strength and Devotion in Dancer in the Dark and Breaking the Waves Films by Lars von Trier

are based on a childrens story which made an impression on him when he was a child. The childrens story is a tale in which "a litt...

Gangs of New York Film and New York Gangs of the Nineteenth Century

gangs" ("Gangs," 2003). Rival gangs include the Irish and the Natives, two groups that were usually present, but again, not the on...