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1995 Film By John Singleton, Higher Learning

In five pages this report examines the 3rd film effort by director John Singleton in a discussion of content, prejudice, and issue...

Films My Brilliant Career, Annie Hall, Educating Rita, and The Piano and the Portrayal of Strong Women

This paper examines women's roles and status and how they are portrayed in a comparative analysis of these films consisting of eig...

American Dream Defined in Poltical, Social, and Cultural Landscape Transformations

In five pages prejudice and bias that result from behavioral and cultural differences are considered in terms of the works 'The Sp...

The Fly Film by David Cronenberg

In eight pages this 1986 film is examined in terms of the horror genre and how it has always warned against the social changes res...

Workers Rights Portrayed in Norma Rae

In five pages this paper examines the ways in which workers' rights were portrayed in the film Norma Rae within the context of 193...

Groundhog Day Film, Gay Science, and Friedrich Nietzsche

In seven pages this paper answers student submitted questions regarding such topics including how the Bill Murray film represents ...

Novel and Film Versions of The English Patient

physical gestures clearly demonstrate her anguish as she drops her head to the table, leaving the audience only to imagine the pai...

Blade Runner and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

In a paper consisting of 5 pages Ridley Scott's film and Philip K. Dick's novel are compared in terms of characterization and huma...

Analysis of Ang Lee's Film The Wedding Banquet

is partly based on the experiences of one of its writers, Neil Peng), focuses on Wai-Tung, a gay yuppie and his lover, Simon -- th...

Arthurian Legend in Bernard Cornwell's Excalibur A Novel of Arthur and John Boorman's Film Excalibur

The different Arthurian legend portrayals of this novel and film are contrasted and compared in eight pages. There are no other s...

3 Postmodern Works Analyzed

In six pages this research paper compares how postmodern perspectives manifest themselves in director Peter Greenaway's film The C...

Francis Ford Coppola's Film Apocalypse Now Analyzed

In eleven pages this paper analyzes the 1979 film in terms of the way Coppola's Vietnam manifesto also represents the subconscious...

Communication Skills Teaching and the Movie To Sir with Love

way to get a job and keep it. By treating the kids as adults and giving respect, he begins to get it back in turn, along with at...

Authority and Power in Edward Zwick's Film Glory

In five pages Zwick's film based on Col. Robert G. Shaw's letters is analyzed in terms of how a multiracial setting addresses auth...

A Review of A Bronx Tale

A 6 page essay reviewing both the film and print versions of this popular tale. Both the negative and positive aspects of America...

Filmmakers Stanley Donen and Vincent Minnelli

In ten pages the directing styles of film musical directors Stanley Donen and Vincent Minnelli are contrasted and compared in term...

An Analysis of Citizen Kane

This research report looks at this well known classic film.A great deal of information is included in this report that not only pr...

Book and Film Hiroshima, Mon Amour and the Use of Psychological Setting

In seven pages this paper analyzes the significance of psychological setting in both the book and film interpretations of Hiroshim...

'Libation Bearers' and 'Manchurian Candidate'

This is a paper that is 5 pages in length and draws parallel's between Aeschylus's work in the fifth century and the twentieth cen...

Horror Cinema and German Expressionism

anxiety, continue through most of his lifes work. "Illness, madness and death were the black angels that kept watch over my cradl...

Masahiro Shinoda's 1984 Film, 'MacArthur's Children'

is this so? Intolerance is a significant factor among the many reasons countries enter into world conflicts. Coupled with the fa...

Intertextual Relationship Between Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight and Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho

In eleven pages the ways in which Welles' interpretation of a quintet of Shakespeare plays was incorporated into Gus Van Sant's co...

Orson Welles' 1952 Film Othello

Iago - played by Michael MacLiammoir Iago is roughly thrust into the cage, and by means of a creaking iron wheel and pulley, the ...

Critique of Stanley Kramer's Film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

In eight pages this paper critiques the 1967 film in terms of history and the social changes the movie was attempting to address r...

Book and Movie Versions of The Natural by Bernard Malamud

stories in that it takes the form of the medieval morality play. In this discussion we will examine the contrast between the nove...

Tech Noir Film Genre and Its Contributions

somehow harm society or even annihilate the world. There is fear of nuclear warfare which is a popular theme in the genre. There i...

'Hawksian Women' of Director Howard Hawks

In five pages this paper considers how Hawks portrayed women in his films with a discussion of Katharine Hepburn in Bringing Up Ba...

The Dominance of the U.S. in Films

for American dominance in films. History Historical studies dealing with responses to American film dominance have tended to emph...

1930s and 1940s' British Cinema and its Heterogeneous Mix

In seven pages the heterogeneity of such British films of the period as Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 The Lady Vanishes and Zoltan Korda...

'1791' and 'Amadeus'

post as court composer and imperial Kapellmeister). In the movie Salieris music is simpleminded - this could have never been the ...