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Canada's Sikh Community

Canada's Sikh community is examined in an historical overview consisting of 13 pages....

Film and Novel Versions of Day of the Locust

In three pages an analysis of Tod Hackett's character is the primary focus of this comparative novel and film analysis of Day of t...

Howard Hawks' His Girl Friday (1940)

This essay provides analysis of several aspects of this 1940 screwball comedy directed by Howard Hawks. The analysis focuses on as...

Gender Identity Patient Disorder Diagnosis, Treatment, and the Film Boys Don’t Cry

by persistent discomfort with ones sex" (Meyenburg, 1999, p. 305). This gender identification with the opposite sex typically com...

The American Revolution in Fiction and in Film

to the settlement of the American frontier, Drums Along the Mohawk. It is the story of farmer Gil Martin and his privileged bride...

Immigration and the Gangs of New York

The film opens with a dramatization of a gang battle that occurred in 1846 between Irish gang, principally the "Dead Rabbits" led ...

Coen Brothers' Film O Brother, Where Art Thou?

in this film provides a means of relating the voyage that takes place without actually showing scene after scene of constant motio...

Comparative Analysis of the Poems 'My Last Duchess' and 'Portrait of a Lady'

this woman is not pushy, but rather has very definite feelings for this man. She feels a connection with him that his self-possess...

A Review of the Documentary Film, The Ax Fight

first place in response to a conflict between the villagers of Mishimishimabowei-teri and their visitors from another village (Ax ...

Universal Soldier Film and Analysis of Eroticism Analysis

UniSols have bodies of unmatched perfection and their memories have been supposedly erased, which allows their minds to be easily ...

Stanley Kubrick's 1960 Film Spartacus

most of the country. Thought the Roman legions are shown to be quite disorganized and are at the end of their empires zenith, they...

Hawkeye Analysis in The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

barbaric Native-American society. It was his hybrid nature that made Hawkeye somewhat of a cultural chameleon, but also m...

Filmmaker D.W. Griffith's Intolerance and The Birth of a Nation

because of the Civil War, and many of whom were still alive when the film was produced" (The Birth of a Nation PG). The director ...

Analysis of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony's Last Two Movements

that is first introduced by the cellos and double basses (Machlis 227). In this manner, the basic rhythm of the first movement is ...

Second World War Navajo Code Talkers Honoring Falls Short in John Woo's 2002 Film Windtalkers

The film opens with panoramic shot of Monument Valley, which is the home of the Navajo tribe (Doherty 36). The lulling serenity of...

Elizabeth Film Analyzed

to the personal allegiances of the Royals further ignited chaos and persecution. The fact that the film Elizabeth highlights the ...

Walter Benjamin, Historical Materialism and "Hiroshima, Mon Amour"

because of his insistence on seeing everything from the Marxist perspective. But perhaps most important in a discussion of the fi...

Humanity's Future, Science Fiction Visions

This essay pertains to the novel "Dawn" by Octavia Butler and the films "District 9" and "The Omega Man," and argues that each of ...

Analysis: Last Chapters of John K. Toole's Novel

This 3 page paper gives an overview of the final chapters in A Confederacy of Dunces. This paper includes elements of Goffman's co...

'1791' and 'Amadeus'

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

Da Vinci's Last Supper, A Theological Analysis

This paper discusses the theological content of Da Vinci's "Last Supper." Three pages in length, two sources are cited. ...

Filmmakers Bernardo Bertolucci and Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Shakespearean dialog as possible, in addition to the action of the drama (Geist, 1978 and See Also Eckert, 1972). The creative d...

Style and Substance: Analyzing the Film Scarface (1983)

Brian De Palma's film Scarface is analyzed in terms of aesthetics, narrative, cultural and historical contexts in 5 pages. The bi...

Cinema Historically Examined

who attempted their own interpretations of the new application. All along, the original inventors knew of their potential finding...

Cultural Context of Silent Film

This paper addresses the artistic and historical significance of three silent films, The Battleship Potemkin, Metropolis, and, The...

Fractals and Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper

In fifteen pages this paper interprets the fractals represented in the mural The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci and what this ge...

Book and Film Adaptations of the Life of Jackie Robinson

This paper consisting of five pages compares the text Baseball's Great Experiment Jackie Robinson and His Legacy with the film Bi...

Latin American Film Series for Americans Creation Proposal

In eleven pages this paper proposes a Latin American historical and cultural film series for Americans in an overview of various u...

A Review of the Film, Diary Of Anne Frank

This paper analyzes the historical accuracy of the film version of the famous diary from Nazi Germany. This three page paper has ...

An Analysis of the Film, Ben-Hur

This paper discusses the film, Ben-Hur from a historical and Biblical perspective. This five page paper has four sources listed i...