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Inside Man and Bourne Ultimatum

the service of the agency" (McCarthy). Both films offer up an individual that is, in one way or another, presumed to be a bad gu...

Dangerous Minds Movie and Gender

well into adulthood. However, Lorber points out, "Individual actions construct social institutions and therefore... changes in in...

Analyzing a Visual Text of a Cyclops

his disposal beyond his huge physical size. It would seem no human could be safe against this creature that could easily pierce o...

The Film American Gangster and the Social Issues It Raises

as icon ... you dont cast Denzel Washington unless youre willing to accept that charisma is often the secret weapon of the success...

Gender, Film, the Male Gaze and Female Filmmakers

so that when he sees himself in the mirror, "the recognition of himself is joyous in that he imagines his mirror image to be more ...

A Critical Interpretation of Fight Club

is bored out of his skull with his job and his life. His doctor advises him to go to support club meetings for people who are rea...

Bend It Like Beckham and Intercultural Communications

her bedroom wall and uses this to confide in. However, even at this very early level there are indication of the culture clash and...

Contemporary Cinema and the Use of Cyborgs

twentieth century, people are all chimeras, or mythic hybrids of machine and organism, or cyborgs (Haraway, 1991). In Western sci...

Film Entertainment and Native Americans

out of the selection" (Mikiro). They have never really been presented in film, showing how Natives were actually treated. One o...

Los Angeles and Its Cinematic Images

to do is wait and persist and she will eventually love him. While Tod is also not successful in his goal, he realizes that the cul...

The Multi-Phobic 'What About Bob?'

again and make everyone else in my life think you are wonderful and Im a shmuck. But Im not a shmuck Bob, and Im not going to let...

Film Industry of South Africa

of money used to market them, and they are distributed to theaters via a well-understood network of distributors. These condition...

The Dance Film, 'Tap'

dance in his life. What makes this film powerful in its presentation of dance is that it makes the viewer aware of the passiona...

William Friedkin's Film, 'The Exorcist'

approach the demon with great trepidation; although they both know they harbor the protection of God while on their mission to exo...

Producing and Distributing Short Films

mistakes will occur. A novice director frequently has difficulty keeping a "clear head" in regards to the scenes as they unfold ...

Hollywood's Classic Film Maltese Falcon

employed, whose most significant feature is to make the cut seem invisible. This is achieved through such devices as shot/reverse-...

Cinema and the Placement of Products

as did the movie companies, which realiszed that the sweet manufacturer hadnt paid a cent" (Goodwin, 2002). With these realities p...

Angels and Demons Should be Put Into Film

and thus stands as something that would attract audiences. Another reason why this novel would do well is in relationship to th...

Abnormal Psychology and the Film Copycat

is a virtual prisoner in her home (Copycat). She has withdrawn from both work and her life and the only contact she has with the o...

The Film Chicago and Rick Altman's Guidelines

necessarily a love triangle, more like opportunists trying to manipulate each other. Both of the women attempt to seduce Flynn an...

Using Mass Media to Argue for Gun Control

incidence of fire breaking out during operations. In one of ABCs 20/20 episodes in 1998, the audience was cautioned that this ha...

Film as Nightmare '28 Days Later'

course, 28 days later, when a bicycle courier named Jim (Cillian Murphy) awakens from a coma and finds himself in an abandoned hos...

American Culture and Actress Bette Davis

or rouged (Brabazon, 2000, p. 98). At an awards ceremony, Davis was asked if she regretted not being the sort of movie star that w...

Film, Identity, and Language

has remade her into a woman who is now his equal, at least in terms of speech, and since she is "suitable" he finds her intriguing...

Film as Religion by John Lyden

What is generally missed, according to Lyden, is that regardless of cinematic content, audiences receive all the messages of a fil...

Critical Response to the Film The Gods Must Be Crazy

anthropological data on this tribe, it is impossible to say precisely where this assessment errs, but err it must, simply because ...

Social Process Theory and the Film American History X

1998). Derek is induced into joining a neo-Nazi movement by a older hate-monger played by Stacy Keach, who uses him as a neighbo...

Popular Culture, Gender Constructs, and 'New Femininities'

and behaviours, and seen as being in direct opposition to "femininity", which is equally constrained in its parameters, and define...

Coen Brothers' Film O Brother Where Art Thou? and Marxist Themes

McGill spins a yarn about buried ill-gotten gains ($1.2 million) that he promises to share (Berardinelli). In their journey, the...

Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma

but always something that is made in a four-party meaning-situation. An author... circulates a text... to an audience... whose pe...