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Stage and Screen Adaptations of Hamlet by William Shakespeare

identity. It is interesting to note that as he pulls on his "cloak of madness" that his true intellect becomes completely clouded ...

Paranoia, McCarthyism, and Film Noir

in the destructive power of nuclear energy. Osteen (1994) points out that few events have affected the American psyche in a manne...

Critiquing the Vietnam War Through Film

one-man conjecture about how Americas involvement in the Vietnam War according to the directors consistently biting tone; by provi...

Relationship Between Screenplay and Completed Film

In twenty pages this paper examines The Matrix in a discussion of the screenplay, the script, and the changes that are reflected i...

Wang's The Joy Luck Club Film and the Mythological Approach

forced to make an inner journey that she was loathe to make. This is often a key component in the mythological heros quest. He or ...

Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and Modern Cinema Fantasies

npa), the use of the fantasy genre allows the author or director to stand outside of the reality with which we are familiar, and g...

Animation Advancements in Geri's Game Short Film by Pixar

won in 1998. While "Geris Game" was clearly an innovative technical film, it did not win this award based on this aspect alone. Wh...

The Literary and Film Versions of Alcott's Little Women

are pleasant individuals who go through many different dilemmas, relatively simple dilemmas in the beginning. They become friends ...

Suburban Dream Subverted

In eight pages this paper examines the shift from Orson Welles' perceptions of the American Dream to the subversion represented in...

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 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 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...

Communication in Film Dead Poets Society

formula that proposes to plot the poems value on a graph, Keating denounces it and commands his students to rip the offending page...

Historical Revisionist Oliver Stone's Films Born on the Fourth of July and Platoon

come to overestimate his own value as a singular entity amidst an enormous universe. There is no doubt that Stones intention when...

Techniques of Filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock

The cuts are approximately equal in length. Finally Thornhill asks if hes supposed to meet someone and the stranger replies...

Critics of Michael Moore's Films

the facts themselves wrong, but that he manipulated them to mislead people (Nyhan). In one instance, Moore apparently "do...

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...

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...

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...

Film Gone With the Wind and Black Representation

darkies" (Leab 99). Focusing on the Atlanta plantation of Gerald and Ellen OHara, Gone With the Wind represented life for souther...

Ethical Views of the Movie Saving Private Ryan

the face of it, to go against the utilitarian principle of the "greatest good of the greatest number", taking a more long-term vie...

Films of Actor Bruce Lee

style, but did not really have the time to focus on its development until he suffered from a back injury and spent numerous months...

Film Documentaries and Traumatic or Moral Dilemma Representations

hide those Jews that were being persecuted by Hitlers war machine. He used his unsuccessful businesses as fronts to move various f...

Elements That Make Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ a Movie Worth Viewing

of a horror film, and the crucifixion of Jesus is without question one of the most horrific episodes in world history. There are ...

Hero’s Quest in the Film The Fisher King and in Epic of Gilgamesh

quest for the Holy Grail that were considered by filmmaker Terry Gilliam and screenwriter Richard LaGravenese in the 1991 movie Th...

Finding Forrester: Education and the Arts

respects it is not a film that illustrates how art education impacts students but how one student is inspired by art education and...

Finding Forrester

about how Jamal would not know a particular author whom Forrester begins quoting. Jamal proves him wrong, illustrating he does kno...

Comparing Film Versions of Twelfth Night

which is at the "heart of this piece, cannot stand such a strong dose of reality" (Brode 98). There is artificiality in abundanc...

The Validity of An Inconvenient Truth

has to do with accuracy. First, the film is well accomplished to an extent. Obviously, it is not as good as if it were done in som...

1920s’ Berlin, German Expressionism, and the Architecture and Lighting in Orson Welles’ Film The Trial

Expressionists were predicting an urban catastrophe even before the First World War, and within the ruins that still existed in th...