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Expressionism in Film

rolling down a hillside and coming ominously to rest" (Morris, 2000). Following the template set by Caligari, Lang also delves int...

Will Hunting

inherently linked to learned and imitated processes. Will Hunting is a character who demonstrates vast intelligence and a...

Analysis: “Hoosiers,” the Film

resonates with the viewers and that, in part, is why the film is so successful (Short and Short). In addition, writer and Angelo...

Sci-Fi Films: Radiation Monsters and Homestick Aliens

(Bacchus, 2007). The atomic age is the real villain here, because its radiation from the atomic testing in New Mexico that causes ...

Apocalypse Now and the Vietnam War

but be of a military mind and take such realities as par for the course in warfare. There may be others who used the war to make t...

The “Communist Manifesto” and “All Quiet on the Western Front”

War can be seen as an event that ends in ruin for all concerned. He also says that society in general was dividing into two "grea...

Hamlet and Ofelia and the Threats They Face

the not-too-distant past; the guards on the battlements talk about how the previous King Hamlet "smote the sledded [Polacks] on th...

“Antz” & Emile Durkheim

labor. Rather than being totally dependent on custom, these societies are held together primarily through mutual obligation betwee...

Reaction: “The Heart Broken in Half”

that adolescence is a time of life that skews peoples thinking. People the age of the Latin Kings have a terrifying illusion of im...

The Portrayal of Schizophrenia in “A Beautiful Mind”

seems to ring true" (Rosenstock, 2003). In the film, Nashs hallucinations take a visual form; his roommate, the man he believes re...

Hitchcock’s Auteur Vision: “Rear Window”

they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. In The Birds, for instance, Melanie (Tippi Hedren) pursues Mitch (Rod Taylor), a m...

Editing and Narrative

are used to match up, such as a person getting out of a chair and then being shown form a different angle entering a room. The use...

Three American Families

someone was sick, or out of a job, or when things were going wrong, they asked God for help (Rodriguez). At home, "God the Father ...

The History of Hollywood

and while the film industry was just a gleam in the eye of motion picture gurus, the industry would later become important to Holl...

Bill Lumbergh, the World’s Worst Manager

and emotionlessly micromanages his employees while engaging them with superficial small talk" (Office Space, 2008). Lumberghs la...

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...

U.S. Public Education as Shown in “Teachers”

Brussat, 2007). A student bites a teacher; a gym coach "has sex with three students"; a boy is shot and killed; and the school, wh...

Popular Culture of 1950s America

not something that sprung up in the 1990s or 1980s. Yes, it is a 1950s phenomenon ("Film History of the 1950s"). McDonalds was fra...

Mis-En-Scene Analysis, Mildred Pierce

an afternoon off and a swim. At the beach house, the first camera shot has Monte showing a closet full of bathing suits (Dirks)....

Family in A Raisin in the Sun and American Beauty

kind of money people like Lester makes. He has all these schemes and dreams and he ultimately learns they are pointless, just as L...

“Gattaca”: Analysis

and society would become even more fragmented than it already is. The question also arises: do we have the right to design our chi...

British National Cinema in the 1980's

identity in relation to the various products of the national and international film and television industries, and the conditions ...

Tokyo Story as a Reflection of Conditions in Post World War II Japan

such a level of significance which allows it to be seen as a representation of the issues which are applicable to the society, and...

American Popular Culture of 1951 Represented in James Jones’ Best-Selling Novel From Here to Eternity and George Stevens’ Film A Place in the Sun

in explicit language and vivid descriptions of sexuality that were shocking within the conservative cultural context of the period...

Relevance of “The Doctor” to Assessment and Appraisal

a doctor has to treat the whole person. Many studies have shown that patients resent it when doctors think of them simply as their...

A Sociological Interpretation of Million Dollar Baby

death, Maggies family comes to see her just to secure their inheritance, something that brings money into the picture. Clearly, th...

Realism and Expressionism in Film

"realists," saying that what they "had in common was a desire to put cinema at the service of what ... [he] called a fundamental f...

“The Thirteenth Floor”

Angeles finds out hes not real, he sets the rest of the film in motion. The questions are: what makes contemporary LA different f...

Antwone Fisher and Menace II Society

there is a certain allure to the way in which both Caine and O-Dog are portrayed. Cinema has since its inception been one of the...

What the Bleep Do We Know Exercise

2006, p.34). Conversely, if one imagines their day as something that will be wonderful, good things are more likely to occur. It m...