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Cardiac Surgery in Africa

This paper discusses a documentary film that follows eight Rweandan children as they go to a hospital for cardiac surgery. The chi...

"Music Within," The Story of Richard Pimentel

This essay presents a movie review of "Music Within," (2007, directed by Steven Sawalich). The film stars Ron Livingston as Richa...

French Ethnocentrism and Amelie

This essay pertain to the film Amelie (2001) and what the narrative tells viewers about French cultural assumptions and ethnocentr...

Avatar, A Sociological Perspective

This essay describes "Avatar," a film directed by James Cameron, and consider it from a sociological perspective. Three pages in l...

View of Women, Two 1950s Romantic Comedies

This paper presents an overview of "Pillow Talk" and "Desk Set," which are two fifties' era romantic comedies. The writer relates ...

Anomies According to Emile Durkheim and Robert Merton

This paper discusses typology of individual adaptations as is evidenced in the 1999 film American Beauty. There are two sources i...

Robert Lemon, Transfusion

This film review in on Robert Lemon's 2014 documentary "Transfusion," which portrays the complex cultural issues and meaning that ...

Comparing and Contrasting Dumbo (1941) with The Little Mermaid (1989)

in fact, alcohol is flaunted, despite the fact that the cartoon is made for a young audience. Dumbo also has a "drunken vision" (L...

Mis-En-Scene & Midnight Cowboy

dress of the other extras (all men) identifies them as working-class people. Theres a mug on the counter and the usual accessories...

2001 A Space Odyssey Film by Director Stanley Kubrick

opening sequence has been found buried beneath the surface of the moon. While Floyd and his colleagues are standing in front of th...

J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, Cultural Products, and Religion

hairy feet. As this suggests, they are humble beings, not heroes. Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit who is uncle to Frodo Baggins, entrusts ...

Artwork in the Films Basquiat and Crumb

he is the one telling us of his past and his art. He tells us that one time he took some drug that was supposedly LSD but he think...

Nineteenth Century America and Being White

be. 2. Agricultural economic base and need for labor. 3. Slavery introduced with indentured servants. Taken to the next level in ...

Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, Neil Jordan's The Crying Game, and Male Identity

out Dil, Jodys girlfriend. Ironically, painfully, and even humorously, Dil is actually a man (Hooper 43). It is worth noting t...

Francis Ford Coppola's Film The Godfather, Archetypes and the Hero's Journey

Furthermore, there are certain commonalties that run through the storylines of all epic writing. Examples of such include heroism,...

Transferring Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights to the Silver Screen

critics. The other reason that books seldom translate well to film is that in a screenplay all the senses are limited to the visu...

D.W. Griffith's Film Birth of a Nation and its Political Impact

artistic advancements, including a color sequence at the end" (Review of The Birth of a Nation, 2002). Furthermore, this film gre...

Portrayals of Minorities in America in The Color of Fear and True Colors

to the daughter of the influential and powerful Senator Stiles" (Anonymous Cusack and Spader show their True Colors, 2002; 5937&Se...

Europe and the Role of Germany

not Germany could survive unless it was intact. It had trouble assimilating. It had to maintain its strong position and upon refle...

Nikita Mikhalkov's 1993 Film Burnt by the Sun

risen from humble origins, to be transformed by Socialism into the man that Stalin should have been, but was not (Stone, 2002). He...

Film Melodrama

press appealed more in gender terms to male audiences(Neale, 63). In fact, Neale seems to think that the majority of the m...

Role in Civil Rights Movement, To Kill a Mockingbird

This essay utilizes literature to put forth the argument that Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, both the novel and the film adap...

"Lincoln" - Aspects of the Victorian Age

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the film, "Lincoln". Similarities to other works about the Victorian age, such as "...

Questions on Kozintsev's "Hamlet" (1964)

This paper offers analysis of film clips from Soviet director Grigori Kozintsev's "Hamlet" (1964). Three pages in length, two sour...

Neorealism in "Voyage to Italy" and "Open City"

In a paper of seven pages, the writer looks at Rossellini and Italian neorealism. Two films, "Open City" and "Voyage to Italy" are...

Hollywood Worldviews by Brian Godawa

and intriguing guide that advises readers on how to watch movies from a Christian perspective. Godawas purpose is not to evaluate ...

Film Review, Requiem for a Dream

This essay pertain to Darren Aronofsky's 2000 film "Requiem for a Dream, and describes how each of the characters' lives spiral in...

Book Report on Showdown by John H. Lenihan

of personal self-determination and responsible freedom that the realities of modern life and institutions seem to deny" (11). In t...

Saints and Soldiers, A Discussion

This essay pertains to "Saints and Soldiers," a 2003 film directed by Ryan Little. The writer provides a brief summary of the plot...

Films My Darling Clementine, Manhattan, and Identity

character and Brian, however, are that Brian did not go through a stage where he involved himself in an affair to ease the transit...