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Film Genre Known as 'The Musical'

diegetic music and spoken/sung dialogue (Altman 297-298). This film genre has historically consisted of three evocative forms. F...

Martin Scorsese's Justification of Violence in Films Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, GoodFellas and Casino

and accumulating gambling debts he cannot possibly pay, the stage is set for a bloody confrontation when loan sharks come calling....

Cultures and Film Spaceships Nebuchadnezzar from The Matrix, the Nostromo from Alien, and the Enterprise from First Contact

to prevent a Borg takeover of Earth, and to make sure that Zefram Cochrane (James Cromwell) makes the flight that will attract the...

Everyday Life 'Masks'

win. Finally, the student concludes: " Once the game is over, the game face mask is lifted and its back to the normal mask." In ma...

Combat Films and Full Metal Jacket by Director Stanley Kubrick

closer together and provide cohesiveness to the group through a single-mindedness of purpose (Gehring 93). At no time does the gr...

An analysis of Beethovern's Music in Immortal Beloved

through the use of rolling chords that softly underscore the melody line in the treble, while octaves sound in the bass like dista...

Five Foreign Films on Social and Religious Identity

In five pages this research paper considers religious and social identities in such films as Omar Gatlato, My Son the Fanatic, Fea...

1920 and 1992 Cinematic Adaptations of James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans

was shot on location at Big Bear Lake and Yosemite Valley in California (Magills-1920). In an interview with film historian Kevin ...

Jean Pierre and Luc Dardenne and Their Cinematic Style

Palme dOr and "best actress" for its star in 1999 (Dargis). The brothers generally share the tasks of both writing and directing...

Scene Analyses from Do the Right Thing, American Beauty, Thelma and Louise, and Taxi Driver

manicured lawns and rose gardens. But for every blooming rose, there is a thorn lurking somewhere, and through the frequent imagi...

Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet and Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet Compared

has arranged for her so she can rejoin her husband and live in exile. Upon seeing what he believes to be the dead Juliet, Romeo s...

2 Film Versions of 1 Novel Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

was cast as the Indian renegade Magua and a "less likely and more melodramatic Indian...is hard to imagine" (Magills-1920). Beery ...

Justice and Epiphanies

ignited in their minds the light of an epiphany of understanding. A 2005 film which won wide acclaim, Crash, largely concerns ho...

Men as Defined by Elia Kazan's Film On the Waterfront and Arthur Miller's Play A View from the Bridge

sayin nothin" (Greatest Films). In these respects the audience is presented with men who possess power and immorally take advant...

Trauma and its Lasting Life Effects

has trouble controlling his body and does not begin to feel some returning sense of normality until he reaches the Acura dealershi...

Comparative Analysis of The Old Wives Tale by George Peele and Rob Reiner's Film The Princess Bride

In eight pages this research essay compares the structures of the 1593 play by George Peele with the 1987 film by director Rob Rei...

All That Heaven Allows

This 4 page essay explores the long-lived concept of May-December romance as it is presented in the movies. Social class and age ...

Middle East Prejudice and the Insights of the Documentary Promises

some viewers have claimed that there is a bias one way or another. Jews have argued that he filmmakers simply did not show both si...

The Perseverance of Feminism in Film

a woman who is a leader of her people, and yet her role is reduced to love and childbearing. War of the Worlds does not have any s...

Analysis of the Carousel Musical by Rogers and Hammerstein

When Julies friend Carrie leaves, but Julie lingers near the carousel, she and Billy are now along and can speak freely, if hesita...

The Magnificent Seven Film and the Cowboy Mentality

clearly an attempt to redefine the modern cowboy for modern audiences by penetrating the invincible stereotype and revealing vulne...

Team Strategy Formation and the Film Ocean's Twelve

boundaries of their acceptable group behavior. Forming is the stage of transition when the individuals become members of a team (C...

Post-Modernism and Filmmaker David Lynch

of modernism, with particular emphasis upon modernisms elitist social, political and economic structure of upper and lower classif...