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Argumentative Essay: Avatar's Script is Same Old Same Old

Opposing Arguments Petrakis (2010) is completely right when he writes: "the screenplay is simplistic and uninteresting, lea...

Black Films and Hip Hop Music Videos: Race Representation

is a mixed bag. In films that parody the past like Undercover Brother and in music videos, the most watched genre of film today by...

Gilgamesh - A Review of Symbols and Themes

one might look at the very opening lines of the epic, which address the reader, even the contemporary reader, directly and states ...

Philosophical Discussion Questions

as a bridge so that people with different understandings can nevertheless come to understand and appreciate one anothers views. ...

American Psycho/In Bruges

A 3 page essay that contrasts and compares American Psycho (2000, directed by Mary Harron) and In Bruges (2008, directed by Martin...

Kierkegaard and Sartre: Philosophies

is a body, "more numerous than the people which compose it," but it can "never be shown" because it is simply an abstraction (Kier...

Three films about Jesus

his home, and is confronted by an angel who convinces him that Mary has told the truth. The next scenes dramatize the "birth of Je...

Dead Poet's Society and the Motif of Carpe Diem

to his students. He gives them no time to "adjust," but leaps right in with both feet on the first day by having the class read Ro...

Film Noir Aspects of Sunset Boulevard and The Grifters

factor can be seen in both Sunset Boulevard and The Grifters. In Sunset, Joe Gillis is an out-of-work screenplay writer, who has t...

American Interpretations of Film Noir

of America had suffered through more than 15 years of deprivation in one form or another. The Great Depression that began with th...

A Personality Analysis

will not grow without sunlight and water" (Humanist Theory, 2002). Brief Overview of Behaviorist Theory Behaviorism reli...

Film Noir Techniques in the Film, Gilda

what the audience is viewing with his own subjective observations. In his consideration of film noir, Jon Tuska (1984) noted that...

Existentialism and Albert Camus

explanation, and ultimately irrational," but he also "considered life valuable and worth defending. While the American public thou...

Analyzing the Barbarians at the Gate Film

ethics or lack thereof, surrounding the mystique of Wall Street. Although takeovers are not in themselves unethical, the methods ...

John Waters' Film Hairspray

titles such as "The Sultan of Sleaze," "The Prince of Puke" and "The Pope of Trash," which is the one he says he prefers (Als, 199...

A Research Paper and Essay on 3 Independent Films

The Blair Witch Project The Blair Witch Project fits perfectly with the popular conception of what constitutes an independent fil...

Naguib Mahfouz' Arabian Nights and Days

blessed with a wonderful woman. His realm of existence and happiness did not go beyond these simple and selfishly focused realitie...

Mahfouz's Arabian Nights and Days and Jean Paul Sartre's No Exit

with the outside world, and the way in which one presents oneself: the desire for this constructed image of the self to be perceiv...

The Film 'Regarding Henry'

be his wife and daughter. Even with the unrelenting encouragement of Sarah and Rachels recollections to help him remember his fam...

American Psychology - Considering Three Streams

also divides Humanistic Psychology into three divisions: transpersonal psychology, somatic and experiential therapies and radical ...

Education Philosophies

individual study has its place. I think there needs to be a balance in the curriculum, although, I do agree with Deweys integratio...

Film Noir Techniques in the Film, Kiss Me Deadly

flag down a car, but no one stops. Desperate, she positions herself in the middle of the road while holding her arms outstretched ...

The Influence of Border Films

drugging and kidnapping his wife, whom he subsequently frames on drug charges (Touch of Evil, 1995). Vargas, and justice, prevail ...

Asian Culture in Art and Film

way or another by the culture itself. Now, while there are numerous contemporary artists and also numerous styles this section ...

Overview of Existentialism

instructed to hold. Sartres "No Exit" Joseph Garcin grows closer to Inez and Estelle in telling them his story. Giving oth...

Existentialist Example of Daru's Decision in 'The Guest' by Albert Camus

In five pages this paper discusses how Daru's choice to allow the Arab captive of Balducci to select his own fate serves as an exa...

Human Emotions and Existentialism

In four pages existentialism and human emotions are examined within the context of Jean Paul Sartre and among other topics discuss...

Ultimate Concerns and Existentialism

In five pages Yalom's ultimate concerns and existentialism are examined in terms of major concepts and then applied to the mountai...

Human Nature and Jean Paul Sartre's Existentialism

In five pages this paper discusses human nature within the context of Sartre's existentialism in a consideration of the contradict...

A Review of the Film Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

A 18 page critique of this less than successful film. The author atributes the lack of success however to the poor distribution a...