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In five pages this 1943 film by director Michael Curtiz is examined in terms of both its Second World War period history and how i...

This paper considers how the Vietnam War was depicted in the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket and the 1988 film Good Morning, Vietnam i...

In three pages this paper examines how filmmaker techniques are applied to advancing the film's theme, development of plot, and to...

This paper analyzes Ira Lee's film, Synthetic Pleasures. The author criticizes Lee's lack of any clear, organizational plot or th...

In four pages the essays compiled by film scholar Andre Bazin are examined with the emphasis being on the ways in which it provide...

Soviet Union were busy building up their nuclear arms arsenals, the specter of the nuclear holocaust hung over society and haunted...

Wilsons War, Gust Avrakotos (Philip Seymour Hoffman) tells Charlie (Tom Hanks) a parable about seemingly good things that can turn...

lighting, color, camera angle, types of shots, music and set design, to underscore the theme of self-determination and individual...

of these men (Broken Sword, Sky, and Flying Snow). In essence, the central protagonist in the film takes it on himself to find an...

human being he is. This comes as a shock to Oliverio who is as bad as the rest in assuming that prostitutes have no brains. Actu...

child who is the product of a failed system, this film seems to be saying. This film was a social commentary of sorts, which use...

that has been crafted by man. Is Evelyn a beguiling sculptor who wants to mold Adam? There are other thematic elements in the wor...

In 6 pages this paper considers the Communist paranoia of the 1950s as depicted in this film's desire to prosecute Queeg during a ...

Weapon movie directed by Norman Rockwell" (Mitchell). Thats a very good, if snarky, description. That being the case, its not sur...

Many Splendid Thing" which is very innocent and then the viewer is presented with the images of a young woman and young man on the...

and training in the group development process. Studying groups in the 1960s, Tuckman observed that groups of individuals transiti...

the traitorous guide getting ready to shoot him in the back. The camera shifts to Indys hand, which is holding a whip, as he swift...

Abel. Smeagol is analogous to Cain; he is his brothers murderer, and the audience is aware that the Ring is both powerful and evil...

hard to draw oppositions between Travis and the Villain, Sport, as both are strong males who use forceful methods and generally th...

that are easily overcome (Carey, 2000). This is a reflection of their inventive mind where it is the message and not the mechanics...

Indeed, by looking at the role of the women in the movie it is a reflection of the social conditions. There is a reflection of the...

in keeping all of the people hostage while the funds are delivered. As mentioned, while it is not exactly a bank robbery film, it ...

Weisman, in an article featured in The New York Times, described Indian cinema as "an all purpose dream engine delivering gaudy th...

physical state that supports the distinguishing characteristics of film noir. Though the term "film noir" is French, the st...

and expression than film where the camera is able to capture the most subtle suggestions of emotion through the use of a close -up...

and evil (technology). Blade Runner considers the city of Los Angeles in the year 2019 as "a fragmented Third World metropolis, m...

of the classic noir characteristics, it also thumbed its nose at the use of flashbacks. There were no voice-over narrations, with ...

Chaplin appeared, it was also a film that he made use of established paradigms. The tools used focus on content emotion had experi...

(Rombes). Rafferty (1997) explains that the postmodern film is built on the film noir genre, but that a feature of postmodernism ...

applied to the characters at different times, but the two that seem most effective are Merton, and Shaw and MacKay. The term "Amer...