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Comparing and Contrasting Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd: The Demon of Fleet Street and The Odyssey by Homer

Odysseus and Polyphemus (or Cyclops), the protagonist and antagonist in "The Odyssey." Like Odysseus, Todd is banished from his w...

Three Administrations during Cold War

This research paper describes the social and political context of the US during the Truman, Eisenhower and Johnson administrations...

Profit in the Film Industry - An Economic Analysis

In a paper of sixteen pages, the writer looks at profit in the film industry. The live action industry is compared to the animatio...

Cartesian Rationalism from a Critical Viewpoint

experience, will readily be admitted with regard to such objects, as we remember to have once been altogether unknown to us..." (A...

Traditional Staging vs. Contemporary Cinematic Interpretations of William Shakespeare's Plays

inexperienced actors in the lead roles (Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey). The play opens with the servants, Samson and Gregory,...

Eat Drink Man Woman, To Live, and Survival of the Asian Family

This begins to change with the comment, "I have an announcement to make." Whatever follows is guaranteed to prompt anger and trial...

The Manchurian Candidate Conspiracy

his father did not approve (Maier, 1986). The article does not mention his relationship with individual family members beyond this...

Comparative Analysis of J.J. Bigas Luna's Jamon, Jamon and Cyril Collard's Savage Nights

pictures the "ineffectual male figure" as being displaced by the more "aggressive female" (DLugo 65). Cinematography underscore...

A Comparison of the Book and Film Versions of Alcott's Little Women

the only ones allowed to have money, only serve to reinforce the institutions which helped them rise to power in the first place. ...

Three Decades of War

force from farm to factory, from country to city. They were also aware that the United States lagged behind Europe in its struggle...

Analyzing the Cowardly Lion, Scarecrow, and Tin Man from the 1939 Film The Wizard of Oz

These characters as they are depicted in the film are compared and contrasted in a paper that consists of five pages. One source ...

Goodfellas, The Godfather, Crime and Punishment

actions to be taken in the name of family honor. The crime, in this view, was to do nothing when disgraced. In contrast, the vie...

Misha Glenny's The Fall of Yugoslavia The Third Balkan War

leader of the Serbs, is one of the major players in the Balkan war. His power came from the old school communism. Milosevic was ...

An Analysis of Two Film Versions of Richard III

In a paper consisting of seen pages the 1955 film version of Richard III by Laurence Olivier is compared with Ian McKellan's versi...

In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason and the Film Less Than Zero

In four pages this book and the 1986 film are contrasted and compared. There is no bibliography included....

A Comparison of the Novel and Film Versions of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

This paper compares and contrasts Shelley's original literary work with Kenneth Branagh's 1994 film entitled, Mary Shelley's Frank...

Film Adaptation vs. Text of Silas Marner by George Eliot

with Satan. Eliot is quick to establish the basic goodness of Silas Marner through basic details. His face was "trusting and sim...

Novel and Cinematic Versions of A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

In four pages the novel and its film adaptation are thematically compared in terms of cinematic changes that were made. Six sourc...

Comparing Black Nationalism and Identity in Benedict Anderson's 'Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism' and the Film 'Gone With the Wind'

contemplate how individual and cultural identities are constructed in the first place. In the opinion of Benedict Anderson, autho...

Depiction of Asian Americans

(Benshoff and Griffin 132). A voiceover at the beginning of the film explains that because of this law, 1940s Chinatown was exclus...

An Analysis of the Film, Imitation of Life

rings. At the door is Delilah Johnson (Louise Beavers), an African American woman who has come to apply for a job as cook and hous...

Film and Book Comparison/Maltese Falcon

primarily morals or values, but rather self-interest and the realization that he would have allowed the attraction he feels for th...

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

the novel as it pertains to Phoebus. Phoebus is a military man and Esmerelda is quite taken with him. She feels he is a real man a...

Women in “Vertigo” and “To Die For”

when he first sees her after the transformation, she comes to him out of a green, glowing light that seems otherworldly. The fil...

The Film Adaptation of Children of Men

through exploring the screen writers intent and vision can one figure out why the changes were made. First, it should be said th...

Pleasantville and The Giver

are societies that do not allow for individuality or for original thought and for human beings this is crucial to their identity. ...

Chinatown as a Homage to Film Noir

bearing the legend "Spade and Archer." In both films, the editing is subtle and seems to blend together effortlessly, creating a c...

The Orchid Thief and Adaptation

a story about finding ones passion in life. This is evident in the following as Orleans makes note of the obsession concerning orc...

The American Revolution in Fiction and in Film

to the settlement of the American frontier, Drums Along the Mohawk. It is the story of farmer Gil Martin and his privileged bride...