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Martin Scorcese's Raging Bull and Jake La Motta

powerful subject for a director like Scorcese and an actor such as DeNiro. Based on La Mottas autobiography, the student working o...

Immigration and the Gangs of New York

The film opens with a dramatization of a gang battle that occurred in 1846 between Irish gang, principally the "Dead Rabbits" led ...

Boxers and Boxing in the Films When We Were Kings and Raging Bull

conscientiously misanthropic" (pp. 55). "Raging Bull" was about the life of a man who actually had something of a heart and was de...

Raging Bull, Breathless, and Spectator's Construct of Femininity According to Narrative and Style

In nine pages these films by Martin Scorsese and Jean Luc Godard are examined in terms of how femininity is presented to the spect...

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...

Analysis of Raqing Bull

earning him an Academy Award (Raging Bull, 19950. De Niro made Jakes decline more believable by gaining 60 pounds over the course ...

Martin Scorsese's 'Raging Bull'

It is likely that DiNiro, a highly acclaimed actor put a lot of himself into the film and also Scorcese was brilliant as usual. Go...

Movie Review of Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear

In six pages a plot synopsis of Scorsese's 1991 remake of Cape Fear is presented along with the argument that in addition to being...

Film Marketing by Genre

the whole trilogy and uses a heavily layered story that involves high action sequences that are purely designed to attract those w...

How to Review and Assess Movies

In seven pages this paper examines how films are critically reviewed and analyzed with such films as The Crying Game, GoodFellas, ...

Case Study Analysis on a Taxicab Driver

Legal rights of a taxi driver are duly noted in this eight page research report that examines decisions. Financial aspects are exp...

Regulation of Gambling and Casinos

started to arise in the 1970s and 1980s when under the Regan administration there was increased pressure for Indian communities no...

Navajo Gaming

filing for the rights to land and then, as one author notes, "In virtually all these cases tribes have made clear that they would ...

Urban Life and Violence in America

people remember many strong disagreements with their first families. Battles during toddlerhood and adolescence are common and wil...

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...

Violence and How It is Glorified in 'The Iliad' by Homer

In eight pages this paper discusses the epic's glorification of violence in an analysis that also considers gender roles, human na...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing

solely for blasting rap music on his boom box. A local DJ, Mister Senor Love Daddy, who operates a radio station also acts as a co...

Urban Land Supply; Drives and Constraints in Beijing

growing cities and with a high level of state control in this communist country it may be expected that the urban development proc...

Norma Rae’s Depiction of Labor

sit down, even when "they are having menstrual cramps" (Giroux). In the film, workers also complain about "plant conditions, speed...

Congestion Pricing for Lower Manhattan

is: ...the practice of charging motorists more to use a roadway, bridge or tunnel during periods of the heaviest use. Its purpose ...

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...

The Acquiring of Wolff Wolsrode by Dow

not do this they may loose many of the customers that they had acquired and were needed for value to be gained from the acquisitio...

The Impact of Street Crime on Society

if their fear keeps them inside, there is a chance that they are not victims simply because they are not on the streets as frequen...

Influence Peddling: The K Street Project

Public Citizens Congress Project (Chaddock, 2003). According to Clemente, "The revolving door is becoming more comfortably establi...

Indonesia and Philip Morris Tobacco Company

Marlboro itself is the best-selling brand in the world -- the "Marlboro Man" represents the mystique of the American West, rugged,...

African and African American Heritage by Oscar Brown Jr.

This paper examines this work, also referred to as Drum Street, by Oscar Brown Jr. There are no other sources listed....

Trend Towards More Load Funds

In five pages a Wall Street Journal article on the disappearance of no load funds from the investment market is reviewed....

Main Street by Sinclair Lewis

In two pages this paper examines how American small town life is unsympathetically portrayed in Main Street by Sinclair Lewis....

California's Casino Gambling

In a paper consisting of ten pages California's foray into casino gambling is examined in terms of the Indian reservations' casino...