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3 Brain Function Book Reviews

In nine pages this paper presents an annotated bibliography and review of Synaptic Self, A User's Guide to the Brain, and The Prim...

Roland Joffe's The Mission and the Film's Portrayal of New World Colonialism and Jesuit Missions

forest, which would later represent the convergence of Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina, symbolically depict a convergence of the h...

12 Angry Men/TV's Law and Order

entitled "House of Cards," the detectives and attorneys who are featured in the show similarly face what seems like a case of cert...

Comparative Analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's Film Vertigo and Billy Wilder's Film Some Like It Hot

Jerry and chase them through the hotel. The two hide under a table in a banquet room, only to discover that its the very room in ...

Blue Steel Film's Reality and Fiction

Today, there are more female police officers on the force and so, Hollywood had made an attempt to portray the female officer as l...

Metropolis Film's Social Importance

notions of the division between the "haves" and "have nots" and in fact supported his ideas with the theory of alienation. Further...

Thin Blue Line

sixteen at the time, had stolen a neighbors car and his fathers guns. Harris gave Adams a lift when his vehicle ran out of gas. H...

My Left Foot/Social Responsibility

suggests, the filmmakers show him as very human and the script does a good job of dramatizing his imperfections as well as his rem...

The Middle Passage/Deslauriers

depiction of explicit violence, rapes, flogging, etc. are "implied rather than shown," he seems to feel that this is an artistic a...

Rowlandson & Dances With Wolves

read, she immediately attributes these events to the action of Providence. When her captors, which is a band of American Natives m...

Robert Duvall’s Apostle

who is also a preacher, and conspires to have him evicted from his congregation (Alleva, 1998). Enraged, Sonny takes his sons base...

Hitchcock/Rear Window & North by Northwest

film. More credits fall and slide into place, which foreshadows how Thornhill will later slide, nearly falling off the face of Lin...

Sense and Sensibility/Novel v. Film

mother, Elinor and Marianne (who are both young women) and younger sister Margaret, by beginning with the death of Henry Dashwood,...

Gone with the Wind's Cinematography

that "Tara is the whole story" as the plot revolves around Tara" (Schreibman, 2004, p. 41). The cinematography particularly unde...

His Girl Friday and Screwball Comedy

romantic leads ("Screwball comedy"). Another feature of the screwball was its "reverse class snobbery," where to be poor was, so...

Casablanca Film's Propaganda and History

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...

Comparing Old Film Angels with Dirty Faces with New Film Clockers

In five pages this research paper contrasts and compares films from 1938 and 1995 respectively. Three sources are cited in the bi...

Film's Subtle Advertising

In two pages this paper considers the subtle advertisements featured in the movies Back to the Future and E.T. There is no biblio...

Cinema and 'Race Films'

back to the film "The Birth of the Nation" which lead later to a movement of "race films" in the 1920s in the cinema. Mainstream U...

Erin Brockovich, Scarlett O'Hara, and Film's Independent Women

associated with roles from other films (Magills Survey of Cinema). During that time in Hollywood, women were not as indepen...

'Mr. Strehlow's Films' Analyzed

past and present. The result was an overwhelming collection of footage that has since been entitled, Mr. Strehlows Films. Thes...

Traditional Film Methods and Digital Film of the Future

In twelve pages this paper examines traditional film methods and the increased reliance upon digital technology in a contrast and ...

The Dear Hunter Film's Vietnam War Rhetoric and Reality

In five pages this paper examines the rhetoric and reality of the Vietnam War within the contexts of the book Hollywood's Vietnam ...

Cinema Realism and Audience Reaction

In a paper consisting of five pages viewing audience passivity, activity, and impact of film realism is explored in terms of the p...

Defining a Classic - Casablanca

to watch everyone else who comes for the same reason. Intrigue is served with each glass. The plot clinks with the cubes about w...

All About Eve and the Introduction by Marilyn Monroe.

she chooses to apply it in the wrong manner. It is interesting that the film never shows Baxter acting in front of the camera, but...

Tarantino and the director as auteur

This research paper argues that director Quentin Tarantino has earned the perspective of being considered the auteur of his films,...

Mental Illness and Government in the Film Dead Man Out

This paper examines this film's complexities in terms of the intertwining government and societal factors throughout in five pages...

Pleasantville's Creative Use of Color

In five pages the powerful use of color in the film's storytelling is examined. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

Sherman Alexie's Smoke Signals, and 'It's a good day to be indigenous'

determine the dramatic strengths and weaknesses of one version compared to another. The movie This is a "coming of age" story and...