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Good Night, and Good Luck, Film Review

This film review primarily profiles the film's protagonist, Edward R. Murrow, using an existential perspective. The writer argues ...

Stage Beauty (2004), a review

This essay presents a film review of "Stage Beauty" (2004, directed by Richard Eyre). Three pages in length, no sources are cited....

Comedy in Two Science Fiction Films

This essay describes how comedy was achieved in two science fiction films, "Star Trek IV: the Voyage Home" and "Galaxy Quest." Th...

The 1993 Film Version of Randy Shilts's And The Band Played On

In five pages the ways in which the film depicts the AIDS epidemic, the frustrations, social attitudes, and lack of funding associ...

Differences Between the Novel and Film Versions of The Scarlet Letter

to it that such a crime was punishable by death. After all, behavior so unbecoming of a religious devotee deserved no less....

Tennessee Williams' Cat On a Hot Tin Roof Play and Film Versions

severity of the Bricks grief at Skippers death causes his relatives to speculate, but this is dispelled in the crucial scene that...

Comparing Novel and Film Versions of The Color Purple

in particular is feminism and its religious heterodoxy" (12). An examination of the film and novel amply supports this observation...

Play and Film Versions of Glengarry Glen Ross Compared

The play is divided into two acts, containing three scenes in the first and two scenes in the second. It centers...

Angela's Ashes Film Version Creation

In five pages transforming Frank McCourt's autobiographical text into a screenplay is examined in terms of necessary elements and ...

Review of the Film Version of Stephen King's The Green Mile

we see an older man who doesnt sleep well at night any more; his long walks and an old clip of Fred and Ginger dressed in their fi...

Novel and Film Versions of The English Patient

physical gestures clearly demonstrate her anguish as she drops her head to the table, leaving the audience only to imagine the pai...

Novel and Film Version of Bernard Malamud's The Natural

In five pages this paper examines the impact of morality as it is represented in a baseball player's rise and fall in the 1952 nov...

1952 Film Version of Othello

In five pages this paper considers the unique opening scene of Orson Welles' 1952 adaptation of William Shakespeare's famous trage...

Comparing Novel, Play, and Film Versions of To Kill a Mockingbird

In five pages the varying interpretations of Harper Lee's classic novel are considered in terms of how the written text is transla...

Novel and Film Versions of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

In five pages this paper presents scene comparisons between Jane Austen's novel and a film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Two...

The Purpose of Film Montage

This 5 page paper discusses the viewpoints of French film critic and auteur Andre Bazin, and Russian director Sergei Eisenstein, o...

Comparing Novel and Film Versions of The Silence of the Lambs

seriously short-handed, and in desperation, he enlists Starlings services. In the novel, Starling is portrayed as an ambitious an...

1985 Television Film Version of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

In five pages Schlondorff's 1985 interpretation of Miller's play is discussed in terms of acting especially Dustin Hoffman's and J...

Film Versions of William Shakespeare's Othello by Directors Orson Welles and Oliver Parker

In five pages this paper critiques 2 film interpretations of William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello. One source is cited in the bi...

Book and Film Versions of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath

In six pages this paper emphasizes class consciousness in a discussion of how class is portrayed during the Great Depression in St...

Book and Film Versions of Empire of the Sun

and he never becomes completely embittered. In this book (made later into a film by Steven Spielberg), Ballard relates the life o...

Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep and Howard Hawks' Film Version

In five pages the many differences between Chandler's detective novel and Howard Hawks' 1946 big screen interpretation are examine...

Comparing Novel and Film Versions of Like Water for Chocolate

ever since Garcia Marquez won the Nobel Prize" (Simon 64). The novel was an attention grabber and did have it elements of superna...

Film Version of the Musical Hair

In five pages this paper examines the social conflict represented by hair within the context of the film and how it may be perceiv...

Symbolism of Tita's Blanket in the Novel and Film Versions of Like Water for Chocolate

This paper examines what Tita's blanket symbolizes in Laura Esquirel's novel Like Water for Chocolate and in its cinematic adaptat...

David Lean's Film Version of Great Expectations and Confusing Appearances for Reality

In five pages this paper considers the 1946 film adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel by director David Lean in a discussion of ho...

1980 Film Version of Paul Brodeur's The Stunt Man

In five pages this paper analyzes the camera uses to describe the insights of the protagonist and to keep the action moving in Ric...

Film Versions of Anne of Avonlea and Anne of Green Gables

In ten pages the transition from the printed page unto the visual silver screen is examined in a consideration of these novels tur...

Play and Film Versions of A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

This paper consists of six pages in which comparisons are made between Oedipus and Ibsen's heroine Nora Helmer along with a compar...

A Comparison of the Print and Film Versions of, A Raisin In The Sun

This essay compares and contrasts various elements of Lorraine Hansberry's, A Raisin In The Sun, and how the original play compare...