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Essays 271 - 300

Politics in the Book and Film Primary Colors

In six pages this paper examines politics in the United States and how it is portrayed in the novel and cinematic versions of Prim...

Book and Film Hiroshima, Mon Amour and the Use of Psychological Setting

In seven pages this paper analyzes the significance of psychological setting in both the book and film interpretations of Hiroshim...

Film and Book 'Short Cuts'

highly stylized, live-action staging of the cartoon characters of POPEYE (1980), director Robert Altman was banished from Hollywoo...

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...

Boccaccio's book/Pasolini's film/Decameron

subsequently preaches sermons about him, leading people to believe that he led the life of a saint. Ciapelletto is such a hypocri...

Book Review on the Life and Voyage of Christopher Columbus

Samuel Eliot Morrison's Admiral of the Ocean Sea about Christopher Columbus is the focus of this analysis and book review consisti...

An Analysis of Rose's Book, Lives on the Boundary

This paper focuses on the information found in Mike Rose's work, Lives on the Boundary to discuss the current American educational...

A Review of Mike Rose's Book, Lives on the Boundary

house. Sometimes that extended to taking Mike to the large library downtown. Lou would teach Mike about astronomy, taught him how ...

Book Review of Rosalind Rosenberg's Divided Lives, American Women in the Twentieth Century

to be the homemakers, the wives, the mothers, the caregivers. Women were alternately placed on a pedestal and held in subservienc...

Book Report on Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

down his memoirs to convey his personal experiences as a slave. One wonders how much of Douglasss memoirs were tainted by the cont...

Birth of a Nation/Cinematic History

history of the Civil War and the Reconstruction. In essence, Griffith is recounting the tales told to him by his father, who was a...

"The Basketball Diaries" - Reaction

ability to register pain, anxiety and desire while at the same time enhances an artificial sense of contentment. As Jim becomes m...

Cinematography in “Hero”

a "master swordsman," arriving at the Emperors fortress. Nameless explains to the Emperor how he vanquished "three deadly assassin...

Daily Life of the Ancient Romans (Book Review)

contrast the modern day with ancient times. If he does have an argument, it might be that people are not so different throughout h...

Book of Judges and Life During Biblical Times

231). This is quite interesting as today, women are told not to drink at all during pregnancy, and this is a rather new sentiment....

Book Summary of Daniel J. Levinson’s The Seasons of a Man’s Life

"the underlying pattern of design of a persons life at a given time" (p. 41). This pattern evolves through a sequence of events, ...

City of God

something that happens to all the boys in this region of the city. They are clearly victims of the impoverished city as they are d...

Vera Drake

to deviance, one can not that most people remain controlled and those who do not remain controlled become deviant. But, in the fil...

Smiley Face

smokes pot and the comedy arises through her being stoned all day. In relationship to these conditions the film offers ver...

Application and Analysis of Film Theories of Signification, Representation, and Perception

throughout cinematic history, Jean Mitry (1907-1988) was perhaps the most comprehensive and objective. He examined cinema from al...

The Depiction of Troy in The Iliad and in Film

is not identified as a goddess except for when a servant speaks to Achilles about the legends that have begun to be spun concernin...

An Overview of Imitation of Life

talk, and Lora says that she wishes she had someone to look after Susie while shes working, auditioning and trying to get her big ...

An Address of Specific Questions Concerning Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind

commands the attention of the other students because he is so gifted. He doesnt really seem to be part of the group-Nash was a no...

Sociological Analysis of “12 Angry Men”

they trust lawyers and never question things, in this case based on the assumed truth that all ethnic and impoverished people are ...

Feminist Critique/Disney Films

also what was happening in the world at-large. For example, OBrien relates the ideological thrust of Cinderella to the perceived...

Goodfella/Its Moral Message

Henrys voiceover narration.3 This narration gives the viewer insight into Henrys motivations. This narration conveys Henrys childl...

Banned in East German

GDR society," which would open it up to Western "cultural and economic influences" (Berghahn 146). However, the Partys views on re...

Gender/Sexuality in 6 Films

the others, feels compelled to protect this young bit of innocence and humanity at all costs. The symbolic way that the child co...

Oedipus Rex (1957)

as though by filming this story in this manner the producer was trying to invite, so to speak, the audience into a theater, make t...

A Comparison of The Man Who Would Be King and The Heart of Darkness

weapons of mere humans" (BritMovie). They deem him a god and believe that he is "the incarnation of Alexander the Great, and Danie...