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Romance and Epic in Thomas Malory's 'Tale of Lancelot and Guenevere' and 'Beowulf'

1). With the passage of time, epics evolved into what is commonly referred to as chansons de geste or romances. French in origin...

'Writing in Images' and Cinema

In three pages cinema is defined as 'writing in images' with differences between visual and written texts considered along with fi...

A History of Racism in the Motion Picture Industry

This paper addresses two films from each decade, beginning with the 1950s and continuing to the 1990s, and cites examples of racis...

Schools R Us and Analysis of Business Ethics Case Study

where nothing detrimental occurs. In fact, Fast Company publishes ethical problems and lies that contributors send in on an annual...

Modern Music Industry and Subcultures

The idea of resistance through the use of ritual is a paradigm that emerged from early works of the Birmingham School and would ga...

A Discussion of Babette's Feast

This 5 page essay illuminates the message and presentation in Babette's Feast. Based on the book by Isaak Dineson this film prese...

Character Ethics and the Film 'L.A. Confidential'

cost, even when it calls for doing things against his or the departments ethical code. His golden boy status within the police fo...

Classical versus Romantic Music and Meaning

like the painters and poets of this era, they subordinated emotional expression to an accepted standard of "rules" of form.2. Th...

Comparative Analysis of Detective Works Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe and The Second Deadly Sin by Lawrence Sanders

by the brilliance and deductive reasoning that the detective uses. Agatha Christies Hercule Poirot is reminiscent of a brilliant d...

Formalism and Realism in the Film, Citizen Kane

This paper addresses Orson Welles' film, Citizen Kane. The author focuses on formalism and realism in the film. This five page p...

Film Director Gordon Parks

background is disadvantaged. Marcus is the son of a bitter, abusive man who hates whites with every fiber of his being. Marcus is,...

An Analysis of Patriarchy in Casablanca

A 5 page discussion of the ever present force of patriarchy in this classic film. This author observes that the dramatic ending i...

Rap Music

In 6 pages this paper philosophically analyzes rap and alternative music's impact upon cultures in a consideration of genre and su...

1972 Film The Exorcist and Feminine Monstrousness Concept

a term coined by feminist film critic and professor Barbara Creed. And the young girls conversion from angel to devil is more than...

Moon Palace by Paul Auster

In five pages this novel by Paul Auster is analyzed in terms of its form and structure with mixed genres among the topics covered....

Horror Film Evolution

mindless conformists, and sought to sound a warning through the medium of film (Caligari, in the figure of the mad doctor compelli...

Synopsis of 'The Purloined Letter' by Edgar Allan Poe

official. The letter has been stolen, and the police feel that they know who stole it -- a man who is referred to as "Minister D" ...

The Fight Scene from Romeo and Juliet

Montague explode into a deadly brawl, comes directly after the secret wedding between Romeo and Juliet, a time during which Romeo,...

Cognitive Cinema Theory and Narration

night light. It sits in bedrooms and living rooms but has become something one does in place of nothing. Rather than sitting and r...

Early Comedy's Birth and Development

plenty of time to waste" (Anonymous astudyof.htm). As well, the very nature of the prose and movement became based more in realit...

Hong Kong and Hip Hop

in its early days was solely the province of black youth, who took a combination of social comment, alienation and African roots t...

The 1980 Film Moskva Slezam ne Verit or 'Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears'

the daily lives of the general population. The Soviet View of Security Throughout the thirties Soviet leaders viewed their countr...

Native American Literature

especially true in Love Medicine, where the abandoned son attempts to brew a love medicine for his grandfather. However, he gets s...

Teens and Negative Influence of Music

from this close, intact family, there is certainly a lack of discipline. The lax attitude towards the children is indicative of a ...

Female Protagonists' Bondage of James Bond

is Elektra King, unlike many of Bonds female enemies she is a rich young woman who has not become part of communist assassination ...

A Comparison of Shelley's Frankenstein and Scott's Blade Runner

forever hovering overhead beckon to the fleeing people that their safety exists in the off-world colonies, demonstrating that eart...

Cinematic Neorealism

neorealistic filmmakers, such as Rossellini, Vittorio DeSica and Cesare Zavattini, was to make a "moral statement," which forces ...

Trinidad and Tobago and Chutney Music

fusion is quite popular for both English and Hindi lyrics and cross-over music in this realm includes modern western instruments f...

Feminist Versus Material View Points in Film and Television

her husband, and knew herself to be near death. Her digestive system had been destroyed by the disease, and, in intense pain and u...

Carl Franklin's Filmmaking and Screenwriting Works

names this "one of the great recent crime movies" (Ebert, 2002). Devil in a Blue Dress references a theme, subject and time perio...