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Comparing Stage and Film Versions of Othello

the audience a close up of Othellos face and the audience is able to watch the doubt creep over Othellos face. Without saying anyt...

Sense and Sensibility Novel and Film

who are unfamiliar with the novels premise, it concerns the Dashwood family (a mother and her three young daughters) who have been...

Happiness and Virtue According to Boethius

reversals of fortune, illness, accidents and other events which contribute to their unhappiness. At the same time, the "evil m...

Concepts of Contemporary Citizenship and Political Virtue as Viewed by Aristotle

the morality Aristotle speaks of is relative. While it is not relative from one individual to another perhaps, and there is certai...

Virtue in Utopia by Sir Thomas More

until the Cardinal spoke, indicating that he took Hythlodays suggests seriously. Then the entire company began to voice general ap...

Review of Sydney Pollack's 2005 Movie The Interpreter

notes that this is the first film crew to be given permission to film extensively at the UN and this gives the movie a feeling of ...

Teaching Virtue

who live with us and present themselves in abundance, as far as is possible. Wherefore we must keep them before us1." Here, it see...

Comparing Soviet Film Directors Sergei Eisenstein and V.I. Pudovkin

(Manvell 37). While Pudovkin would occasionally use non-professional actors in the name of realism, he preferred relying on profe...

Aristotle and John Stuart Mill on Virtue

is not that everyone just does what they think is right or what society tells them is right, but they sense that something good co...

Honesty and Ethics in Philosophy

commandment "thou shalt not kill", for example, are forced to re-examine their views in the light of military service in wartime, ...

Early American Film Director D.W Griffith

his five years at Biograph, Griffith took the raw elements of moviemaking as they had evolved up to that time -- lighting, continu...

Citizen Kane's Film Techniques

daytime and snow is falling. "Charlie" (Charles Foster Kane) is playing outside, and the camera stops on him. He rolls a snowbal...

Character Transitions and Narrative Technique of Alfred Hitchcock

own life. With Scottie in pursuit, Madeleine climbs a bell tower and apparently falls to her death; in reality, the Novak charact...

The Subjects of Virtue and Beauty

2003). Restating that: sentiment is beauty and virtue; and if the sentiment we feel when we see beauty is instinctive approval, ...

Comparing the Cinematic Versions of Hamlet by Franco Zeffirelli and Kenneth Branagh

has come forth with a version that wholly eclipses the standard. What can easily be argued is the fact that Branaghs film version...

Techniques of Filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock

The cuts are approximately equal in length. Finally Thornhill asks if hes supposed to meet someone and the stranger replies...

Comparative Analysis of the Book and Film Versions of The Ugly American

as arrogant as they play up the fact they are noble and helping. In "The Ugly American" the authors note, "Hordes of United States...

Martin Scorsese's Justification of Violence in Films Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, GoodFellas and Casino

and accumulating gambling debts he cannot possibly pay, the stage is set for a bloody confrontation when loan sharks come calling....

Russian Culture in the Film Window to Paris

to the history of this powerfully great city, "Like the magic of a Russian fairy tale, St. Petersburg grew up with such fantastic ...

Cinematic Analysis of The Killing Fields

of hope and a future for the people, not a controlled government that decimates the people. Without really having been in ...

Cinematic Auteur M. Night Shyamalan

director was, quite literally, involved in every possible aspect of filmmaking, from raising money to hiring actors to helping to ...

Three Film Versions of Richard III

foul he is that we suffer a twinge of guilt for siding with him so readily. But we tend to do it anyway. The "New York Times" rev...

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...

Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle on Virtue

subdivided into passions and reason (Yu 323). So, too, was his moral character, which explained how man could exist as both a soc...

Literature and Happiness Through Virtue

In five pages this paper discusses how happiness can be achieved through virtue as illustrated in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibil...

Changing the Appearance of Films Through CinemaScope

In eight pages this paper examines the 1950s' introduction of the innovative CinemaScope cinematic technique that changed how film...

'The Mean' Meaning According to Aristotle

In five pages Aristotle's concept of 'the mean' is discussed in terms of a balanced universe comprised fo form and matter and the ...

Filmmaker Josef von Sternberg:

In six pages this report considers filmmaker Josef von Sternberg and emphasizes his cinematic collaborations with Marlene Dietrich...

Eyes Wide Shut Viewed Critically

Eyes Wide Shut was the last film Stanley Kubrick made. This paper offers an analysis and review of the film, including cinematic t...

God, Knowledge, Wisdom, and Virtue According to Descartes and Aristotle

In nine pages specific questions are answered regarding Aristotle's position on happiness, virtue, knowledge, and wisdom, and then...