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“The Castle” : A Messenger

their idea of the Australian dream. The Kerrigans home, in their minds at least, is indeed their "castle". They willingly disreg...

Historical Context of 'The Caine Mutiny'

In 6 pages this paper considers the Communist paranoia of the 1950s as depicted in this film's desire to prosecute Queeg during a ...

A Perfect Candidate/Film Review

directed by David Van Taylor and R.J. Cutler) is a documentary that follows the 1994 senate race between incumbent Senator Charles...

Film Analysis: On the Beach (1959)

Soviet Union were busy building up their nuclear arms arsenals, the specter of the nuclear holocaust hung over society and haunted...

2 Films on the Holocaust

sole survivor out of the eight people who lived for three years in the lofts tiny space. The film flashes back to Otto explaining ...

Grease and Westside Story

Many Splendid Thing" which is very innocent and then the viewer is presented with the images of a young woman and young man on the...

Group Development in Films

and training in the group development process. Studying groups in the 1960s, Tuckman observed that groups of individuals transiti...

Marching to War with Mel Gibson

Weapon movie directed by Norman Rockwell" (Mitchell). Thats a very good, if snarky, description. That being the case, its not sur...

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...

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...

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 ...

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....

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...

Dorothy Shaw and Lorelei Lee in the Film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

In seven pages the relationship between the film's two featured female characters are explored in terms of choices and situational...

The Film Finding Forrester, Thomas Hobbes, and Aristotle

In five pages this paper consides how films reflect some type of philosophy and the example of the 2000 film staring Sean Connery ...

Perspectives on the Movie American Beauty

In five pages this essay contrasts and compares the perspectives of critics and the film's writers with regard to 1999's American ...

Establishing a Genre Movie in 'Singin' In The Rain'

This 9 page essay considers how the theatrical presence in the film is developed stylistically through textural characteristics of...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Camera Politica and its Controversial Message

In five pages this text and its controversial message are examined with primary themes including films' role and their use as tool...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A Trio of Actresses Jessica Lange, Meryl Streep, and Sally Field

way for actresses who were interested not simply in portraying stylish roles but were also interested in exploring characters of s...