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Roland Joffe's The Mission and the Film's Portrayal of New World Colonialism and Jesuit Missions

forest, which would later represent the convergence of Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina, symbolically depict a convergence of the h...

Film Noir in the Nineteen-Fifties and Nineteen-Nineties

police detective that suspects his department is turning a blind eye to organized crime after refusing to further investigate the ...

Comparing the Text of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood with the 2005 Film Capote

the nonfiction novel, he appears nowhere in the text, despite the fact that all of the information contained within is based on hi...

Martin Scorsese's Common Themes in the Film Casino

in many works, the focus of attention on the many true stories he takes on is related to childhood friendship that seemingly last ...

The Classic Film Casablanca

The writer explores the plot, characters, setting and other elements of the 1942 classic film Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart...

Film Version of A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr and Expert Witnesses for the Plaintiffs

In five pages this paper examines the expert witnesses by the plaintiffs and how they were used in the film version of A Civil Act...

Charles Chaplin's Modern Times

In two pages the film's satire as well as the stand it takes against certain issues are discussed as they reflect America's Great ...

Grapes of Wrath (Film Review)

This one page reaction paper looks at the well known film Grapes of Wrath and the political statement that seems to come through i...

The Many Forms of The Seventh Seal

The writer examines the development of Ingmar Bergman's classic movie The Seventh Seal, tracing it from a series of acting exercis...

Trio of Historic Films Examined

In ten pages a trio of historic films answer questions pertaining to cinematic theories, techniques, styles, emotions, and editing...

Alfonso Arau's A Walk in the Clouds and the Use of Cinematography

In five pages the 1995 film's use of cinematography as reinforcement of the filmmaker's vision is analyzed. Two sources are cited...

Films on the Vietnam War and the War Itself

This paper considers how the Vietnam War was depicted in the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket and the 1988 film Good Morning, Vietnam i...

John Cheever's 'The Swimmer' Short Story and Frank Perry's Film Adaptation

This paper consists of 5 pages and discusses the film's inability to transfer Cheever's internal monologue visually on the big scr...

Alcohol Abuse and the Film Leaving Las Vegas

attacks, visual hallucinations, and paranoid delusions" are withdrawal symptoms of heavy drinking (Anonymous, 1999, PG). In the m...

How to Review and Assess Movies

In seven pages this paper examines how films are critically reviewed and analyzed with such films as The Crying Game, GoodFellas, ...

Gender Differences Among Film Directors

This paper discusses ways in which female film directors sometimes compromise their artistic expression or opinions in order to be...

Visual Images in Last Action Hero Film

In six pages this paper refers to Timothy Corrigan's Film Terms and Topics the text edited by Jessica Munns and Gita Rajan entitle...

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...

The 1952 Musical, Singin' In the Rain

This essay offers an analysis of the famous 1952 film musical, Singin' In the Rain, which stars Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynbods. Th...

Social Propaganda and Utopian Qualities in Adam Sandler's Big Daddy

of marriage, he also does not want to lose the one person in his life who helps to give him direction. This dichotomy is instrume...

Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of King Lear compared and contrasted with Kurosawa’s Ran and

In this essay which contains three sources and five pages, the writer compares and contrasts the film of Akira Kurosawa called RAN...

Madness in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

of this mad ivory merchant, Kurtz; as part of his piloting job, he travels deep into the heart of the jungle with the idea of find...

Marcel Camus' Version of Black Orpheus

In seven pages Camus's interpretation of the play is assessed and compared with the original and discusses how Camus's insights de...

European Cinema and the Impact of Ingmar Bergman

the experience had a profound effect on him. At the theater, Bergman could immerse himself in the characters and the action and f...

Film Review of Outremer

to answer but is subject to interpretation. The title might be referring to an American point of view perhaps or even the division...

Life Choices in Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors

In a paper consisting of 5 pages this film is analyzed in terms of how the lies of the protagonist affect both himself and his vic...

Movie Marketing Aspects

In seven pages movie marketing approaches are examined in a comparative consideration of the methods used to market films Being Jo...

The Life and Career of Charles Chaplin

This paper explores the career of comic film maker, Charles Chaplin. The author focuses mostly on his early, silent films, such a...

Apocolypse Now Film by Director Francis Ford Coppola

In five pages this paper considers the film's parallels with Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and also discusses influences of T...

The Dance Sequence from Singin' In the Rain

This writer offers a detailed analysis of the Gotta Dance/Broadway Melody scene from the 1952 film Singin' In the Rain. These scen...