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Richard Brooks' Film The Blackboard Jungle

In eight pages this film by director Richard Brooks is examines in an overview that considers its portrayal of youth problems. Th...

A Review of Finding Forrester

Finding Forrester Jamal is the primary character in this story. He is from a family that consists of his mother, who is single d...

Film Noir Aspects of Sunset Boulevard and The Grifters

factor can be seen in both Sunset Boulevard and The Grifters. In Sunset, Joe Gillis is an out-of-work screenplay writer, who has t...

Mississippi Burning/A Reaction to the Film

group of KKK members (DuPont, et al). The film ends with snapshots of the men indicted for the murders of the three Civil Rights w...

2 Film Versions of 1 Novel Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

was cast as the Indian renegade Magua and a "less likely and more melodramatic Indian...is hard to imagine" (Magills-1920). Beery ...

Brian DePalma's 'Carrie' A Cinematic Analysis

would become his own trademark. This film, along with Obsession (1976), further developed De Palmas expressive use of cinematogra...

Scorsese/Gangs of New York

the foreign hordes defiling it" (Mattie 215). Cutting slays Vallon, consigns his son to an orphanage, and proclaims his rule ove...

Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing

solely for blasting rap music on his boom box. A local DJ, Mister Senor Love Daddy, who operates a radio station also acts as a co...

2 films: America and The Patriot

as other authors, date this film as 1924, not 1929, which is why this date is used. Griffith envisioned his film as an epic, but t...

The Tempest Play by William Shakespeare and the Film Version by Julie Taymor

focused on Shakespeares perspectives on innocence and its consequences. As envisioned by Shakespeare according to his stage direc...

The 1993 Film Version of Randy Shilts's And The Band Played On

In five pages the ways in which the film depicts the AIDS epidemic, the frustrations, social attitudes, and lack of funding associ...

Tennessee Williams' Cat On a Hot Tin Roof Play and Film Versions

severity of the Bricks grief at Skippers death causes his relatives to speculate, but this is dispelled in the crucial scene that...

Differences Between the Novel and Film Versions of The Scarlet Letter

to it that such a crime was punishable by death. After all, behavior so unbecoming of a religious devotee deserved no less....

Comparing Novel and Film Versions of The Color Purple

in particular is feminism and its religious heterodoxy" (12). An examination of the film and novel amply supports this observation...

Book and Film Versions of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath

In six pages this paper emphasizes class consciousness in a discussion of how class is portrayed during the Great Depression in St...

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...

Film Versions of William Shakespeare's Othello by Directors Orson Welles and Oliver Parker

In five pages this paper critiques 2 film interpretations of William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello. One source is cited in the bi...

Angela's Ashes Film Version Creation

In five pages transforming Frank McCourt's autobiographical text into a screenplay is examined in terms of necessary elements and ...

Review of the Film Version of Stephen King's The Green Mile

we see an older man who doesnt sleep well at night any more; his long walks and an old clip of Fred and Ginger dressed in their fi...

Novel and Film Versions of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

In five pages this paper presents scene comparisons between Jane Austen's novel and a film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Two...

The Purpose of Film Montage

This 5 page paper discusses the viewpoints of French film critic and auteur Andre Bazin, and Russian director Sergei Eisenstein, o...

1985 Television Film Version of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

In five pages Schlondorff's 1985 interpretation of Miller's play is discussed in terms of acting especially Dustin Hoffman's and J...

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...

Comparing the 1995 Film and Novel Versions of 'The Scarlet Letter'

would have no doubt preferred. She stays and makes a life for herself and Pearl as a seamstress and though her scarlet letter def...

The Text and Film Versions of 'A Rose for Emily'

the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...

1974 Film Version of The Great Gatsby

shirts and strolls her through his kitchen. There, we see Daisys hand trailing along a large work table...the elegant chandeliers ...

Film and Novel Versions of The Green Mile

of just a few prisoners, including John Coffey. Edgecombes reflections, though, address some major themes, including his own effo...

Juliet's Images in Film Versions of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

the second quatrain and then the third, on her own (Downing 126). In so doing, she overturns the Petrarchan convention wherein th...

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...

Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep and Howard Hawks' Film Version

In five pages the many differences between Chandler's detective novel and Howard Hawks' 1946 big screen interpretation are examine...