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Essays 1921 - 1950

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...

Martin Scorcese's Raging Bull and Jake La Motta

powerful subject for a director like Scorcese and an actor such as DeNiro. Based on La Mottas autobiography, the student working o...

Cool Hand Luke Film and Luke Character Symbolic of Rebirth

chain gang convicts with brutal honesty and has fewer moments of levity than the movie. (Pearce also write the screenplay for the ...

A Comparison of Huck Finn and the Misfit From A Good Man is Hard to Find

footsteps. This is demonstrated through the parallels between Huck and his father. In the part of the novel where Huck is abducted...

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...

Ang Lee's Eat Drink Man Woman Overview and Film Review

depth, grace, and often touching humor with which the story is actually presented. Family, love, and tradition are all presented, ...

A 'Norman Bates' Analysis

studying the film Psycho, does Norman represent a typical psychopath? First, does Hitchcocks film create an accurate repres...

Media Technology Pioneer Lee de Forest

In five pages this paper celebrates the virtually unknown film and radio contributions of inventor Lee de Forest. Six sources are...

Michael Powell's film 'Peeping Tom'

of the film as we witness his actions and we become powerful voyeurs in the process, immersing ourselves in his world, and his sym...

Film Mulholland Drive and David Lynch's Editing

In five pages the theme of Lynch's film is discussed in an examination of the editing techniques the director employed. Three sou...

Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale' and the Film Adaptation

This 5 page paper compares and contrasts the Medieval story with the film version. There are 2 bibliographic sources that are cit...

Film and Television

godfather, Sirius Black. The fourth effort, the Goblet of Fire, concentrated more on the Triwizard Tournament and less on the gath...

Gattaca

the office building is a womans voice. It is a soothing voice and one could well argue that a womans voice will make people more s...

Comparing Apuleius' Golden Ass to Raiders of the Lost Ark

also his lover, that the antidote is to eat some roses. However, when he goes out into the garden to do so, he is beaten by the ga...

Humanity in Realistic Films Yo, Tambien (Me, Too), The Black Balloon, and Including Samuel

in which as children leave they receive "lolly bags" and hand-blown balloons (Chen 18). These balloons came in an assortment of c...

Issues in 12 Angry Men (1957)

a switchblade knife," are primarily interested in getting out of there as quickly as possible (Dirks). It is clear that these midd...

A Film Documenting Growing Old and Dying

"Tuesdays with Morrie" is based on the book by Mitch Albom. Mitch was a previous student of sociology professor Morrie...

Film Genre/Its Evolution

silent era, as it became clear to filmmakers that certain types of stories were particularly popular and profitable (Gazetas, 2008...

Logical Fallacies and Philosophy in Minority Report

if the "future is set and cannot be altered or whether free will makes that future a possibility rather than a certainty" (Berardi...

"Sometimes in April" - The Value of Narrative Nuance

in Rwanda, because it features a less narrow narrative focus while "Hotel Rwanda dealt far too much with attempts to relive one ad...

Romeo/His Characterization

This essay describes the characterization of Romeo and the role that this plays in the tragedy, referring to both the original pla...

Corporations and Globalization

150 years ago, corporations had an insignificant impact on human society. However, after Congress passed the Fourteenth Amendmen...

Battle of Algiers and Black Hawk Down

such as bombings of civilians or the "hit-and-run assassination of French policemen," the film is showing actual "recreations of w...

Inarritu's "Babel" and the Exploration of Intercultural Communication Barriers

helps the student provide a brief overview and summary of the work. The film "Babel" was a multinational production in its own rig...

Pursuit of Happyness/Book and Film

having Christopher older, and therefore capable of understanding valuable life lessons, made it possible to dramatize the scene th...

My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Communication

how emotions are valued and expressed (Adler and Russell 126). Some cultures, such as Asian American and Hong Kong Chinese, value ...

Popular Culture and Patriarchy

The Opinions of Laura Mulvey Laura Mulvey uses psychoanalytic theory to explore cinema in her article entitled "Visual Pleasure ...

Wrestling and its Negative Societal Impacts

"Wrestling With Manhood-Boys, Bullying & Battering" is an expose on the harsh realities encompassed in professional wrestling and ...

Grow Your Own and Bend It Like Beckham: Two Films about Prejudice

prejudice is defined as "a judgment or opinion formed before the facts are known; preconceived idea." It is a belief that may or m...

The Group Dynamics of the Jury in 12 Angry Men

which a jury debates the evidence it has just seen presented in a murder trial. This paper reviews the film as well as discussing ...