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Essays 301 - 330

M. Night Shyamalan's Unbreakable Cinematic Analysis

use the camera in the same way as an author uses words for both aesthetic and textural purposes. There are two particularly effec...

Landscape's Symbolic Uses in Chinese Movies Red Sorghum, The Blue Kite, and Yellow Earth

meant to symbolize the conditions of rural poverty in China and its openness and vastness is typical of Chinese art works which eq...

D.A. Pennebaker's Film Don't Look Back Critically Analyzed

depicted in Dylans apparent treatment of many of those whom he comes into contact with. If fact, Dylan seems to be stuck in a perp...

Black Rain Review and Criticism

yet sympathetic short stories about ordinary people in Japanese life. Black Rain is considered a novel distinct from all other tex...

American Culture and the Film Manhattan by Director Woody Allen

Brando, the apples and pears of Cezanne...and Tracys face" (Chances 66). Throughout the film, Ike professes his belief that "It is...

Analysis of 1985's The Purple Rose of Cairo by Filmmaker Woody Allen

finds as far too mundane and the challenges of defining what is real and what is an illusion. For example, the character of Tom Ba...

William Shakespeare's Play Macbeth and 2 Film Interpretations

conscience. Said Macbeth: "One cried "God Bless us! And "Amen!" the other, as they had seen me with these hangmans hands. Listning...

Visual Themes in Cameron Crowe's 2001 Film Vanilla Sky

is until he has suffered pain and unhappiness, concepts that are foreign to David, who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth....

The Film The Heiress Analyzed

lush as one of the contemporary Merchant-Ivory or Emma Thompson movie adaptations of other literary classics that offer a view int...

Greek Styles of Government and the Film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

relationship between a city or Nations government and a person is much like that of a parent/child relationship. The state nurture...

Gender Issues and Class in Karl Reisz's Film Saturday Night, Sunday Morning

What it depicts is a picture of class prejudice and strained gender relationships. Saturday Night Sunday Morning is made ...

Literature, Film, Identity, and Travel

conversation" (Clifford, 1997, p. 37). Similarly, the identity of the Moe family remained Hawaiian, despite the fact that they t...

Sir Carol Reed's Film The Third Man

a job writing for a volunteer medical unit he runs. Harry, however, is dead by the time Holly arrives (Ebert, 2002); he has, in fa...

History and Citizen Kane

flashbacks in the movie) (Street 48). Through these interviews, the audience learns that Kane inherited a fortune at a young age, ...

Fried Green Tomatoes Film and Relational Theory

they become each others other half. They protect one another because they empathize, and they are more open to the needs and condi...

Abused Child and Historical Abuses of the Irish in The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe

This is clearly seen in "Patrick McCabes novel The Butcher Boy, published in 1992" for it "is a complex working through of the eff...

Patriarchal Concepts in Monster's Ball and Mystic River Films

mourn, and move on. He is a man raised by a patriarchal society and as such it is his duty, as he sees it, to do something. In thi...

1960s' Life and Mike Nichols' Film The Graduate

to comment on his future and to give him advice. The viewer comes to understand that Ben is expected to follow in his fathers foot...

Fight Club Film and Crisis of Identity

whisper sweet nothings, carry a womans purse in a store, and change a babys "poopy" diapers (and be able to say the word, "poopy" ...

Cinema Industry of Great Britain

any year 68% of the population will visit a cinema (BBC New, 2003). British films tend to be very well accepted, until Harry Potte...

Rene Fortunato's Film The Power of the General

One is not expressly privy to the formative influences in his life, but the directors suppositions are obvious. Those that Trujill...

Style of Auteur Filmmaker Yusuf Chahine

superbly able to weave entertainment into the mix of the political statements, using the elements of good literature as he does so...

Culture and Humanity: Things Fall Apart and The Gods Must Be Crazy

that offer the viewer/reader a different look at the western worlds involvement in other cultures. In offering these different v...

"O Brother Where Art Thou?"

The film follows the three hapless goofballs as they come across the sirens (three gorgeous women washing clothes in a river); alm...

Research of Erin Brockovich

problems and the pollution of the towns water table by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E). Brockovich instinctively felt that the case ...

1984 Film This is Spinal Tap and Social Assumptions

uncompromising manner that demands to be interpreted as truth (This is Spinal Tap PG). It is the perfect device for Rob Reiner to...

Analyzing Oliver Stone's Controversial 1991 Film JFK

Cuban Missile Crisis the following year. The film implies that JFK made a deal with Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev, in which h...

Analysis of Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs Screenplay

After the robbery goes bad, the gang regroups in an abandoned warehouse. Here they learn that the reason their job went bad was du...

Classic Animation/Disney's Little Mermaid

mans face. The fish slips from his fingers and manages to make it over the side. The perspective follows the fish. The fish turn...

Jim Jarmusch's Film Dead Man

The role gives him room to act insolent and wry, high-flown and wised-up by turns, and Farmer makes the most of his chances, playi...