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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and an Intertextual Comparative Analysis with Francis Ford Coppola's Film Apocalypse Now

in binary opposites, most commonly represented symbolically, in contrasts of light and dark, black and white, culturally in civili...

Cinema and Tao te Ching Edited by Michael LaFargue

This is mysterious Femininity (Tao Te Ching, p. 70). Lefargue (1992) describes this saying as indicating that femininity is the...

Of Mice and Men, Take Two

mini-series The Stand, for which he won a SAG award, and he also received an Oscar in 1995 for Best Supporting Actor in the film F...

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...

A Review of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder As Reflected in the Movie Good As It Gets

habits are partially responsible for keeping him at arms length from the rest of the world. Considered for decades to be a diseas...

Movie Review of Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear

In six pages a plot synopsis of Scorsese's 1991 remake of Cape Fear is presented along with the argument that in addition to being...

History, Movies, First Knight and Jabberwocky

In five pages this essay examines how Middle Ages history and life are portrayed in the films Jabberwocky and First Knight. Two s...

Cinematic Interpretation of History

In terms of the way in which...

Monster Threat in the 1987 Horror Movie Near Dark

This report analyzed the Near Dark horror movie within the context of critic Robin Wood's observation that 'normality is threatene...

Feminist Accomplishments in Erin Brockovich and Chocolat

for how its members would be perceived -- in order to create the fervor that was ultimately produced from its presence. Thr...

Women's Changing Roles and Movie Remakes

In five pages this research paper examines 3 motion picture remakes and how this reflects women's changing social roles. Six sour...

A Case Study in Requirements of Functional Human/Computer Interactions

This paper examines functionality issues required by a video shop to set up a database information system to allow customers easie...

My Left Foot Film Analysis

a childs graduation or see a grandchild give birth. A poor person giving away his or her last dollar is a more moving scenario tha...

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...

The 1925 Film The Gold Rush by Star and Director Charlie Chaplin

The second full length feature Chaplin made in 1925 is the subject of this paper consisting of five pages. There is one movie pos...

Novel and Film Adaptation of The Perfect Storm

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the book and movie versions of The Perfect Storm and how each portrays man and natu...

Native American Culture and the Disney Movie Pocahontas

This historical inaccuracies about Native American history and how they are relected in Disney's Pocahontas are examined in 6 page...

High Art Elements of the Doug Liman Film Go

This paper analyzes the high artistic elements of Doug Liman's movie Go in 5 pages. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

Comparative Analysis of the Film and Novel Versions of Beloved

In five pages this report contrasts and compares the 1987 novel Beloved written by Toni Morrison with the 1998 movie adaptation. ...

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,...

Persuasion in Print and Film

Modern movie adaptations of classic novels are often hard to compare to the originals. This report discusses the film version of P...

Cinematography in Battleship Potemkin and Citizen Kane

The cinematography in these movie classics are discussed in five pages. There are no other sources listed....

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...

Making a Movie Out of Henrik Ibsen's Play A Doll's House

should convey a sense of the strength that is reflected in Nora. The adornments and the furnishings are only accessories to the s...

Social Psychology and the 1999 Movie The Matrix

In classic science fiction style, the common people have no idea that they are nothing more than blips in a global virtual-reality...

Good Will Hunting Film Freudian Analysis

The movie Good Will Hunting is analyzed from a Freudian perspective in 5 pages. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize Winning Play Turned Movie Glengarry Glen Ross

In five pages this paper discusses the 1992 film adaptation of David Mamet's play in terms of plot and performance....

Maverick Filmmaker Sam Fuller

been said that his films were against anything that he perceived as "anti-American." According to von Busack (1997), after Fulle...

Fact, Legend, and Fiction of King Arthur

In five pages this paper discusses the various depictions of King Arthur in the 1960 musical Camelot by Alan Jay Lerner and Freder...