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The Right Stuff & Technology

conquer it. The focus of the film changes when it shifts to dramatizing the successful launch of the Soviet Unions Sputnik and i...

Film Portrayal of Schizophrenia

show the director she can be seductive. When he kisses her, she bites him. His anticipation for further sexual intimacy is never r...

Film Review/Toy Story 3

as "jolly, slapstick comedy," but also criticizes it for lacking the "almost eerie humanity that infused" the earlier movies, writ...

Fat Head, Super Size Me

This research paper focuses on the films "Fat Head" and "Super Size Me" and discusses them in terms of the nutritional subjects br...

Chef, A Movie Review

This essay is a movie review of "Chef," a 2014 film directed by Jon Favreau. The film tells the tory of Cal Casper, a chef, who lo...

Cradle Will Rock

water from a fire hydrant. The street scene also emphasizes the desperation of the era. A man stands next to a car that is covered...

Dogma, Reflection on a Film

Jesus" (Blake, 1999, p. 20). Glicks idea is that the crucifix is too depressing as a symbol. He says, "Christ didnt come to earth ...

Small Group Communication, The Hurt Locker

by Kathryn Bigelow, written by Mark Boal, 2009) offers a detailed study of the life of an Army bomb squad, Bravo Company, statione...

Kubrick/The Shining

one in which Danny Torrance, the seven-year-son of Wendy and Jack, has a vision of blood engulfing a hotel hallway in torrential w...

Accuracy in the Film "Frida"

draw and paint, which is a "direct expression" of "her interior life" (Young 29). When she is finally able to walk again, she visi...

Analysis of Raqing Bull

earning him an Academy Award (Raging Bull, 19950. De Niro made Jakes decline more believable by gaining 60 pounds over the course ...

Once We Were Warriors/Postcolonial Theory

a different "historical memory of the Maori," as they remember "fierce fighters who battled against British colonizers for decades...

Joh Kuo Wei Tchen's New York Before Chinatown

historical documents. Finally, and tragically, Tchen chronicles the turn of the tide toward resentment, fear and mistrust toward t...

Writing and Speech in Novels by Camara Laye and Ousmane Sembene

In one page this paper examines Third World Africa in a contrast between written language and oral tradition as represented in G...

'Oedipus the King' and 'Chinatown'

no longer walks the Chinatown beat, ever since he was promoted to lieutenant (Dirks chin.html). Chinatown is regarded as a punish...

Frida/Accuracy of Recent Film

Frida, as a young teen, sneaking into an auditorium to watch Diego painting a mural. Diegos wife Lupe appears and confronts Diego ...

Birth of a Nation/Cinematic History

history of the Civil War and the Reconstruction. In essence, Griffith is recounting the tales told to him by his father, who was a...

Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night/On Film

a take on the play that is patterned after the screwball comedies of the 1930s, as "Beatrice and Benedick are surely the prototype...

Cinematography in “Hero”

a "master swordsman," arriving at the Emperors fortress. Nameless explains to the Emperor how he vanquished "three deadly assassin...

Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ

as director. This Catholic perspective is also quite evident in the fact that Mary, the mother of Jesus, is the most prevalent c...

Norma Rae’s Depiction of Labor

sit down, even when "they are having menstrual cramps" (Giroux). In the film, workers also complain about "plant conditions, speed...

1956 Film Adaptation/Moby Dick

the injustice that fate as inflicted upon him, as he has pursued the whale for years, coming close numerous times, but never actu...

Girl Interrupted

problems of Susanna. Susanna is diagnosed as having borderline personality disorder. Susanna is suffering from hallucinations. For...

Born on the Fourth of July

person that John F. Kennedy was addressing when he said "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your co...

Angels with Dirty Faces (1938): A Review and Analysis

a realistic glimpse into troubled American youth that did not compromise moral values or the integrity of the film. Judging by th...

Films of the Italian Neorealism Movement

This research paper focuses on the films of Roberto Rossellini, specifically on "Paisan" and "Germany Year Zero" and the films of...

"Crash" and Psychology

In a paper of fifteen pages, the writer looks at the film "Crash". Jean Cabot is analyzed as a source for psychological content in...

Good Night, and Good Luck, Film Review

This film review primarily profiles the film's protagonist, Edward R. Murrow, using an existential perspective. The writer argues ...

A Film Analysis, When Harry Met Sally

This film analysis is on "When Harry Met Sally," 1989, directed by Rob Reiner. The writer asserts that the specific genre for this...

Film Review, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

This film reviews pertains to director Richard Brooks' 1958 film "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." The writer discusses the film in terms o...