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Billy Elliot Film and the Depiction of Childhood

finds that he has a natural talent for it. It is as if the emotional side of him which has been forced to remain silent finally ha...

German Expressionism in Cinema

early years of the century. George Albert Smith was the first to experiment with composing scenes from individual shots and camera...

Chantal Ackerman and Her Films Je, Tu, Il and Elle and the Eighties

attitude which pervades most of her works, even today, it can be stated. This is because feminism was asking women to redefine the...

Epic Hero Luke Skywalker in Star Wars

given a task to perform and in doing so derives some sort of personal meaning from it. He may meet with a great series of misfortu...

Artist Myth and Cinema

1956 account of Vincent Van Gogh leaves that question open in his sympathetic portrayal of the artist" (TCM, 2003). When watchi...

David Fincher's The Fight Club

libidinal desire and an internal examination, which tends to idealize self (Naiman 333). The one factor which unites the two symb...

Reality and Films

Indeed, by looking at the role of the women in the movie it is a reflection of the social conditions. There is a reflection of the...

Reinvention of Western Films

There are other types of westerns though as well. Some westerns depict life in Americas colonial times or may take place in terra...

William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and Other Examples of Eccentricity

are similar to Emilys. The characters discussed are Carrie, from the film "Carrie," Norman Bates from the film "Psycho," Eleanor f...

1920s' Soviet Films and the Uses of Montage

of tape and combines them to emphasize their meaning. It is a method by which through two unrelated shots we may create a third an...

Howard Hawks' 1946 Film The Big Sleep

of the classic noir characteristics, it also thumbed its nose at the use of flashbacks. There were no voice-over narrations, with ...

Director Quentin Tarantino and Postmodernism

(Rombes). Rafferty (1997) explains that the postmodern film is built on the film noir genre, but that a feature of postmodernism ...

New Direction of the Horror Film Genre and the 1999 Movie The Sixth Sense

Hoping to succeed this time, the good doctor gives his complete attention to Cole, even if it means neglecting his wife, Anna (Oli...

Changing the Appearance of Films Through CinemaScope

In eight pages this paper examines the 1950s' introduction of the innovative CinemaScope cinematic technique that changed how film...

Filmmaker Josef von Sternberg:

In six pages this report considers filmmaker Josef von Sternberg and emphasizes his cinematic collaborations with Marlene Dietrich...

Eyes Wide Shut Viewed Critically

Eyes Wide Shut was the last film Stanley Kubrick made. This paper offers an analysis and review of the film, including cinematic t...

Comparing Novel and Film Versions of Like Water for Chocolate

ever since Garcia Marquez won the Nobel Prize" (Simon 64). The novel was an attention grabber and did have it elements of superna...

Quentin Tarantino's Controversial Film Pulp Fiction

In 5 pages this paper examines the cinematic style of director Quentin Tarantino in this thematic analysis of the controversial fi...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet in Film

stunning performance as Ophelia and at the time she was not as well known as she is today. However, when Charlton Heston appears o...

Analyzing the Film Deliverance

In six pages critical cinematic theory is applied to director John Boorman's film released in 1972 and discusses how theme is depi...

Jane Campion's Film The Piano from a Psychological Perspective

In five pages a cinematic analysis of The Piano is presented from the psychological perspectives of Lawrence Kohlberg, Abraham Mas...

Comparative Analysis of Othello Play and Film

In five pages William Shakespeare's original play is contrasted and compared with Oliver Parker's 1995 cinematic interpretation. ...

Novel and Film Comparisons of Jurassic Park

wind up running for their lives from the dinosaurs that escape due to the computer programmer Dennis Nedrys treachery. Grant ensur...

Narrative Style and Theme of Citizen Kane

In six pages a cinematic analysis of director Orson Welles' masterpiece Citizen Kane focuses upon the auteur's themes of capitalis...

Film Noir and McCarthyism

and the even larger political responses of the Truman administration created a realm in which the primary purpose was to protect t...

How Cinema is Dominated by America

both elements are evident to greater and lesser degrees in each and every film that is produced in America and Europe film (Kerri...

Stanley Kubrick's Auteur Film Style in A Clockwork Orange and 2001 A Space Odyssey

In eight pages this paper examines Kubrick's definitive auteur film styles as they are represented in these films and compares the...

Realism in Martin Scorsese's Film Raging Bull

In five pages cinematic realism is compared and contrasted with film noir and surrealism with the focus being how in the film Ragi...

Film Analysis of Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons

In five pages this paper presents an analysis of the 1942 motion picture The Magnificent Ambersons in an examination of director O...

Artistic Expression in Film

This paper examines how artistic expression can be conveyed through cinematic expression. The author also addresses censorship, c...