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Cinematic Comparison of Jean Renoir's The Rules of the Game and Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times

homeless man, or a prison inmate that has been arrested for some outrageous reason (Nissley 165). To illustrate how technology ha...

Film Review of Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas

the voiceover. According to reviewer Patricia Kowal, this inclusion of a female perspective furthers the gangster genre because it...

Early American Film Director D.W Griffith

his five years at Biograph, Griffith took the raw elements of moviemaking as they had evolved up to that time -- lighting, continu...

Film Preservation Techniques

the more stable cellulose acetate film to preserve the content (De Stefano, 2003). Unfortunately, these efforts were limited, bec...

Film 'Kramer vs. Kramer' and Adolescent Development

by his mother. He becomes angry and withdrawn, mistrusting others around him and as a result constantly tests the boundaries Ted ...

Joel Bakan's Corporation, Portrait of a Psychopath

same material, that is, the historical background to corporations, their basic operating motivation and specific case studies. How...

Reality and Hispanic Cinema

brutalized in this event and the historical record shows that such a background would be historically accurate. Alienated against...

Walter Salle's Motorcycle Diaries

a camaraderie that is more reminiscent of Huck and Tom than future revolutionaries. However, as they begin to see the poverty and ...

Golden Age of Hollywood and Economic Strategy

alliance between studio systems and exhibitors, alliances established through vertical integration. One of the most important inc...

Monster Film and Crime

are completely realistic and very believable. They are individuals who have no real direction in their lives. They are lonely, and...

Golden Age of Hollywood and Exploitation

between studio systems and exhibitors, alliances established through vertical integration. One of the most important inclusions i...

Aspects of Film Acting

Yorks celebrated Actors Studio, and emphasizes the importance on emotion memory, which enables an actor to connect with a role by ...

Therapeutic Relationship Between Nurse and Client

36). Both a therapeutic and social relationship are featured in the film Good Will Hunting (1997). The protagonist in the film, ...

Comparison of Cellular Film Character Ryan and Huck Finn

maintaining all the latest electronic devices, such as a plasma television, DVD player, or a home stereo surround system. And book...

Film She's Gotta Have It by Director Spike Lee

of her three suitors, a sex therapist, her father and her former roommate, and a lesbian acquaintance (Shes Gotta Have It). Nolas ...

Film Review of Robert Zemeckis' Forrest Gump

is picked to become part of a US Ping-Pong team that plays in newly opened Communist China. After his discharge from the army, For...

Cartesian Rationalism from a Critical Viewpoint

experience, will readily be admitted with regard to such objects, as we remember to have once been altogether unknown to us..." (A...

Review of Sydney Pollack's 2005 Movie The Interpreter

notes that this is the first film crew to be given permission to film extensively at the UN and this gives the movie a feeling of ...

2001 A Space Odyssey and Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick's Visual Style

the moon base known as Clavius (Falsetto 44). In perhaps the most memorable sequence, when Bowman travels "Beyond the Infinite," ...

Isabelle Allende's House of Spirits and the 1993 Film Version

fiance Rosa (Williams and Garrett). Clara, in both the book and movie, is truly psychic and her powers are a intriguing feature ...

Children and Media Violence

games and the computer, it rises up between 35 and 55 hours a week (Gentile et al., 2004; 1235). Through this much media exposure ...

The Film Traffic as a Statement on U.S. Drug Policy

editorializing, but this fits well within the boundaries of the film. For example, at one point a character says that "at any give...

Traditional Staging vs. Contemporary Cinematic Interpretations of William Shakespeare's Plays

inexperienced actors in the lead roles (Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey). The play opens with the servants, Samson and Gregory,...

Historical Accuracy of Michael Collins Film by Director Neil Jordan

an uneasy political alliance with Sinn Fein President Eamon De Valera, and this fueled the romantic rivalry between Collins and hi...

Depiction of Tom Wingfield in the 1987 Film Adaptation of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

Tom, then, is the central male figure in the family. Their father has abandoned them some many years before, and so it has fallen...

Formalism in the Films, Great Expectations and, The Night of the Hunter

them" (Trbic, 2005). At the same time there was a very powerful visual style that was insistence on losing the "polite look of his...

Illusion in Ingmar Bergman's 1982 Film Fanny and Alexander and Different Interpretations

child with the family maid, Maj (Fanny and Alexander PG). The Ekdahl family mantra is, according to Helena, that actors are not t...

Contemporary Cinema and the Use of Cyborgs

twentieth century, people are all chimeras, or mythic hybrids of machine and organism, or cyborgs (Haraway, 1991). In Western sci...

Orson Welles' Citizen Kane and Frank Capra's Meet John Doe Cinematic and Comparative Analysis

tight close-up (Dirks, 1996). There is a menacing "No Trespassing" sign outside an old gate, and after panning up over a chain-li...

Empire Records Cinematic Analysis

Music Town. With $9,000 of store receipts in his pocket, Lucas goes to Atlantic City in hopes of parlaying that into enough money...