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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...

Drugs, Zero Tolerance and City Ice and Cold Storage

The issue of drug use and abuse at City Ice and Cold Storage is not always an easy situation to manage; however, regardless of rec...

Visual Images in Last Action Hero Film

In six pages this paper refers to Timothy Corrigan's Film Terms and Topics the text edited by Jessica Munns and Gita Rajan entitle...

Erin Brockovich, Scarlett O'Hara, and Film's Independent Women

associated with roles from other films (Magills Survey of Cinema). During that time in Hollywood, women were not as indepen...

'Mr. Strehlow's Films' Analyzed

past and present. The result was an overwhelming collection of footage that has since been entitled, Mr. Strehlows Films. Thes...

Trio of Historic Films Examined

In ten pages a trio of historic films answer questions pertaining to cinematic theories, techniques, styles, emotions, and editing...

Alfonso Arau's A Walk in the Clouds and the Use of Cinematography

In five pages the 1995 film's use of cinematography as reinforcement of the filmmaker's vision is analyzed. Two sources are cited...

Feminist Versus Material View Points in Film and Television

her husband, and knew herself to be near death. Her digestive system had been destroyed by the disease, and, in intense pain and u...

Carl Franklin's Filmmaking and Screenwriting Works

names this "one of the great recent crime movies" (Ebert, 2002). Devil in a Blue Dress references a theme, subject and time perio...

The Many Forms of The Seventh Seal

The writer examines the development of Ingmar Bergman's classic movie The Seventh Seal, tracing it from a series of acting exercis...

Cinema and 'Race Films'

back to the film "The Birth of the Nation" which lead later to a movement of "race films" in the 1920s in the cinema. Mainstream U...

Baby Boy vs. White Man's Burden

Belafonte, and the two eventually become sympathetic toward each other. The movie portrays a culture which is seemingly opposite t...

A Trio of Actresses Jessica Lange, Meryl Streep, and Sally Field

way for actresses who were interested not simply in portraying stylish roles but were also interested in exploring characters of s...

Film Scream and Editing

other horror films. For example, in many subtle ways there is the age old suspense that we often saw in Hitchcock films as subtle ...

Pat Conroy's Novel The Prince of Tides Compared with 1991 Film Adaptation

the event of Savannahs hospitalization after a second suicide attempt and Toms journey to New York to assist her psychologist, Dr....

Play and Film Versions of Glengarry Glen Ross Compared

The play is divided into two acts, containing three scenes in the first and two scenes in the second. It centers...

Robert Rodriguez's Films and Cultural Identities

direction and production of a larger film. "The plan, Rodriguez said, was to make a series of three action films for this market a...

Contrasting and Comparing German Dictator Adolf Hitler and Greek God Hades

made quite the same impact as Hitlers oratory, personality and leadership. There can be no doubt that at the height of his popula...

Critique and Analysis of Wag the Dog Film by Barry Levinson

the message it conveys through incisive parody scary? Definitely. Barry Levinson is a veteran filmmaker who deftly employs a cyn...

Issues of Emotional Identification in Film

Hitchcocks movie, Vertigo. This whole movie is centered around one man and his inability to let go of an old love. The story, in b...

Use of Cinematography in The Truman Show

lighting, color, camera angle, types of shots, music and set design, to underscore the theme of self-determination and individual...

2 Films on the Holocaust

sole survivor out of the eight people who lived for three years in the lofts tiny space. The film flashes back to Otto explaining ...

Raiders of the Lost Ark/Cinematography

the traitorous guide getting ready to shoot him in the back. The camera shifts to Indys hand, which is holding a whip, as he swift...

The Issues Addressed in The Return of the King

Abel. Smeagol is analogous to Cain; he is his brothers murderer, and the audience is aware that the Ring is both powerful and evil...

American Cinema, Historical and Education Ideology

In seven pages historical comparisons are made between the ways in which education is depicted in such films as Stand and Deliver,...

Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain and Books

states, "In this blockbuster first novel, former college lit instructor Charles Frazier weaves a tale of two Civil War journeys; I...

Metaphor Controlling

interesting to note, there are several distinctions of metaphors. According to the online Merriam-Webster dictionary (2002) metaph...

Guinevere and Lancelot/Their Love in 2 Films

no adultery, save for stolen kisses, which of course are observed and thereby cause conflict, anguish for Arthur; exile for Lance...

An Overview of Emphysema

This in-depth paper examines the pulmonary disease emphysema, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and chronic obstructiv...

Cognitive Cinema Theory and Narration

night light. It sits in bedrooms and living rooms but has become something one does in place of nothing. Rather than sitting and r...