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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 ...

Modern Indian Cinema

Weisman, in an article featured in The New York Times, described Indian cinema as "an all purpose dream engine delivering gaudy th...

An Analysis of the Films, Bowling for Columbine and, The Decay of Fiction

physical state that supports the distinguishing characteristics of film noir. Though the term "film noir" is French, the st...

Robbery in Films

in keeping all of the people hostage while the funds are delivered. As mentioned, while it is not exactly a bank robbery film, it ...

Discussing Modern Entertainment and its Utopian Possibilities

that are easily overcome (Carey, 2000). This is a reflection of their inventive mind where it is the message and not the mechanics...

The Role of Conflict in Literature and Film

The basic structure of most fiction stories follows a simple Act one, Act Two, Act Three kind of format. In the first part of the ...

Documentary Evolution

it can be seen to have been on its way out at the dawn of all the other television competition for viewers time. Perspectives shif...

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....

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...

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...

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...

Comparing Dan T. Carter's The Politics of Rage With the Film The Best Years of Our Lives

meet while returning to their hometown of Boone City, are symbolic of the American social class structure (Beidler 589). Upper-cl...

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...

Cinematic Neorealism

neorealistic filmmakers, such as Rossellini, Vittorio DeSica and Cesare Zavattini, was to make a "moral statement," which forces ...

Female Protagonists' Bondage of James Bond

is Elektra King, unlike many of Bonds female enemies she is a rich young woman who has not become part of communist assassination ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Traditional Film Methods and Digital Film of the Future

In twelve pages this paper examines traditional film methods and the increased reliance upon digital technology in a contrast and ...

Blue Steel Film's Reality and Fiction

Today, there are more female police officers on the force and so, Hollywood had made an attempt to portray the female officer as l...

Metropolis Film's Social Importance

notions of the division between the "haves" and "have nots" and in fact supported his ideas with the theory of alienation. Further...

Film's Subtle Advertising

In two pages this paper considers the subtle advertisements featured in the movies Back to the Future and E.T. There is no biblio...

Comparing Old Film Angels with Dirty Faces with New Film Clockers

In five pages this research paper contrasts and compares films from 1938 and 1995 respectively. Three sources are cited in the bi...

Casablanca Film's Propaganda and History

In five pages this 1943 film by director Michael Curtiz is examined in terms of both its Second World War period history and how i...

The Dear Hunter Film's Vietnam War Rhetoric and Reality

In five pages this paper examines the rhetoric and reality of the Vietnam War within the contexts of the book Hollywood's Vietnam ...