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How to Watch Films

the color palette, the costumes; all of these come together to produce the picture that the director wants us to see. This is why ...

Film Review/Finding Nemo

but are rather handled subtly and well, as they are integrated into the context of the narrative and the way the character change ...

Erotic Journeys and the film Maid in America

portrayed in the film live in a climate of risk with "no health insurance, no drivers license, no pension and no recourse" to just...

Foreign Films

is made to truly feel for them, fear for them, and hope they survive. However, anyone who has watched both of the films will clear...

Boccaccio's book/Pasolini's film/Decameron

subsequently preaches sermons about him, leading people to believe that he led the life of a saint. Ciapelletto is such a hypocri...

John Ford Films Young Mr. Lincoln and The Searchers Compared

This research paper compares these two Ford's films in five pages terms of differences but also notes the similar filmmaker perspe...

Hong Kong Portrayal by Director John Woo in the 1989 Film The Killer

In five pages Woo's portrayal of Hong Kong is the focus of this examination of The Killer film. Four sources are cited in the bib...

Roberto Benigni's 1998 Film Life is Beautiful

reviewer Thierry Jousse considered the Cannes award "totally disproportioned", arguing that the film in fact was too slight to mer...

National Identity in 2 Chinese Films

in economic terms, which depends largely on equating national cinema with a countrys domestic film industry. As this suggests, thi...

Mexican Film/Maria Candelaria

establishing the "image" for the decade is "director Emilio "El Indio" Fernandez, cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa and actress Dol...

The Film Clueless and Jane Austen’s Emma

of Emma, or Cher in the film. Ferriss notes how "Heckerling offers a series of suggestive parallels between Austens heroine and he...

Clinical Issues in the Film “Transamerica”

who were obscuring their identities by dressing as American Indians (Levine, 1994). Times have most certainly changed s...

California and the 1992 Film Adaptation of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men

featured performer in the action. It visually depicts why Americans have answered the call to Go West since the pioneer days. In...

Cultural Scene Analysis of Paul Haggis’ 2005 Film Crash

on the marquee, the classic Frank Capra holiday film starring James Stewart. The night is clear as evidenced by the lack of umbre...

Film / Novel Color Purple

her, told her, "You better not never tell nobody but God. Itd kill your mammy (1)" which resulted in her writing letters that "are...

The Relationship of Men in Gangster Films

to each other only by code names ("Mr. Pink," "Mr. White", etc.). They relate to each other mainly by wisecracks ("Do I have to be...

Is "Malcolm X" and Orientalist Film?

as an alien, dangerous and strange religion, Said says that he has "not been able to discover any period in European or American h...

Margaret Mead's Contribution to Ethnographic Film

to capturing reality, and artistic flair was considered, but they were not privy to the aesthetic possibilities that exist today. ...

History and Evolution of Documentary Film

number has increased to 1,000; by 1901, to 1,299 titles" (Adventures in Cybersound, 2007). This was the beginning of the documenta...

Representation of African Americans in Film: Rush Hour 2

enjoy his vacation but pushes aside that vacation to help his friend find retribution for the murder of his father. There are mome...

Realism and Expressionism in Film

"realists," saying that what they "had in common was a desire to put cinema at the service of what ... [he] called a fundamental f...

Native Experience: Literature and Film

different elements together to speak of ancient Aboriginal beliefs as well as a modern world. In As Long as the Rivers Flo...

The Film Ordinary People & Carl Rogers

capacity of the individual to be expressed and to strengthen (Kirschenbaum, 2004, p. 116). In pursuing this line of thinking, Ro...

Film Adaptation/Shoeless Joe & Field of Dreams

(Stam 54). While these terms seem extreme, they convey the disappointment of the critic, or the general viewer, towards a film tha...

Analysis Of A Short Film

at the other end looks miniscule (Holme, et al, 1972). This perception is based on visual assumptions, and these same assumptions ...

Product Placement

prove equally beneficial to businesses? Turcotte (1995) argues that it does and lists a variety of reasons. First of all, produc...

Gender Role and Asian Depictions in Film

demanded. They were depicted as speaking little or no English and as sticking out in terms of being different due to their distin...

Chaucer’s The Franklin’s Tale and the Film Indecent Proposal

these stories are both very similar for the couple love one another and share their lives in a very equal and meaningful manner. ...

Expressionism in Film

rolling down a hillside and coming ominously to rest" (Morris, 2000). Following the template set by Caligari, Lang also delves int...

Ella Enchanted/Cinderella

opens just after her birth. Like all babies, she is crying. Lucinda, a rather stupid fairy, is intent on giving Ella a "gift" and ...