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The Moral Hijacking of "Dangerous Liaisons" by Populist Sentiment

"Les Liaisons Dangereuses" in 1782, a number of years before the French Revolution, and it stands to this day as a masterwork of p...

Popular Culture and Patriarchy

The Opinions of Laura Mulvey Laura Mulvey uses psychoanalytic theory to explore cinema in her article entitled "Visual Pleasure ...

Humanity in Realistic Films Yo, Tambien (Me, Too), The Black Balloon, and Including Samuel

in which as children leave they receive "lolly bags" and hand-blown balloons (Chen 18). These balloons came in an assortment of c...

Impact of the Black Plague on Chivalry, Feudalism

died within a span of just 18 months.7 The following examination of literature focuses on how the Black Plague affected feudal soc...

Literature and Film Related to Rural Life

the Grapes of Wrath the family is mobile, that is really not by choice and even when they face such a hardship, they remain close....

Bamboozled by Spike Lee

and animated hand movements, as well as constantly smiling face (Elam and Jackson 349). In contrast, Manrays upper body is relaxed...

White Man's Burden, A Film Analysis

of racism. However, viewing John Travoltas portrayal of Louis Pinnock through the stereotype of the "brute Negro," that is the s...

Kassovitz's "La Haine" - a Marxist Criticism

as a document of ongoing social struggles in disenfranchised urban ghettos, or "banlieues" around Paris (Cartelli, 2008). The titl...

Is It Film Noir? No Country for Old Men:

the novel or the film precisely. Typically, films classified as film noir, but not all of them, focus on a murder or multiple mu...

Reviews of Titanic

Titanic (1997, directed by James Cameron), which were published shortly after the films premiere. Overall, the reviewers are posit...

Film - A Study in Characterization

pregnancy, and more specifically, pregnancy out of wedlock. However, each film represents a dramatically different take on the iss...

Representations of Taiwan

legitimate government of both Taiwan and China began to change in the 1990s when democracy was introduced and new leaders were ele...

Comparing "The Shining" and "A Clockwork Orange" - The Diversity of Kubrick's Style

the closing shot of "The Shining", where the camera again slowly pans, this time from a wide view of the wall of a hotel ballroom ...

Excalibur, A Cinematic Representation of Arthurian Legend

his sword and kneels commanding that his enemy should knight him. Overcome with Arthurs bravery, as the noble could just as easily...

A Biopsychosocial Assessment of Ray Charles

her, more than family and more than music. That hit home and I figured I had to quit" (Film, Ray, 2004). Ray has been blind s...

Chinese Film: A Scene from Crows and Sparrows

of the purchasing of gold. The director uses Mr. Xiaos cigarette and its billowing smoke to emphasize the dark conditions of his ...

Erin Brockovich, from an Ethical Perspective

directed by Steven Soderbergh, the film Erin Brockovich is based on a true story, which dramatizes the catastrophic health consequ...

Late Spring, Directed by Yasujiro Ozu

from Japanese director Yasujiro Ozus 1949 masterpiece Late Spring, there are two cutaway shots that feature a beautiful vase. Thes...

Inarritu's "Babel" - Lessons in Conflict and Communication

terrorist act), and this prevents Susan from getting the care that she requires for quite some time. Another major conflict in t...

Death of a Wonder Drug: The Vioxx Recall

answer, additional sources were consulted. In the documentary, several of the experts who were interviewed make the point that s...

"Good Will Hunting" - An Analysis

in Will in order to save him from going to jail after Will assaults a police officer. This in turn establishes the time frame whic...

Instruction of the Deaf, A Film Analysis

to abide by her decision to communicate only in sign language. Young children acquire language skills by listening. From the tim...

Applying Therapy to an Example Family: The Buckmans

the structural and relational factors, including patterns of poor communication, Gils work issues, and problematic financial issue...

The Characters in Aftershock

Fang Deng and Fang Da are inseparable siblings, depicted before the earthquake "swaying in unison in front of a rotating fan" (Hal...

Battle of Algiers and Black Hawk Down

such as bombings of civilians or the "hit-and-run assassination of French policemen," the film is showing actual "recreations of w...

House of Mirth

"Make connections between a movie and...the culture" (Corrigan 7). In this novel, and film, costumes, or clothing, was a very impo...

Analysis of John Woo's The Killer

key films of the Hong Kong New Wave period" (Hall 1). This film has had tremendous influence over both Western and Asia filmmake...

The Marketing of the Melbourne International Film Festival

critic" and one can appreciate how the cognitive process may be impacted by allowing them see themselves as a potential critic. ...

Depictions of Aboriginal People in Australia 1729 - 2006

Overell, 1993). A more civilised image was put forward by Hawkesworth in 1773 when editing the account of Captain Cooks voyage. ...

Criminology Theories, Mafioso

that he is "like a stopwatch" (Emerson). Having established this background information, the movie focuses on his long-awaited vac...