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Impressionist Genre's Beginning and End with Claude Monet Georges Seurat

1926) According to Waldron (1991) legend has it that Monet discovered his grocery purchase had been wrapped in a Japanese wood-bl...

Film Genre Known as 'The Musical'

diegetic music and spoken/sung dialogue (Altman 297-298). This film genre has historically consisted of three evocative forms. F...

Singin' in the Rain Film Genre Analysis

it is about a silent film star, Don Lockwood (played by Kelly) making the transition to sound pictures, a leap that not all popula...

Race and the War Film Genre

holding fast under the stress of combat, thereby propagandizing the need for unity. In "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1936), ...

Sam Spade and the Film Genre Represented by The Maltese Falcon

role after years as a Warner contract player" (Galloway, 2002; maltesefalcon.shtml). As we can see from this simple description...

A Genre-Based Analysis of the Film, Erin Brockovich

which pokes fun at what might otherwise be regarded as a very unfunny subject, such as death. There is also the romantic comedy, ...

Film Genres Thriller and Comedy

An analysis of these cinematic genres and how they are used are considered in an examination of Andrew Davies' A Perfect Murder an...

British Film Genre Classifications of Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and East and Lock

both can be considered comedic films. Definition of film comedy Although East is East is a slice of life film that can...

The Film Chinatown by Director Roman Polanski

Six pages and 5 sources used. This paper provides an overview of Roman Polanski's 1974 film Chinatown. This paper considers the ...

Comparison of 'Mariachi' and Western Film Genres

In five pages the 'mariachi' and Western film genres are contrasted and compared. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

Film Genre/Its Evolution

silent era, as it became clear to filmmakers that certain types of stories were particularly popular and profitable (Gazetas, 2008...

Film Noir Genre

be made about film noir and its enduring popularity is that it strikes a chord at the depth of nearly every viewer. Film noir focu...

1960s' and the Development of the British Farce

In twenty five pages this paper examines the 1960s' development of a genre known as the British farce in an analysis that includes...

Lawrence of Arabia by Filmmaker David Lean

Passage to India. However, his creative pinnacle is largely acknowledged to be the wildly successful (both critically as well as ...

Cronenberg: "A History of Violence"

in films today. The protagonist at the heart of Allens films is conflicted, neurotic, and a bumbler who usually manages, somehow, ...

Models, Miniatures, and the Battle for Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back

Many of his early Star Wars films feature several shots of models and miniatures that convey realism as impressively and in less t...

Vampire Movies and How They Have Evolved

conversations -- yet as McNally & Florescu (1994) describe, it remains eminently readable even in an "age of novelettes and journa...

David Lynch's Film Mulholland Drive

couple of cars who happened to be drag racing. This gives the woman a chance to get away. She runs into the city and for some reas...

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, Paradise Lost, and Cinema Verite

Paradise Lost In a review of "Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills" Roger Ebert (1996) indicates that it "is uni...

2001 A Space Odyssey Film by Director Stanley Kubrick

opening sequence has been found buried beneath the surface of the moon. While Floyd and his colleagues are standing in front of th...

Analysis of the Film Menace II Society

specifically address black independent filmmaking. Diawara (2001) highlights the tendency of the mainstream to consistently borro...

Combat Films and Full Metal Jacket by Director Stanley Kubrick

closer together and provide cohesiveness to the group through a single-mindedness of purpose (Gehring 93). At no time does the gr...

Cinematic Auteur M. Night Shyamalan

director was, quite literally, involved in every possible aspect of filmmaking, from raising money to hiring actors to helping to ...

All About Eve Cinematic Analysis

provides evidence of repressed female sexuality, and reveals how the traditional patriarchy was threatened as a result of these ch...

Analyzing 'Technology and Politics in the Blade Runner Dystopia' by Judith Kerman

In five pages this paper considers Kerman's thoughtful commentary and assessment of the 'Blade Runner' film and its contribution t...

Genre Critique of Alfred Hitchcock

In five pages this paper examines the implied genre film criticisms of Alfred Hitchcock. Six sources are cited in the bibliograph...

Film Noir and McCarthyism

and the even larger political responses of the Truman administration created a realm in which the primary purpose was to protect t...

Umberto Ecos' Myth of Superman and Bruce Willis's Film Die Hard

In a paper consisting of 5 pages the ways in which the film echos the Superman myth as described by Ecos are considered with box o...

Brian De Palma's Scarface

as the crime film genre became more sophisticated, the line between good/evil oftentimes became blurred. De Palma elected to take...

Evil in Alfred Hitchcock's Films Rope and North by Northwest

the most louche, laidback villains in screen history" (Brooke, 2005, PG) emphasises Thornhills naivety as far as espionage and mur...