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Power, Sexuality, and Impotence in The Trial

abuse of this abstract hierarchy of power, which can so easily be turned against an innocent man. The propensity of human beings t...

A Social Crime Analysis of Carlito's Way

This five page essay examines the film by Brian DePalma in reference to the social crime theories of Walter B. Miller. This film ...

Sex Education and Censorship

The use of sexually explicit films in the context of teaching sex education is the subject of this research paper. This report loo...

How a Blind Person Would 'See' Forrest Gump

In six pages this film is reviewed from a blind person's perspective along with a consideration of negative and positive film impa...

The Life and Career of Charles Chaplin

This paper explores the career of comic film maker, Charles Chaplin. The author focuses mostly on his early, silent films, such a...

The Classic Film Casablanca

The writer explores the plot, characters, setting and other elements of the 1942 classic film Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart...

Films on the Vietnam War and the War Itself

This paper considers how the Vietnam War was depicted in the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket and the 1988 film Good Morning, Vietnam i...

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,...

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...

European Cinema and the Impact of Ingmar Bergman

the experience had a profound effect on him. At the theater, Bergman could immerse himself in the characters and the action and f...

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...

John Cheever's 'The Swimmer' Short Story and Frank Perry's Film Adaptation

This paper consists of 5 pages and discusses the film's inability to transfer Cheever's internal monologue visually on the big scr...

How to Review and Assess Movies

In seven pages this paper examines how films are critically reviewed and analyzed with such films as The Crying Game, GoodFellas, ...

Being a Man in the 1999 Film Boys Don’t Cry

petty crime - such as writing bad checks - to pay for these procedures and as long as he perpetuates the illusion of being a male,...

Madness in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

of this mad ivory merchant, Kurtz; as part of his piloting job, he travels deep into the heart of the jungle with the idea of find...

Marcel Camus' Version of Black Orpheus

In seven pages Camus's interpretation of the play is assessed and compared with the original and discusses how Camus's insights de...

Blood Oath (Film Analysis)

around the emperor was protected from prosecution. Thus the films main villain, Baron Takahasi, the commander of the Ambon camp an...

Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of King Lear compared and contrasted with Kurosawa’s Ran and

In this essay which contains three sources and five pages, the writer compares and contrasts the film of Akira Kurosawa called RAN...

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in “As Good As It Gets”

and the animal bond, and there is a crack in his offensive fa?ade that allows him to grow and become at least slightly human (Schw...

'Dark City Tech Noir Science Fiction' of Alex Proyas' Dark City and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner

and evil (technology). Blade Runner considers the city of Los Angeles in the year 2019 as "a fragmented Third World metropolis, m...

Howard Hawks' 1946 Film The Big Sleep

of the classic noir characteristics, it also thumbed its nose at the use of flashbacks. There were no voice-over narrations, with ...

Director Quentin Tarantino and Postmodernism

(Rombes). Rafferty (1997) explains that the postmodern film is built on the film noir genre, but that a feature of postmodernism ...

Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver and the Use of Narrative

hard to draw oppositions between Travis and the Villain, Sport, as both are strong males who use forceful methods and generally th...

The Kid and Charlie Chaplin

Chaplin appeared, it was also a film that he made use of established paradigms. The tools used focus on content emotion had experi...

Cinema and Time's Role

human being he is. This comes as a shock to Oliverio who is as bad as the rest in assuming that prostitutes have no brains. Actu...

Cinema and Rebellion

child who is the product of a failed system, this film seems to be saying. This film was a social commentary of sorts, which use...

A Review of the 1965 Film The Greatest Othello?

and expression than film where the camera is able to capture the most subtle suggestions of emotion through the use of a close -up...

Film Marketing by Genre

the whole trilogy and uses a heavily layered story that involves high action sequences that are purely designed to attract those w...

The Mirror by Andrei Tarkovsky

of human existence and the ways in which all human beings relate to stress, desire, and feelings of social and personal alienation...