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Filmmaker D.W. Griffith's Intolerance and The Birth of a Nation

because of the Civil War, and many of whom were still alive when the film was produced" (The Birth of a Nation PG). The director ...

Shakespeare in Love Film and the Ideals of Courtly Love

harmed, though he will herald her with poetry if he is an artistic sort. These are fairly simple definitions, but they help to set...

Portrayals of Minorities in America in The Color of Fear and True Colors

to the daughter of the influential and powerful Senator Stiles" (Anonymous Cusack and Spader show their True Colors, 2002; 5937&Se...

Opening Sequence Analysis of the 1979 Film Apocalypse Now

foundation, upon which the subsequent action and characterizations are constructed. The mise-en-scene, which is featured in the o...

Modern Africa and Education's Significance

and attitudes from the Western world that are needed as the first step towards development (Lewis, 2002). Unfortunately, Western m...

Comparison of Cinematography in Citzen Kane and Casablanca

"More importantly, the innovative, bold film is an acknowledged milestone in the development of cinematic technique. It uses film ...

Revolution, George Orwell's Animal Farm and the Film Gandhi

farmer, the oppressor. However, once the pigs were in place and the rules established, the farm animals found themselves under a...

Cinematic Portrayal of Greek Virtue and Philosophers

84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...

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 ...

Jean Pierre Jeunet's 2001 Film Amelie from Montmartre, Feminism, and Postmodernism

known in postmodern films beginning in the late 1970s because it was a significant way of breaking down the stifling barrier of ge...

Historical Changes Made to the Film Braveheart

Gibson. From a simple understanding of history and the constant struggle between Scotland and England, as Scotland fought to rem...

India Song by Marguerite Duras

feelings of forgetfulness (Marguerite Duras). In "India Song", Duras tells of the life during the 1930s in a fashionable di...

A Second Look at "Good Will Hunting"

feel or to be aware of the world and ones connection to it as real"; this allows us to form our identity and relate to others (Gol...

A Postmodern "Amadeus"

movement that reacts to modern art and literature; postmodernists suggest that truth is no longer verifiable, and that new art for...

Cultural Development Of Vietnamese Women

majority of them helpless to a life of nothing other than self-sacrifice for their homes and families. For Vietnamese women...

Comparative Analysis of Dances With Wolves Novel and Film

main character, but is predominantly depicted as a sympathetic witness to a way of life that he senses will soon be lost forever. ...

Psychological Concepts in "Lord of the Flies"

fear. They seem at first to have found an idyllic home: the island is beautiful, there is abundant fresh water, plenty of fruit an...

"The Hunchback of Notre Dame" 1923

murder and he saves her-for another man (Ashlin). There are many other subplots in the film but the real story is of the love Quas...

The Depression as Backdrop

for anything-they cant save, they cant take any vacations, they can barely manage to pay their bills. They cannot afford to go to ...

"Shortbus"

to come to terms with life when it seems to have spun out of control. Eric Snider says its a film about "people who fear loneline...

Religion in America

in the United States as follows: "On a map, these show up as Roman Catholics in the Northeast and Southwest, Baptists in the South...

Does Obedience Encourage Stability or Prompt Corruption?

act, is subject to debate. Any politician who has an emotional outburst, or simply shows enthusiasm, seems to violate normative be...

Math in Cinema

to computers to cell phones is digital in nature, that is, totally a product of math; yet, few of us understand how math makes the...

German Movies/9 Questions

their love becomes the stuff of legend in their neighborhood (Legend of Paul and Paula). West German films/The Marriage of Maria...

Gender and Film: "Senorita Extraviada"

their jobs back, women were suddenly deemed weak and incapable of doing "mens jobs" and so were pushed out of the labor force and ...

Read the Book First

unfold slowly and with care. That is a shame, because when films delve into character and do it well, its a revelation. The camera...

Guide to Postproduction for TV and Film by Clark and Spohr

the reader with step by step information, charts, and other information that takes the reader through the entire process from star...

Leadership in Bridge Over the River Kwai

about getting this bridge done in time is Saito. Saito claims he will kill the British one by one if he does not comply. After som...

"O Brother Where Art Thou?"

The film follows the three hapless goofballs as they come across the sirens (three gorgeous women washing clothes in a river); alm...

Cinderella: Text and Film

clean and cook and be their servant. In both of the versions Cinderella becomes a slave to the step mother and step sisters. In th...