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Jane Campion's Film The Piano and Conventions of Melodrama

In seven pages this report examines melodrama conventions within the context of this 1993 film directed by Jane Campion. Seven so...

Jane Campion's Film The Piano from a Psychological Perspective

In five pages a cinematic analysis of The Piano is presented from the psychological perspectives of Lawrence Kohlberg, Abraham Mas...

The Piano by Jane Campion

In five pages the piano as symbolic and its thematic significance to the novel by Jane Campion are analyzed. There are no other s...

Ada's Dynamic Dimensions in The Piano by Jane Campion

In five pages the many dimensions of the dynamic Ada are examined in this character analysis. There are no other sources listed....

Life and Mystery Novels of Margery Allingham

In eight pages this paper examines the life and mystery writing of famed British novelist Margery Allingham a comparative thematic...

Kubrick/The Shining

one in which Danny Torrance, the seven-year-son of Wendy and Jack, has a vision of blood engulfing a hotel hallway in torrential w...

African American Playwright August Wilson

as befits an author who had been writing virtually one play a year since Ma Rainey had its first reading in 1982 at the Eugene ONe...

Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ

as director. This Catholic perspective is also quite evident in the fact that Mary, the mother of Jesus, is the most prevalent c...

Melodrama as Both Tragedy and Comedy

retelling of the Faust legend; the story of the man who sells his soul to the devil in return for success and love in this world. ...

Daisy Miller by Henry James and Society

In five pages this 1878 novel by Henry James is examined in terms of how social conventions are thematically portrayed....

Walter Scott's Ivanhoe and Chivalry

in his disguise as the Black Knight, praises Locksley/Robin Hood, as he says that a man who "does good, having the unlimited power...

Reverend William Collins in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

injustice in this situation, but also shows the social results of this predicament, as this insecurity largely accounts for the de...

Establishing a Genre Movie in 'Singin' In The Rain'

This 9 page essay considers how the theatrical presence in the film is developed stylistically through textural characteristics of...

D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation

In five pages the reasons why this silent film classic should be considered the greatest of all melodramas are presented. There a...

1930 to 1949 British Film and the Connection Between Realism and Melodrama

In eight pages this paper examines the connection between realism and melodrama that existed in British cinema during this time pe...

Film Melodrama

press appealed more in gender terms to male audiences(Neale, 63). In fact, Neale seems to think that the majority of the m...

Chopin, Beethoven, and Debussy

alternation provides a canvas to the "rich ricercar" variation technique, which Debussy employs (Schmitz 102). The second "image...

Dvorak and Brahms' Piano Quintets

any of his contemporaries, captured the "intimate communion that is the essence of chamber-music style" (Machlis, 1970, p. 128). T...

Second Movement of Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto

Marx, but he does not dismiss the idea that the movement has something to do with the Orpheus legend. Rather than Orpheus soothing...

Helen Burns' Fictional Journal Entry about Jane Eyre

In five pages Charlotte Bronte's book is considered in terms of a fictional entry made by Jane's school chum Helen Burns in her jo...

Rachmaninov, Mozart, and Bach Concertos Compared

In ten pages this research paper examines and compares 'Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor' by Rachmaninov, 'Piano Concerto No. 21 in...

Piano's Development

loud" (History of the Piano...Grover). In its shape and general construction, it resembled a harpsichord, however, there were ma...

Charlotte Bronte's Protagonist Jane Eyre

In five pages a character analysis of Jane Eyre and how her development progresses in 5 different environmental settings are prese...

Analysis of Charlotte Bronte's Protagonist Jane Eyre

instance, is that she will feel safe if she is hidden, and may feel prone to attack if she is seen. It would seem to balance the ...

"Jane Eyre" and the Repression of Societal Roles

Bronte condemns the repressive nature of gender-based societal roles by showing how it is Janes constant rebuking of the roles int...

Jane Eyre's Relationship with Rochester: Freud's Unconscious

be reciprocated. In spite of the fact that she fully understands the unlikely nature of such a relationship, this does not deter ...

Melodrama and Gender Conflicts in Society and Film

This paper examines the efficacy of portraying the struggles of women in various films. This five page paper has six sources list...

Stories of the Nineteenth Century That Feature 'Unruly' Women

This paper consists of 5 pages and considers women that did not faithfully follow the rules of the social patriarchy such as the h...

A 'Classic' Film Review

for garnering information about the characters. Citizen Kane tops on all of the critics list is the new and dynamic use of the cam...

Southern Baptist Convention's Belief Systems

Convention (SBC) has grown to 15.8 million members who worship in more than 40,000 churches in the United States. Southern Baptist...