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Born on the Fourth of July

person that John F. Kennedy was addressing when he said "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your co...

Film Analysis/Kiss Me Deadly

(Ralph Meeker) swerves to avoid her and runs off the road. Angry, he snarls, "You almost wrecked my car. Well? Get in!" (Dirks, 20...

Girl Interrupted

problems of Susanna. Susanna is diagnosed as having borderline personality disorder. Susanna is suffering from hallucinations. For...

Film Analysis

In order to offer thorough analysis, Boggs and Petrie (2004) recommend seeing a movie at least twice. The first viewing can be dev...

"The Asphalt Jungle" and "Citizen Kane" as Classics of Film Noir

before. Perhaps the iconic model here is Barbara Stanwyck luring Fred MacMurray to his doom in Double Indemnity. But there is an...

Kassowitz/La Haine, Character of Vinz

This research paper offers a character study that focuses on Vinz (played by Vincent Cassel) in Mattieu Kassowitz's film La Haine....

Disabilities and Perceptions About Them Shaped by Literature and Cinema

In eight pages this paper discusses how perceptions and attitudes regarding individuals with disabilities have been influenced by ...

Ulysses by James Joyce and the Heroic Ideal of Leopold Bloom

In five pages this paper discusses the differences in the heroic ideas presented in literature, art, and film contained within the...

A Comparison of The Green Berets and Casualties of War

days on the battlefield seemed to be but a dim memory. The Korean War was Americas first unpopular war where there were no victor...

Artistic Contributions of Antonin Artaud

Joan at her trial before the ecclesiastical court. Much of the film is camera movement which makes not only Joans passions visibl...

'Oedipus the King' and 'Chinatown'

no longer walks the Chinatown beat, ever since he was promoted to lieutenant (Dirks chin.html). Chinatown is regarded as a punish...

Comparative Analysis of the 'Poem of the Cid' Epic and Anthony Mann's 1961 Film El Cid

In three pages this paper discusses an epic in terms of characteristics and how thee are expressed in literature and on film in a ...

Early Film Industry and Economics

In fourteen pages this research paper considers the film industry in terms of the economic issues it struggled with during its fir...

John Waters' Film Hairspray

titles such as "The Sultan of Sleaze," "The Prince of Puke" and "The Pope of Trash," which is the one he says he prefers (Als, 199...

Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange and Depiction of Deviance

have readily characterized their discipline by a progression of determining steps beginning with the development of a sociological...

Application and Analysis of Film Theories of Signification, Representation, and Perception

throughout cinematic history, Jean Mitry (1907-1988) was perhaps the most comprehensive and objective. He examined cinema from al...

The Depiction of Troy in The Iliad and in Film

is not identified as a goddess except for when a servant speaks to Achilles about the legends that have begun to be spun concernin...

Universal Soldier Film and Analysis of Eroticism Analysis

UniSols have bodies of unmatched perfection and their memories have been supposedly erased, which allows their minds to be easily ...

Film Noir Techniques in the Film, Gilda

what the audience is viewing with his own subjective observations. In his consideration of film noir, Jon Tuska (1984) noted that...

A Research Paper and Essay on 3 Independent Films

The Blair Witch Project The Blair Witch Project fits perfectly with the popular conception of what constitutes an independent fil...

Analyzing the Barbarians at the Gate Film

ethics or lack thereof, surrounding the mystique of Wall Street. Although takeovers are not in themselves unethical, the methods ...

Storytelling and the 'Old Man' Archetype

or archetypes, tend to lend an instant type of history and emotional context for the character, it can be said. The hero, for exam...

Film Noir Aspects of Sunset Boulevard and The Grifters

factor can be seen in both Sunset Boulevard and The Grifters. In Sunset, Joe Gillis is an out-of-work screenplay writer, who has t...

Personal Identity's Growth and Development

Relationship to the body Identity, whether we recognize it or not, starts with the physical body. Biblical writers often used th...

Racial Impications in The Matrix

A 30 page analysis of this science fiction film. This futuristic film imparts a sense of reality that is enough to bring most vie...

A Review of the Film Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

A 18 page critique of this less than successful film. The author atributes the lack of success however to the poor distribution a...

"Crash" and Psychology

In a paper of fifteen pages, the writer looks at the film "Crash". Jean Cabot is analyzed as a source for psychological content in...

Role in Civil Rights Movement, To Kill a Mockingbird

This essay utilizes literature to put forth the argument that Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, both the novel and the film adap...

Films of the Italian Neorealism Movement

This research paper focuses on the films of Roberto Rossellini, specifically on "Paisan" and "Germany Year Zero" and the films of...

Profit in the Film Industry - An Economic Analysis

In a paper of sixteen pages, the writer looks at profit in the film industry. The live action industry is compared to the animatio...