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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...

Condon's Film Gods and Monsters

However, Condon never allows the characterization to slip from deliberate parody into stereotyping; his characters are complex and...

Spike Lee’s ‘New York State of Mind’

lens but by the filmmakers imagination and based upon the unique New York experiences contained within a particular neighborhood e...

Visual Effects Showcased in Lars Von Trier's 1991 Film Zentropa

angles that one would not normally expect, such as shooting through water. There is an underwater shot of blood slowly spreading a...

Robert Altman and Jean Luc Godard

Altman dusted Mr. Marlowe off and brought him back, but his vision was very different from the earlier films. This Marlowe was a d...

Citizen Kane's Film Techniques

daytime and snow is falling. "Charlie" (Charles Foster Kane) is playing outside, and the camera stops on him. He rolls a snowbal...

North Bend Hometown Return

have more than our share of those kids here. But it wasnt as if the Seattle crowd was haunting us. Rather, there were just many mo...

Walter Salle's Motorcycle Diaries

a camaraderie that is more reminiscent of Huck and Tom than future revolutionaries. However, as they begin to see the poverty and ...

A Film Analysis of Lewis Milestone's Arch of Triumph

successes to his credit. A total of 112 sets were built, including a scale model of Paris Arc de Triomphe and an entire reproducti...

Film as Seen Through the Feminist Eye

Laura Mulveys book, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, states "Film reflects, reveals and even plays on the straight, socially ...

Frame Concept and Cinematic Representation

surprise twist at the end - the camera, representing the subjective perspective of the audience, is "run over" by a car rather tha...

Film Review of Diary of a Mad Black Woman

whom he has already fathered two children. Charles literally drags Helen to the front door and throws her out of the house (IMDb,...

Portraying Character on Screen

of the play, which is the fact that Toms continues to love his sister, miss her and long for a different past, as he pursues a dif...

2 films: America and The Patriot

as other authors, date this film as 1924, not 1929, which is why this date is used. Griffith envisioned his film as an epic, but t...

John Ford Films Young Mr. Lincoln and The Searchers Compared

This research paper compares these two Ford's films in five pages terms of differences but also notes the similar filmmaker perspe...

QUALITY COMMITMENT - INDEPENDENT FILMS

Scripts go through many rewrites up to the day of the scene production (and sometimes even through the scene production (Sherwood,...

The Nature of Documentaries

This essay pertains to documentaries. The writer defines the genre and then discusses the strategies it employs and the way in whi...