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Singin' in the Rain Film Genre Analysis

it is about a silent film star, Don Lockwood (played by Kelly) making the transition to sound pictures, a leap that not all popula...

Political and Social Reactions to D.W. Griffith's Film Birth of a Nation

is no "true print" of the film, but it stands as a historical film nonetheless (Lang, 1994; 37). "The film was based on former No...

Five Foreign Films on Social and Religious Identity

In five pages this research paper considers religious and social identities in such films as Omar Gatlato, My Son the Fanatic, Fea...

2 Film Versions of 1 Novel Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

was cast as the Indian renegade Magua and a "less likely and more melodramatic Indian...is hard to imagine" (Magills-1920). Beery ...

Cinematic Comparison of Jean Renoir's The Rules of the Game and Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times

homeless man, or a prison inmate that has been arrested for some outrageous reason (Nissley 165). To illustrate how technology ha...

All That Heaven Allows

This 4 page essay explores the long-lived concept of May-December romance as it is presented in the movies. Social class and age ...

A Review of the Sense of Filmatic Space Interlacing Citizen Kane and Vertigo

sympathy" (Strauss 06F). Hitchcock was famous for employing the aspect of location as a means by which to portray his desired sen...

Not Wanted Film by Director Ida Lupino

in reality is not one of the "good girls." She is living an illusion. Her need for self improvement has reached an emergency lev...

Roberto Rossellini's Film Europa, Europa and Its Psychological Impact

Perel was no more than a young boy when he was forced to fend for his own existence. Realizing that he had to either fight agains...

George Stevens' Film A Place in the Sun and Doomed Love Affairs

true it probably isnt," the outcomes of the story may easily be predicted. Added to the overall sense of "too-good-to-be-true" is ...

Popular Culture, Gender Constructs, and 'New Femininities'

and behaviours, and seen as being in direct opposition to "femininity", which is equally constrained in its parameters, and define...

Social Process Theory and the Film American History X

1998). Derek is induced into joining a neo-Nazi movement by a older hate-monger played by Stacy Keach, who uses him as a neighbo...

The Social Animal

obvious (Aronson). But they did: approximately 75% of those tested gave the wrong answer (Aronson). This experiment, which was re...

1984 Film This is Spinal Tap and Social Assumptions

uncompromising manner that demands to be interpreted as truth (This is Spinal Tap PG). It is the perfect device for Rob Reiner to...

Analyzing Oliver Stone's Controversial 1991 Film JFK

Cuban Missile Crisis the following year. The film implies that JFK made a deal with Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev, in which h...

Steven Spielberg's Film Jaws and its Impact

dunk below the surface. There is no surprise on her face. There is no horror on her face. What is happening? The...

Three Film Classics and Social Issues

love, but have to ultimately abide by their previous obligations, as they are both happily married. Death of a Salesman (1985, pro...

Violating the Law and Social Control Theory

to "study things in their natural setting, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people br...

The Impact of Film Piracy

were not carrying any copying devices; camera phones were immediately confiscated; officials policed the movie aisles in search of...

A Clockwork Orange and 1984

Burgess poses basic questions regarding the...

Early American Cinema, 'The Other,' and Social Tensions

makes constitutes the "others" uniqueness. "The Other" inFilm The existence of "the other" has figured prominently throughout the...

Juliet's Images in Film Versions of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

the second quatrain and then the third, on her own (Downing 126). In so doing, she overturns the Petrarchan convention wherein th...

Social Construct of Gender Identity and Illusion

Indeed, boys tend to like football and rough house almost from birth where girls seem to mature into beings who like to talk on th...

Freedom Theme in the Film Deliverance and the Social Contract of Jean Jacques Rousseau

freedom supersede mans other concerns in daily life. Before exploring philosophy in respect to freedom, a student writing on this...

American Social Violence, Racism, Sexism, the Vietnam War, and Stanley Kubrick's Film Full Metal Jacket

human. Analyzing how Kubrick utilizes the Vietnam War as a means by which to expose violence, sexism and racism inherent to Ameri...

D.W. Griffith's Film Birth of a Nation and its Political Impact

artistic advancements, including a color sequence at the end" (Review of The Birth of a Nation, 2002). Furthermore, this film gre...

Human Life in the Films Man Facing Southeast, A Short Film About Killing, and Taste of Cherry

the most fundamental truths of human existence and the ways in which all human beings relate to stress and feelings of social and ...

Crazy/Beautiful Film and its Themes of Social Stratification and Interracial Dating

indicate a real trend or did producers want to make the unlikely romance more intense by denoting the male protagonist as someone ...

Analysis of the Film Fatal Attraction

In five pages this analysis considers how director Adrian Lyne's Fatal Attraction represents a changing suspense and horror film g...

'Clockwork Orange' and 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'

Social implications suggested in each film is discussed in this 5 pages comparative analysis paper that ponders the bureaucratic h...