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Modernism in the Film Pierrot Le Fou by Director Jean Luc Godard

economic policy; the once-independent populations lost their identity as a people. The post-colonial Americas yearned for the abi...

Art of Cinema from 1948 to 1965

In nine pages the ways in which cinematic art changed surprisingly little during this time period despite some avant garde detours...

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...

Consideration of Cinematic Art

In nine pages two stylistic modes Hollywood's classical narrative realism and modernist or avant garde are examined in terms of ho...

Jean Luc Godard's Unconventional Cinematic Style

of capitalism, he looked for a medium which would best provide a creative outlet, as well as indulge in his interest in philosophy...

Raging Bull, Breathless, and Spectator's Construct of Femininity According to Narrative and Style

In nine pages these films by Martin Scorsese and Jean Luc Godard are examined in terms of how femininity is presented to the spect...

Hitchcock's The Birds, Use of Sound

This essay pertains to Hitchcock's "The Birds" and the strategies that Hitchcock used in the film that relate to the use of sound....

Cinematic Analysis of Pierrot le Fou

ethnology, he developed an affinity for film which he would then continue to spend his life committed to (Biography of Jean-Luc Go...

Women in the French Cinema of Jean Luc Godard and Louis Malle

In ten sources this paper examines women's roles in the films by these French auteurs with mise en scene among the topics of discu...

French Director Jean Renoir

his daughters fiance, Anatole. They are observed by two young men, Henri and Rodolphe, who propose to seduce the women in the part...

The Dardenne Brothers and Realism

This essay pertains to Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, who are directed numerous films over the past 4 decades. Their documentaries...

Brian DePalma's 'Carrie' A Cinematic Analysis

would become his own trademark. This film, along with Obsession (1976), further developed De Palmas expressive use of cinematogra...

Pedro Almodovar and Jean Pierre Jeunet

15). Amelies cautious nature is something that Jeunet attempts to develop not only through the elements of the character, but th...

Jean Rouch's 1954 Film Les Maitres Fous

Accra's Hauka community during colonial rule as depicted in Les Maitres Fous by director Jean Rouch is the focus of this paper con...

A Mirror on Society: Dardenne Brothers

This essay offers an overview of a number of films by Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. Eight pages in length, eight ...

Tarantino and the director as auteur

This research paper argues that director Quentin Tarantino has earned the perspective of being considered the auteur of his films,...

Melville's "Le Samourai" - A Portrait of Existential Values

single, concise action, one cannot help but recall the inherent ambiguity and independence of Camus Mersault, the protagonist of "...

1956 Film Adaptation/Moby Dick

the injustice that fate as inflicted upon him, as he has pursued the whale for years, coming close numerous times, but never actu...

Roles of Women in Albert Camus' Les Justes and Jean Paul Sartre's Les Mains Sales

he must assassinate Hoederer. Hoederer is a admirable Communist leader whom Hugo likes and respects for his political ideas. Hugo ...

The Purpose of Film Montage

This 5 page paper discusses the viewpoints of French film critic and auteur Andre Bazin, and Russian director Sergei Eisenstein, o...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

Scorsese/Gangs of New York

the foreign hordes defiling it" (Mattie 215). Cutting slays Vallon, consigns his son to an orphanage, and proclaims his rule ove...

Jean Renoir's Movies

also during this period when Renoir adopted what would become his trademark style of filmmaking, by using a core ensemble cast of ...

Inoperative Community by Jean-Luc Nancy

community images its purpose and legitimacy (Vermeulen 95). Nancy indicates that modern communities exist in the "interrupt of ...

Woolf and Nancy: Interruption of Myth

community in Between the Acts fits with Nancys conceptualization of the interrupt of myth because Woolfs intention was to offer an...

Definition and Application of Postmodernism

of these schools of thought was sufficient, but that there could be the existence of the competing thoughts that create conflict ...

Dogma, Reflection on a Film

Jesus" (Blake, 1999, p. 20). Glicks idea is that the crucifix is too depressing as a symbol. He says, "Christ didnt come to earth ...

Jean Pierre and Luc Dardenne and Their Cinematic Style

Palme dOr and "best actress" for its star in 1999 (Dargis). The brothers generally share the tasks of both writing and directing...

Les Miserables (1998)/A Film Review and Analysis

David Ansen goes on to speculate that the film may be more thrilling to viewers who are encountering the story for the first time,...

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...