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Rear Window Film and Feminist Theories of Cinema

the director and the male filmgoer) receive a sexual thrill from watching the victimization of women (Williams 706). As one of th...

Films and Product Placement

placing countless products in thousands of movies. If you give it any consideration, you will be able to think of quite a few exa...

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 ...

Analysis of a Pop Culture Inventory

seem to be indicative of a fad. While perhaps hip hop is now viewed as a fad, or short term influence, one can see that that wide ...

Youth Film Marketing

focus on what is perceived as "cool," what demonstrates the youth culture of resistance and creates a collective youth image. Hol...

Monster Film and Crime

are completely realistic and very believable. They are individuals who have no real direction in their lives. They are lonely, and...

Golden Age of Hollywood and Exploitation

between studio systems and exhibitors, alliances established through vertical integration. One of the most important inclusions i...

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...

Portrayal of Time in Works by Terence Davies and T.S. Eliot

his films. In so doing we look at one line from the film and two lines from Eliots poem. Lily states, "I thought that I could ma...

Film Sliding Doors, Determinism, and Free Will

is, there is both free will and determinism. The idea that free will and determinism are one in the same is rare, but it seems ...

Cinematic Examples of the Model of Due Process and the Roles Played by Community and the Law

however, such as "The Verdict" try to show the benefits of due process within the legal system. [The concept of the "role of law"...

Courtroom Audiences and Their Importance

lines firmly drawn. The title of the film is taken from the book of Proverbs in the Bible: He that troubleth his own house shall i...

Film Representations of the Holocaust

of Train of Life (or its original French title - "Train de vie") is that the "village idiot" of a tiny Jewish community learns th...

Work Ethics of Filmmaker Steven Spielberg

so that he could become a television director at Universal Studios for a salary of $225 per week (Cagle, 2002). After serving an ...

Fantasy and Science Fiction Mythology Uses

troubles of Dr. Morbius and his daughter Altaira who have been living on a desolate planet. A rescue team finally arrives lead by ...

American Dream and Ernest Hemingway's Story 'A Clean Well Lighted Place' and John Ford's Film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

sometimes the only way to achieve peace. Doniphon admires the idealism of Stoddard and the two form an unlikely bond. The movie cl...

Filmgoing Experiences

of love. Scotty is a detective who is afraid of heights. Because of this he has left the police force to become a private detectiv...

Offensive Art Forms in Stanley Kubrick's Film A Clockwork Orange

most fundamental theme or issue in this particular film involves the title. This title refers to an individual who is nothing more...

Dystopia and the Film The Matrix

an ideal, nonexistent political state and way of life" (Abrams, 1999). Science fiction became a popular genre which was best demon...

The Film 'A Thousand Acres' Four Psychological Theoretical Reviews

Cordelia character actually evolves as more of a villain than victim. Dramatic Interpretation From a dramatic perspective, it is ...

Texas in the Film Old Yeller

a fence and seems to be nothing but a nuisance. The young boy, however, has attached himself to the dog for he has always wanted a...

Hollywood's 'Talkie' Motion Pictures

phonograph - and when the record skipped, so did the sound synchronization. The results, predictably, were humorous - the movie-go...

The 1982 film Gandhi and its Historical Accuracy

Indian commune where everyone shares the work, no matter how demeaning. Gandhis years in South Africa are spent in a series of tac...

Ben Younger's Film Boiler Room

saying: "Either youre slinging crack rock or youve got a wicked jump shop -- nobody wants to work for it any more. Theres no honor...

Mike Nichols' The Birdcage Cinematic Content Analysis

a good impression on his prospective in-laws, Armand and Albert pretend to be straight (Bawer). Instead of going for the easy lau...

Lying and Infidelity

In nine pages this paper examines infidelity as a form of lying as represented in the movie Random Hearts and in literature in the...

'News on the March' Scene Opening the Film Citizen Kane

last word of Citizen Kane as he dies in his bed. That word is the infamous "Rosebud." First time viewers, viewers who know nothing...

Cinema and Truth

sister, Cynthia. As if to complicate matters further, Johns old college friend, Graham, shows up in town for a visit and something...

American Cinema and Asian Culture

the majority of cases a stereotypical and inaccurate perception. As White (2001) points out, many Asian countries adopted the styl...

Silent to Talkies Cinematic Transition from Metropolis to The Gold Diggers of 1933

simply being "filmed" theater. Metropolis offered a chilling glimpse of the future, as the film is set in the year 2000 in the cit...