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What is Cinema by Andre Bazin

In four pages the essays compiled by film scholar Andre Bazin are examined with the emphasis being on the ways in which it provide...

Contemporary Journalism and Cinema and its Perspective Shifts, Influences, and Innovations

the blink of an eye one could carry on a conversation with someone half way across the world. What came from this mingling of cult...

Black Cinema in the 1940s

For example, one review, that is typical of those produced by white critics, described the typical Hollywood musical of the 1930s ...

Cinema and Sexuality

crisis of Lester Burnham, a subplot provides a telling commentary on way that homosexuality has been perceived in this culture. Th...

Postmodern Cinema and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

For example, the film focuses away from the traditional violence of the western film and the identification of the main characters...

Auteur Theory and Art Cinema

it is quite obviously going to have a lot of action throughout the film. However, too much action and the theme and characterizati...

European Cinema and the Impact of Ingmar Bergman

the experience had a profound effect on him. At the theater, Bergman could immerse himself in the characters and the action and f...

Cinema Motif in The Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig

In 5 pages this paper examines how Molina and Valentin's relationship is enhanced by the author's use of motif in Manuel Puig's Th...

American Cinema, Historical and Education Ideology

In seven pages historical comparisons are made between the ways in which education is depicted in such films as Stand and Deliver,...

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...

Cinema and Military Technology

In five pages this paper discusses the portrayal of nuclear warfare as it has evolved in films including Braveheart, Godzilla, Dr...

Politics of Chinese Cinema

difficult to see how this critique could have been avoided (McDaniel, 2004). While the current political climate in China is mor...

Tragic Form of Aristotle and Contemporary Cinema

had erred so completely, even though he did so unknowingly, his only recourse was to take his own life. In Fight Club, then, th...

The Portrayal of Friendship in French Cinema

considered a right" (230). In four French films in particular, Arnaud Desplechins Comment Je Me Suis Disput?... (Ma Vie Sexuelle)...

Cinema and Heroes

typically be defined as a teacher, lawyer, politician, farmer, or family man who represents American ideas relative to collective...

Cinema and U.S. Immigration

In five pages the film El Norte's portrayal of immigration to the United States is presented in this overview. There is 1 source ...

British Cinema and 'Otherness'

In eight pages this paper examines how 1980s and 1990s' British movies depicted 'otherness' with such films as Cold Fish, Blood, a...

How Cinema is Dominated by America

both elements are evident to greater and lesser degrees in each and every film that is produced in America and Europe film (Kerri...

Postmodernism and Cinema Neo Noir

claustrophobic, hopeless and without clear moral or personal identity," suggesting that the world is a place with no clear values ...

Modern Hollywood Cinema, Class and Gender Politics

terms of interpretation, due to different apparent political agendas and a different political environment, as such we will use on...

Cinema Industry of Great Britain

any year 68% of the population will visit a cinema (BBC New, 2003). British films tend to be very well accepted, until Harry Potte...

Cinema and Realism

In five pages this paper discusses how realism is cinematically created in Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, Lars von Trier'...

Feminism, Cinema, and Women in the Films Sunset Boulevard and Breakfast at Tiffany's

form of entertainment. Thus is the case with their somewhat lighthearted, yet very socially revealing portrait of the womens move...

1930s and 1940s' British Cinema and its Heterogeneous Mix

In seven pages the heterogeneity of such British films of the period as Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 The Lady Vanishes and Zoltan Korda...

20th Century Cinema and Racism

In five pages this paper examines racism as it is represented in society and in the movies Higher Learning, A Raisin in the Sun, a...

Female Characters as Spectators in Early Cinema

This paper examines the heavily male-influenced film industry as it related to the roles played by female characters. The author ...

Cinema Realism and Audience Reaction

In a paper consisting of five pages viewing audience passivity, activity, and impact of film realism is explored in terms of the p...

Puig's 'Kiss Of The Spider Woman' and Laura Mulvey's 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema'

the notion of female spectatorship. Psycho is a good example of this, inasmuch as Norman Bates only appears to exist secondarily ...

Cinema, Discrimination, and Prejudice

sociologist, Erving Goffman and Elaine Pagels, a historian of religion. The concept of otherness as a proponent of discriminator...

Modern Indian Cinema

Weisman, in an article featured in The New York Times, described Indian cinema as "an all purpose dream engine delivering gaudy th...