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Films on the Vietnam War and the War Itself

This paper considers how the Vietnam War was depicted in the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket and the 1988 film Good Morning, Vietnam i...

Beneficence and A Deadly Deception

This essay pertains to "A Deadly Deception," which is a PBS film that documents the events of the Tuskegee syphilis study, which l...

"The Wizard of Oz" Group Development

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at group development in "The Wizard of Oz". Four stages of development (forming, stormin...

Value of the Rain Forest, "Medicine Man"

This film review pertains to "Medicine Man," a 1992 film directed by John McTiernan. The writer gives an overview of the plot, whi...

Film Noir Aspects of Roger Rabbit and Mildred Pierce

the criminal activity that is taking place in this particular world. In Mildreds story we have a woman who has struggled all he...

Howard Hawks' 1946 Film The Big Sleep

of the classic noir characteristics, it also thumbed its nose at the use of flashbacks. There were no voice-over narrations, with ...

The Kid and Charlie Chaplin

Chaplin appeared, it was also a film that he made use of established paradigms. The tools used focus on content emotion had experi...

'Dark City Tech Noir Science Fiction' of Alex Proyas' Dark City and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner

and evil (technology). Blade Runner considers the city of Los Angeles in the year 2019 as "a fragmented Third World metropolis, m...

Director Quentin Tarantino and Postmodernism

(Rombes). Rafferty (1997) explains that the postmodern film is built on the film noir genre, but that a feature of postmodernism ...

War Requiem by Jarman

Brittens music in this work, his primary identification is with deeply felt emotion that emanates from Owens poetry (Gomez 92). So...

Cinematic Depiction of Hong Kong

that it has always been a colony of sorts. Its independence is illusive and while things have changed since 1997, it seems as if H...

Aspects of Formalism in the Film, The Graduate

women will play in the film (The Graduate). Throughout the film, Nichols uses images, including an extensive series of montages, t...

Analyzing the Film Educating Rita

for Rita. The result is that not only does Frank tutor Rita, but Franks learns from Rita as well. Initially Rita is portrayed as...

Increasing Film Studios' Profitability

in a film that only a percentage of moviegoers even remember. This represents the crapshoot movie studios were forced to endure w...

Gangster Genre and 2 Representative British Films

and defined crime as a "problems that we--the public--must solve" (Cavaliero 50). These films attempted to shift attention from t...

Film Noir in the Nineteen-Fifties and Nineteen-Nineties

police detective that suspects his department is turning a blind eye to organized crime after refusing to further investigate the ...

Roland Joffe's The Mission and the Film's Portrayal of New World Colonialism and Jesuit Missions

forest, which would later represent the convergence of Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina, symbolically depict a convergence of the h...

Reality and Films

Indeed, by looking at the role of the women in the movie it is a reflection of the social conditions. There is a reflection of the...

Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver and the Use of Narrative

hard to draw oppositions between Travis and the Villain, Sport, as both are strong males who use forceful methods and generally th...

Comparing the Movie 'Elizabeth' with 'New Worlds, Lost Worlds The Rule of the Tudors 1485-1603' by Brigden

preface of her book, author Susan Brigden confesses to the broad nature of her book "New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudo...

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...

An Analysis of the Films, Bowling for Columbine and, The Decay of Fiction

physical state that supports the distinguishing characteristics of film noir. Though the term "film noir" is French, the st...

Robbery in Films

in keeping all of the people hostage while the funds are delivered. As mentioned, while it is not exactly a bank robbery film, it ...

Discussing Modern Entertainment and its Utopian Possibilities

that are easily overcome (Carey, 2000). This is a reflection of their inventive mind where it is the message and not the mechanics...

The Role of Conflict in Literature and Film

The basic structure of most fiction stories follows a simple Act one, Act Two, Act Three kind of format. In the first part of the ...

Documentary Evolution

it can be seen to have been on its way out at the dawn of all the other television competition for viewers time. Perspectives shif...

A Trio of Actresses Jessica Lange, Meryl Streep, and Sally Field

way for actresses who were interested not simply in portraying stylish roles but were also interested in exploring characters of s...

Cinema and 'Race Films'

back to the film "The Birth of the Nation" which lead later to a movement of "race films" in the 1920s in the cinema. Mainstream U...

Film Scream and Editing

other horror films. For example, in many subtle ways there is the age old suspense that we often saw in Hitchcock films as subtle ...

Baby Boy vs. White Man's Burden

Belafonte, and the two eventually become sympathetic toward each other. The movie portrays a culture which is seemingly opposite t...