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Racial Representations in Hollywood's Horror Movies

In twelve pages this paper discusses how racial representations are structured in Hollywood films in a consideration of The Shinin...

The Dear Hunter Film's Vietnam War Rhetoric and Reality

In five pages this paper examines the rhetoric and reality of the Vietnam War within the contexts of the book Hollywood's Vietnam ...

The Breakfast Club/A View of Adolescence

"poor little rich girl or the princess," and is drive to school by her father in a BMW (The Breakfast Club, 1995). Allison is the ...

Stephen King's 1981 Essay 'Why We Crave Horror Movies'

we are all insane, than sanity becomes a matter of degree." The difference is, according to King, is that those who are completely...

Hollywood Depiction: Cultural Consequences Of Negative Imagery

it offers little appeal to what Hollywood filmmakers perceive their audiences want to see: cookie-cutter molds. Bach points out h...

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...

Government Regulations And American Cinema

the Code and ended with its demise" (Doherty, 1999, p. 1). While some hollered censorship, others countered those conjectures by...

Wilfred Owen/"Dulce et Decorum Est"

This essay pertains to Wilfred Owen's poem, which captures the horror of World War I. Five pages in length, seven sources are cite...

Movies/Then & Now

theater environment, that is most often accused of encouraging crime. Then, as now, the majority of the people ignored the naysaye...

Golden Age of Hollywood and Exploitation

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

Horror Genre and Death Line by Gary Sherman, The Wicker Man by Robin Hardy, and The Innocents by Jack Clayton

the content of these three films and place them in the context of the time considering the placement and the culture of the time. ...

Monster Threat in the 1987 Horror Movie Near Dark

This report analyzed the Near Dark horror movie within the context of critic Robin Wood's observation that 'normality is threatene...

Horror Film Evolution

mindless conformists, and sought to sound a warning through the medium of film (Caligari, in the figure of the mad doctor compelli...

Horror Cinematic Genre

horror film, according to director Elias Merhige, "The horror film transforms itself, adapting to our fears, to the things that we...

Hollywood's 'Talkie' Motion Pictures

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

Relationship Between Adolescence and Horror Films

In five pages this paper considers Aristotle's genre definition and the psychological theories of Sigmund Freud in this examinatio...

Horror Films and How They Have Evolved

Project" serves as an excellent example of a film-maker taking full advantage of the inherent fear of all modern humans regarding ...

New Direction of the Horror Film Genre and the 1999 Movie The Sixth Sense

Hoping to succeed this time, the good doctor gives his complete attention to Cole, even if it means neglecting his wife, Anna (Oli...

Marilyn Monroe

In eighteen pages Marilyn Monroe's tragic life and career as a movie star and Hollywood legend are examined. Nine sources are cit...

Filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock

In this paper consisting of six pages the impacts of a changing movie industry in the early 1970s and the way in affected Hitchcoc...

Altman's The Player

This research paper discusses significant features of the Hollywood film industry as a business system by drawing on the movie The...

Inferior Film Sequel Scream 2

In five pages this paper examines the reviews of critics regarding this inferior first sequel to the blockbuster and acclaimed hor...

Arabs in True lies

between Faisil and Harrys other partner, Albert "Gib" Gibson. Nevertheless, this is an action movie and an action movie must hav...

Analysis of Scream and Psycho Horror Movies

In eight pages the changes that occurred in the horror cinematic genre between 1960 and 1996 are examined in a contrast and compar...

Robert Rodriguez'a Movies Desperado, El Mariachi, Ethnicity and Hollywood

In nine pages this paper examines Hollywood's frequent sacrificing of ethnicity in a consideration of the Chicano depiction in the...

Ethnic Poetry of Tato Laviera and Chitra Divakaruni

all whistle as she seductively moves her hips. The lover-hero of the film dances in, lip syncing to a song, which is "a little off...

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...

Apocalyptic Representation Supporting Authoritarianism in Science Fiction Movies

What often happens though is that there is evidence in some films that the authoritarianism is a positive influence. This is ofte...

Race and Unfair Mass Media Representation

the stereotypical racial images portrayed in media today. Racism, which is the belief that skin color "determines intelligence, c...

Personal Identity in David Lynch's Film Blue Velvet

producers and directors have found that they have a truly unique power to significantly influence the attitudes and emotions of th...