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Return of the Jedi Science Fiction Film Review

In three pages this paper examines how filmmaker techniques are applied to advancing the film's theme, development of plot, and to...

Night of the Living Dead Science Fiction Film Review

In three pages this essay presents an analysis of Night of the Living Dead in terms of the development of characters, camera angle...

The Haunting Science Fiction Film Review

In three pages this paper presents an analysis of this film in terms of the emotional punch it packs along with a consideration of...

Michael Powell's 1960 Film Peeping Tom, Ideological Realism and Narrative Illusionism

In eight pages this paper examines how the filmmaker created ideological realism and narrative illusionism through such production...

Robert Drew and the Development of Cinema Vérité (Direct Cinema) in America by P.J. O'Connell

In five pages this paper provides a textual overview of Robert Drew's life and career as a documentary filmmaker with his influenc...

George Lucas Biography

In a paper consisting of five pages filmmaker George Lucas and his many contributions to cinema are discussed in terms of producti...

Film and Book Version Analysis of 'The Godfather'

outsiders who entered their orbit (such as Michaels WASP wife, Kay) represented the audience and their fascination and revulsion o...

Cinema of the 3rd World

are a daily event, often being disregarded by many of the citizens as well as the general public, especially the wealthy public. O...

Nature of Revolution in Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers

In three pages this paper examines the events that ignite into revolution as captured by filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo's interpretati...

US Pop Culture and the Star Wars Trilogy

a true sense of what is American pop culture, one needs only to venture into a childs bedroom. Since 1977, it is likely that ther...

Film Dramatizations of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales

In six pages this research paper discusses 2 cinematic interpretations of The Canterbury Tales and argues that how filmmakers fail...

Love That Does Not Last in the Films of Woody Allen

no matter how precious we may believe ours to actually be. Some of Allens films are more consistently filled with the idea of l...

World Perspectives and Postmodern Style of Film Directors John McNaughton and Danny Boyle

In twenty pages this paper discusses the impact of postmodernism upon the views of filmmakers John McNaughton and Danny Boyle. Ei...

Danny Boyle

In five pages the work of this British filmmaker is explored in terms of whether or not they provide a radical alternative to Holl...

1971 Film Production of Macbeth by Director Roman Polanski

air. Banquos reaction to Macbeth taking their pronouncements seriously is one of mocking disbelief, as if to say, "you believe tha...

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...

Motivation and Drive of Director Steven Spielberg

he paid his dues. Many of those dues included working for other people and learning from some of the best in the industry. He wo...

Luchino Visconti's Film Ludwig from a Sociopolitical Perspective

which attacks everything the ruling class stands for (Ludwig). The cinematic protagonist is the last Bavarian king (1845-1886), a...

Rintaro's Anime Version of Metropolis

of the city have depth. These cityscapes are incredibly beautiful. Although there are futuristic features about the city, it is la...

Moonrise Film by Director Frank Borzage

post-modern culture, one more devoted to the supposed ironies of a Douglas Sirk or the wit and playfulness (amidst violence and me...

The Mirror by Andrei Tarkovsky

of human existence and the ways in which all human beings relate to stress, desire, and feelings of social and personal alienation...

Films Yol and Raise the Red Lantern Uses of Prison Metaphors

of Yol. This story, instead of focusing on four wives as in the Zhang film, focuses on the choices that will be made by four commo...

Stage and Screen Adaptations of Hamlet by William Shakespeare

identity. It is interesting to note that as he pulls on his "cloak of madness" that his true intellect becomes completely clouded ...

Russian Cinema Development

and entertainment for the evening. The entertainment was the cinematograph. Unfortunately, they severely misjudged the turn out fo...

Visual Effects Showcased in Lars Von Trier's 1991 Film Zentropa

angles that one would not normally expect, such as shooting through water. There is an underwater shot of blood slowly spreading a...

Film Review of Diary of a Mad Black Woman

whom he has already fathered two children. Charles literally drags Helen to the front door and throws her out of the house (IMDb,...

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...

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...

North Bend Hometown Return

have more than our share of those kids here. But it wasnt as if the Seattle crowd was haunting us. Rather, there were just many mo...

Lost in Translation Film and Orientalism

and its heavy use of Japanese stereotypes for humor. Such depictions perpetuate racial and cultural insensitivity and misperceptio...