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The Biblical Story of Cain and Abel

5 pages and 5 sources used. This paper provides an overview of the Biblical story of Cain and Abel, and relates the importance of...

Gender/Sexuality in 6 Films

the others, feels compelled to protect this young bit of innocence and humanity at all costs. The symbolic way that the child co...

Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ

as director. This Catholic perspective is also quite evident in the fact that Mary, the mother of Jesus, is the most prevalent c...

How to Watch Films

the color palette, the costumes; all of these come together to produce the picture that the director wants us to see. This is why ...

Transferring 'A River Runs Through It' from Text to Celluloid

understand and come to terms with life as they know it. Their father is a small town minister. Fly fishing seems to be their only ...

"No Easy Answers"

1997). She attributes the warnings to some sort of liberal conspiracy: "I believe those Republicans who think that theres been a c...

An Analysis of the Film, Training Day

light of day can become obscured in the dark just as the best and brightest intentions can be compromised by allure of corruption....

Aspects of Film Acting

Yorks celebrated Actors Studio, and emphasizes the importance on emotion memory, which enables an actor to connect with a role by ...

Film Preservation Techniques

the more stable cellulose acetate film to preserve the content (De Stefano, 2003). Unfortunately, these efforts were limited, bec...

Doing Research on the Internet

spouted by someone with a need to make himself heard. In order to determine what the source is, a researcher needs to look carefu...

Comparative Analysis of the Films The American Revolution (Part I: ‘The Conflict Ignites’), Williamsburg: The Story of a Patriot, and John Adams (Part I: ‘Join or Die’)

Each Film The American Revolution (also referred to as The Revolution) was a 1994 six-hour documentary produced by A&E and shown...

Trio of Historic Films Examined

In ten pages a trio of historic films answer questions pertaining to cinematic theories, techniques, styles, emotions, and editing...

Analysis of the Italian Realist Film The Bicycle Thief

In five pages a cinematic analysis of Vittorio de Sica's 1948 film includes camera uses, production techniques and evaluates the e...

Auteur Film Director Brian DePalma

The auteur film techniques that characterize director Brian DePalma are considered in an examination of three of his films The Unt...

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...

Pain and Healing in Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

brother. This is where Baldwin sets up another beautiful metaphor: the ice. "A great block of ice got settled in my belly and kept...

Cinema, Ideology and the Viewer

public, which is basically whats going on here; that is widely accepted and understood. If it were not a cultural norm for people ...

Crimes and Misdemeanors, Film Analysis

over the credits, signifying that Judah has recovered from his burden of guilt and is prepared to get on with and enjoy his life (...

Film Techniques, Citizen Kane (1941)

This essay offers a description of film techniques used in "Citizen Kane," directed by and starring Orson Welles. Three pages in l...

Filmmakers Stanley Donen and Vincent Minnelli

In ten pages the directing styles of film musical directors Stanley Donen and Vincent Minnelli are contrasted and compared in term...

Eyes Wide Shut Viewed Critically

Eyes Wide Shut was the last film Stanley Kubrick made. This paper offers an analysis and review of the film, including cinematic t...

Analyzing the Film Deliverance

In six pages critical cinematic theory is applied to director John Boorman's film released in 1972 and discusses how theme is depi...

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 ...

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 ...

Tim O'Brien and the Vietnam Experience

who and what one was (Lee, 1995). In that, he wasnt unique. Thousands of Vietnam veterans experienced it, and dozens of writers ha...

Film Portrayal of Schizophrenia

show the director she can be seductive. When he kisses her, she bites him. His anticipation for further sexual intimacy is never r...

Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night/On Film

a take on the play that is patterned after the screwball comedies of the 1930s, as "Beatrice and Benedick are surely the prototype...

Strangers in Good Company/Women and Old Age

in their lives when they are accustoming themselves to their impeding morality and the problems that come with old age. Catherine ...

Accuracy in the Film "Frida"

draw and paint, which is a "direct expression" of "her interior life" (Young 29). When she is finally able to walk again, she visi...

Why Should Government Policies Discourage High Levels of Concentration in Most Industries?

level of concentration, it is quiet possible that rather than the advantages seen in industries where there are competition there ...