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"Lean on Me"

and teachers alike (Willis). It is so out-of-control that only very strong action can tame it, and Clark provides just that action...

Scene Analysis/The Island

this key scene This movie is very relevant to todays issues as it causes the viewer to ponder the possible ramifications of cloni...

Feminist Versus Material View Points in Film and Television

her husband, and knew herself to be near death. Her digestive system had been destroyed by the disease, and, in intense pain and u...

The Forms of Allegory in Lord of the Flies by William Golding

we see that the boys have perhaps just been initiated into the real world of men. They have bridged the gap between boyhood and ma...

Female Protagonists' Bondage of James Bond

is Elektra King, unlike many of Bonds female enemies she is a rich young woman who has not become part of communist assassination ...

Comparing the Text of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood with the 2005 Film Capote

the nonfiction novel, he appears nowhere in the text, despite the fact that all of the information contained within is based on hi...

An evaluation of the film Gattaca

boring, routine job he despises because he might develop heart problems. Its likely that he will, but there is no guarantee of tha...

Spike Lee’s ‘New York State of Mind’

lens but by the filmmakers imagination and based upon the unique New York experiences contained within a particular neighborhood e...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Chief Bromden

no real understanding of the heroic realities of the novel. Chief, and all his complexities, are indispensable in Keseys novel. ...

Carl Franklin's Filmmaking and Screenwriting Works

names this "one of the great recent crime movies" (Ebert, 2002). Devil in a Blue Dress references a theme, subject and time perio...

A Discussion of Babette's Feast

This 5 page essay illuminates the message and presentation in Babette's Feast. Based on the book by Isaak Dineson this film prese...

An Analysis of Patriarchy in Casablanca

A 5 page discussion of the ever present force of patriarchy in this classic film. This author observes that the dramatic ending i...

The Film Finding Forrester, Thomas Hobbes, and Aristotle

In five pages this paper consides how films reflect some type of philosophy and the example of the 2000 film staring Sean Connery ...

Perception and Civilization in Golding's Lord of the Flies

This paper examines the formation of the severely dysfunctional society in William Golding's classic novel. This five page paper ...

Perspectives on the Movie American Beauty

In five pages this essay contrasts and compares the perspectives of critics and the film's writers with regard to 1999's American ...

Internet Information on Unidentified Flying Objects

This paper examines how UFOs can be researched on the Internet in 5 pages. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

Establishing a Genre Movie in 'Singin' In The Rain'

This 9 page essay considers how the theatrical presence in the film is developed stylistically through textural characteristics of...

Pleasantville's Creative Use of Color

In five pages the powerful use of color in the film's storytelling is examined. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

'Flying Home' by Ralph Ellison

Home and Other Stories. The story "Flying Home" had actually been published back in 1944, but had received at that time little cr...

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...

Dorothy Shaw and Lorelei Lee in the Film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

In seven pages the relationship between the film's two featured female characters are explored in terms of choices and situational...

Tarantino and the director as auteur

This research paper argues that director Quentin Tarantino has earned the perspective of being considered the auteur of his films,...

Defining a Classic - Casablanca

to watch everyone else who comes for the same reason. Intrigue is served with each glass. The plot clinks with the cubes about w...

All About Eve and the Introduction by Marilyn Monroe.

she chooses to apply it in the wrong manner. It is interesting that the film never shows Baxter acting in front of the camera, but...