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Film Festivals and their History

This research paper pertains to the history and development of film festivals and focuses on the specific histories of the festiva...

The Film Rent

An analysis of the film Rent focuses on sex and sexuality and how that is portrayed. The merits of the film are evaltued. There ar...

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...

Feminism and Gender Issues During 1950's & 60's

a group of radical New York women who aggressively sought change (Mainardi, 1969). Others chose to work patiently behind the scen...

Citizen Kane and Cinematography

In five pages the opening scene of Welles' masterpiece, its compelling use of cinematography, and the ways in which it establishes...

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...

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...

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,...

Sherman Alexie's Smoke Signals, and 'It's a good day to be indigenous'

determine the dramatic strengths and weaknesses of one version compared to another. The movie This is a "coming of age" story and...

Comparing Novel and Film Versions of The Silence of the Lambs

seriously short-handed, and in desperation, he enlists Starlings services. In the novel, Starling is portrayed as an ambitious an...

Camera Politica and its Controversial Message

In five pages this text and its controversial message are examined with primary themes including films' role and their use as tool...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet, William Golding's Lord of the Flies, and Their Parallels

In 6 pages the parallels that exist in these works in terms of literary similarities of allegory, metaphor, simile, irony, personi...

An Analysis of the Batman film

The film Batman, released in 1989, is the focus of attention in this seven page paper that uses no additional sources. Characteriz...

Visual Images in Last Action Hero Film

In six pages this paper refers to Timothy Corrigan's Film Terms and Topics the text edited by Jessica Munns and Gita Rajan entitle...

The 1952 Musical, Singin' In the Rain

This essay offers an analysis of the famous 1952 film musical, Singin' In the Rain, which stars Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynbods. Th...

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...

Issues of Leadership in the Film Saving Private Ryan

In five pages this paper examines the film's characters in a consideration of various leadership issues. There are three other so...

A Review of Hannah and Her Sisters

A 5 page review of the film by Woody Allen. The opinions of other critics are considered and the author's own opinion delivered a...

Realism in Martin Scorsese's Film Raging Bull

In five pages cinematic realism is compared and contrasted with film noir and surrealism with the focus being how in the film Ragi...

Film Noir and Classical Hollywood Narrative 'Out of the Past'

This paper consists of 5 pages discusses how film noir and classical Hollywood were influenced by Tourner's 1947 film. There are ...

JFK, a Critical Overview

Few movies have sparked more controversy than JFK, Oliver Stone's 1991 descent into conspiracy theory. This paper offers a critica...

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...

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...

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...

Cinematic Neorealism

neorealistic filmmakers, such as Rossellini, Vittorio DeSica and Cesare Zavattini, was to make a "moral statement," which forces ...

The 1980 Film Moskva Slezam ne Verit or 'Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears'

the daily lives of the general population. The Soviet View of Security Throughout the thirties Soviet leaders viewed their countr...

Contrasting Modern Psychiatry with Treatments Featured in 'Girl Interrupted' and 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'

Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest", produced during the 1970s. "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest" presents a bleak yet amusing picture of ...

1972 Film The Exorcist and Feminine Monstrousness Concept

a term coined by feminist film critic and professor Barbara Creed. And the young girls conversion from angel to devil is more than...