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Comparison of Films Robert Altman's Nashville and Robert Drew's Primary

Dean Story, was far more interested in film as an expansive theatrical art, represented by the Hollywood blockbuster features (ONe...

'Mr. Strehlow's Films' Analyzed

past and present. The result was an overwhelming collection of footage that has since been entitled, Mr. Strehlows Films. Thes...

FSA Photography

photo truly realistic, or was it somehow "staged" that way by the photographer in order to achieve a semblance of realism? This d...

Boxers and Boxing in the Films When We Were Kings and Raging Bull

conscientiously misanthropic" (pp. 55). "Raging Bull" was about the life of a man who actually had something of a heart and was de...

Overview of Food, Inc.

particularly disturbing because, as Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivores Dilemma, indicates in the film, eating such a narrowly...

Documentary about Sergio Vieira de Mello

documentary effectively tells the story of his life and death, and his concern for others and good works. Sergio Vieira de Mello...

Bamboozled by Spike Lee

and animated hand movements, as well as constantly smiling face (Elam and Jackson 349). In contrast, Manrays upper body is relaxed...

White Man's Burden, A Film Analysis

of racism. However, viewing John Travoltas portrayal of Louis Pinnock through the stereotype of the "brute Negro," that is the s...

Tort Reform and HBO's Hot Coffee

had to undergo numerous skin grafts and almost died because McDonalds was serving coffee at absurdly high temperatures ("Synopsis,...

Summation and Review/Brother's Keeper

in 1992 and directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky for New Video Group. It concerns the fate of Delbert Ward, one of four ba...

The American ideal of Beauty

wonders now what prompted him to be so superficial, stupid and shallow. Therefore, this wide-ranging documentary is his quest to f...

Death of a Wonder Drug: The Vioxx Recall

answer, additional sources were consulted. In the documentary, several of the experts who were interviewed make the point that s...

Corporations and Globalization

150 years ago, corporations had an insignificant impact on human society. However, after Congress passed the Fourteenth Amendmen...

Truth and Documentary Theater

call to action. Bruskin explains that "The essence of the period is that we were galvanized to do something." (32). While docume...

The Photography of Walker Evans

matter which would make him a household name in photography, that is, signs, cafes, bridges, street scenes, poor people, and the l...

Documentary Evolution

it can be seen to have been on its way out at the dawn of all the other television competition for viewers time. Perspectives shif...

Comparative Analysis of Roger and Me and COPS

and trust-busting sentiments, put the brakes on the greediest corporate pillagers and the concentration of economic power; demande...

America and Lewis Hine Video Review

Child Labor Law was declared unconstitutional because the Supreme Court had ruled that the federal government had no jurisdiction ...

Comparing and Contrasting 'Anne Frank Remembered' and 'Triumph Of The Will'

it to be banned for more than three decades. Riefenstahl, who was commissioned by Hitler to cover the events, captured such power...

Video Documentary of The Best Boy/The Best Man

capable while living in a group home. In the end, it is the cousin who does convince the rest of the family to allow him to live ...

Michael Moore's Academy Awards' Exercise of Free Speech

duties of an American to question leadership within the foundation of democracy, a reality that is fraught with consequences when ...

Film Documentaries and Traumatic or Moral Dilemma Representations

hide those Jews that were being persecuted by Hitlers war machine. He used his unsuccessful businesses as fronts to move various f...

Civil Rights and Federalism

inclination to foster, improve or, quite frankly, deal with. Programs such as welfare and education have been placed back in the h...

America's Documents

war as Protestantism spread through the Middle Atlantic and Southern states (1990). Since that time, Protestantism has been influe...

Robert McNamara/An Ethical Analysis

film, McNamara discusses several of the primary lessons to be learned from wartime experience, which are covered in detail in his ...

Spike Lee's When the Levees Broke

Lee, what the victims share is that they had little before Katrina and now have nothing (Samuels 94). It should be noted, howeve...

Social Reality and Documentaries

documentaries ever made. Chronicling the 1934 session of Nazi Party Congress, Triumph of the Will has long been interpreted as pr...

Worse than War, Genocide

This research paper/essay uses "Worse than War," a 2009 PBS documentary as its primary source, in order to address ten issues pert...

Cardiac Surgery in Africa

This paper discusses a documentary film that follows eight Rweandan children as they go to a hospital for cardiac surgery. The chi...

Justice and Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment

This essay presents the writer's reflections on justice and the subjects of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, which is detailed in...