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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

This 5 page paper examines some of the themes in Tolstoy's classic novel of love, betrayal, social ostracism and death....

Martin Scorsese Cinematic Comparison

In nine pages Bringing Out the Dead and Taxi Driver are contrasted and compared in terms of themes, characterization, and cinemati...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Gender Relationships

In five pages this paper discusses the portrayal of men and women within the context of this work as it has been presented in the ...

Hand of Destiny

In five pages the hand of destiny as it reveals itself in William Shakespeare's Macbeth and tin the films The Man Who Shot Liberty...

Cynicism, Romance, and Annie Hall by Director Woody Allen

In six pages this paper examines the themes of cynicism and romance within the context of this 1977 Academy Award winning film Ann...

Comparing The Rainmaker Novel and Film

legal contemporaries, has grandiose dreams of landing for his firm "a client worth at least twenty million [and becoming] an insta...

Bleak Human Condition in Metamorphosis and In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka

In six pages this analysis of Kafka's works focuses on the themes of fate's ironies and the human condition....

Renaissance Themes

rather than singular pleasures. He had an obligation to answer grievances, to hear both sides of a story and to reach some type o...

An Analysis of the Film, American Beauty

troubled home life. To escape, Ricky retreated into his own world of drugs and voyeurism. Simply stated, American Beauty was an ...

An Examination of 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In five pages, the author's employment of voice, imagery, and gender themes are considered....

Alienation Theme in 'The Very Old Man with Enormous Wings' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The misconception, here, is that because the old man does not look normal that he must not be human and therefore, they can treat...

Sibling Relationship of Raymond and Charlie Babbitt in Rain Man

Charlie Babbitt The character of Charlie Babbitt is established early in Fleischers novel and Bass and Morrows screenplay of the ...

Superhero Films, Comics, and Cartoons and Their American Significance During the Second World War and the Cold War

Comics and cartoons which appeared in daily newspapers and magazines in the 1930s and 1940s were considered originally to be an ex...

Freedom Theme in the Film Deliverance and the Social Contract of Jean Jacques Rousseau

freedom supersede mans other concerns in daily life. Before exploring philosophy in respect to freedom, a student writing on this...

Theme of Identity in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man

he must master the ability to live on the "borderlands, on the fault lines, and to write without depending on the founding myths o...

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison and the Theme of Identity

subordinate role that he is expected to take in society (Eichelberger, 1999). This indoctrination occurs primarily in the chapel s...

1939 Film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington by Director Frank Capra

MGM and Warner Brothers, it had to rely on a limited group of performers. One of the most appealing was a tall, gangly young acto...

Ben Younger's Film Boiler Room

saying: "Either youre slinging crack rock or youve got a wicked jump shop -- nobody wants to work for it any more. Theres no honor...

David Lynch's Film Mulholland Drive

couple of cars who happened to be drag racing. This gives the woman a chance to get away. She runs into the city and for some reas...

Mercy, Goodness, and Simplicity and the Films of Frank Capra

himself because of his innocence, in many ways they begin to feel protective of the character, in the same type of way that a pare...

Crazy/Beautiful Film and its Themes of Social Stratification and Interracial Dating

indicate a real trend or did producers want to make the unlikely romance more intense by denoting the male protagonist as someone ...

Sir Carol Reed's Film The Third Man

a job writing for a volunteer medical unit he runs. Harry, however, is dead by the time Holly arrives (Ebert, 2002); he has, in fa...

Chamber of Blood Stories by Angela Carter

that many writers have used familiar themes and offered a new way of seeing the traditional elements of plot and character; howeve...

Storytelling and the 'Old Man' Archetype

or archetypes, tend to lend an instant type of history and emotional context for the character, it can be said. The hero, for exam...

Visual Themes in Cameron Crowe's 2001 Film Vanilla Sky

is until he has suffered pain and unhappiness, concepts that are foreign to David, who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth....

Searches in 2 Films by Orson Welles

series of flashback scenes, it becomes apparent that Kane, though quite wealthy, does not know who he is anymore. Having risen fro...

Masculinity in Modern Cinema

the natural disaster" (Action Films, 2002). Marchetti also states that action-adventure films have long been the domain of male...

Film Melodrama

press appealed more in gender terms to male audiences(Neale, 63). In fact, Neale seems to think that the majority of the m...

Grace Nichol's Collection The Fat Black Woman's Poems

seems to address in her works include that of lost culture and a sense of longing to return to a time which is perceived to be mor...

Film Genre Known as 'The Musical'

diegetic music and spoken/sung dialogue (Altman 297-298). This film genre has historically consisted of three evocative forms. F...