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An Analysis of the Film, Tora Tora Tora (276 words, 1 pages)

As a students of U.S. history I have recently watch Tora Tora Tora, a movie about war world II and the bombing of Pearl Harbor that the Japanese exceeded on waking up the sleeping Giants. The title of this film is made up of the code-words that were used by ... Read More

A Review of the Film “The Weather Underground” (1025 words, 2 pages)

Review of the film The Weather Underground The film The Weather Underground was a great way to educate the population about a part of history not many people know about. The film was a documentary by Sam Green and Bill Siegle. The directors used many strategies and elements to make ... Read More

Subliminal Messages of Racism in Animated Films (891 words, 1 pages)

Racism in Animated FilmsWhile Disney animated films are the ideal family movies, it is undisclosed to many that such racism is being portrayed. Rarely do we ask about the origins and intentions of the messages we encounter through mass media sometimes we forget that producers have origins or intentions at ... Read More

An Analysis of Filmmaking (1286 words, 2 pages)

New Twists on an Old ThemeIt has been said that there are no new ideas, only old ones told in a new voice. This thought can be applied in many areas of life and art including the art of filmmaking. There are examples everywhere of classic stories or themes expressed ... Read More

An Analysis of the Film High and Low (305 words, 1 pages)

Kurosawas High and Low is a film that exemplifies Japans criminalistic society and the nature of the people that live within it. Kingo Gondo, the protagoinst, is a wealthy man who is part owner of a prominent shoe company. Gondo is considered high class, as seen with his large mansion ... Read More

An Analysis of the Historical Accuracy of Gangs of New York in the Film Rendition (792 words, 1 pages)

Historical Accuracy Gangs of New YorkThe Movie Gangs of New York, released in 2002, gives insight into the violence, corruption, and disarray that occurred in The Five Points of Manhattan during the 19th century, and reveals one of the biggest skeletons in New Yorks closet. Martin Scorseses translation of the ... Read More

An Analysis of the Film, Gangs of New York (1622 words, 2 pages)

Martin Scorseses latest film, Gangs of New York is a failed anti-war film. It is 165 minutes of some of the most violent footage ever seen in a film intended for mainstream entertainment. As a fan of Scorseses, I have to say that even the brutality of Good Fellas could ... Read More

A Comparison of the Modern and Old Film Industry (1095 words, 2 pages)

Film Then and NowThe film industry has always been somewhat of a dichotomy. Grounded firmly in both the worlds of art and business the balance of artistic expression and commercialization has been an issue throughout the history of filmmaking. The distinction of these two differing goals and the fact that ... Read More

A Report on Asian American Film Making (1391 words, 2 pages)

With the current fascination with all-things-Asian in the popular culture but given the inherently fickle nature of fads, it is worth recalling that the art of independent Asian American film evolved from the political struggles and countercultural practices that attended the new social movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Anti-war ... Read More

An Analysis of the Basketball Film on the Topic of The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice, a Play by William Shakespeare (3211 words, 4 pages)

This basketball film translates Shakespeare's tragedy Othello into the high school teen genre and gets its identity and impact from the fact that its plot, themes, and the motivations and actions of its characters are contemporary equivalents of the seventeenthcentury play. (1) The director Tim Blake Nelson and the writer ... Read More

A Comparative Analysis of Novella and Film in Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse (1507 words, 2 pages)

Heart of Darkness Apocalypse NowA comparative analysis of novella and filmIn the opening scenes of the documentary film "Hearts of Darkness-A Filmmaker's Apocalypse," Eleanor Coppola describes her husband Francis's film, "Apocalypse Now," as being "loosely based" on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Indeed, "loosely" is the word the period, setting, ... Read More

A Report on the Film, We Were Soldiers and the Accounts of the Battles in Vietnam (1767 words, 2 pages)

We Were Soldiers' purports to tell the story of the bloody battle in the Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam's Central Highlands in November 1965. Despite its pretensions to honour the suffering and service of the combatants, the film profoundly misrepresents the nature of this battle and of the war in ... Read More

An Analysis of the Film, The Birth of a Nation (280 words, 1 pages)

Apart from being the first full-length feature film in American cinema, The Birth of a Nation is also one of the most controversial and influential. Based on The Clansman by Thomas Dixon, which was both a play and book, the film is known now as Hollywood's first blockbuster. The cinematic ... Read More

An Analysis of the Film Schindler’s List (2196 words, 3 pages)

The Jews arrive in Krakow. The film's opening, part of the exposition and one of its few color scenes, shows a close-up of a hand lighting two votive candles in a pre-war Polish Jewish family's home on a Friday night Sabbath. After the singing of a prayer, the family vanishes ... Read More

An Analysis of the Film, Rebel Without a Cause (1114 words, 2 pages)

"Rebel Without A Cause," is a very popular film from 1955. It depitcts life in the 1950's from the view point of three teenagers who live in Los Angeles, California. They love in a comfortable enviorment in middle class America. However, they must deal with their own inabilities to fit ... Read More

An Analysis of the Film Fatal Attraction (353 words, 1 pages)

Fatal Attraction" rings the changes on your atavistic emotions. Walking out of the theater, you might have a sudden desire to club a woolly mammoth and hide your family in a dark cave -- away from people like Glenn Close. Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas) is laden with Society's gifts -- ... Read More

An Analysis of the Techno-Science Thriller Film, Deception Point (823 words, 1 pages)

To read a techno-science thriller like 'Deception Point', you must be prepared to swallow some throat-clogging stuff at the outset. First, you have to buy the premise - in this case, that governmental agencies will knowingly commit all manner of fraud, felonies, and deceit and cause countless deaths in order ... Read More

An Analysis of the Film Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock (568 words, 1 pages)

hitchcockVertigo stars James Stewart as Scottie, a retired detective, and Kim Novak as Judy Barton, who gets disguised as Madeleine, a woman hired by Scottie's friend to act as his wife in order to frame Scottie. The story takes place in San Francisco in the 1950's. The film opens on ... Read More

An Analysis of the Film, The Grapes of Wrath (606 words, 1 pages)

The Grapes Of WrathNew Insight "The Grapes of Wrath" tells the story of the Joads, a displaced Oklahoman sharecropper family, and one of many forced to abandon their lands due to the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression. Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by John Steinbeck, the film ... Read More

An Analysis of the Film, Erin Brockovich (518 words, 1 pages)

Heather SamuelsHistory 104 Dr. MezaFilm CritiqueErin BrockovichThroughout history, many events have occurred in which big corporations try to overpower and control smaller people. Unfortunately this is inevitable for smaller businesses who have no control over the worlds industries. Four decades after the world's largest utility started dumping 370 million gallons ... Read More

An Analysis of the Story in a American Crime Drama Film Alias Jimmy Valentine by Jack Conway (337 words, 1 pages)

As Ralph D. Spencer strolled down the sidewalk, he knew of a few thingshe had to do. For he liked being Ralph Spencer and did not want to return tobeing Jimmy Valentine.First, he went back to the bank where everyone was still trying to graspahold of what just happend. He ... Read More

An Analysis of the Film, Evita by Alan Parker (1442 words, 4 pages)

??Designed to prove that a woman can be anybody she desires to be, the legendaryfilm, Evita, is now shown to millions of movie viewers. Alan Parkers Evita isa reflection of the much-publicized images of two popular self-made heroines ofdifferent era, Evita and Madonna. The discussion of this essay will show ... Read More

An Analysis of the Article, I Go to College by Lincoln Steffens and the Film, Dead Poets Society (1106 words, 2 pages)

The reasons we undertake higher education can seem obvious on the surface but I believe that there is much more to consider than initially meets the eye. What are we really seeking? Before we cut the check and dedicate the hours we should ask ourselves what our final objective might ... Read More

An Essay on Religion and Oliver Stone’s War Film Platoon (767 words, 3 pages)

Religion is a canopy under which American culture and societythrives. Its extension reaches the boundaries of such cultural mainstreamsas movies, television, and music. Oliver Stone's 1986 war film Platoon isan example of the religious subtleties and overtones that appear in variousAmerican genres. Stone not only uses religious themes to portray ... Read More

An Analysis of the Heorism of Walter in the Romantic Comedy-Drama Adventure Cult Film Secret Life of Walter Mitty by Ben Stiller (567 words, 2 pages)

Aaron Cornelius10-5952012The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"Ready, aim fire," said the firing squad. Then bam, and the car door slammed."Walter are you listening to me? You need to stop smoking those cigarettes. I am tired of smelling that stuff, it is stinking up the entire car. With one final drag, ... Read More

An Analysis of the Film The Last Temptation of Christ by Martin Scorcese (582 words, 1 pages)

Outrage, controversy, beliefs, and disbelief, who knows? With countless renditions and rewritings of the bible, with 170 forms of religion known to man, who is to say what really happened during the last days of Christ. Who knows what went through the mind of any one human being, at any ... Read More

An Analysis of the Film and the Screenplay “Strictly Ballroom” (755 words, 2 pages)

The material I have studied for has helped me understand moreabout living in our contemporary world. The film and the screenplay "StrictlyBallroom" along with newspaper articles and the television documentary on Sportmade me understand why sport is important in our society. Sport involves manythings such as competition, dirty tactics, personal ... Read More

Social Institution in the Film, Dead Poets Society (2881 words, 4 pages)

can be found all though out the world. Social institution is a system of statuses, roles, values, and norms that is organized to satisfy one or more of the basic societal needs. It may differ from place to place. One good example of a social institution would be found in ... Read More

An Analysis of the Ritualized Behaviors in a Horror-Fiction Film (1217 words, 2 pages)

These ritualized behaviors the strange and blatant acts, some which seem to be cut right from a horror-fiction film the rigid symbolism in dress, and manner - none of these behaviors should be taken lightly, or ever treated as a mere 'game'. For those who do possess, in the depths ... Read More

An Analysis of the Disney’s Miramax Films on the Full-Length Movies on the Web (512 words, 1 pages)

Disneys Miramax films decided to make twelve movies which people will be able to see on pay-per-view downloads through SightSound.com. Miramax is the first major studio to show full-length movies on-line. They have decided to show twelve movies but they feel this could catch on and have potential to expand. ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013