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13 Nov 2009
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Sexual minority film analysis

Thesis - 6 pages - Film studies

The traditional culture of China is one of the world's oldest and most complex cultures. Its intricate system of moral, social, and political philosophy derives from two social values: Confucianism and Taoism. Both worldviews emphasize government rule and social order. Rituals and customs, set as...

21 Oct 2009
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Conflicts abound in Slumdog Millionaire: A film analysis

Thesis - 2 pages - Film studies

The text, Intercultural Communication in Contexts by Judith M. Martin and Thomas K. Nakayama defines culture as “learned patterns of behavior and attitudes shaped by a group of people” (Martin, Nakayama 81).They also stress that culture has held many acceptable definitions due to its...

21 Oct 2009
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Film aesthetics in Chris Rock's - "I Think I Love My Wife"

Thesis - 2 pages - Journalism

The 2007 motion picture I Think I Love My Wife was directed and written by Chris Rock, who also stars in the film as the leading character. With screenwriting control and director credential Rock can tell the story of a man in a bland marriage from his point of view without outside...

07 May 2009
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Hollywood film genres: Melodrama

Essay - 4 pages - Film studies

“Something else besides a mother” this was Stella Dallas' excuse to her daughter in order to alienate her bond with her daughter and secure the latter's marriage into the upper class society. Discussing the key-scenes of the film that reveal the two contradictory roles...

26 Apr 2009
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The uncanny: Freud's article used to analyze the film the devil's backbone

Thesis - 6 pages - Psychology

In his essay “the Uncanny” Freud writes of the rarity of a psychoanalyst being asked to contribute material to an understanding of the field of aesthetics. His discussion of the meaning of ‘horror' makes sense however, psychologically, because things that frighten us often have...

13 Jul 2009
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Frankenstein and the problem of visual representation in film

Thesis - 3 pages - Film studies

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly is a classic novel that was written nearly two centuries ago. The title of the book is a reference to the scientist in the novel, Victor Frankenstein, who creates this creature that has the likeness of a human, but is larger and stronger, somewhat like a...

01 Nov 2009
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Teenage mutant ninja turtles (1990): Highest independent grossing film of all time (Before 1999)

Thesis - 9 pages - Film studies

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, independent films were often disregarded by moviegoers, but with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, that sure wasn't the case. Many fans did not realize that the first live action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movie was actually an independent...

12 Jan 2009
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Sound in two Hollywood films: 'singin' in the rain' and Thelma & Louise

Essay - 3 pages - Film studies

Singin' in the Rain is a musical created in 1951 by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, Thelma & Louise a road movie created in 1991 by Ridley Scott. These two works could sound different; nevertheless they have a common point, which is the important role of sound, and especially music, within the...

09 Jan 2009
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Film studies: signs and postmodernism

Essay - 4 pages - Film studies

‘L.I.E: Long Island Expressway. You got the lanes going east; you got the lane going west. You also got the lanes going straight to hell...' Thus opens L.I.E., a film about a fifteen-year-old boy who becomes involved in an unusual relationship with a much older man. Here, the first...

27 Jan 2009
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Film Critique: The Asphalt Jungle

Essay - 4 pages - Film studies

The first wave of urgency to escape the world of corruption, greed, and immorality inside the shady underground of the urban city ("the jungle"), is brought forth by protagonists Dix Handley and Alonzo Emmerich in two scenes of John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle. The first scene takes place in...

08 Jul 2008
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The development of the modern film industry in the Untied States and the international community

Essay - 9 pages - Film studies

Throughout the course of the twentieth century, the evolution of technology has notably changed society. While many scholars looking at the changes that technology has produced consider the improvements that have been in terms of medicine and technology, it is evident that technology has had a...

25 Nov 2008
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The cultural effects of Sacha Baron Cohen's 2006 film Borat

Essay - 5 pages - Film studies

Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's 2006 film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan has garnered much critical attention for its humor, both positive and negative. Cohen plays an extremely bigoted Kazakh journalist named Borat trying to understand...

16 Jun 2008
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Digitalization: The Commercial Rise in Independent Filmmaking

Essay - 5 pages - Film studies

Technology has always been the main threat of tradition. The core essence of the filmmaking industry has not evolved because of changes in the audiences, ownerships or content. It has evolved because of the technological push given by the modernizing world, affecting the audiences, ownerships...

28 Apr 2008
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Film as a Form of Dissent: The Politics of Czech Film Miracle

Tutorials/exercises - 7 pages - Political science

In the 1960s Prague was abuzz with artistic excitement. Prague had long been the site of innovative creations in classical music and theater, but now the films coming out of the state sponsored film industry were making headlines, not only in Eastern Europe, but around the world....

18 Dec 2008
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Dark comedy in the films of Joel and Ethan Coen

Essay - 6 pages - Film studies

Joel and Ethan Coen have made eleven very different films since 1984. From a film noir set in rural Texas to a Homer's “Odyssey”-inspired convict film, their films jump from genre to genre. Each one, however, is imbued with the Coens' authorial signature....

04 Sep 2008
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FESPACO: More than a film festival

Essay - 5 pages - Film studies

With the revolution of filmmaking has come the need to bring films and filmmakers together. The creation of film festivals provides a place where filmmakers can showcase their films. Thousands of film festivals have formed around the world over the past decades. Some...

17 Nov 2008
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Films on the ongoing war in Iraq

Essay - 14 pages - Film studies

Since the start of the U.S. war in Iraq in early 2003, the citizens of the world have been bombarded with news coverage the likes of which has never before been seen in the history of armed conflict. Likewise, the world of cinema has embraced the conflict in Iraq in many varied forms and with...

06 Jun 2008
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Art Defined: The Film Industry

Essay - 4 pages - Film studies

In 1952 the censorship of the Film Industry lead to significant ramifications. The film medium has experienced several hurdles that are better known of as censorship. Right from the beginning, American officials knew of the influential power of film and, therefore, its...

17 Nov 2008
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Women in the films of Jean-Luc Godard

Essay - 6 pages - Film studies

Since 1959 and the release of his first film, Jean-Luc Godard has engaged audiences with a varied body of work. He has entertained, quoted, lectured, and bored, inevitably. Throughout his entire career, both the depiction of the female and her role in his films has been of the...

17 Jun 2008
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A Performance Analysis of the films Harold and Maude and American Beauty (1999)

Essay - 3 pages - Film studies

Over the course of the last three decades American society has taken its fondness of youth and femininity and turned it into an outright obsession. As a direct result of this obsession, women over the age of 35 have been made to feel bad about their bodies, their activity levels, the food they...

17 Nov 2008
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Similarities in the films of Alfred Hitchcock

Essay - 4 pages - Film studies

Alfred Hitchcock's “Strangers on a Train” (1951) carries with it the signature of its auteur director. Hitchcock's other films are marked in the same way using similar themes, character types, and storylines. “Strangers” is most similar to “The 39 Steps”...

11 Nov 2008
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The ideology of film: The portrayal of Women & Blacks in baseball films

Essay - 5 pages - Film studies

Ideology is a very broad topic. Described as “a body of ideas reflecting the social needs and aspirations of an individual, group, class or culture” (Giannetti 428), ideology can be discussed anywhere when dealing with any kind of social opposites. In filmmaking, all types of beliefs...

11 Apr 2008
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The Question of Morality Film Noir

Essay - 3 pages - Literature

Moral ambiguity is a central theme in John Huston's film The Maltese Falcon (1941) and in Billy Wilder's film Double Indemnity (1944) and James M. Cain's novel by the same title. The films and novel follow characters whose motives are questionable and morally problematic....

07 Nov 2008
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Dragon ladies and China dolls: Images of Asian American women in American film

Essay - 6 pages - Film studies

The image of Asian American Women in film has undergone many changes from the 1920s to today. With stereotypes such as “dragon lady” and “china doll” and the practice of yellow-face, Asian American actresses had plenty of obstacles in the world of film. Actresses...

11 Apr 2008
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The Issue of Hope and Redemption in Film Noir: Living Day-to-Day in the Present, or Living for the Future?

Essay - 5 pages - Literature

The films Out of the Past, Force of Evil, and Double Indemnity are narratives that contain similar noir themes. All three narratives follow troubled male characters who must sever ties with their pasts in order to move forward to a hopeful and happy future. Two of these characters succeed,...

18 Dec 2008
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Masculinity in Korean and western films

Essay - 5 pages - Film studies

Korean cinema has made significant progress over the years. Two of the greatest Korean movies are A Stray Bullet (Obaltan) directed by Yu Hyun-mok (1960) and The Coachman directed by Kang Dae-jin (1961). A Stray Bullet is about a man named Chul-ho who leads a life of honesty and morality. Despite...

11 Apr 2008
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Spiders or Virgins: Portrayals of Women in the Noir Films Laura, Out of the Past, and Double Indemnity

Essay - 7 pages - Film studies

In her article “Women in Film Noir” Janey Place states that women characters in noir films are divided into two archetypes: “the spider woman, the evil seductress who tempts man and brings about his destruction” and “the virgin, the mother, the innocent, the...

21 Nov 2008
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Kurosawa's samurai films and the Westerns that were inspired by them

Essay - 7 pages - Film studies

The films of Akira Kurosawa, from his adaptations of Shakespeare's plays to his samurai films, have influenced filmmakers from the 1950's to the present. This influence is most obvious in the Westerns that were adapted from his samurai films. In 1960 “Seven Samurai”...

04 Dec 2007
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Short Forms in Film

Essay - 2 pages - Film studies

Charlie Chaplin's The Immigrant (1917) is a slapstick comedy that also addresses social issues. The film has a simple plot with four main characters, one of them Charlie Chaplin. He plays a penniless foreigner who wins money from playing cards on a ship to America. He then meets Edna...

02 Oct 2007
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'Weaving a Myth': Magnolia and the Psychology of Religion in Film

Essay - 8 pages - Film studies

Imagination is fundamental to human life. Indeed, all the ‘humanities' are manifestations of the creative instinct that finds its origin in imagination. One creative imagination communicates its images to another in an attempt to bridge the perceived space between two minds. Hillman suggests...