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"GRIDLOCK'D" (VONDIE CURTIS-HALL) & "ABSOLUTE POWER" (CLINT EASTWOOD).
Term Paper ID:24124
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Compares 1997 films' financing, audience appeal, characters, directorial styles, plots.... More...
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Compares 1997 films' financing, audience appeal, characters, directorial styles, plots.
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The average "studio" film today costs tens of millions of dollars, while the average "independent" film exists in a range below $10 million. Such expenditures under both headings have little to do with the genre of film being made, the length of the film, or even the stars of the film in many cases. Many stars will work for less money in an independent film than they will for a studio-made film--Bruce Willis appears in the $7 million Pulp Fiction, for instance, while he is usually paid more than that personally for studio-made films like the two Die Hard sequels. The quality of the film produced also bears only some relationship to the amount of money spent--the aforementioned Pulp Fiction was well-received by critics and audiences alike, while a film costing $70 or $80 million such as Daylight was denigrated by critics and ignored by audiences. What is
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ITALIAN NEOREALISTIC FILM.
Term Paper ID:24118
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Analyzes three major films: Rossellini's [Open City], De Sica's [Bicycle Thief] & Visconti's [Obsession]. Style, themes, social messages.... More...
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Analyzes three major films: Rossellini's [Open City], De Sica's [Bicycle Thief] & Visconti's [Obsession]. Style, themes, social messages.
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Italian neorealism developed under onerous circumstances and became a form by which Italian filmmakers could express themselves in a new way. Essentially, the early neorealist filmmakers were doing what they could with the tools at hand and doing it under the watchful eyes of an antagonistic ruling class, From the tensions this arrangement produced, they created something distinctive, allowing them to develop ideas and to do so in a new cinematic style. At the time, Italy was ruled by fascists, who viewed art as valuable only to the degree it was useful. Yet, these films were not made in service of fascist ideas but as a counter to them. The forces that helped shape these films, the style that was produced by these tensions, and some important examples demonstrate the vitality achieved by Italian directors as World War II ended.
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BLACK FILMS.
Term Paper ID:24114
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Examines & compares 1930s-1940s & 1960s-1970s films. Portrayal of black characters & culture, themes, accuracy, audiences, biases, blaxploitation.... More...
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Examines & compares 1930s-1940s & 1960s-1970s films. Portrayal of black characters & culture, themes, accuracy, audiences, biases, blaxploitation.
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Black films from the 1930s and 1940s were produced by black filmmakers for a black circuit and were rarely seen by white audiences. So-called blaxploitation films from the late 1960s and early 1970s were produced by white filmmakers for a largely urban audience, and these films were shaped for white audiences as well as black. The black films from an earlier era showed a wide range of subject matter, with the mass of films emulating white genres such as detective stories, westerns, comedies, domestic dramas, crime dramas, and so on. The blaxploitation films of the 1970s were much more limited, being primarily crime and action films featuring drug use, violence, sexual situations, and so on, creating an image of blacks that was limited and, in the eyes of many critics, degrading. It would be wrong to argue
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"IF . . ." (LINDSAY ANDERSON) & "LES CARABINIERS" (JEAN-LUC GODARD).
Term Paper ID:24096
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Compares uses, meanings & effects on characters of violence.... More...
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Compares uses, meanings & effects on characters of violence.
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"FORREST GUMP" (ROBERT ZEMECKIS) & "THE JERK" (CARL REINER).
Term Paper ID:24082
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Compares 1994 & 1979 films, main characters' lack of intelligence, critical views of Amer. society.... More...
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Compares 1994 & 1979 films, main characters' lack of intelligence, critical views of Amer. society.
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"JOHNNY GUITAR" (NICHOLAS RAY).
Term Paper ID:24037
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Examines critical views of film as non-traditional western exploring heroism & gender role reversals.... More...
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Examines critical views of film as non-traditional western exploring heroism & gender role reversals.
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"THELMA & LOUISE" (RIDLEY SCOTT).
Term Paper ID:24031
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Analyzes 1991 film's feminist interpretation of male buddy genre.... More...
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Analyzes 1991 film's feminist interpretation of male buddy genre.
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MODERNISM IN FILMS OF 1960S.
Term Paper ID:23975
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Examines modernist philosophy & devices & their application in [Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?], [Dr. Strangelove] & [Midnight Cowboy].... More...
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Examines modernist philosophy & devices & their application in [Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?], [Dr. Strangelove] & [Midnight Cowboy].
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Modernism is a term applied retroactively to certain literary and artistic trends at the beginning of the twentieth century. Certain modernist characteristics can be discerned in post-1960 culture. Contemporary culture seems less to have gone on to new concerns and issues than it seems to have institutionalized certain modernist characteristics as if they had meaning in their own right. In a sense, though, they are used to avoid meaning altogether or to give the illusion of meaning where there is none. The disjointed time sense, the flight from the conventions of realism, and the adoption of complex new forms and styles in the modernist period were undertaken to provide new meaning, to illuminate the world in a different way, and to show different relationships within the observed world. Aspects of the trend can be discerned in three
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"CRIMSON TIDE" & "DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS".
Term Paper ID:23879
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Compares role of race in social contexts of two 1995 films starring Denzel Washington. No footnotes.... More...
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Compares role of race in social contexts of two 1995 films starring Denzel Washington. No footnotes.
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Two recent films feature the same black actor as star--Denzel Washington appears in both The Crimson Tide and Devil in a Blue Dress. Race is a factor in both films. It is used more subtly and less openly as a motivating force in Crimson Tide, while it is viewed as central in the historical context of 1940s Los Angeles in Devil in a Blue Dress. Both films are examples of a strong and popular film genre, the detective film in one case, the techno-thriller in the other. Devil in a Blue Dress is a detective film with a deliberately different attitude from most, while Crimson Tide hews more closely to the accepted elements of the techno-thriller while doing so in a field of more richly developed characters than is common in this sort of film. Both films make use of conceptions of race, community, and selfhood in developing characters and analyzing their behavior.
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FILMS OF ZHANG YIMOU.
Term Paper ID:23756
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Analyzes Chinese cinema, political influences (Mao, Cultural Revolution), propaganda vs. art, themes, imagery, setting, characters, focusing on director's 1994 film [To Live], using Fantasy-theme Criticism.... More...
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Analyzes Chinese cinema, political influences (Mao, Cultural Revolution), propaganda vs. art, themes, imagery, setting, characters, focusing on director's 1994 film [To Live], using Fantasy-theme Criticism.
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Zhang Yimou is seen as the leading film director in China today not only because of the quality of his work but because so many of his films have made it to screens in the West. One of his recent works is To Live, released in 1994. This film portrays the mode of life prevailing in China from the 1940s through the era of the Cultural Revolution, and it thus covers the period from the Communist success in the Chinese Revolution to the period when the leadership believed the purity of the revolution was endangered and so was in need of a purging of certain counter-revolutionary elements in Chinese society. Zhang achieves a sense of continuity in his body of work by using similar storylines to explore various themes and by using many of the same actors over and over again, creating the image of a
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"BONNIE & CLYDE" (ARTHUR PENN) & "BREATHLESS" (JEAN-LUC GODARD).
Term Paper ID:23664
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Compares gangster films' styles, imagery, sources, characters, atmosphere, violence.... More...
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Compares gangster films' styles, imagery, sources, characters, atmosphere, violence.
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The gangster genre in film encompasses a number of different forms, and the range can be seen in a comparison of Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde and Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless, two films which make use of conventions of the gangster film while extending those conventions into very different territory. The gangster genre in American film is primarily an urban phenomenon, while Bonnie and Clyde has a rural setting in keeping with a specific criminal history from the 1930s. Breathless draws its inspiration from American crime films of the 1940s and uses the conventions found there to express a different view of the urban criminal landscape and of the way a film should be structured. In some respects, the Penn film is more conventional in structure, but it as well reshapes the genre in service of a more mythic expression of American freedom and rebellion.
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"CASABLANCA".
Term Paper ID:23623
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Examines 1942 film's depiction of North Africa of late 1930s. Characters & motivations, nationalities, war atmosphere, personal & political values.... More...
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Examines 1942 film's depiction of North Africa of late 1930s. Characters & motivations, nationalities, war atmosphere, personal & political values.
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The film of Casablanca has had major audience appeal since the time it was first released, and indeed it was something of a surprise hit when it first came to the screen. The appeal in 1942 was likely to be somewhat different than the appeal of the film today given that the societal concerns of the time were different, and the film does indeed reflect many of these concerns in its plot, the interactions of its characters, and the society it depicts. Casablanca is very much a document of its age and reflects much of the history of the late 1930s leading to the war that was then waging in 1942.
The society depicted in the film is exotic not only because of its setting in Casablanca in North Africa but also because of the mixture of nationalities brought together in an artificial manner in this time and place. This is artificial because it is
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NARRATIVE PARADIGM & "WALL STREET" (OLIVER STONE).
Term Paper ID:23606
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Examines 1987 film, using sociologist Walter Fisher's strategic concept for decision making & action. Insider trading, ethics, characters' values, anti-materialism theme.... More...
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Examines 1987 film, using sociologist Walter Fisher's strategic concept for decision making & action. Insider trading, ethics, characters' values, anti-materialism theme.
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The purpose of this research is to examine Wall Street, a film directed by Oliver Stone, with reference to the narrative paradigm theory described by Walter R. Fisher. The plan of the research will be to set forth the principal elements of Fisher's explanation of the narrative paradigm as a strategy for decision and action, and then to discuss Wall Street in light of Fisher's theory, as well as with reference to the film's function vis-à-vis more general sociological perspective, in a manner that points in the direction of the manner in which the film as narrative might provide, as Fisher suggests, "a rationale for decision and action" in the business world.
Fisher's elaboration of what he terms the narrative paradigm is meant to give an account of the efficacy of persuasive moral argument in the context of literary and dramatic patterns of commu
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"SEVENTH SEAL, THE" (INGMAR BERGMAN).
Term Paper ID:23590
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Analyzes 1957 film's imagery, meaning, symbolism, themes, characters.... More...
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Analyzes 1957 film's imagery, meaning, symbolism, themes, characters.
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Ingmar Bergman's 1957 film The Seventh Seal is a work of stark and powerful imagery, with one strong image succeeding another to build a whole, not unlike watching a medieval tableau whose scenes are intended to teach a lesson. Underlying this film is a strong sense of the theatrical. In a sense, this is true of any great film, but in the case of The Seventh Seal concepts of drama and the theatrical are inherent in the structure of the work and in the way the director shapes the material, as if moving from one scene in a play to the next, and all the while doing so by drawing attention to the theatricality as a way of enhancing the meaning of the whole. The film is a philosophical work in which ideas are embodied in human actions, in symbolism, and in the dramatic elements of the film. In this sense, the filmmaker is developing his philosophical ideas out in
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"CLOCKWORK ORANGE, A" (STANLEY KUBRICK).
Term Paper ID:23573
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Psychosocial analysis of portrayal of deviance in violent futuristic 1970 film.... More...
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Psychosocial analysis of portrayal of deviance in violent futuristic 1970 film.
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The film A Clockwork Orange presents a vision of deviance in a future society, a society extrapolated from the growing urban crime problems of 1970 when the film was made. The exact year in which the film is set is not indicated, but it is likely somewhere around our current era. The film creates a sense of menace from the first, and yet at the same time, it uses strong imagery and high stylization to turn its dark vision into a black comedy. The concept of deviance by which sociologists try to explain aberrant and anti-social behavior, or behavior that goes against the norms of society, explains the delinquent activity in A Clockwork Orange, though the film undercuts a strict interpretation of crime as deviance by developing the idea that some crime is an expression of personal preference and inner freedom.
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"ROB ROY" & "LOSING ISAIAH).
Term Paper ID:23492
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Compares 1995 films' qualities, popularity, effectiveness, subject matter, sociohistorical significance.... More...
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Compares 1995 films' qualities, popularity, effectiveness, subject matter, sociohistorical significance.
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Films have an afterlife that is not always predictable, but for that matter the reaction to a film when it first appears is not really predictable. Films appeal to audiences of their time for a wide variety of reasons, and that appeal may continue into the future or may dissipate for mysterious reasons. Films today have a longer immediate life because of video. That is, where a film in the past would have shown in theaters and then disappeared for a time before showing up, perhaps years later, on television, today films reach the video store within a few months and cable shortly after that. This keeps their titles, at least, alive for a much longer initial period and may build an audience that might come back to the film in subsequent years. Still, some films will hold interest over time, while others will be viewed through whatever medium is available and then will be
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FILMS ON JEWS BEFORE & AFTER WWII.
Term Paper ID:23475
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Explores themes, intentions, responses to rise & fall of Hitler & Holocaust in [House of Rothschild] (1934), [Great Dictator] (1940), [Crossfire] (1947) & others.... More...
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Explores themes, intentions, responses to rise & fall of Hitler & Holocaust in [House of Rothschild] (1934), [Great Dictator] (1940), [Crossfire] (1947) & others.
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The Holocaust was not a known quantity in the years when America was intent on fighting World War II. After the war, knowledge of the Holocaust would increase, beginning with the terrible pictures sent around the world as the Allies liberated the prison camps and discovered what had been taking place in them. References to these events then made their way into a number of post-war films, among them Crossfire, Gentleman's Agreement, and The Stranger. During the years of the war itself, though, anti-Semitism was barely a subject at all in Hollywood films in spite of the fact that Hollywood was known as a "Jewish" industry because of the number of studio heads and producers who were Jewish.
Judith E. Doneson wants to call the films reflecting anti-Semitism around this time Holocaust films and offers a definition
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"CABLE GUY, THE" (BEN STILLER).
Term Paper ID:23427
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Reviews 1996 film's portrayal of social & personal dangers of watching too much TV.... More...
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Reviews 1996 film's portrayal of social & personal dangers of watching too much TV.
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The Cable Guy is a feature film that has been sold largely as a vehicle for comedian Jim Carrey, though in fact it is something quite different. The film is a dark vision of a television-fed America and the consequences massive amounts of television-watching have on individuals and the public at large. Cable is the preferred method of delivery for the television signal today, and waiting for the cable guy to show up has become an American pastime. The wiring of America for cable has preceded the new attempt at wiring America for the computer, and each successive wave of technology raises similar political issues of access, equity, potential disenfranchisement, and the possibility of a twisted American psyche. Director Ben Stiller develops these issues in terms of the plot of the film and also through background elements such as a running trial on
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"THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE" (JOHN FRANKENHEIMER).
Term Paper ID:23353
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Examines 1962 film as reflection of social & political paranoia about Cold War, communism, demagogic leaders.... More...
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Examines 1962 film as reflection of social & political paranoia about Cold War, communism, demagogic leaders.
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The motion picture The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer, 1962) was in many respects prophetic in terms of what it has to say about the American political system and how that system might develop over the next several years. The film can be seen as rather cynical work in that it regards American politics as a game in which the public can be and is manipulated by the unscrupulous. The reason this can be done is because the public responds more to image than to reality, something that was beginning to be more evident at the time this film was produced and that has been much discussed in the years since. The film was made in 1962, placing t after the media-driven campaign of John F. Kennedy in which the candidate who did best on television was also the best-received by the public, as will be explained below. The political campaign in this film is also driven by
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CRIME FICTION & FILM.
Term Paper ID:23287
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Explores genre's style (film noir), characterization, plots, moral code, role of private eye & femme fatale in novels & films, 1930s-1990s.... More...
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Explores genre's style (film noir), characterization, plots, moral code, role of private eye & femme fatale in novels & films, 1930s-1990s.
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The genre of crime fiction in American literature and film covers a wide variety of styles and subgenres, but certain elements can be identified as being especially identified with American crime fiction. The private detective or private eye is the character most associated with American crime fiction, and as the private detective developed, he was part of a larger form known as the hardboiled school which referred to an attitude of toughness and cynicism that might be expressed by a policeman or lawyer as well as a private detective, though the private detective is the primary embodiment of the hardboiled school. Many of these novels and films use the private detective himself as the filter through which the rest of the story is told, either because he (and they were overwhelmingly male until recently) tells the story in the first-person or as narrator or because he
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"BRINGING UP BABY" (HOWARD HAWK) & "WHEN HARRY MET SALLY" (ROB REINER).
Term Paper ID:23279
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Compares 1938 & 1989 films as screwball comedies reflecting romantic & social ideas of each era.... More...
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Compares 1938 & 1989 films as screwball comedies reflecting romantic & social ideas of each era.
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In the late 1930s a sub-genre developed in the American film. The so-called screwball comedies were different from the comedies that had gone before, and to some extent it is a sub-genre that has persisted. The definition of a screwball comedy is not as definite as that for, say, a Western or a Horror film, and whether a given work fits this sub-genre is always arguable. Howard Hawks's Bringing Up Baby (1938) is an accepted classic in the genre, while Rob Reiner's Harry Met Sally (1989) is not so clearly an echo of the original group of films so classified.
The original screwball comedies were made in the era between the onset of the Depression and the end of World War II. Ed Sikov offers a definition of screwball comedy that emphasizes the sexual relationships involved, with madcap comedy surrounding the onset and development of romance. Usually, he says, the
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"ROMERO" (JOHN DUIGAN).
Term Paper ID:23125
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Analyzes cable TV movie of life & murder of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador in political, religious, economic & historical contexts.... More...
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Analyzes cable TV movie of life & murder of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador in political, religious, economic & historical contexts.
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The cable television movie Romero tells the true story of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, a church leader who at first was reluctant to become embroiled in the political battles of his time but who eventually became a leader in the search for justice for the lower classes in that country, a role that would lead to his death at the hands of the military. The film raises a number of difficult ethical issues, and one of the key ones relates to an argument that has been taking place in South America in particular for some time over the importance of and value of liberation theology, or revolution through the intercession of Catholic church leaders.
This issue is not a simple one, though it might seem so on the surface. Even in a democratic nation like the United States, the political involvement of clergy from any denomination or
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"WIZARD OF OZ".
Term Paper ID:22964
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Compares book by L. Frank Baum & 1939 film, critical views, plot, characters, popularity.... More...
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Compares book by L. Frank Baum & 1939 film, critical views, plot, characters, popularity.
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L. Frank Baum created a magical place in his book The Wizard of Oz and in the many subsequent books he wrote about this fantastic land to which the Kansas farm girl, Dorothy, was transported by a tornado, and the film version of the book, made in 1939, offered a visualization of the creations of Baum in a colorful and appealing form. The film is different from the book in a number of ways, not only in terms of changes in the plot, but in terms of the accent placed on various ideas and in the way elements are dramatized. For one thing, of course, the movie is part musical, something never considered by Baum. Baum would likely have been favorably disposed to the movie given that he himself had written, produced, and directed several Oz films during the silent era. Baum wrote 13 Oz books, and the books were carried on after his death by others so that another 19
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"ANTIGONE/RITES OF PASSION" (AMY GREENFIELD).
Term Paper ID:22847
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Critical analysis of 1988 film by New York dancer & avant garde director.... More...
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Critical analysis of 1988 film by New York dancer & avant garde director.
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In 1988, New York dancer and avant garde filmmaker Amy Greenfield raised the money to make a feature film, her first,
Antigone/Rites of Death, based on Oedipus at Colonnus and Antigone by Sophocles. She was taken with the character of Antigone, who agonized over her father, Oedipus the King, killing himself in self-blinded despair. More important, Antigone then buried her brother, Polynices, within the city limits of Thebes in defiance of her uncle Creon's decree of death for anyone who did so, then killed herself rather than let Creon execute her. However, Greenfield did not want to produce a dramatic staging of the plays. Her idea was to recast the classic Greek tragedies in pantomime, substituting somber facial expressions and dancing for dialogue and conventional acting. Her cast of actors would include the following: herself as Antigone; former
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ITALIAN NEOREALISTIC CINEMA.
Term Paper ID:22841
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Innovative styles & social themes in Rossellini's [Open City], De Sica's [Bicycle Thief] & Visconti's [Obsessione].... More...
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Paper Abstract:
Innovative styles & social themes in Rossellini's [Open City], De Sica's [Bicycle Thief] & Visconti's [Obsessione].
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Italian neorealism developed as a particular form of cinematic expression during the period when Italy was ruled by the Fascists. One of the best-known of what would be called the neo-realist approach to film was Roberto Rossellini's Open City (1945), and many of the characteristics of the movement were evident in this film. These films had an anti-establishment, revolutionary attitude. They had an extemporaneous, documentary quality enhanced in the early era by the materials from which they were made--war-time film stock, cobbled-together equipment, non-professional actors, and location shooting. Open City is a good example of this early period in neorealism, while Vittorio De Sica's The Bicycle Thief (1948) is an expression of the fully developed tradition from the period after the expulsion of the fascists and after the end of World War II. Luchino Visconti's
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"MY DARLING CLEMENTINE" (JOHN FORD) & "HIGH NOON" (FRED ZINNEMANN).
Term Paper ID:22792
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Compares films' depictions of West, values, gunfighting, 19th Cent. town life, directors' messages & styles.... More...
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Compares films' depictions of West, values, gunfighting, 19th Cent. town life, directors' messages & styles.
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John Ford's My Darling Clementine (1946) includes historical characters and historical events, while Fred Zinnemann's High Noon (1952) is more a generic Western with an interesting slant on the history of the time in which the film was made. At heart, both films are about a clash between good and evil that ends with a gunfight in the street, with the forces of law against the representatives of disorder. While this may be a timeless battle repeated endlessly in films--not only Westerns, but certainly in the Western genre time and time again--how this battle is treated in the two films shows a very different view of the social order, of the role of the hero, and of the meaning of the battle itself. Ford takes a much more traditional view of his hero, Wyatt Earp, and he treats that character in the heroic mold even though the historical character and his brothers were not as admirable as
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"FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE" (CHEN KAIGE).
Term Paper ID:22702
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Examines 1993 Chinese film's story, characters, reflection of Chinese history & culture.... More...
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Examines 1993 Chinese film's story, characters, reflection of Chinese history & culture.
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Farewell My Concubine by Chen Kaige (1993) was one of the rare Chinese films that has made its way to Western audiences. it was acclaimed by Western critics and received awards from various critics organizations. The film also represented a shift in artistic opportunities in China. The film is an opportunity for Westerners to see inside China today, to appreciate the state of Chinese filmmaking, and to gain a different view of humanity from a filmmaker who has a strong command of the medium.
The story of the film covers a long period in Chinese history. The film begins with a prologue in which two of the main characters are preparing for a farewell performance of their best theatrical vehicle, a piece called "Farewell My Concubine." They are stage performers in the Beijing Opera, and much of the spectacle in the film derives from the way the opera in China is
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"CARLITO'S WAY" (BRIAN DE PALMA).
Term Paper ID:22604
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Analyzes addictive behavior of mob attorney Dave Kleinfield & therapeutic options in 1993 film.... More...
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Analyzes addictive behavior of mob attorney Dave Kleinfield & therapeutic options in 1993 film.
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In the film Carlito's Way, the person needing treatment services was Dave Kleinfeld, Carlito's lawyer. No history is given of Kleinfeld's drug dependency. The first time we see him taking drugs is in his office, after his meeting with the Mobster Convict. The fact that Kleinfeld is taking drugs in his office indicates that he is unable to resist using cocaine whenever it is available. Kleinfeld is snorting lines of coke from off his desk. His secretary interrupts Kleinfeld with a phone call, but she could have just as easily walked in on him.
Typical of persons with cocaine addiction, Kleinfeld has resorted to illicit activities to support his habit. Kleinfeld steals $1 million that the Mobster Convict had intended for his son. Consequently, Kleinfeld finds himself in a life-threatening situation. His reaction to this is to increase his cocaine
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MOTION PICTURE MARKETING.
Term Paper ID:22591
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Product life cycle, manufacture & distribution, marketing mix, executive decision-making, chains & independent theaters, promotion, marketing planning.... More...
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Product life cycle, manufacture & distribution, marketing mix, executive decision-making, chains & independent theaters, promotion, marketing planning.
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Introduction
Marketing activities are a critical part of a company's strategic plan. A company may have an outstanding product, but if it is unable to communicate that to the market, it is not likely to be successful. While the common interpretation of marketing is advertising, additional components, including the product itself, pricing strategy and distribution, are also a critical part of the marketing mix. When developing a marketing plan, companies must take into account their target market and the best way to reach that market as well as the characteristics that will make the product appeal to the market. This is a difficult activity for companies engaged in traditional manufacturing, but such companies generally have similar target markets across their product lines. The motion picture industry is unique in that each new
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"2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY" (STANLEY KUBRICK).
Term Paper ID:22542
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Analyzes 1968 science fiction film as expression of social yearning for cosmic, mythic connection, using [E.T.] as another example.... More...
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Paper Abstract:
Analyzes 1968 science fiction film as expression of social yearning for cosmic, mythic connection, using [E.T.] as another example.
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Janet Hocker Rushing refers to a yearning for wholeness in our time, something that all cultures have longed for in some degree. Our own age is seen as one of fragmentation, secularization, and an absence of unity, leaving us with a modern need for transcendence such as has been noted by a number of writers. Rushing finds that we seek this sense of the transcendent in our entertainment and our art, and she refers to the fact that our modern audiences find transcendence addressed in movies, notably science fiction films that make a cosmic connection in mythic form. She cites E.T. as one particular representative of this genre, and she applies what she calls the "perennial philosophy" to this film, as will be done here with reference to another science fiction film of an earlier era and one of the first to make this mythic connection most directly,m
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