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Film & Theater Essays and Term Papers
Sweat: Sweet RevengeSweet Revenge
The play by Susan Glaspell, Trifles, and Zora Neale Hurston’s story “Sweat” tell about a period in history when women were not treated equal to men, and women lived oppressed and lonely lives. Men dominated almost every aspect of their life and women were of little importance. ...
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Sexual Harassment In OleannaOLEANNA
INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this paper is to introduce and discuss the play "Oleanna," by David Mamet. Specifically, it will look at the most important idea dramatized by the plot of the play.
PLOT IN OLEANNA
Many reviewers and critics would say that the most important idea ...
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The Importance Of Setting In Macbeth, Antigone, and ProofThe Importance of Setting
In any play, the major characters face certain problems that will or will not be resolved during the course of the story. Many factors influence this ultimate fate, among the most important of which is the setting of the story. The setting, more than anything else, ...
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The Role Of The Chorus In Antigone, Macbeth, and ProofThe chorus can play an integral and unique role in plays, serving the function of a collective omniscient character, a reflection of the audience's conscience, the character(s)'s conscience, or as a subtle method for the playwright to communicate with the audience. As an omniscient character the ...
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The Gangster Movie Genre: The Godfather and The Godfather Part 3TWO CLASSIC GANSTER GENRE MOVIES OF ALL TIME
Film productions often mimic real life. It is what allows them to be placed into genre categories. Genres in the movies are very much like genres in the world of literature. There are romance genres, history genres and others that depict the type ...
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Spider-Man Film ReviewPeter Parker dazzles on the big screen as the amazing Spiderman in this 2002 Sam Raimi production. Even those of us too young to remember the original Stan Lee Marvel comic might recall humming the tune to the television cartoon: "Spiderman, Spiderman does whatever a spider can. Spins a web any ...
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Generic Hybridism Police Thriller FilmsContemporary American Studies
Genre Hybridist Films
Introduction
In the present world of cinema there is an increase generic hybridism where more and more genres are becoming merged together in order to bring new narratives to the screen. The outcome of this has meant that in some films, ...
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Broken Blossoms: SymbolismBroken Blossoms
Many directors would have found it difficult to follow such blockbusters as the controversial and monumental The Birth of a Nation (1915), the spectacular Intolerance (1916), and the epic Hearts of the World (1918). However, in the film Broken Blossoms (1919), D. W. Griffith ...
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The Use Of Montage In Battleship PotemkinArgument of Film:
Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 classic Battleship Potemkin contains the most potent use of sustained montage ever put on film. It prompted the German filmmaker Max Reinhardt, on watching it for the first time, to declare: "The theatre died tonight! Theatre is dead." It also resulted ...
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The Joyless Street AnalysisThe Joyless Street takes place in post-World War I Vienna, which is now the scene of every unscrupulous from of profiteering that was available. The movie revolves around life on a single Viennese street.
The scenes are filmed with stark realism and are often representative of the character's ...
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The Birth Of A Nation: Racist ImageryThis paper is an example from which certain passages or information may be referenced and correctly cited. This paper in its entirety may not be sold, reproduced, or transmitted in any manner without the written permission of Student Network Resources Inc.
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La Grande Illusion: Death Of BoeldieuJean Renoir The Grand Illusion 1936
A key scene embodying the themes of La Grande Illusion is the death scene of Boeldieu, near the end of the film. This scene is the culmination of several strains that have carried through the film to this time, themes of the futility of war, the need for ...
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The Battleship PotemkinThe masses are represented in The Battleship Potemkin as a unified entity made up of individuals who are singled out for brief moments, while the mass continues to move as a unit. The masses are depicted differently in Part Three from Part Four largely in terms of the degree of control the crowd ...
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The Battleship Potemkin: Comparing Parts 3 And 4Sergei Eisenstein's film The Battleship Potemkin (1925) depicts a revolution in 1905 which began with the mutiny of the sailors on the Battleship Potemkin. The revolt begins when the sailors are given maggot-infested food and refuse to eat it. When the captain orders that the protestors be shot, ...
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Rome-Open City: Death Of PinaIn Roberto Rossellini's film Rome-Open City (1945), the death of Pina is made all the more affecting by the comic scene that precedes it. The way the film veers between comedy and tragedy emphasizes the paradoxes of life, specifically of life under the Nazis. The comedy recalls that the people ...
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The Myth Modernized in O Brother, Where Art Thou?The Myth Modernized in O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The viewer is told at the beginning of the film O Brother, Where Art Thou? that the movie is based on Homer's Odyssey. The hero is named Ulysses; his wife is Penny (Penelope), and he undertakes an eventful journey to reclaim her. With his ...
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Walt Disney's CinderellaCINDERELLA
Cinderella is a classic all children grow up watching, at least once. Like any classic, there are many different versions, some better than others. The Grimm Brother's is the most complete version while Walt Disney's version of Cinderella is probably one of the most famous. In any ...
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The Use Of Innuendo And Dark Comedy In Kubrick's LolitaCharacteristic of Stanley Kubrick's film repertoire, Lolita employs subtle innuendo and dark comedy to convey uncomfortable moods and circumstances. Sexual relationships between adult men and teenage girls were even more of a taboo subject in 1962, the year in which Kubrick produced Lolita. His ...
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Absolutely Fabulous: Gender and PowerSome things about fairy tales we know to be true. They begin with "once upon a time". They end with "happily ever after". And somewhere in between the prince rescues the damsel in distress.
Of course, this is not actually the case. Many fairytales omit these essential words. But few fairytales ...
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Symbolism in The GodfatherSymbolism in "The Godfather"
Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather" is filled with symbolism from the beginning to the end. This is due to the fact that the Mafia is a secret society, thus, itself is shrouded in symbolic ritual. In the screenplay, Mario Puzo gives a mesmerizing account of ...
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The Crucible And Salem Witch TrialsThe accuracy of Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible, with regards to the actual events upon which he based his play have been the subject of much speculation since he wrote the play in 1953. Miller wrote the play because of the witch-hunt of sorts occurring in Hollywood as the scare of Communism ...
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Oedipus: A Victim of HimselfOedipus Rex is a religious parable of the dangers of pride. It is also a tale of the friction that occurs along the boundary of politics and religion. Ultimately, it a tragic fable that delivers a clear message, those who possess fatal flaws are fated to suffer dearly from them. In this play, the ...
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Byron’s Influence in Stoppard’s ArcadiaByron's influence in Stoppard's "Arcadia"
Tom Stoppard's plays are famous for their status not simply as enjoyable works of drama, but also for the philosophical and historical introspection they provoke in the viewer. They can be read on two levels, both as dramas and as tracts. In ...
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