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Film & Theater Essays and Term Papers
Doubt : Cross AnalysisStereotypes play a big role in society. A stereotype is a misconception or judgment based on superficial evidence. For example, stereotypes may include all Asians being smart; women are weak, and so forth. The media plays a big part in our society lately and is sometimes the foundation of various ...
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Comedia dell arteCommedia dell’Arte
Les origines antiques
Au temps de Rome, l’atellane fait figure d’ébauche de la commedia dell’arte. L’atellane, au milieu du IIème siècle avant J.-C., était en effet une farce burlesque, souvent obscène, jouée à la suite d’une pièce tragique. Elle mettait en scène quatre ...
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Apocalypse Now Character AnalysisArmy Captain Willard is a largely passive character. In fact, Martin Sheen replaced Harvey Keitel in the role after Coppola decided Keitel seemed like too active a screen presence. Sheen brings a more muted presence to the film than the forceful Keitel and, as a result, is more compelling as the ...
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Roman Polanski's MacbethMost modern directors adapting William Shakespeare's plays for today's cinema audience skip or drastically alter vast portions of text in order to make the story more accessible. However, Roman Polanski's 1971 version of Macbeth clarifies and emphasizes certain aspects of the story while rarely ...
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Schindler's ListSchindler's List'' is described as a film about the Holocaust, but the Holocaust supplies the field for the story, rather than the subject. The film is really two parallel character studies--one of a con man, the other of a psychopath. Oskar Schindler, who swindles the Third Reich, and Amon Goeth, ...
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OedipusAs is the case in most climactic drama, much of what constitutes the myth of Oedipus takes place before the opening scene of the play. In his youth, Laius was a guest of King Pelops of Elis, and became the tutor of Chrysippus, youngest of the king's sons, in chariot racing. He then violated the ...
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Peyton SawyerPeyton Sawyer is a thirty- year-old who wants to move to another city because she has given up on the medico life style her home town has to offer. She has done a lot of research on the place she would like to relocate to. There is a lot of uncertainty but after watching a movie that features ...
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Roger And IRoger and Me
The documentary film Roger and Me, directed by Michael Moore, is an excellent documentary which is meant to portray the closing of a General Motors (GM) factory in Flint, Michigan, and its subsequent effects on the town. Using a wide variety of effective techniques, Moore seeks to ...
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Shakespeare In Love - Movie ReviewShakespeare in Love is a romantic comedy film directed by John Madden. It film brought us back in time – particularly Shakespeare’s time, where there is a rich symbolism of love. It has the right mix of comedy, drama, and also tragedy. However, there are excessive steamy scenes and partial nudity ...
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Hysteria In The CrucibleHysteria is a sort of band wagon effect where when one person has something happen to them, everyone else thinks it will happen to them. Hysteria is demonstrated in Aurthur Miller’s play, The Crucible. When a group of girls are caught dancing in the forest they are accused of practicing ...
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John Proctor's Moral ProblemsThe Crucible Essay
In the The Crucible by Arthur Miller, justice is raped by the immorality of those who kill for pleasure. Salem 1690’s, an epidemic of accusations is going around the village. Women, Men and Children are accusing others of witchcraft. More than a dozen of girls fell ill, ...
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Nora and Helmer's Relationship In A Doll's HouseA Doll's House is a play by Henrik Ibsen. It is about Nora and her husband Torvald. Their marriage is not stable it changes from time to time.Nora is not happy with her marrige beacuse her husband treats her like a child.So that, Nora decides to change her life from being an animal and a kid to be ...
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Character Analysis of Riders to the SeaCharacter Analysis : Riders to the Sea
CHRACTERS IN Riders to the Sea are Maurya , Cathleen , Nora & Bartley. Men carrying Bartley's body & women keening ahead of the dead may be seen as rather choral figures at a point of transcendence.
Maurya: an old Aran fisher-woman whose name echoes ...
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Antigone ChorusThe theme throughout Antigone always has the chorus helping us understand what it is about they guide us through the whole thing without the chorus sophicles antigone would not have been sucsessful for so many years
The Chorus is roughly like the peanut-gallery. In Antigone the Chorus is made up ...
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Charlie Wilson's WarBased on a true story (and a book of the same name), the film centers around Texas Congressman Charlie Wilson (Tom Hanks). Wilson is an alcoholic and a womanizer, and is that rare breed of philanderer whose debauchery somehow adds to his charm. His chief concerns are getting reelected and not ...
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Shanghai BluesA typically colourful, good-natured and silly romp from director-producer-legend Tsui Hark, this historical-romantic-slapstick comedy takes a time-honoured romantic storyline and spins it into a lot of daft complications. The charmingly-named Kenny Bee plays Tung Kwok-Man, a musician/clown who ...
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Wild Style ReflectionWild Style is considered to be one of if not the first movie heavily involving hip hop. The movie helped us deeper explore some class discussions, such as graffiti and Fab Five Freddy. The film also depicts actions such as rapping, turn tables, and MCing. During class we have spent valuable ...
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Amy HeckerlingAmy Heckerling
Amy Heckerling was born in 1954 in the Bronx. She was born to Jewish parents, her father was a CPA and her mother was a bookkeeper. In her early teens, the family moved to queens. Heckerling developed an early proclivity towards the arts. Because of this, her family decided to ...
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The Crucible Film Review5 Star Big Screen Adaptation
I thought the play was great, definitely one of the best I've read (although I haven't read too many). I was blown away. The film centers on John Proctor (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his wife, Elizabeth (Joan Allen), who find themselves immersed in the hysteria that ...
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JekyllEye in Jekyll
Jekyll is a BBC TV series, based on a charmed refreshing of the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. As Jekyll start, Dr. Tom Jackman (James Nesbitt) meet nurse Katherine Reimer (Michelle Ryan), and tell her what will occur when Hyde (James Nesbitt) shows up. Jachman has prepared ...
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The Breakfast ClubKelly Reynolds
Mrs. Dent
English 101
The Breakfast Club
The Breakfast Club is a teen drama that was written by John Hughes in the 1980's. The movie depicts five characters, all of whom have Saturday detention, and come from five different social circles. The move The Breakfast Club shows ...
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Sybil Dissociative IdentityThe movie Sybil is based on a true story about a young woman named Shirley Ardell Mason. In the movie, Sybil, played by Sally Field, who is now an adult is suffering from psychological trauma stemming from having been severely and constantly abused sexually, physically, verbally, and mentally by ...
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The Shadow Behind the FlameOn Thursday October 13th, I saw “The Shadow Behind the Flame.” It was written and directed by D. Denver Pick, and was presented at the Macon Little Theater. The exceptional work was about the story of Anjette Lyles, a restaurant owner convicted of poisoning her daughters, and being involved in the ...
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The Breakfast ClubFive teenagers who don't' know each other spend a Saturday in detention at the suburban school library. At first they squirm, fret and pick on each other. Then after sampling some marijuana, a real encounter session gets underway. The stresses and strains of adolescence have turned their inner ...
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Six Characters in Search of an AuthorMOULEE GOSWAMI
H-1154
3[RD] SEMESTER
CONTINENTAL DRAMA
T. SUBRAMANIAM
Pirandello's "six characters in search of an author": the play in the making
This famous satirical tragicomedy by Luigi Pirandello penned by first opened to audience at the Teatro Valle in Rome to rave reviews in 1921. ...
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