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Early Film Essays and Term Papers
Capote's In Cold BloodFour members of the Clutter family were murdered in their Kansas home in the early 1960s. Truman Capote, on assignment, went to Kansas to interview the friends of the victims and, notably, the apprehended killers, Perry Smith and Dick Hickock. Smith and Hickock were hanged by the state. Capote’s ...
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Douglas Hurt's The Dust BowlThe Dust Bowl, written by R. Douglas Hurt explores the Dust Bowl and the effects it had on the societies who dealt with it. The Dust Bowl is a vast area stretching across the Great Plains from Oklahoma to Colorado. Hurt includes precise locations of specific dust storms that took place from the ...
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Streetcar DesireA Streetcar Named Desire (1951) is a controversial film classic, adapted from Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play of 1947. This film masterpiece was directed by Elia Kazan (his first piece of work with Williams), a socially conscious director who insisted that the film be true to the ...
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A Review Of "The Outsiders Club" Screened On BBC 2 In October 96MA Diploma Disability Studies
INTRODUCTION
I decided to write a review on the social group known as The Outsiders. The
group's main aim is to enable disabled adults to form personal relationships,
including specifically sexual ones (Shakespeare 1996), either with each other or
with non-disabled ...
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Holocaust Humor Losing Its ShtickHolocaust Humor Losing Its Shtick / by Steve Lipman?
Hitler, suffering from laryngitis, mounts a podium in Berlin at the end of World War II to deliver a stirring oration. Out of sight from the masses, a Jewish thespian intones the words that the lip-synching dictator apparently is shouting. ...
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The Day Of The JackalFrederick Forsythe, master storyteller and suspense-novelist, retired in 1997, and that was a damn shame. Since 1971, Forsythe has fabricated some of the best intrigue and espionage novels in the world, and many of his books have become films, among them The Odessa File, The Dogs of War, and The ...
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The Life Of Walt DisneyWalt Diney's name is known worldwide. Most people have seen one of
his films. However, few people know what he was like as a person. I would
like to introduce him to you in my paper. I hope that after reading this
you will better know the man behind the movies.
Walt Disney knew at a very ...
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Special Effectsin motion pictures has evolved over the years into an
involved science of illusion and visual magic. The following is a comprehensive
perspective depicting the rapidly expanding realm of cinematography.
In times of old, special effects in movies was limited to an individual's
creativity and ...
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A Rhetoric Of Outcasts In TheMore than a half century has passed since critics and theater-goers recognized Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) as an important American playwright, whose plays fellow dramaturge David Mamet calls "the greatest dramatic poetry in the American language" (qtd. in Griffin 13). Williams's repertoire ...
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A Rhetoric Of Outcasts In TheMore than a half century has passed since critics and theater-goers recognized Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) as an important American playwright, whose plays fellow dramaturge David Mamet calls "the greatest dramatic poetry in the American language" (qtd. in Griffin 13). Williams's repertoire ...
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Yasujiro Ozu (1903--1963)In the film industry nobaody (except avant garde filmmakers) has
developed a style as different as Yasujiro Ozu. He said of his own work,
" I have formulated my own directing style in my head, proceeding without
any unnecessary imitation of others". His films are like experimental
films, but on ...
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"Casablanca:" A New PerspectiveThroughout history, the film industry has seen many directing styles and
techniques. The early part of the 20th century saw a factory style of film
production, but as the years went by, director's began to employ new and untried
techniques in their pictures. One such technique which these ...
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The Life Of Walt DisneyWalt Disney's name is known worldwide. Most people have seen one
of his films. However, few people know what he was like as a person. I
would like to introduce him to you in my paper. I hope that after reading
this you will better know the man behind the movies.
Walt Disney knew at a very ...
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The Changes In The Movie IndustryThe fifties was a learning year and the 60’s became the time to express everything that they learned. The 60’s was a time for new and innovative ways to entertain the people. Since the blacklisting continued in Hollywood, the making or films became very difficult to express. The restrictions, ...
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Tennessee Williams - Outcasts In His PlaysMore than a half century has passed since critics and theater-goers recognized Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) as an important American playwright, whose plays fellow dramaturge David Mamet calls "the greatest dramatic poetry in the American language" (qtd. in Griffin 13). Williams's repertoire ...
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Marilyn Monroe: Suicide Or MurderMarilyn Monroe, was it a suicide or a murder? The mystery
continues. Marilyn was a sex goddess of the 1950's and early 1960's
shortly before her death in 1962. Marilyn was a strong willed and very
unique woman, who had a lifetime full of fame ahead of her. Why would she
do something so weak ...
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Screening AustraliaPre 1606 – Aboriginals lived in Australia, nomadic life
1606 the Dutch (Willem Janszoon) sailed to Australia from Indonesia
1642 Abel Tasman the first explorer who reached the islands of “Van Diemen’s land”
1644 Able Tasman made a second voyage named it “New Holland”
1698 William Dampier not ...
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How Does US Popular Culture Present the Communist Threat?How Does US Popular Culture Present the Communist Threat?
United States pop culture instigated identification with the anti-Communist cause through presenting Communism as an affront to the American dream, the Catholic church, and the patriarchal order. This conservative bent exemplifies how ...
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Orphan Trainsand Carlisle and the ways people from the past undermined the minorities and children of America. The film "The " tells us the story of children who were taken from the streets of New York City and put on trains to rural America. A traffic in immigrant children were developed and droves of them ...
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King Lear“O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs”. This quote can be considered to be the foundation of the film “Tragedy of King Lear” directed by Richard Eyre in 1998 where it relates to one of the major themes, nature. It ...
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