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The Death Of John F. Kennedy

On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas Texas. The shots came at 12:30 p.m. This took place just as the presidential motorcade slowly passed through downtown Dallas. President Kennedy was shot twice and fatally wounded. Also wounded was Governor John B. Connally ...

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The Thin Red Line

The Thin Red Line, released in 1998, was written and directed by Terrence Malick. It stared Nick Nolte, Sean Penn, John Cusack, Adrien Brody, John C. Reilly, Woody Harrelson, and many other distinguished actors. It is a World War II film about the United States invasion of the Japanese captivated ...

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Snow On Tha Bluff

What does it take to succeed in the independent/documentary film genre? An Independent film is a professional film production resulting in a feature film that is produced mostly or completely outside of the major film studio system. In addition to being produced and distributed by independent ...

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The Maltese Falcon

, was not only a detective film, but a film that displayed many different aspects of the female and the male character in the movie. The film was more than a story, but a story that explored the ideas of the detective genre and the different characteristics of femininity and masculinity. It also ...

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Chocky - TV Vs The Book

The Novel Chocky was written by John Wyndham and was later adapted into a TV drama by the BBC. The producers, Pamela Londale and Vic Hughes, kept the same title for the TV series as the Novel, and named it Chocky, but the Film text had some changes in events, different character interpretation ...

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Birth Of A Nation: Art Or Propaganda

Mankind, engaging in war, driven by whatever instincts guide him, seeks to keep the defeats and victories of battle in his memory and on his conscience. To accomplish this men have used paint and canvas, ink and paper, or instrument and song in their effort to communicate the tragedy and glory of ...

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Kubrick Lives

The theory of authorship as applied to film directors is a subject that is argued extensively throughout the film world. The auteur theory was first introduced in the French film journal Cahiers du Cinema. Andrew Sarris who suggested that there are a group of filmmakers who fit into this ...

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Norma Rae A Labor Analysis

This film is based on the real life story of Crystal Lee Sutton and her involvement with Ruben Warshovsky and the organization of the textile workers at the J.P. Stevens Company in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina (Labor Films). Sally Field plays the lead role of Norma Rae (Crystal Lee Sutton) ...

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Animation

My personal enjoyment with has inspired me to write this essay, pertaining to . Since I was a child I have been fascinated with cartoons; from when they started out to be black and white, and until now with full colour and computer effects. To better perceive what my personal feelings about ...

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Life of the Famous J.K. Rowling

Joanne "Jo" Rowling, OBE[1] (born 31 July 1965),[2] better known as J. K. Rowling (pronounced /'ro?l??/, ROH-ling),[3] is a British author best known as the creator of the Harry Potter fantasy series, the idea for which was conceived on a train trip from Manchester to London in 1990. The Potter ...

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Silence of the Lambs

One does not think of popular movies as being full of thematic content, of being full of questions about death, gender, mental illness, and life. Yet when I sit here and try to decide on a singular topic to write about from a movie that is teeming with them, it is an incredibly popular movie about ...

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Duties in Double Suicide

Sybil Thornton HST389 March 16, 2012 Duties in Double Suicide Double Suicide is a 1969 black-and-white Japanese film that was directed by Mashiro Shinoda. It is an adaptation of a Bunraku puppet play. [1]This film was based off a play that was written in 1721 called "The Love Suicide at ...

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MUSIC 468 Midterm

Katherine Way 007914892 MUS 468I 03/13/12 Midterm #1 Essays 1) Describe the three basic types of music heard in original scores during the silent film era and cites specific examples from The Birth of a Nation. (10 points) Adaptations of classical works, arrangements of well-known ...

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Masken und die Frage der Identität in Ingmar Bergmans Persona

Masken und die Frage der Identit?t in Ingmar Bergmans Persona Filmanalyse ?bung "Filmanalyse - Cin?philosophie" Mag. Dr. Katharina M?ller WS 2015 Institut f?r Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft Studienkennzahl A 033 580 Universit?t Wien Vorgelegt von Gabriela-Stefani ...

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Stanely Kubrick

The American cinema is rich with powerful and insightful filmmakers whose bodies of work add to the legacy of American filmmaking. But a few filmmakers like Stanley Kubrick and David Lynch, two of the most enlightening and illuminating directors to ever grace the silver screen, not only add to ...

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The Sheltering Sky

After reading the novel, by Paul Bowles, it was difficult to imagine how one could transform the novel into a satisfying film. How could one imitate such descriptive settings and emotions without the advantage of Paul Bowles’ wording? Also the novel does not have the plot of a typical ...

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Performances Of A Lifetime In Thelma And Louise

If the 1991 box office success of Thelma and Louise was unexpected, more surprising was the heated debate that followed its release, a debate over the film’s political status and social implications. While Joan Smith of The Guardian argued that the film’s “effect is perversely to reinforce the ...

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Hello, My Name Is Orson Welles

Orson Welles liked to reuse certain elements throughout his films. He liked a good deep focus shot. He liked low key lighting. He liked the grotesque side of life, blocking actors in groups of three, low camera angles and especially pointy bras. He also liked to open his movies in a ...

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Rhetorical Genders: Performances Of A Lifetime In Thelma And Louise

If the 1991 box office success of Thelma and Louise was unexpected, more surprising was the heated debate that followed its release, a debate over the film’s political status and social implications. While Joan Smith of The Guardian argued that the film’s “effect is perversely to reinforce the ...

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Higher Learning

In the 1995 movie, "", John Singleton gives evidence to numerous sociological issues. In which, Singleton emphasizes that our society needs to be re-socialized, so that society as a whole can overlook all of our preconceived stereotypes and norms, and pass judgement on people not based on the ...

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