History Of Film Essays and Term Papers

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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Maqbool Fida Husain

Maqbool Fida Husain Gouri R. 'To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am willing to excuse a thousand faults,' says Somerset Maugham in The Moon and Sixpence. What do you think of the artist who completes an elaborate ...

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The Gangster Movie Genre: The Godfather and The Godfather Part 3

TWO 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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To Be Shakespeare, Or Not To Be Shakespeare, That Is The Question

Kenneth Branaugh may have had the script of William Shakespeare's Hamlet spoken down to every last thee and thou, but one must remember that this is Hamlet through Branaugh's eyes, not Shakespeare's. Therefore, dismissing obvious additions made for adapting the play to film, such as having a ...

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Orphan Trains

and 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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Branagh’s Henry V: An Example Of Pluralistic Shakespeare

In her essay “Shakespeare and Film: A Question of Perspective,” Catherine Belsey argues for the incapability of film to offer the multiple interpretations that the Elizabethan stage presented. “Film is the apotheosis of the modern, and it is in this sense that it inevitably narrows the plurality ...

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Leon The Movie Review Essay

Set in modern day New York, Leon (Jean Reno) is a professional hit man who carries out contracts for Italian boss Tony (Danny Aiello) who in turn acts as a father-figure and manipulator. Leon is truly exceptional at his job with an ability to move without sound, kill without emotion and disappear ...

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Ben-Hur

Every so often in cinema history there is a movie which supersedes all those before it. Only a select few films actually advance the quality of the overall cinematic world. is a movie which dared to do so. Near the end of 1959 this film crashed on to the entire world. The budget and subsequent ...

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A Rhetoric Of Outcasts In The

More 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 The

More 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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The Life Of Harry Houdini

The performer known world wide as Harry Houdini was born on March 24, 1874 in Budapest. Although Houdini often claimed to be born in Appleton, Wisconsin, Houdini actually came to the United States when he was four years old. To this day many connected with the small town of Appleton still claim ...

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The Godfather: Gangster Genre

Crime stories in this genre often highlight or glorify the rise and fall of a particular criminal, gang, bank robber, murderer or lawbreakers in personal power struggles or conflict with law and order figures, an underling or competitive colleague, or a rival gang. Headline-grabbing situations, ...

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Tennessee Williams - Outcasts In His Plays

More 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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Harvard Referencing Guide

University Library Guide to the Harvard Style of Referencing September 2010 http://libweb.anglia.ac.uk Anglia Ruskin University http://libweb.anglia.ac.uk/referencing/harvard.htm 1 Guide to the Harvard Style of Referencing Second Edition Revised September 2010 ++` Anglia Ruskin ...

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James Cellan Jones's View of Female Potential in The Portrait of a Lady (1968) and The Golden Bowl (1972)

James Cellan Jones's View of Female Potential in The Portrait of a Lady(1968) and The Golden Bowl (1972) by Laurence Raw Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey The late 1960s and 70s witnessed an extraordinary flowering of James adaptations, especially on BBC television. The Portrait of a ...

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The Great Debaters Review

FILM REVIEW BY JOSEPH JOJO 181310 FYBA - A ST XAVIER'S COLLEGE MUMBAI THE GREAT DEBATERS DENZEL ...

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Streetcar Desire

A 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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The Tragic Challenger Explosion

Space Travel. It is a sense of national pride for many Americans. If you ask anyone who was alive at the time, they could probably tell you exactly where they were when they heard that Neil Armstrong was the first person to walk on the Moon. But all of the success in our space programs is ...

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Arthur Miller And "The Crucible"

INTRODUCTION The Crucible by Arthur Miller was written during the early 1950s at the time of Senator Joseph McCarthy's House Un-American Activities Committee hearings on the infiltration of Communism in the United States and the loyalty to democracy of many prominent U.S. citizens. The McCarthy ...

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Cache In Meaning

Director Michael Haneke, in a play on the famous Jean Luc Goddard quote said, “film is a lie at twenty-four frames per second in the service of truth” [Porton 51]. This seems to be a general preoccupation of his films, how what the audience sees is never true, but a film. A film being a written, ...

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