Horror Film Essays and Term Papers
Hitchcock's Influence on Scorsese and J. Lee ThompsonCape Fear's Various Incarnations-From Thompson to Scorsese via Hitchcock's influence
Alfred Hitchcock is the famed, one might say infamous, master of suspense. This suspense often occurs, however, in apparently ordinary situations and settings and revolves around the extraordinary use of ...
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Hollywood and the Vietnam War - Alibi, Not ActualityHollywood and the Vietnam War- Alibi, not Actuality
About two decades ago, film critics and observers lamented Hollywood’s avoidance of the Vietnam War. However, in recent years, Hollywood has produced Vietnam War films at a rapid rate and, the focus has shifted from the lack of Hollywood films ...
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Movies: A Thematic Analysis Of Alfred Hitchcock's PsychoAlfred Hitchcock's Psycho has been commended for forming the
archetypical basis of all horror films that followed its 1960 release. The mass
appeal that Psycho has maintained for over three decades can undoubtedly be
attributed to its universality. In Psycho, Hitchcock allows the audience ...
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Compare and Contrast "On the Beach" and "Testament"The paper is a comparison of two movies " On the Beach" (1959) directed by Stanley Kramer and "Testament"(1983) directed by Lynne Littman.
"On the Beach" (1959) Directed by: Stanley Kramer:
The movie "On the Beach" was based on the best-selling novel written by Nevil Shute, which was once ...
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Writing Styles Of Poe And HoffmanAll writers have different styles of getting their point across. In particular some like to use the art of the grotesque. E.T.A Hoffman is a perfect example of this type of writing. Hoffman was and still is probably one of the most renowned grotesque writers who ever lived. Wolfgang Kayser ...
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Braveheart Vs. Full Metal JacketCinema Combat:
War is an ever-present entity in the world of cinema. The films Braveheart and Full Metal Jacket show strikingly similar, yet different aspects of war. Braveheart is an epic tale of love lost and how the circumstances surrounding that loss contributed in sparking one man's ...
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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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Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is a novel where the main character Marlow is telling a story of a trip to the Congo. This novel is said to possibly be an autobiography of Conrad’s life at sea. This is said because Conrad was a seaman for a many years and went into Africa many times. The story is so ...
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History Of Philippine CinemaREEL TO REAL: THE HISTORY OF PHILIPPINE FILMS
The youngest of the Philippine arts, film has evolved to become the most popular of all the art forms. Introduced only in 1897, films have ranged from silent movies to talkies; black and white to color. Outpacing its predecessors by gaining public ...
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Sixth Sense MovieThe Sixth Sense, directed and written by M. Night Shyamalan, follows the troubled life of eight-year-old Cole Sear, played by Haley Joel Osment, who is haunted by his supernatural abilities to see and communicate with the dead. Being sought after by the disturbed spirits of his hometown of ...
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Hollywood Vs. The WorldDespite the fact that Hollywood films are popular all over the world, many believe that foreign films are better. Critics’ dislike of Hollywood films’ is due to the straight-line plots of the films in which nothing is left unclear, unsettling or unexplained and every shot is justified by a link ...
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Stanely KubrickThe 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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Branagh’s Henry V: An Example Of Pluralistic ShakespeareIn 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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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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Horn Shoe SonataModule A: Experience Through Language
- Elective 1: Distinctively Visual
Shoe Horn Sonata
John Misto’s Purpose –
- To convey the experiences and suffering of the female POWs.
- Educate Australians about their history.
- Tribute/Memorial to the women: When he wrote the play, Misto ...
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AliensMaternal desire is the main issue in the film ; for the heroine, it is loss and the subsequent regaining of the object of maternal desire that is significant. The considerable length of time spent in stasis, loss of job and primarily the loss of her daughter contribute toRipley's physical and ...
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Voodoo Research PaperVoodoo is a religion rich in heiratage and founded in faith and community. The religion has been villianized by western culture and has been wrongly protrayed as malignant and dangerous. The religion is not founded in any of the "black magics" or fear popularized by Hollywood films, but rather it ...
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AliensMaternal desire is the main issue in the film ; for the heroine, it is loss and the subsequent regaining of the object of maternal desire that is significant. The considerable length of time spent in stasis, loss of job and primarily the loss of her daughter contribute toRipley's physical and ...
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ScienceCamera Shots
A camera shot is the amount of space that is seen in one shot or frame. Camera shots are used to demonstrate different aspects of a film's setting, characters and themes. As a result, camera shots are very important in shaping meaning in a film. Reviewing the examples on the right ...
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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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