Film Studies Essays

How Have US Companies Dominated the Global Film Industry?
Example essay. Last modified: 26th Jul 2023
Introduction: How is it that US-based companies have managed to retain a position of dominance within the global film industry for the past century?...

Harry Potter Movie Review - Order of the Phoenix
Example essay. Last modified: 7th Sep 2022
Introduction: In Harry Potter and the order of Phoenix, supervisor Tim Burke made sure the film was done surpassing the previous ones with new creatures and environmental effects, for this he contracted the Movie Picture Company (MPC) and Double Negative....

Movie RD – Casino Royale
Example essay. Last modified: 22nd Dec 2021
Introduction: The Depository official going with Attach to the casino club and fronting up zillions of citizen's cash is the smooth Miss Vesper Lynd, played by Eva Green....

Historical Accuracy of Pearl Harbor Film
Example essay. Last modified: 14th Dec 2021
Introduction: This paper reports on the historical inaccuracies, some minor some significant, of the film Pearl Harbour utilising critics' reviews of the film....

A Feminist Reading of the Short Film 'Coast' by Alistair MacDonald
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Dec 2021
Introduction: This essay will provide a feminist reading of the short film Coast, written and directed by Alistair MacDonald. The main feminist topics that will be tackled in this essay lie around the lack of representation of diverse female characters and female issues in movies....

Analysis of the Opening of Trainspotting Film
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Oct 2021
Introduction: The opening of this film varies with its broad range of shot sizes and camera angles. We start the film with what seems like a hand held shot of the main character and his friend “Spud” getting chased through town with the non diegetic soundtrack “lust for life” by Iggy Pop....

Biography of Robin Williams: American Comedian and Actor
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Oct 2021
Introduction: Robin Williams was a man with a smile that never faded, a heart full of love, but he was often misjudged. Even though Robin Williams brought so many people laughter, he was battling an inner demon that not many people knew about, depression....

Impact of Silent Film The Sheik
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Oct 2021
Introduction: The production of The Sheik and novel were intended to inform and educate the audience and the readers. Some of the major lessons from the Sheik are the impactful knowledge it gave the audience on how they can understand both the explored and unexplored culture in a society. ...

The Sopranos as a Revolutionary Text in the Gangster Genre History
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Oct 2021
Introduction: While their are many aspects of that The Sopranos incorporated from the gangster traditional genre, it was able to transform this particular genre in response to social changes taking place in American society between the 1980s and the 1990s....

Analysis of the Runaway Jury (2003)
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Oct 2021
Introduction: When a trader is shot in cold blood at his workplace, his widow sues the gun manufacturing company the killer used. Blaming them for his death, she dispatches idealistic lawyer Wendell Rohr to oversee the case. ...

Ender's Game and Real-World Science
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Oct 2021
Introduction: The molecular detachment device used to wipe the hometown of Formics is an open reality in modern military realms precisely in the use of chemical weapons of mass destruction. For example, nuclear bombs produce radioactive rays which cause abnormal cell division leading cancer and deformed human bodies. ...

The Science Behind Movies
Example essay. Last modified: 13th Oct 2021
Introduction: Movies are usually one of the best tools to engage the audience with certain emotions that you would like to communicate, in order to tell a story, to make people conscious about something. All that we see is the actors developing a character in front of the camera and following a script line by line, but… What is hiding behind all this work?...

The Human Behavior Experiments
Example essay. Last modified: 12th Oct 2021
Introduction: The film The Human Behavior Experiments​ ​ explores different studies that have happened relatively recently. The findings from the famous studies and experiments covered in this film​ provided researchers with information about authority and the role of bystanders....

Julius Caesar vs. Mean Girls
Example essay. Last modified: 11th Oct 2021
Introduction: Though Julius Caesar and Mean Girls are far different genres, one being a tragedy and one being a drama, they share a similarity in the fact that in each story, the main character's downfall can be attributed to jealousy....

Indian Cinema and its Impact on Society
Example essay. Last modified: 4th Oct 2021
Introduction: In our society there are many practices and traditions which are based on ignorance and which have withheld the progress of our society. Rigidity of caste system, untouchability, dowry system and purdah system have done enormous harm to our society....

Review of Michael Moore's 'Fahrenheit 9/11'
Example essay. Last modified: 24th Sep 2021
Introduction: Released in 2004, Fahrenheit 9/11 is a documentary directed and produced by Moore. This film is a great example of how Moore uses Aristotle’s three appeals pathos, logos, and ethos to gather information and supporting details to make his point evident....

Analysis of Television Pluralism in the TV Show “Friends”
Example essay. Last modified: 24th Sep 2021
Introduction: This essay will analyse television pluralism in the American sitcom 'Friends'. In American television history, “Friends” initially aired on NBC from September 22, 1994 and ended on May 6, 2004. It had 10 seasons in total. The story revolves around six friends living in Manhattan....

Review of the Movie 'The Social Network'
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2021
Introduction: The Social Network deals with a wide range of themes involving hubris, ambition, friendship, jealousy, class and cultural cache and success as status and revenge. The plot revolves around Mark Zuckerberg, a Harvard University student at the beginning of the movie and the year is 2003....

Analysis Of The Movie 'Blade Runner'
Example essay. Last modified: 21st Sep 2021
Introduction: The Blade Runner is a science fiction movie that was directed by Ridley Scott in 1982. The movie was written by David Peoples and Hampton Fancher, and was based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” a novel that was authored by Philip K. Dick....

Differences Between Documentary and Fiction Films
Example essay. Last modified: 20th Sep 2021
Introduction: This paper reviews the key differences between documentaries and fiction films. These differences are then used to discuss the key differences in documentary making and fiction filmmaking. Beginning with defining the key terms, this paper explores the key differences between the documentary and fiction filmmaking form a traditional/conceptual point of view. ...

Overview of the Movie 'The Matrix'
Example essay. Last modified: 20th Sep 2021
Introduction: The Matrix is a science fiction movie about a breed of artificially intelligent computers fight to take over the world. Although the central theme of The Matrix is narrated through the boundaries of machines and humans, Neo’s personality closely resembles personality types and themes found within Jungian, Maslow, and Freud’s psychology....

The Different Scopic Orders of The Modern Era
Example essay. Last modified: 17th Sep 2021
Introduction: The modern era has allegedly been dominated by the sense of sight, in a way that has seen it set apart from the premodern era and the postmodern era. In his text ‘Scopic Regimes of Modernity’ Martin Jay draws our attention to scopic order in the modern era, which is an area with many conflicting views that are not often in alignment with each other....

Review of the 2008 Movie Step Brothers
Example essay. Last modified: 16th Sep 2021
Introduction: Step Brothers (2008), directed by Adam McKay, is a raunchy, funny film for comedy audiences. It stars Will Ferrell and Jon C. Reilly as Brenan and Dale....

Identification Theory in 'Scott Pilgrim vs the World'
Example essay. Last modified: 9th Sep 2021
Introduction: This will analyse a moral outcome and give an input to the issue using this lens and see if Nussbaum has a view that is worth looking at and supporting that many other reviewers are ignorant of....

The use of Cinema in the Construction of a Nationalism State
Example essay. Last modified: 9th Sep 2021
Introduction: The paper aims to highlight the role of cinema in constructing and reconstructing the nationalism of a state. In doing so the paper is divided into three parts. ...