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Comparison of Annie Proulx's 'Broke Back Mountain' with Ang Lee's Film Counterpart
Example essay. Last modified: 9th Sep 2021
Introduction: This essay will aim to compare the film version of 'Brokeback Mountain' with Annie Proulx's short story. It will explain, discuss as well as evaluate the ways in which Ang Lee represented key themes and ideas through-out the film. Many themes and ideas were dealt with in the film, some of which will be looked at such as, relationships, love, desire and the gothic....

Critique of Mulvey's Theory of The Male Gaze
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Sep 2021
Introduction: This essay will discuss Mulvey’s theories and Studlar’s challenges, and compare and contrast the two. After discussing both theories in relation to one another, this essay will then call on examples from classic and contemporary cinema to justify my arguments and discuss the trends of Contemporary cinema with regards to psychoanalysis....

Gender Identity in the TV Show 'Friends '
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Sep 2021
Introduction: For this assignment, five episodes of 'Friends' were chosen from the second season of the series, which aired September of 1995 into January of 1996 to answer 3 questions regarding gender identity....

Portrayals of Wealth, Race and Gender in the film 'Even the Rain'
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Sep 2021
Introduction: Even the Rain is a film directed by Iciar Bollain and written by screenwriter Paul Laverty. The story links Christopher Columbus’ arrival in the South America with the production of a film, mixing the Spanish crown’s use of gold during the 16th century with water wars in Cochabamba, Bolivia in the year 2000....

Essay on How to Write a Film Review
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Sep 2021
Introduction: This essay will outline how to write a film review. French director Francois Truffaut writes in his book “The Films in My Life” that “Anyone can be a film critic”, whether you watch movies as soon as they arrive at your local theatre or wait for the video or cable version, your number one reason for being a critic must be your love of movies....

Essay on Chinese Ballet Dancer Li Cunxin
Example essay. Last modified: 7th Sep 2021
Introduction: Li Cunxin, is one of the best male ballet dancers in the world. He has shown great courage, ambition and determination throughout his entire life....

The Visual and Aural Techniques used in the Picture book 'The Red Tree' and Movie 'Run Lola Run'
Example essay. Last modified: 7th Sep 2021
Introduction: The movie ‘Run lola run’ directed by Tom Tykwer and ‘the red tree’ written by shaun tan, both establish two core ideas which are chance and time. The use of a variety of techniques create distinctively visual images that are highly distinctive....

Analysis of the Opening Sequence of 'Dexter'
Example essay. Last modified: 7th Sep 2021
Introduction: This assignment will analyse Dexter’s opening sequence by employing semiotic tools and interpret the intended meaning in the polysemic signs which anchor to the connotative associations in the narrative structure of this generic text....

Review of the film 'The Great Gatsby'
Example essay. Last modified: 7th Sep 2021
Introduction: Fitzgerald does not use a straightforward tone in the Great Gatsby, which leaves unanswered questions throughout the book. Especially at the end where Gatsby is killed by George because of the death to his wife in a car accident. It have been said that it was a yellow Rolls Royce which ran over Myrtle....

Critical Analysis of Genre in the Film Industry
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Sep 2021
Introduction: Steve Neales Genre And Hollywood (2000), and Rick Altman’s Film/Genre (1999) take on board genres, both offering a different theoretical approach to the topic, which I will analyse then voice my own conclusion on my findings....

Director's Influence on a Film's Success and Box Office Revenue
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Sep 2021
Introduction: I am going to research and explore the process a film goes through before it makes the big screen; whether the director is the biggest and most vocal influence on the film or whether other roles such as the editor or makeup artist have a more notable role when considering the reasoning behind the success of a film....

Analysis of Masculinity in 'Rebel Without A Cause'
Example essay. Last modified: 27th Aug 2021
Introduction: For as long as film has been around, it has been an art form that is a representation of society and the culture from which it breeds. One of the most popular and critically acclaimed which represented the times around it was that of Rebel Without a Cause(1955), which challenged the ideas of masculinity in society and it was a reflection of many teenagers of that generation....

A Metaphor of Postmodernism in Blade Runner
Example essay. Last modified: 26th Aug 2021
Introduction: Blade Runner has one main message: that the future is hopeless. The postmodernism of this film is displayed throughout this whole film. It represents the chaos of what happens when the people rejected the modern period....

Postmodernism in Jean Pierre Jeunet's 'Amélie'
Example essay. Last modified: 26th Aug 2021
Introduction: This essay will argue that the image system of Amélie (2001) and the post-modern style adapted by Jean Pierre Jeunet, was one of the key aspects which lead to the film’s huge success worldwide. The essay will intend to explore how the levels of realism and formal elements within the film, develop the narrative and mood, with reference to historical developments in French film and critical viewpoints....

Use of Cinematic Tools to Deliver an Anti-War Message in 'Apocalypse Now'
Example essay. Last modified: 25th Aug 2021
Introduction: In this paper, I will discuss how Coppola used cinematic tools strategically in his film Apocalypse Now to show warfare for what it truly is and the effect on soldiers that combat had in order to inspire society to re-evaluate and change its attitude towards war....

Development of the New Queer Cinema Movement
Example essay. Last modified: 25th Aug 2021
Introduction: This is an essay to introduce a movement in cinema history. To understand this movement, this essay will firstly give a brief introduction of this movement, outlining the characteristics of films of New Queer Cinema....

How Social Fears Play an Important Role in Horror Films
Example essay. Last modified: 24th Aug 2021
Introduction: The purpose of this study is to identify how the horror genre/sub-genre exploits and feeds off sociocultural fears and anxieties of its time. Within this paper, I intend to focus on various critically acclaimed movies -including Night of the Living Dead, Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist– ranging from the 1960s and 1970s in order to pinpoint how these films were influenced by the common fears of that time and the preceding films....

Transformation of Young Ho in 'Peppermint Candy'
Example essay. Last modified: 20th Aug 2021
Introduction: Director Lee Chang Dong uses a male character as a symbol of deprivation during the political, economical and social crisis in the 80’s and 90’s in the militarized and masculinity Korean society....

What Makes A Movie Great?
Example essay. Last modified: 20th Aug 2021
Introduction: With thousands of films released each and every year and so few succeeding either commercially or financially, one has to pose the question: what is it, exactly, that makes a film great?...

Women, Sexuality, and Technology in Metropolis
Example essay. Last modified: 20th Aug 2021
Introduction: In this paper, I would like to examine the relationship between women, sexuality, and technology.The first ever science fiction film, “Metropolis”, is a German Expressionism film released in 1927 that portrays women through femininity, technology, and sexuality. ...

To What Extent Can Blade Runner Be Considered To Be an Example of a Post-Modern Dystopia?
Example essay. Last modified: 18th Aug 2021
Introduction: The highly influential bleak dystopian view on the future in the film Blade Runner was realised in 1982 it became one of the most popular dystopian science fiction films. Blade Runner displays a post-apocalyptic setting after a nuclear war with its focus on the dystopian urban environment....

The Process Of Analyzing Movies
Example essay. Last modified: 12th Aug 2021
Introduction: In this reflective paper, I intend to describe how a film is analyzed as a whole. Analyzing films is considered an art form that attempts to “break up the whole to discover the nature proportion, function, and interrelationships of the parts”...

Analysis of the Paranormal Activities Genre
Example essay. Last modified: 11th Aug 2021
Introduction: This essay will analyse the text of the movie Paranormal activity 2 by using the theory of genre and compare it with a the older version of the same movie Paranormal Activities, and also The Abandoned 2006, to reach a decision about which genre is most suitable for this text and why....

Cinematography in the Alfred Hitchcock Thriller 'Psycho'
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Aug 2021
Introduction: Cinematography refers to the visual creative techniques of a film, consisting of lighting, sound and composition. Alfred Hitchcock thriller, Psycho, practices exquisite cinematography techniques to construct suspense and tremor to the spectators from his use of framing, lighting, camera movement, editing as well as sound....

Why is the Movie Black Panther Important to the African American Community?
Example essay. Last modified: 3rd Aug 2021
Introduction: Black Panther builds on Afrofuturism. Afrofuturism is a cultural style where African Diaspora intersects with technological development (Bukatman et al., 1994). The term coined by Mark Dery in 1993 imagines the development of African culture amalgamated with technology (Bukatman et al., 1994)....

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