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"GONE WITH THE WIND."
Term Paper ID:30899
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Discusses the appeal of the 1939 film. Various aspects that drive the film's continued popularity. The romantic element. Subject matter of the Civil War. The initial promotion of the movie by MGM. Early reviews of the film. The film's sensibilities and anti-black sentiment. Acceptance of the movie as a period piece.
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Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939) has long been a favorite movie of many film lovers, and revivals of the film from time to time draw in new generations. There are a number of aspects of this film which would militate the continuation of such popularity, yet the film overcomes them and continues to be a favorite. Many filmgoers resist older films as a mater of course and concentrate on what is current and popular, but Gone with the Wind seems to appeal to many of these viewers as to older ones. The subject matter is the Civil War, also not a subject with wide appeal, and the treatment of black characters in the film in particular has been much-criticized but does not seem to dim the popularity of the film as a whole. The movie remains popular in part because of the romantic element, which works well in the film and which has a universal appeal to many
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"ROMEO AND JULIET."
Term Paper ID:30889
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Discusses two film versions of the Shakespearean play.... More...
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Discusses two film versions of the Shakespearean play. The 1968 film "ROMEO AND JULIET," directed by Franco Zeffirelli, and the 1961 musical "WEST SIDE STORY," based on the stage musical. Discusses how "ROMEO AND JULIET" follows the Shakespeare play in terms of the main characters. The racial element introduced to the story in "WEST SIDE STORY."
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Two very different versions of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet are seen in the 1968 film Romeo and Juliet (written by Franco Brusati and Maestro D'Amico and directed by Franco Zeffirelli) and the 1961 musical West Side Story (screenplay by Ernest Lehman and direction by Robert Wise, based on the stage musical by Arthur Laurents and Leonard Bernstein).
The film Romeo and Juliet follows the Shakespeare play faithfully for the most part, though much of Shakespeare's dialogue was cut, as was the death of Paris in Act V, Scene 3. the main characters are Romeo and Juliet, one a Capulet and the other a Montague. They are living out their destinies, and the choices they make derive from their characters and the situations in which they find themselves. More than this, their choices have been limited for them by their parents and their
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"WEST OF EVERYTHING."
Term Paper ID:30872
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Discusses Jane Tompkins' book on Hollywood westerns.... More...
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Discusses Jane Tompkins' book on Hollywood westerns. Images and themes that represent the film genre. Struggle over life and death; plots centering on gunfights and other violence. Westerns as a reflection of cultural changes in American society. Cites examples from films. "The Outlaw Josey Wales, " "The Wild Bunch," "Stagecoach." Comparison of John Ford's "My Darling Clemintine" and Fred Zinnemann's "High Noon."
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Jane Tompkins in her book West of Everything suggests certain elements as representing the inner life of the American Western movie. She cites a series of images and themes that represent the main features of this film genre, among them death, women, language, landscape, and horses. She notes that realizing that these themes are repeated over and over again calls to mind a series of questions, such as why is the Western haunted by death, why does the Western show a hatred of language and women, and what do the landscape and horses represent? She sets out to answer some of these questions, and reference to a number of films in the genre suggests how well her answers fit and offer other answers as well.
The continuing presence of death in the Western is evident in the plots centering on gunfights, hangings, saloon violence, India
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HOLLYWOOD FILM INDUSTRY.
Term Paper ID:30871
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Overview of the American industry.... More...
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Overview of the American industry. Basic structure of the industry set by eight major corporations. The studio system. Identification of each studio with its own product, style and stars. Development of the star system. Changes to the industry from Justice Department divesture of theater ownership and rise of independent productions.
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At one time the term "movie studio" meant just that – a location where the company conducted its business, filmed its product, and performed the remainder of the tasks necessary to make a finished film. A studio may or may not also have had a distribution apparatus of its own, but it must have access to such an apparatus to get its films to the theaters. What a studio does not necessarily need today is the physical plant that once was so essential. Sound stage space can be rented and most films make use of real locales to a much greater extent and have little need of the back lot that used to be so important. The studio system developed along with the early motion picture, and the meaning of "studio" changed as the industry developed. The development of the star system and the studio system went hand in hand. American film companies developed the star system
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WARNER BROTHERS.
Term Paper ID:30870
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History of the motion picture studio from 1949 to 1970.... More...
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History of the motion picture studio from 1949 to 1970. Changes in studio operations due to shifts in the business climate. Early structure of the American film industry. Warner Bros. Studio as an industry innovator. The Hollywood Studio era and its end. Warner Bros. Switching part of its operation to television. Technical and content innovations in film.
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Warner Brothers Studio, built in 1927, is responsible for bringing sound to the motion picture industry with the 1929 The Jazz Singer. The company has received more than 100 Academy Awards, and keeping up with the times, it became the first major studio to switch part of its operation to television (Studio History). This paper will examine many of the other instances in which Warner Brothers Studio was on the cutting edge.
Warner Brothers experienced a number of changes in its operation between 1949 and 1970. It was an era that affected all Hollywood studios, testing their ability to continue producing films, forcing them to face the challenge of television, and leading to mergers and acquisitions which made many studios subsidiaries of much larger entities. Warner Brothers was subject to these same shifts in the business climate, beginning with
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"SAVING PRIVATE RYAN."
Term Paper ID:30837
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Analysis of the film's use of sound.... More...
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Analysis of the film's use of sound. The questioning of the value of human life as the major theme of the 1998 film. Sound as representing a major character in the movie. Dialogue, special effect sounds and musical soundtrack. Realism of sound effects as creating a rich cinematic experience.
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Saving Private Ryan
Sound Analysis
Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan opens during the D-Day invasion of Normandy at Omaha Beach in its opening scenes. After witnessing the enormity of the chaos and carnage in this scene, Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) is put in charge of locating Private James Ryan. One of four brothers, Ryan’s other three brothers have recently been killed in action. Trying to save Ryan, Miller and seven other men are sent deep into enemy territory to bring him safely home. The film revolves around many ideas and themes. One of these is the value of life. We see that many died to secure liberties for others. The film and the eight men sent in to save Ryan also question whether the life of one man is worth their own. Sacrifice is another major theme in the film. The final
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HISTORY OF FILM FESTIVALS.
Term Paper ID:30832
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Role of festivals in the film industry.... More...
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Role of festivals in the film industry. How they work. History and growth of film festivals. Differentiation between them with respect to niche markets, genres or constituencies. Primacy of the Cannes Film Festival. Effect of political upheavals on Cannes. Other films festivals including Venice, Berlin, New York, Toronto, Sundance, India, Cairo.
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An Overview of the History of Film Festivals
In the film industry, festivals at which films are screened, judged, and evaluated and their producers, directors, and casts acknowledged with prestigious awards, have become increasingly commonplace in recent decades. There are few countries with a thriving film industry that do not sponsor one or more such festivals and many major cities or other locales have come to the realization that festivals of this type attract tourists, journalists, and filmgoers willing to spend at times substantial sums of money in pursuit of their interests (Cowie S13). This brief essay will examine the at times turbulent history of film festivals, demonstrating that as such festivals have proliferated, their have also begun to differentiate and to address either niche markets, genres, or constituencies.
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EUROPEAN FILM GENRES.
Term Paper ID:30828
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Discusses outstanding films of Germany, France and Italy.... More...
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Discusses outstanding films of Germany, France and Italy. German Expressionism and cinematic images that evoke psychological states of being. French avant-garde of the late 1920s and "absurd realism" cinematic art form. French films of the 1930s. Italian neorealist cinema of the post World War II period. "Metropolis," "Grand Illusion," Bicycle Thief" and other masterpieces.
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FILM GENRES OF EUROPE
While Americans were laughing at Chaplin and Keaton and the Keystone Kops, and being awed by the spectacles of Griffith, and DeMille, European cinema was much more stark and dark and realistic. From the post-World War I productions, through the realistic Italian movies of the post-World War II period, there is a distinct difference between various European countries’ films and those of the U.S. We need to take a look at Germany, France, and Italy during these periods and examine some of their outstanding masterpieces that reached the human condition often far more accurately and with greater meaning (if a darker meaning) than American movies of the same time period.
I. Germany’s Expressionism
For Germany, deep in a depression and unemployment, they seemed to thrive on “d
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"AMERICAN BEAUTY."
Term Paper ID:30808
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Applies a Bowenian perspective to the film.... More...
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Applies a Bowenian perspective to the film. Bowen's family therapy theory that emotional fusion is the major problem of families, and differentiation the major goal of therapy. Describes the father-mother-daughter family unit. The father's mid-life crisis, and the crisis he causes his family. Family interactions, anger, bitterness.
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American Beauty
A Bowenian Perspective
BACKGROUND
Family therapy often brings a family in crisis into the therapeutic milieu. In most instances, families present for therapy because a major crisis such as the discovery of a family member’s drug abuse, an act of infidelity by a spousal partner, or risk-taking behavior exhibited by a child. Other than disturbances of mood and affect, the family may alternatively be in crisis because of death, divorce or dramatic changes in terms of economic security or lifestyle. The Burnham family portrayed in American Beauty exhibits nearly all of these system-disrupting crises. According to Bowen, the “major problem in families is emotional fusion; the major goal is differentiation” (Nichols and Schwartz, 2001, 167).
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FILM THEORY.
Term Paper ID:30716
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Discusses how the theory of spectatorship is used by feminist film theorists.... More...
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Discusses how the theory of spectatorship is used by feminist film theorists. Psychoanalytically oriented film theory. Psychological processes involved in the film-viewing experience. Voyeurism and narcissistic identification. The nature of female spectatorship. Analysis of two popular films to illustrate points made: The 1972 "Portnoy's Complaint," and the 2000 "Malena."
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Psychoanalytically oriented film theory became a significant force in the 1970s and has been one of the most productive influences of the past few decades. This is nowhere more true than in feminist theory where, despite theorists' misgivings about the reactionary nature of psychoanalysis, it was instrumental in developing approaches to spectatorship that first accounted for male scopophilia, as the principal pleasure project of classic Hollywood film, and has since been employed in elucidating the nature of female spectatorship. This essay begins with a brief discussion of the tenets of Freud and Lacan that were adapted by film theorists in creating a theory of spectatorship. This is followed by an explanation of its uses in feminist film theory and a demonstration of the manner in which the psychoanalytic approach informs the analysis of two popular
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FRITZ LANG.
Term Paper ID:30676
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Dsicusses the director's effect on American cinema.... More...
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Discusses the director's effect on America cinema. His use of irony, camera, lighting and story techniques to evoke a sense of horror. His early life and career in Germany & German Expressionism. His silent films. His Hollywood career. His film style. Themes of his movies; "M," "Metropolis." Lang's influence on Hitchcock.
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Movie poster for Fritz Lang’s “M” (1931).
It was only a little over one hundred years ago, in 1891, when Thomas Alva Edison patented his kinetograph camera and kinetoscope viewer (“Significant Developments. . . ,” 2001). Since then film has gone from being a ten-minute black and white novelty that depicts people leaving a building after work, as the Lumiere Brothers filmed in Paris in 1895 (Yahnke, 1996), to 120-minute Hollywood color productions that not only tell stories, but do so with amazing special effects, not all of those produced by the camera.
Although it may seem as if the film industry has always been rooted in the United States, many creative breakthroughs in storyline, camera angle, lighting, etc., were actually made in
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"BLADE RUNNER."
Term Paper ID:30663
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Analysis of Ridley Scott's 1982 film.... More...
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Analysis of Ridley Scott's 1982 film. Ways in which the film explores how technology redefines what it means to be human. Film's message about the meaning and worth of human beings. Line between robots, replicants and human beings. Significance of Deckard's role. Conflict between Deckard and the replicants he hunts.
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The film Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott, explores the way technology redefines what it means to be human. The film, among other subjects, is about the struggle between humans and replicants, or machines which resemble humans so closely that humans cannot tell if they are human or machine. At a deeper level, the film examines what it means to be human, and, especially, what it means to be human in a world which advanced technology controls so much of human life. The argument here will be that, as pictured in the replicant/human puzzle in Blade Runner, technology can definitely affect the way human beings see themselves and one another. After all, if one cannot tell if another human being is really human or a chine, or cannot tell if he himself is really human or a machine, then technology has indeed completely redefined what it means to be human. At the
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"THE BIRTH OF A NATION."
Term Paper ID:30633
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Examines director D. W. Griffith's 1915 silent film.... More...
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Examines director D. W. Griffith's 1915 silent film. Griffith's revolutionary techniques and artistry. The cultural significance, impact and mixed response to the epic film that set off a nationwide controversy. Visual impact of film and its inventive images. Griffith's development of a cinematic language. Describes key scenes. Racist content. Protests by public and civil rights groups.
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D. W. Griffith's 1915 silent film "The Birth of a Nation" is one of the most influential films ever made, and one of the most controversial. The movie was the first important innovative motion picture utilizing creative technical skills that were unmatched in its day, and that influenced filmmakers of later generations. The story, based on Thomas Dixon's novel The Clansman, is told in a melodramatic style. The basic plot centers on the friendship of the Camerons, a Southern family, with the Stonemans, a Northern family, and it is a friendship that is both threatened and tested by the Civil War and the Reconstruction period. The Southern family is ruined by the War, the Negroes (the word used at the time) gain some power in the South, and the Ku Klux Klan is formed in "self-defense" of white families and homes. The theme or spirit of the film can be viewe
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TREATMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN IN HOLLYWOOD FILMS.
Term Paper ID:30538
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Discusses stereotyped portrayls of black males in various films.... More...
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Discusses stereotyped portrayals of black males in various films. Cites examples from THE BIRTH OF A NATION, GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER, the blaxploitation genre, MANDINGO, 1930s films of the old South, THEY WON'T FORGET, 1940S STEREOTYPES AND THE "New Negro," TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. Realistic treatment of black males in several independent later films.
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D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Stanley Kramer's Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? (1967) represent opposing poles in the treatment of the African-American male in Hollywood films. The portrayal of black men in both films is absurd, but their intentions were quite different. Griffith, the Southern-born director whose great career was a milestone in the development of the medium, claimed until his death that his film was not racist despite the thousands of African Americans and white Americans who explained why it was, indeed, a landmark in screen racism. His conception of the old stereotype of the sexually predatory black male, intent on despoiling white females, gave cinematic form to one of the most prevalent myths involved in white fear of black people. Kramer, on the other hand, was a devout liberal interested in furthering the cause of
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FILM CAREER OF OSHIMA NAGISA.
Term Paper ID:30532
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Analysis of the Japanese film director's movies.... More...
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Analysis of the Japanese film director's movies. Controversy over his films. Charges of obscenity. Censorship of Oshima's films. Powerful social force of film. Connectioins between sexual, political and criminal transgressions in his films. Issue of personal artistic freedom. Cites examples of his work and theories in several of his films including IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES.
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The Japanese film director Oshima Nagisa (b. 1932) is an artist who has been regularly subjected to censure and even to censorship. Although he is best known in the West for his 1976 film In the Realm of the Senses (Ai no Corrida), Oshima's movies have caused controversy since very near the beginning of his career in the 1950s. In addition to directing films--which he now does only rarely--he is a prolific writer on film theory and commentator on social topics, as well as the host of a long-running talk show on Japanese television. At the heart of the censorship that Oshima seems to provoke is his view of the relationship between the individual and society. In many of his films (and in his writings and frequent interviews) Oshima indicates that "a violent break with society is necessary to effect any real social growth" or, indeed, any significant change
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"BEAUTY AND THE BEAST."
Term Paper ID:30487
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Analysis of the Disney animated film of the fairy tale.... More...
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Analysis of the Disney animated film of the fairy tale. Additional features and characters added. Images of the film, especiallybeauty, and how they shape viewer response. Criticism of Disney's use of folk tales and history in a false way. Learning attitudes and behaviors from movies and the media. Depictions of gender.
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The Disney company's animated feature film Beauty and the Beast (1992) tells a well-known folk story in a fresh way, developing personalities for the characters that were not apparent in the fairy tale from which the story is taken. The film added other features and characters, including something feasible only in a fairy tale or an animated film, anthropomorphic furnishings that turn out to be enchanted servants left with their changed master. An animated film is built of abstract images, for no matter how much the artist may attempt to render reality, it is always only an image of reality and thus an abstraction. The abstract images of the animated film are developed so as to serve the needs of the story, to convey not only the details of the story as such but also the underlying meaning which constitutes plot.
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"THIS BOYS LIFE."
Term Paper ID:30466
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Essay on the 1993 film set in the 1950s.... More...
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Essay on the 1993 film set in the 1950s. Plight of women abused by men in personal relationships. Position of the society of the period. Close relationship between the mother and son. Anti-social acts of the boy. Film's portrayal of adolescence. Relationship between the boy and his mother's abusive boyfriend.
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The film This Boy's Life (1993) is set in the 1950s and does a good job of recreating that era. The look is right, but the characters are also right, with attitudes about certain subjects showing that they come from a different time than we do today. For those of us who recall that era, the film has a certain nostalgic value, though it also should make us think that we have done well to get away from some of the past we remember. One of the notable changes is the way women are treated and the way families are viewed as protected from all criticism, though we know today that women are still mistreated and that there are many things about the family that can be destructive. The young man in this film, Toby, may emerge from his experience a stronger person, but this does not mean society should ignore the plight of young people in the same situation.
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THE MARTIAL ARTS IN FILM AND TV.
Term Paper ID:30426
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The philosophy of the martial arts as a merge of physical and spiritual mastery.... More...
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The philosophy of the martial arts as a merge of physical and spiritual mastery. History of Kung Fu films in Shanghai and Hong Kong. Films of Wong Fei Hong. Impact of Bruce Lee. Other actors such as Brandon Lee, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Chuck Norris, Steven Seagal. Current martial art films and TV.
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Introduction
Martial arts is simply defined as the arts of warfare (de Castro, Orpeza & Rhodes, 1993; Ross, 1999). For example, in Japan, while samurai were engaged in swordplay, karate-do (“way of the empty hand,”) was secretly taught to weaponless peasants for self-defense (de Castro, et. al., 1993). Tae kyon (“push shoulder”) in Korea, as well as Kali in the Philippines, were outlawed by conquering nations desiring a defenseless population (1993). In fact, General MacArthur outlawed the Greater Japanese Martial Arts Association and banned martial arts in Japanese schools at the conclusion of WWII (Neide, 1995). Such deliberate prohibition assumes that the study of the martial arts is synonymous with combat training.
A closer look, however, reveals an art that has a philosophy
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"KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN."
Term Paper ID:30414
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Examines the intertextuality of the 1985 film.... More...
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Examines the intertextuality of the 1985 film. Its alignment with several different genres including literary adaptations, prison genre, gay film genre, film musicals and political drama. Interaction of the genres. Connection to texts from theatre. How movies are used by the two protagonists to pass the time in prison. Motif of escape.
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In the film of Manuel Puig's novel Kiss of the Spider Woman, two men share a cell in a Buenos Aires prison. One is Molina, a homosexual sentenced to eight years in prison for the corruption of minors, and the other is Valent?n, a young Marxist imprisoned for revolutionary activities. Molina tries to pass the time by telling the younger man about films he has seen, recreating the stories with words. It is in the course of these retellings of the different films that the viewer gets to know these characters and sees how they develop as they interact with one another and with the images recalled from films by Molina. Over the course of the film, the two men become much closer, developing a friendship they would be unlikely to have in the "real" world outside of prison. The setting is artificial in that it brings together two people from different class
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"REAR WINDOW."
Term Paper ID:30398
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Analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 film.... More...
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Analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 film. Ethics of voyeurism explored by the director. Describes main character as a professional photographer and professional voyeur. Confined to a wheelchair after an accident, he "watches" his neighbors thorugh a rear window and discovers their secrets, including a murder. Relation of danger to excitement.
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“Perhaps only one other filmmaker -- Walt Disney -- lived to see his name become synonymous with a certain type of screen entertainment: In Hitchcock's case, it was stylish, sophisticated suspense, laced with humor and romance” (Maltin, 1994, n. p.). Ebert has said of Rear Window that "here's a film about a man who does on the screen what we do in the audience -- look through a lens at the private lives of strangers" (2000, n.p.).
Alfred Hitchcock started in the movie making business in 1920, before there was color, before there were “talkies”, and this greatly influenced the way he directed and filmed a movie -- the way he “saw” the movie. His experience helped him to understand that a picture is worth more than a thousand words of dialogue. According to Maltin, Hitchcock “proved that the presence of sound was no reason not to continue to tell stories
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"WAG THE DOG."
Term Paper ID:30386
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Examines the plot of Barry Levinson's 1997 film.... More...
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Examines the plot of Barry Levinson's 1997 film. Blurring of the division between illusion and reality in the media. Real life conspiracy theories and sex scandal surrounding President Clinton disucssed in relation to film. Media manipulation. Electronic manipulation of events. Controversy created by the film. Political leaders use of media for their own purposes.
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The film Wag the Dog (Levinson, 1997) had a presidential sex scandal at its core, and it appeared in theaters just as a real presidential sex scandal was becoming major news. This gave the plot added appeal for the audience and made the plot of the film seem even more real, a plot which suggested a blurring of the division between illusion and reality in the media. On one level, the plot of the film would seem highly unlikely, requiring a massive conspiracy and the necessary secrecy to make it work. However, the audience was more willing to accept this scenario after several decades of conspiracy theories suggesting that just such a thing would be possible, with theories extending back at least to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The film itself became a touchstone for certain kinds of conspiracies after its release so that people would see
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INTERTEXUALITY OF FILM.
Term Paper ID:30384
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Semiotic analysis of two films adapted from novels. KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN and THE NAME OF THE ROSE. Differences between novels and cinematic adaptations. Styles and methods of visualizing the written word. Mixing of film genres. Symbols of different genres. Plot. Charaters. Relationships. Theme of desire for escape.
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Intertextuality is defined as a by-produce of the semiotic approach to film, and it questions realism by emphasizing the coded and constructed nature of the film artifact. Art is thus seen as responding not to reality but to other discourses. Many films are overtly self-referential, associating their plots with the act of filmmaking itself. Often such associations have a wider significance and relate the work of art to the broader question of what constitutes art and how art is expressed. The film may also be associated with and in part explained by reference to other discourses, such as politics, law, social issues, and so on. Two such movies which reflect on art and politics and the juncture between the two are Kiss of the Spider Woman (Babenco, 1985) and The Name of the Rose (Annaud, 1986). Both films began as novels and so connect with other films
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"THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT."
Term Paper ID:30379
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Analysis of Rob Reiner's 1995 film as an idealized presentation of the office of the presidency.... More...
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Analysis of Rob Reiner's 1995 film as an idealized presentation of the office of the presidency. Issue of real problems reduced to policy based on opinion polls. Plot of film a bland of politics and a romance. Conflice of president deciding whether to acknowledge real problems. Oversimplification of film's view of politics.
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In the film The American President the very idealized presentation of the office of the presidency, the politics of national elections, and the role of the media seems to reflect the wishful thinking of director Rob Reiner, producer Robert Redford, writer Aaron Sorkin, and the film's principal actors. The filmmakers unambiguously identify the central character President Andrew Shepard (Michael Douglas) as a very liberal Democrat and his probable opponent in the upcoming election, Senator Rumsford (Richard Dreyfuss), embodies all the most cynical aspects of Republican exhortations about "family values" and "character" as election tools. In the idealized world of the film the answer to many of the problems confronting those who wish to govern humanely is for a political leader to have the courage to openly state that the "family values" and "character"
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SEMIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE.
Term Paper ID:30369
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Discusses signs and meaning. Spoken and written speech, images, symbols, gestures. Communal nature of language; shared meaning. Connection between a work of art and the artist. Example from documentary film of architect/sculptor Maya Lin and her design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Social and political contexts of meaning.
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Semiology is the study of signs and meaning, from the signs we know as language to other forms of communication by means of images, symbols, gestures, and so on. All messages have a relational component. Language is communal in that it has meaning only within a community of people who accept that meaning, and meaning exists only as shared meaning. Semiotics has been applied to language in various ways, including an analysis of how we read and write and understand the written word, with written language seen as a form of symbolic interaction between writer and reader. The semiology of language analyzes the morphemes of language and how they acquire meaning in both spoken and written speech. Signs also come in the form of images, pictures, symbols, and so on, and these have meaning also within a community context.
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THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS.
Term Paper ID:30348
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Discusses the emotional meanings created in the 1992 film by director Michael Mann. Visual means employed. Central relationship between Hawkeye and Cora. Analysis of shots and their visual and narrative impact. Discusses the progression of the plot by detailing varioius shots and how they reveal the tensions and emotional content of the film.
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Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans is a carefully designed film in which all the visual means at the director's disposal are skillfully employed to create the emotional meanings of the work. These meanings occur at several different levels and are structured so that by the end of the film the central relationship--the love between Hawkeye And Cora Munro--achieves an importance that goes beyond their personal lives. By the end the two stand for the future that the bravest and strongest individuals will be able to carve out of the land and, sadly, for the way these settlers will displace the Native Americans. The film emphasizes the size of the wilderness around the people who act out their story and the degrees of comfort that people feel in the wild, the tamed, and the partially subdued parts of the country. Despite the speed with which the film moves through the
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SIR THOMAS MORE.
Term Paper ID:30326
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Discusses More's refusal to change the law to allow King Henry VIII to divorce.... More...
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Discusses More's refusal to change the law to allow King Henry VIII to divorce. Baes analysis on the 1966 film A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS. Contends essence of the movie is true to history, but several film elements are not. Clash between More and the King, and More's imprisonment for treason.
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Sir Thomas More, also known as Saint Thomas More (because of sanctification by the Catholic Church) is probably best known for his confrontation with King Henry VIII, for which he lost his life. He was a statesman as well as a political and social philosopher. His most famous work is his Utopia, a book in which he created his version of a perfect society and gave his name to such conceptions ever after as "utopias." The film A Man for All Seasons (1966, Fred Zinnemann) recounts the story of More's refusal to change the law to allow King Henry VIII to divorce. The essence of the film is true to history, but there are elements in the film which are not.
The law and the Church clashed under Henry VII, who had a sense of himself as absolute monarch, able to do whatever he wanted in order to accomplish what he desired. When the laws
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"TRAFFIC."
Term Paper ID:30270
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Analysis of Steven Soderbergh's 2000 film dealing with the drug trade. Issue of why drugs are grown in poorer countries of Latin America & smuggled into rich countries. Drug cartels. Failure of U.S. War on Drugs. Economic law of supply & demand that governs the drug trade. Plot and motifs of film.
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The recent film Traffic (Steven Soderbergh, 2000) suggests many of the reasons why the war on drugs has seemed doomed to failure, based on the economics of the international drug trade today. The film tells several stories at one time, but at heart, all relate to the central issue of why drugs are grown in poor countries like Mexico and then smuggled into richer countries like the United States, why desperate people will enter the drug trade to make a living, and why huge cartels have come into being to oversee the drug trade.
The failure of the war on drugs has been much discussed, and even conservatives are beginning to express doubts. A recent article in The Washington Times asks,
For decades, we have been grinding away at the dope trade, spending hugely, putting appalling numbers of
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THE HOLLYWOOD MUSICAL.
Term Paper ID:30214
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Brief history of the genre. Conventions of early musicals (1939s, 40s, 50s); influence of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies. Issues of form and content. Musical conventions. Techniques that shaped the narrative. Sound & image unification. Fantasy elements. Examples of film "Singin' In the Rain," the film noir miniseries "The Singing Detective" and "Pennies From Heaven."
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The Hollywood musical was long a staple of the film industry, at least from the beginning of the sound era to the early 1970s, and the form continues to reappear from time to time. It has fallen into disfavor in recent years because it is viewed as artificial and unrealistic, given that orchestras play where there are no orchestras and people break into song in lieu of dialogue when the mood strikes them. Filmmakers always accepted the conventions and made use of them, but with Bob Fosse's film version of Cabaret (Bob Fosse, 1972), the trend in filmmaking turned away from the conventions of the musical in the belief that audiences would no longer accept them. Cabaret presented all of its musical numbers in a naturalistic way so that they took place as they would in life--on stage, for instance, or as part of a public rally. People no longer broke
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ANALYSIS OF PETER WEIR's FILM "GALLIPOLI."
Term Paper ID:30098
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Discusses the experiences of Australian soldiers in their 1915 suicidal attack on Turkish trenches. Theme of nationhood and mateship. Friendship between 2 young soldiers. Concept of "mateship" as part of Australian male identity. Anti-British sentiments of the film. Anti-war theme; senseless death of soliders. Coming of age story of a young nation.
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Based on the authentic historical event of the participation of the Anzac troops in the 1915 Dardanelles campaign, Peter Weir’s “Gallipoli” not only captures the tragedy of war, but also the Australians’ valiant assertion of national identity. The focus of the film is on the experiences of the soldiers from the eighth and tenth Light Horse Regiments of Anzacs that were involved in the suicidal attack on the Turkish trenches. In addition, this film also highlights the fundamental opposition between the British and the Australians. The anti-British sentiments in the film represent the formation of a distinctive Australian identity. The portrayal of Australia’s emerging nationhood is humanized with the focus on two young and inexperienced protagonists, Archy Hamilton and Frank Dunne, and their dramatic initiation into manhood (Haltof 27).
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INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT.
Term Paper ID:30037
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Examines adolescent development through a character from Todd Solondz's 1996 film WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE.... More...
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Examines adolescent development through a character from Todd Solondz's 1996 film WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE. Focus is on 11-year old Dawn, and her interactions with her family, schoolmates, friends, teachers. Peer influences. Analysis of characters in various phases of personality development. Theories of Freud, Erik Erikson. Types of support families can provide children at different stages of development.
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This paper is an examination of individual development using characters from Todd Solondz's 1996 film about adolescence, Welcome to the Dollhouse. His movie focuses on 11-year-old Dawn Weiner as she begins junior high school, but it also provides perceptive portraits of her younger sister, older brother, parents, and other teenagers at differing stages. The film gives accurate examples of individuals in various phases of personality development, facing some of the classic conflicts outlined by Freud, Erikson, and others.
Dawn Weiner is a gawky, unattractive, unpopular girl who has been nicknamed "Weinerdog" by her fellow students. She is entering junior high school, and her only real friend is the even nerdier Ralphy, a sixth-grader who is watching Dawn's progress with genuine dread. That her best (and, apparently,
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