Film History Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (107) essays
Film History essays:
Women in 1950's Hollywood Films-- the Hayse code and the changing roles of women.
... nineteen-fifties that an image of such a woman was accessible to anyone who could go to a movie theatre. In the U.S. this meant that the young girls of the baby boom generation, or the archetypal frustrated house wives of the fifties ...
Comparison between Osar Romero and Oscar Schindler.
... governments that opposed their views. Both men showed their love to their neighbors as a sign of justice in society. Oscar Romero and Oscar Schindler dedicated their lives to people with no empowerment, protested against the killing of innocent people and left behind ...
In what sense might Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" and Josef von Sternberg's "Der Blaue Engel" be considered 'modernist'.
... World War I, in 1924 the Dawes plan was introduced by the US as a means to repatriate and reduce Germany's reparation payments specified by the treaty of Versailles (1918). A currency reform in 1923 also aided in the stabilisation of the economy and Germany's industrial sector ...
The realities of "Historical Movies" and how they are not truly historical or "love triangles."
... He now joins the Americans in the war and plays a large part in this movie in defeating the British. With one small militia, he uses the cover ... . They were then executed and that was how the war started. Historically, there was already a king at that time, and the war did not really start until 1296 ...
The good earth, movie versus book
... that bind them and rush forward along the road to liberation (see note 16). Later, by the time of World War II, Buck was outspoken in support of world ... that Theodore Roosevelt or Woodrow Wilson practiced in Central America and Mexico. This forbearance is related to Buck's feminism, one ...
This is a speech directed to the audience of the 2003 Academy Awards arguing that feature films are made for money, rather than entertainment.
... one liner, "I'll be back." Obviously the same standard of intellectualism that is indispensable in literature is not so necessary in feature films. "Ladies and gentlemen, I come before you all tonight at the 2003 Los Angeles Academy Awards to tell you this ...
Laura mulveys article visual pleasure and narrative cinema
... this movie there are many scenes from where one can feel that the scenes are generally for the pleasure of the male audience but the best example is when Bubbles does her Hula dance. Bubbles hula dance is governed ...
The British cinema renewed itself, tardily no doubt, by orthodox commercial procedures' (Raymond Durgnat). To what extent is this a fair assessment of British cinema between 1959 and 1963?
... industry was still undergoing change. Experiencing some remaining turbulence caused by the Second World War, this period continued to see outside influences affect the medium in such a way that would forever label these four years as the British New Wave. This ...
Lord of the Rings.
... This meant that the full epic would have to be illustrated not through one, but three movies. That's right, the stage for a classic trilogy is set. Unfortunately, it is not an easy task to plan one movie, let alone three. Imagine ... ' Star Wars have we heard so much buzz in the entertainment world, and ...
Flesh and the Devil - Clarence Brown, technical devices and cinematic movements of 1920s in the construction of drama.
... this moral ideal. She can hide behind ... one side of his head, giving a halo effect. Perhaps indicating that ...