Film Studies Essay Examples and Topics. Page 9

The ronin, in a time when the middle-class has filled the power vacuum left by the collapse of the Togukawa dynasty, is an anachronism even to himself. The departure of the ronin in Sanjuro is [...]

The issue of war and violence, clearly stated in the movie, gave the audience not only the idea of what is going on in the world now, but also a possible solution for this problem.

The man gets lured by a woman from the city to drown his wife and go with her to the city.

It's clear that the client is extremely attached to his parents but at the same time, is seeking a lot more space in this relationship.2.

The nature of Arnold's father, an abusive and alcoholic is a demonstration of the Native American's way of life. The statement has is an affirmation of indianess and indigeneity.

The narrative of the story represents a number of significant periods in American history, and the protagonist seems to be at the focal point of each event.

It starts with the scene of suicide of the protagonist, and as the story progresses, we can see the factors that contributed to this personal tragedy.

Judging by the content of high-level corruption within the police as exhibited in the movies, it is only reasonable to say that police have deviated from their traditional role of being the custodians of social [...]

The plot of the film depicts the historical personalities, events and trends during the period 180 to 192 AD which is taken as the period during which the Roman Empire stopped growing and witnessed a [...]

The film was produced in black and white; it provides the reflection of time through the conflicting strategies aimed against communism era and American old fashioned life of the society.

The firm's task is to introduce the viewer to the unknown world of a film, to make the film's events and worries penetrate into the person's subconsciousness, and to leave the imprint there.

The judgment call is generally made on the quality of life of the humans, with little to no regard for the lifestyle and options available to the robots who have achieved a higher level of [...]

Though many other films based on the ripper were made before and between these films, the purpose of this paper is to compare and discuss the depictions of sexual violence in the city in "Jack [...]

Waxman's career in Hollywood commenced when at the behest of Erich Pommer, he was invited to the U.S.to collaborate on the film version of Jerome Kern's musical, Music in the Air.

Beginning with a video montage set to impressive military music and capitalizing on the use of television footage in its own aspect ratio, leaving ample empty space on the screen, the movie details the only [...]

This presentation of Utopia on-screen is verisimilar and impressive due to the successful implementation of film techniques, though the movie itself is aimed at proving that it is impossible to live in a perfect world [...]

The film not only provides deep insights into the life of the United States during the Civil War, but it also explores the relations between different cultures in this country.

Their Joy Luck Club was formed with the purpose of preserving original Chinese traditions in America by means of organizing regular meetings and sharing the joys and troubles of their lives."The central theme of the [...]

He tried to reveal the ideas of racism, stereotypes, and corruption predominating in Mexican and American societies of the late '50s; the basic theme of the movie is shown through the elements of stereotypes and [...]

The events of "Bamboozled" take place in America in 2000, the junction of two centuries when the racial zeitgeist is left in the twentieth century, though it is not completely obliterated from the minds of [...]

But before the movie is taken into consideration for analysis it would be most relevant to look into the aspect of racism and stereotypes within the perspective of the American society as a conflict between [...]

Thus, the paper is devoted to the problem of the views of eminent people of art who saw the beauty and the ugliness of the city through their personal vision and with peculiar details in [...]

In the light of the aforementioned, this paper presents an analysis of two different motion pictures, in the context of the pacific war, the first is a Japanese drama film produced in 1944, titled "The [...]

The country is encountering a civil war and the government is failed to leave the place with the group of bandits.

The main point of departure from the conventional perception of female roles in this movie can be evidenced in the manner in which Sara's significance is highlighted throughout the story.

So, the main issue, a characteristic feature of a lie is that people are not told that they are defrauded, and percept the information as the true one.

This paper will set to prove that Twilight series gained widespread popularity for three reasons, first it fills the gap in the post-Harry Potter and the deathly hollows worlds, second the rise of "new age" [...]

An offspring of the Hardboiled School of crime fiction which emerged in the U.S.during the Depression, film noir's standard components evolve around setting, theme, mood, and format. A, Sunset Boulevard, and The Night of the [...]

The film's main purpose is to show that "people power," "the seed beneath the snow" in Pilger's words, is the most effective antidote to Washington's imperialist agenda.

It is wise to review it because knowing how the Irish of the previous generation, fathers or grandfathers to the patriots, or anarchists depending on one's point of view, who fought in "The Troubles" suffered [...]

Through the death of "Lester", the movie shows that death is what a man deserves for being bad in his life. Suddenly, he starts to find what he considers the missing beauty in his life [...]

As the cultural policy is responsible for providing various choices for the organization of leisure by involvement in different activities that are aimed to increase the identity of all subcultures and their prolific interactions, it [...]

The image of John Forbes Nash can be considered as the image of the protagonist in the film, as he is the main character and the whole film is devoted to the life events from [...]

In the vast major of cases, the development of art is strongly dependent on the cultural and national peculiarities of the country.

There is no doubt that the film is highly emotional, explores not only ethnic problems and discrepancies the two young men face in their pursuit of knowledge but the issues of identity, self-understanding, and coordination [...]

As a matter of fact, the festival's website points out that it has had a consistent objective that still remains to this moment, "...to discover and present new filmmakers to Chicago, and to acknowledge and [...]

Both mediums require the use of technical hardware such as cameras for capturing the images, projectors for film presentation, lenses that allow the director to present various aspects of story sequences and scenes, and a [...]

Long considered to be two of the greatest directors in the world Steven Spielberg and James Cameron have both provided some of the greatest films in history.

Here appeared the contradiction of his ways of a court-martial; his death sentence was under the supervision of Lord Kitchener who commanded at that time in South Africa and then reported to the higher authority [...]

Then the woman feels a Puritan guilt before her husband, the part of that guilt is pictured by the spirit of labour.

While most of the movie is about the homophobia of the heterosexual people around Brandon, the blossoming of the love between Lana and Brandon suggests that heterosexuals can get past their homophobia and appreciate people [...]

Our main task is to analyze this movie in terms of typical genre conventions, namely, we need to focus on such aspects as the development of the plot, the main characters, special effects, and most [...]

Thesis: This paper analyzes the film "The Last Samurai" in the context of interpersonal communication and examines how the film expands on the meaning of the terms "high context versus low context communication styles", "ethnocentrism" [...]

On the other hand, the killer who is featured in Alfred Hitchcock's 1972 movie, Frenzy, is seen to idolize his mother, while at the same time harboring a loathing for the rest of the women.

The events in the film take place in Poland in 1939 depicting the relocation of Polish Jews to the Krakow Ghetto.

So, let us consider the film "Dirty Dancing" in all its aspects through the prism of arts, including plot, screening techniques, the cast of the actors that played in it, and the influence it had [...]

It is easy to conclude that if the setting of Saving Private Ryan occurred at a later time like today it would have been so easy to locate the man who was the cause of [...]

The film seems to prove one of the principles of the Labeling Theory that states that deviance only exists when members of social groups label the violation of their norms as deviant.

In describing the Arnold Friend character it should be implied that because of his absence for the first half of the film and his presence in the film's most powerful moments that this character has [...]

To make his way to the bus, to fake his death and to problem-solve scenarios to be with Leo and his family, Bob overcomes his fears or at least uses humor and a sense of [...]

We have already witnessed Derek killing the black kids in the first scene, and we have heard about the problems Danny is having in school, and we know what happened to his brother.

The training for such programs enable the candidate to become well versed with the different features in regard to handling time and frame based subtitles, checking and fixing of errors in the subtitles, getting frame [...]

He gave the shark a signature in the sound track that warned the audience and set up what Hitchcock called that anticipation which was better than the actual act.

The movie provided a sharp critique on the media represented by television in redirecting public focus and opinion as well as on the control and influence of advertisers on political matters.

Born in Austria, von Stroheim was considered a military expert, and his popularity was such that he could get away with making long films of up to eight hours duration which remained popular for the [...]

Dana Scully, also a special FBI agent and a partner of Mulder, is working together to solve the cases in the movie and the series.

Benedick is an in depth character and he plays a key role in the movie in a variety of ways. Benedick was unmasked when he overheard Leonato, Don Pedro and Claudio in the garden talking [...]

In the film, one of Plainview's workers dies in the oil fields and the man's son becomes an orphan that Plainview takes under his wing.

In analyzing the characters, it should be mentioned that due to the style of narration of the film which is divided to chapters the cast of characters is very diverse and viewers can decide which [...]

Jacob, being the seasoned man that he is portrayed as being, takes the opportunity in keeping the spirits of his people in high mode and begins a fabricated account of the consistent and regular advancements [...]

In the current paper I will speak of two of them: the call for actions of the US government concerning the video games and the way the US government reacts to emergency situations.

In this paper, both of the movies various perspectives would be analyzed and contrasted n order to determine the way they portray relationships and the way people are caught at cross roads.

To begin with, it is necessary o mention, that Hollywood had attained a reputation as the propagandist of the American ideals and American way of life.

The plot of the film concentrates on the attempts of the person to hold his family together. The father is gradually sinking in the eyes of the public; his wife Ling intends to leave him [...]

It involves the knowledge of numerous techniques and methods of filming used together with the background of the film and the two contexts the one in which the film was created and another one in [...]

In science fiction movies such as The Terminator I and Terminator II and Blade Runner, by creating characters that are half-human and half-machine, the might of technology is explored as something to be both celebrated [...]

The main protagonist of the movie is Forest Gump, whose life has been shown in the movie and the villain is Gump himself.

In the movie Spanglish, Flor wanted a better life for her daughter and for her daughter to keep her native language and heritage.

The 1932 film adaptation of Hemingway's novel is centered on the theme of love that will endure everything in the world.

The point is that at the very beginning of the movie, it seems to them that they will hardly talk to each other when their detention is, however, it happens to be just the opposite [...]

The dialogue between the narrative that constitutes the bulk of the movie indicates that expeditions are only a form while human relations are the main focus of this film The main limitation and a negative [...]

The actors like Charlie Chaplin made a great contribution to the development of the film industry on the whole, and to the development of the comedy genre in particular.

The story reaches a point where Bud begins to plot the takeover of the airline by Gekko and uses the savings from the union to restructure it.

The current paper is devoted to comparison of the two portraits of the famous artists: Rembrandt's Woman with a Pink and Hans Holbein the Younger's Portrait of a Man in a Red Cap.

We see the frustration in the face of Sgt.Ryan. But certainly, it is a mirror of the archetypes that persist in American society.

This is the era, which has brought us: the Vietnam War, the Civil rights movement, hippies, the Beatles, the assassination of John Fritz Gerald Kennedy, The Space Shuttle Program, the assassination of Martin Luther King, [...]

There came a time when people started calculating and observing the relations between mass and energy and the basic matter that may have made particles that in turn make up other things.

The movie presumes that people feel bitterness and prejudice towards members of different groups, and helps its viewers see the consequences of such mentalities."Crash" combines the stories of blacks, whites, Koreans, Iranians, Latinos, police, criminals, [...]

However, we cannot say that the peculiarities and the problems of public education, especially in the context of racism, were so often explored in the movies.

In the movie, director Alien Berliner plots the Ludovic character of a small boy who crosses dresses himself and generally behaves like a girl, and he wanted to marry his neighbor's son.

The movie presents the viewer with all the trials and tribulations that he had to overcome, from a divorce, extreme poverty, and the eventual payoff that he got from his seemingly endless patience and perseverance [...]

The movie was mostly shot in France upon the insistence of Frederick Loewe as a condition of his writing the lyrics for the score by Lerner.

His sense of pride is pricked as he struggles not to tell a lie but when he is confronted by the armed men who were informed that he had entered the place with his guns, [...]

In traditional societies, the family system tended to take the form of the extended family. Thus, the gender aspect is reversed and the male is found to be dominated by women in the movie making [...]

The study of class and how this is achieved had been viewed as the means in comprehending the structure of social society.

The movie appealed to the conscience of the people of the world and explained how poverty broke human relations, created vulnerabilities, and seriously affected human society.

Derne' S writes that, a research done by Tiffany A Boveland of Loyolla University on the effects of a movie clip on change in love concept showed that, romantic movies did affect people's perceptions and [...]

It is natural to feel overwhelmed by the intricacies and complexities of the many environmental problems confronting society and by the belief that an individual is at the mercy of all the variables that threaten [...]

The deep involvement of the residents with the team and the winning-is-everything attitude is a theme common to the book and movie.

In the sequels, Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Schwarzenegger reprises the role, but with a twirl: Schwarzenegger is the hero but not the criminal, playing a dissimilar but visually [...]

In fact, the abundance of comments and the close depictions of the characters point to the fact that they have plenty of time to get to know one another better because of the boredom of [...]

During the last generation the term has acquired a central position in psychological and social theory due, perhaps, to greater awareness of the dislocations in the relationship between individual and society that characterize the process [...]

It is so far out of the circle that when Ted Koppel held a "Nightline" town gathering in the armed force stranglehold of Decter, Mich, after the violence, the language blockade was so said he [...]

For Ditie therefore to attain his dreams, he has to have knowledge to be the best of what he wanted. The story of Ditie's had become more interesting with his meeting the girl in his [...]

It's an unusual film because it is set all in one room and the courtyard. I enjoyed the film and thought Hitchcock did it very well.

Mark sneaked up and crawled on his stomach to reach and pull the hose from the exhaust to stop the man in the car from dying.

This paper explores the aesthetic importance, artistic style and appeal as well as other aspects of David Lynch's three films Eraserhead, Lost Highway and Inland Empire basing on Michel Chion's ideas and perspectives as well [...]

On the right, her son Harry unplugs the television and asks his mother for the keys to the padlock, chaining it to the radiator; on the left, Sara, her nerves frayed from having seen this [...]

In order to properly describe the technical setting that includes the color palette and set design for the movie Pan's Labyrinth, it is necessary to understand the most about the film why such set design [...]

The rest, as the saying goes, is history.'Jaws,' a movie based on a novel of the same name by Peter Benchley, featured a killer shark viciously attacking people, with Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss in [...]

At the same time, his ability to be a successful gambler is threatened because of the spotlight on his wife's personal and public life.

In The Prestige, the effects of film noir are employed to create a mood of mystery, suspicion and the darkness that is at the heart of passion.

Its symbolic theme is set in the world of an authentic mental hospital, a place of insurgence exhibited by a vigorous, flamboyant, wise-guy anti-hero against the Establishment, institutional authority and status-quo attitudes.[Forman himself noted that [...]

Michael Douglas a cold, multimillionaire whose value is diminishing plays as Steven Taylor and is husband to youthful Gwyneth Paltrow and their marriage does not work well and this leads to Gwyneth having an extramarital [...]

The sense of mystery established at the opening of the film, with the discovery of the famously lost squadron of torpedo bombers incongruously set down in the Sonora Desert in the middle of a dust [...]

The plot revolves around two prominent events in Frida's life - the trolley car accident in 1929 that breaks her back and dooms her to a life of excruciating pain, and her marriage to Diego [...]

Yasujiro is also remembered for the unlikely revelations that may well leave the viewer a little derailed, eventually paints a nuance that deepens the emotional impact of the material.

He wants to be part of the Gattaca's project in going to the space. This is the start of a 'symbiosis' between Vincent and Eugene.

In 2005, director Christopher Nolen was successful in reintroducing the apotheosis of Batman to the modern world with his film "Batman Begins" This film depicts the birth of the god-like figure known as Batman.

Through the usage of color scheme, props, and the setting of the last mise en scene, A Matter of Life and Death facilitated the propagandist message of Anglo-American understanding within the pursuit of individual happiness.

In the USA, the suitability of movies for specific groups of viewers is regulated by the MPAA the Motion Picture Association of America.

The details of the film create an atmosphere of psychedelic transmission of fear, horror, and panic in the eyes of the actors.

In a few years, the members grow apart over some of the key decisions, and one of the bombings ends up in the death of a member.

The movie spans the last years of Egypt before it became a Roman province, with the political intrigue around it and the emotional intrigue that Cleopatra stirred with her wit, beauty, and ambition.

Roberta is one of the central characters in the movie Desperately Seeking Susan, and her cinematographic portrayal is crucial for the plot of this firm.

A significant part of the scene's appeal is its meaning, which was unusual for the time and revolutionized the concept of storytelling in films.

Further, the guys in the cabin find the entrance to the basement where the main character Dana finds a diary and reads a spell, thereby summoning the family of the dead murderers.

The portrayal of urban landscapes in film noir is a notable example of this interrelation, as it reflects in the issues of control, surveillance, and policing in a big city.

The magnificence of the savannah is conveyed through employing long shots from the bird's eye's view and the high angle at the beginning of the film.

The fact that most of the narrative elements exist in an entirely different reality than the one in which the rest of the movie takes place makes the distinction between the narrative and narration in [...]