Movie review: Freedom Writers
Case study - 1 pages - Film studies
Freedom Writers tells the story of a woman named Erin Gruwell who takes on a teaching job at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, California. Wilson High is an inner city school with a student demographic comprised of mostly low income, ethnic minority students. Ms. Gruwell stands out from...
Media myths and their effect on law enforcement performance
Case study - 2 pages - Film studies
Media over dramatization of crime is a huge issue which has plagued law enforcement communities around the globe for more than a decade, especially since the rise of the technological era. Reporters, newspapers, writers, and news agencies, including websites, around the world cause this by...
8 Mile: Review
Case study - 1 pages - Film studies
8 Mile is the story of well-known rapper Eminem's humble beginnings in inner city Detroit, Michigan. Eminem plays himself in the movie. The story of Eminem in this movie is one of everyday struggles. Eminem starts out freestyle battling other rappers in a shelter and chokes at first. After going...
Indian television in the era of globalization
Case study - 20 pages - Film studies
Since its birth in 1959, it seems that Indian television has developed in a way that is similar to most of the world's broadcasting sectors. Conquered by technological progress, particularly by the major advance that the introduction of satellite transmissions represents, the Indian television...
Characterization of Joe Brody in Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep
Case study - 3 pages - Film studies
The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms defines characterization as “representation of persons in narrative and dramatic works” and distinguishes between direct characterization, which attributes qualities to the character directly by virtue of description or commentary, and indirect...
Is reality real? Protecting the viewers through informative disclaimers
Case study - 26 pages - Film studies
Reality television has swept America over like an epidemic. Almost every channel has some form of a reality show. This genre began in 1989 with the creation of COPS and America's Funniest Home Videos. Only three years later MTV aired the first episode of The Real World. After that, reality...
The economic impact of the movie making industry in the United States
Case study - 18 pages - Film studies
Along with the main industries of the United States, such as the automobile or the pharmaceuticals industry, the American film industry emerged during the twentieth century as an industrialized mass entertainment activity. Every year, billions of movie tickets were sold in the US, and all over...
Introduction to European culture: Nosferatu, the first version (1922)
Case study - 4 pages - Film studies
Nosferatu the Vampire (Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens in the original) is a german silent film by Friedrich W. Murnau (who is a pioneer in this genre of movie) screened for the first time March 5, 1922 in Berlin. This is the first film adaptation of the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker,...
Nosferatu the Vampire
Case study - 4 pages - Film studies
Nosferatu the Vampire (Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens in the original) is a German silent film by Friedrich W. Murnau (who is a pioneer in this genre of movie) screened for the first time March 5, 1922 in Berlin. This is the first film adaptation of the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker,...
Christians in the entertainment industry
Case study - 4 pages - Film studies
As an aspiring filmmaker, it would seem that I'm on my way to entering an industry that isn't exactly brimming with Christian values. The film industry, along with the rest of the entertainment industry (music, theater, advertising, etc.), tends to be more interested in what makes money than...
Acting sample resume
Case study - 1 pages - Film studies
Musicals: Seussical the Musical Little Shop of Horrors Oliver! Little Shop of Horrors Into the Woods Les Misérables The Music Man Ensemble Workshops With: Billy Scudder, Robert Goodwin, Gregory Smith, Mark Lewis, Gai Jones, Ann Reinking, Vance Fulkerson, Bryan Davidson, Corky Dominguez, Danny...
Stage assistant intern: Cover letter
Sample letter - 1 pages - Film studies
I would like to apply for the position of Stage Assistant Intern. In the job requirements, you stated that the applicants must have “at least two years prior stage hand experience in the performing arts, or have taken High school/College level Stage Craft/Lighting/Sound classes, or possess...
Curb Your Enthusiasm: A linguistic analysis of a social assassin
Case study - 9 pages - Film studies
Curb Your Enthusiasm is an HBO series which centers on Larry David as the main character. Larry is best known for being the writer of the hit series, Seinfeld, and in Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry plays a partially fictionalized version of himself. The show is filmed in a cinéma vérité style and...
The role of women in Shadows (John Cassavetes, 1959)
Case study - 2 pages - Film studies
In his article in Film Culture, Jonas Mekas wrote about Shadows: “It doesn't prove anything, it doesn't even want to say anything, but really it tells more than ten or 110 other recent American films.” Later, he wrote in Sight and Sound: “Since their most passionate obsession...
Beyond the Harem - Fall 2008
Case study - 7 pages - Film studies
In the feature films Persepolis and Rana's Wedding, we are told the stories of women who in the course of their lifetime have defied male patriarchy, and are therefore labeled as feminists. However, these and many others are exclusively individual examples, and it seems that there is no...
Man and the Metropolis: Fritz Lang's Vision of the Future
Case study - 5 pages - Film studies
In 1927, director Fritz Lang, in collaboration with his wife, screenwriter Thea Von Harbou, produced a cinematic masterpiece of science-fiction that addressed the relationship between society and technology during an era in which that relationship was at its formative stage. The socio-political...
The success of the novel and the movie "Memoirs of a Geisha"
Case study - 3 pages - Film studies
When it was first published in 1997, the novel “Memoirs of a Geisha” written by Arthur Golden has already met a huge success: it ranked during a whole year in the New York Times top 10 best-sellers list. In 2005, the big screen adaptation of the book, produced by Steven Spielberg, also...
A Fistful of Dynamite by Sergio Leone
Text commentary - 1 pages - Film studies
The story takes place in Mexico. Juan Miranda a robber of diligence meets John Mallory an Irish revolutionary specialized in the dynamite. In the beginning Juan wants to kill John, but John says “ I wouldn't shoot if I were you. If you kill me, half of this country will vanish, including...
La Dolce Vita (The sweet life), Fellini (1960)
Artwork commentary - 3 pages - Film studies
The scene takes place in Rome in the 1950s. The main character, Marcello Rubini (alias Marcello Mastroianni) is a journalist of a tabloid newspaper, but his dream has always been to become a writer. He works with a photo-grapher called Paparazzo. The word “paparazzi” originates from the...
The Truman Show: Movie Review
Internship report - 6 pages - Film studies
Many elements in the Truman Show illustrate the reality of our current society and how it works. I will particularly talk about the attitude of viewers who, perhaps unwittingly, are partly responsible for the broadcasting of this kind of program (reality TV shows). I shall also tackle the ethical...
The Pride and Prejudice of Elizabeth: An Analysis of the Heroine in Pride and Prejudice
Essay - 4 pages - Film studies
This paper gives an analysis of characters of the heroine in Pride and Prejudice-Elizabeth. Pride and Prejudice is generally considered as one of the Jane Austen's most popular works. After reading the novel, people will be attracted by Elizabeth's intelligence, wit and lively character,...
Masks and costumes in Ancient Greek Theater
Essay - 4 pages - Film studies
Ancient Greek theater has long been of interest to many historians and theater enthusiasts alike. Perhaps one of the most intriguing aspects of Greek theater is the masks used by all actors, made even more intriguing because little is known about them. Although history can tell us masks existed...
Viewer's Guide: Okuribito (Departures)
Essay - 8 pages - Film studies
New viewers of Asian cinema, especially if they are from a Western audience, often encounter many problems in understanding Asian movies. The cultural background of the film can often times be quite perplexing; Asian culture differs so vastly from Western culture that many new viewers tend to...
Using technology to challenge the 'I, The Time, and the Theater' in Beckett's play 'Krapp's Last Tape'
Thesis - 6 pages - Film studies
There is little doubt that the cannon of Beckett's work is one of experimentation and investigation, with the author constantly exploring the boundaries of content and form, pushing the limits not only of theme and narrative, but also of the very mediums themselves that are in use in each...
The European 'art cinema' as a genre
Worksheets - 5 pages - Film studies
Cette dissertation de niveau Licence 3 a pour but de montrer en quoi le cinéma d'art européen est un courant cohérent qui se distingue par certains traits communs. Il est notamment caractérisé, ce qui le distingue d'autres genres de cinéma, par le principe de réalisme et fait du cinéaste,...
Résumé du film Rebecca d'Alfred hitchcock
Book review - 1 pages - Film studies
Résumé du film Rebecca d'Alfred hitchcock adapté d'un roman de Daphné du Morrier. The movie by Alfred Hitchcock was adapted by a novel to Dafné du Maurier. The story took place in Cornwall in the 1930'. At the beginning of the plot the narrator, a women (we never know her name), dreamed.
Sir Alfred Hitchcock: A unique perspective of movie making style, always done for the viewers
Thesis - 2 pages - Film studies
Nothing in Mister Hitchcock's childhood foretold him to pursue his great career in movie making. The little Hitchcock was quiet, shy and reserved. He spent a part of his scholarship in a Jesuit college which gave him a critical opinion of integrity of people working for churches. He also had had...
Movie Analysis: "Chocolat" by Claire Denis
Book review - 3 pages - Film studies
Chocolat is a movie made by a women filmmaker named Claire Denis. She lived her youth in Senegal, she made a semi-autobiographic movie to share a part of her life with us and mostly to show the aspect of the woman's life during this colonial time. But in my point of view, even if the story is...
The frontier between life and death in the history of cinema
Thesis - 15 pages - Film studies
The old conception of death has always been scary and morbid, a thing that has always been hard to accept, so that it had to be mysterious. Something that people would not want to talk about, that was considered as a taboo. Of course, it was the same as all the taboo subjects, like the cinema, as...
The New World (2005, Terrence Mallick)
Essay - 5 pages - Film studies
The year of 1607 is remembered as the year the English colonists first settled in America. This crucial date in American history is one of an unexpected encounter between two civilizations, the European and the Indians. In popular culture, the confrontation of those opposite cultures has been...
