Film & TV Essays and Term Papers

Archetypes are patterns or models of literature that reoccur in many stories. In this paper I will discuss three of these archetypes. They are the hero, death & rebirth of the hero, and the symbolism and associations of water vs. desert.…

the concept of returning home. This is made clear throughout the film. Dorothy's entire time in Oz is spent trying to get back home to Kansas. Then when she gets back home she tells Aunt Em that 'all I kept saying to everybody was 'I want to go…

at all like the book. The movie started out as a man walked along the ocean to enter a huge castle. His sister had moved there when she married Dom Madena, but now she was dead. The castle was used to torture Catholics during the Inquisition.…

a novel for your imagination. This book involves prehistoric animals and plants from the Jurassic era. Steven Spielberg took on this book, as a movie project to add to his collection of visually mastered Science-Fiction motion pictures. Both the …

and released in 1950), Eve Harrison (Anne Baxter) was a young woman with evil running through her veins. She wanted to be 'somebody' and chose to get there through Margo Channing (Betty Davis) who was a famous stage star. Eve would do…

is a film about the second red scare in the 1950's. Communism is being threatened in the United States, after their takeover in Russia during the Cold War following World War II The character of Johnny Iselin closely portrays Senator Joseph McCarthy…

of the living dead. Being a victim of discrimination is nothing new or shocking to minorities; especially African-Americans. Nevertheless, no matter how old these ridiculous and prejudice antics are, they will never become acceptable or…

to hit the sack? Unluckily for you, like I, did you have to continue to watch it without having the option to get up and walk away? This is how I felt during one of my classes at school. I was in the first few weeks of Film as Lit and had to sit through…

Rating: MA15+ Directed: Randall Wallace Starring: Mel Gibson, Barry Pepper Writing Credits: Joseph Galloway (book) Lt. Hal Moore (book) We were soldiers is the next movie in the popular current trend of war movies, Following the same…

the audience in order to manipulate them into thinking what he wants them to think. He forces his opinions onto them in order to provoke a response and gain the audiences sympathy. He does this with the use of devices such as camera angles, lighting,…