Film & TV Essays and Term Papers

STARRING Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Nick Nolte, Sam Elliott, Josh Lucas DIRECTOR Ang Lee RATING 3/10 (For Camera Technique) Universal Pictures presents a film directed by Ang Lee. Written by John Turman, Michael France, James Schamus, Jack…

over ten years the animated suburban satire The Simpson's has captivated American families of all races, ages, and ethnicity. Viewers are attracted to The Simpson's because the show represents an exaggerated form of themselves and their own reality.…

highway, killing four children, three of them strapped inside a minivan that was dragged for more than a mile by the rushing water. Rescuers on Sunday were still searching for the children's mother and a driver from Texas. Everyone was accounted…

a film to have come out of Hollywood. Following a basic formula, the genre lives up to the expectations of the audience, while using the themes of crime and consequent justice. Unlike many hard boiled detective films of the noir persuasion, Chinatown…

Characterisation: Izek: Izek is the leader of the black society in the district. He is a very wealthy family/business man. Han: (Jet Lee) Han is the son of a rich asian businessman who is competetive with Izek and his business. Han escapes from…

into an unrecoverable scandal two weeks before re-election. The President of the United States apparently had a sexual encounter with an underage Girl Scout in the Oval Office. The president's opponents get wind of the story and use it to their advantage…

caution and envy. These themes are explicitly conveyed throughout the film through repetition of symbols and Hitchcock's innovative use of the camera. The following essay aims to analyse these aspects in the scene of Madeline's first encounter with…

a visually-stylish thriller - a story of social, economic, and moral corruption in a depressed, rotting and crumbling, 20th century Vienna following World War II. The striking film-noirish, shadowy thriller was filmed expressionistically within the…

stir up readers against those who were responsible for keeping the American people in poverty. The Grapes of Wrath tells the story of the Joad family, migrant farmers from Oklahoma traveling to California in search of a fantasy of prosperity. The novel's…

"Full Metal Jacket", it is difficult to determine the role that women play simply because of the glaring lack of female characters. In total, only three women actually appear in the movie, and two of those are prostitutes; the third isn't revealed as…