Film & TV Essays and Term Papers

Indigenous culture in the first few chapters. For example, their cultural way of living (lifestyle), impact of white settlers (colonisers) on their lifestyle. The amount of information given in the first few chapters about the aboriginal lifestyle…

of that of a hurricane. It is therefore fitting that a movie, which carries its name, is as impacting and devastatingly effective as the meteorological event Beginning on the night of June 17th 1966, several shots ring out from the Lafayette…

of Tim "The Tool Man Taylor" in the very humorous sitcom, Home Improvement. The role of Santa Claus was a real stretch for me because of his comedy forte. I was pleasantly surprised by his wit in The Santa Clause. He made the story of becoming the rosy…

in the Mirror" there is the fictive world of the play, this world of the play is set to be as if it were real life, as if it were candid shots of the interviews it portrays. The scenes have a sense of familiarity, in the fact that you can see yourself…

mythology. Queen Mab tries to use Merlin, a wizard, in her attempt to control Britain and to bring back the power of magic. But Merlin finds an ally in the mysterious Lady of the Lake. As a young man, Merlin falls in love with Nimue and later tries…

fateful evening in 1997, John de Mol--the owner of Endemol, had just called it a night and gone to sleep. But he couldn't stop brooding about television. It was close to midnight, at the end of a long and fruitless brainstorming session, when someone…

living in cramped quarters in an inner-city neighborhood struggling with the effects of racism and the tensions brought on by their plans to move to a single family home in an all white neighborhood. It also shows their efforts to better their situation…

Virginia high school football team shows how we can all get along if race and background are put aside for the sake of the common goal. T. C. Williams is named for a former superintendent of schools who served from the mid-1930s until the mid-1960s.…

of Red Sorghum (1987) rearranges the past, mythical and factual, to encapsulate Zhang Yimou's vision of "Chineseness." Rey Chow, in her book Primitive Passions, characterizes Zhang Yimou as appropriating a certain vision of a China past, to…

II film is an amazing movie. With Ethan Hawke and Anna Suzuki topping off the cast of characters, you'll fall in love with this romantic drama about the "love and war" saga of a racially mixed relationship. You will feel their downfall and grow with…