Film & TV Essays and Term Papers

the two main characters, Frank and Rita and how they change through out the play. I will also look at how I would stage scenes six and seven including props, characters positions, body language, actions, movements and facial expressions. Educating…

has become increasingly more popular through the years since it was first invented. In fact it is so popular that almost every home in America has one or more television sets. TV started when Edwin Belin, an English man, held the patent for the transmiss…

been trying to attach social significance to Chaplin's work "Modern Times." Chaplin says that he has no intention to do such things, he just wants to entertain. The movie, "Modern Time," is about living in the great depression and seems to represent…

memoirs that explore a two-year period that she spent as a patient in a mental institution for young women. Split into three sections, mind versus brain, the clinical definition of a borderline personality disorder, and her diagnosis, her memoirs…

can be replicated over and over again. Megan Holley's film The Snowflake Crusade depicts that very world. By going to your local registry, you can essentially buy the DNA to procreate any notable person in history. Nobel Prize winning scientist…

it right. Take one great moment in cinema - the setting is Frank's mansion, the time two minutes after 3am about 30 minutes after Frank had had two workers put about five hundred rounds into a nightclub in an attempt to rid the world of Tony Montano…

Poets Society is that of freedom versus conformity. The theme of conformity is introduced in the very opening scenes of the film. Close-ups of the boys chanting in unison, all identically clad in their starched uniforms at a ceremony at Welton Academy…

provides a significant context for understanding the behaviour of its characters. Post-World War II American lifestyle differed greatly from the previous decades. The war was far behind, the economy was booming, and new technology made life easier.…

from the same history. In general, situation comedy is based on the same principles. So why does American television often seem more universal than British sitcoms when both rely heavily on stereotyped representations of social class? American…

In what ways does she fit (or not fit into) a traditional gender role? The traditional "good" woman has many stereotypical characteristics. She doesn't talk to men first and doesn't ask them to dance but waits for them to approach her.…