Film & TV Essays and Term Papers

for an upcoming release. Through the critic's words, the general nature of a movie can be surmised along with various intricacies that an author will bring to light. Topics such as plot, actors, and movie direction are key components upon which…

significance as it addresses an issue very relevant to modern society. The film explores why the death penalty should be outlawed in society by giving one of the men on death row, Matthew Poncelet a human face. The director Tim Robbins has employed…

The Real World. What are these names? These are just a few of the dozens of reality television shows that have become popular in recent years. American society has become so insecure, that people feel they need to watch the misery and joy…

Freedman of "farce," the first work that came to mind was not Feydeau or even Peter Bogdanovich (director of What's Up, Doc?), but Kevin Smith's Clerks. The story of one (very bad) day in the life of Dante Hicks is a fairly dark comedy, and doesn't…

Tim Robbins uses familiar cinematic conventions and popular character actors to build a specific expectation in the minds of the audience. Doing this, he makes the plot itself (which defies most or all such expectations) seem more profound. <Tab…

differences can be found within novels of the same genre. In Carrie by Stephen King, Carrie White is a mysterious young girl, who is an outsider at school. She possesses telekinetic powers which she eventually uses to attain revenge on her classmates.…

film. Sound made everything great. It was a great surprise to actually hear a character speak. Cary Grant played an excellent role in this screwball comedy. The film is the epiphany of screwball comedy. The films jump from silent to sound called…

John Ford was the director, and I noticed in the beginning credits his name was in huge bold letters, bigger than anyone else's. I enjoyed the film because it was fast, and had a lot of action throughout the movie. <Tab/>As being…

highly controversial "The Passion of the Christ". The film is a highly detailed, very graphic account of the last twelve hours of Jesus Christ's life. The movie opens with Jesus praying in the Garden of Olives after the Last Supper. After resisting…

was made in 1935 as a continuation of "Frankenstein" of 1931. The film started with the camera panning toward the window, shooting the storm of lightning and thunder. It was the house of Lord Byron and with him were the poet Shelley and his young…