Essays and Research Papers on Film & Television

A 4 page essay that describes and analyzes the movie Citizen Kane as art. Citizen Kane (RKO, 1941) is Orson Welles' masterpiece. Welles produced and directed the film, as well as performing in its starring role. A dark comment on the nature of modern society and the corrupting influence of materialism, this film qualifies as ...

A 5 page paper which examines the theme of money, and how it affects people and society, as seen in the novel “The Maltese Falcon” by Hammett and the film of the same name. Bibliography lists 5 additional sources.

A 4 page paper which examines the auteur filmmaker’s innovative visual structure, particularly in his complementary usage of space and color. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

This 3 page paper discusses Sklar's book Movie-Made America. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 3 page paper which presents a reaction to the film “Schindler’s List.” No additional sources cited.

A paper which looks at the audiovisual industry in reference to the dominance of American cultural production and the impact of the free market on diversity in cultural production. Bibliography lists 11 sources.

A 4 page paper which examines if the Da Vinci Code is entertainment of blasphemy. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

12 pages in length. The objective of increased profits in the movie industry has historically revolved around what is best for the entities involved with the production; the extent to which a particular film stands to draw millions more dollars because of a novel marketing plan almost never – if ever – takes into ...

A 5 page essay/research paper that discusses the differences between Homer's Iliad and the recent film adaptation Troy. The writer argues that the film fails to convey the essence of the ancient Greek worldview. While Homer's poem conveys a world that is distinctly alien from the Judeo-Christian perspective of the Western world roughly 3,000 years ...

12 pages in length. Reaching the heights of merchandising and crossover development that other entertainment franchises only aspire to in their dreams, George Lucas's "Star Wars" enterprise has long tipped the moneymaking scale when it comes to spinning off his science fiction saga into a multitude of other factions. Bibliography lists 14 sources.

This 5 page paper describes the 1959 Douglas Sirk film "Imitation of Life." Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 3 page essay that comments on the mis-en-scene elements and cinematography of Walter Salle's Motorcycle Diaries (2004), which portrays an episode from the life of Che Guevara, as a young man. Guevara's politics do not play an overt part in the film. Rather, the focus of the film is to show how his ...

A 3 page paper which examines the childhood and early years of film of Howard Hawks. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 5 page paper which evaluates how the John Sturges’ film does and does not reflect the cowboy mentality embodied by Theodore Roosevelt in terms of theme examination, scenes representative of American culture, portrayal of women and ethnic minorities, and other subtle nuances in dialogue and character. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 4 page paper which examines how the handling of sensitive issues of racial prejudice and homophobia as presented within a 1950s’ melodrama context can lead to future compassionate acceptance of people that do not fit the conventional social mode. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 9 page paper which examines the ten barriers to listening and questioning among the jurors and the ten dialogical processes that break them down during the course of the film. Bibliography lists 1 source. TGtam.rtf

A 5 page paper which examines the historical accuracy of the film about a real-life champion racehorse (1933-1947). Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 5 page paper which examines the film, characters, how it describes the adolescent development tasks portrayed, theories of adolescent cognitive and psychosocial development, and includes implications for human services workers’ roles in promoting healthy growth and development of adolescents and their families. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 3 page paper which illustrates how feminism is alive, though perhaps more rare than not, in films today. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 3 page film review that discusses the filmmaker's use of cinematic techniques to create a realistic, taut thriller. Director Sydney Pollack's "The Interpreter" (2005) is an intelligent thriller that makes excellent use of its cinematic medium, but has a plot sufficiently complex to have made a good novel. In other words, this is not ...

A 3 page analysis of the 1923 film version of “the Hunchback of Notre Dame.” Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 6 page paper which evaluates whether or not the film realistically depicted the events as they actually took place during the eighteenth century in what is now Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

A 4 page film review on Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, Director, 1994 for Paramount Pictures), which tells the story of a mildly retarded man (Tom Hanks) and how his life continuously has intersected with the major events of the late twentieth century and many of its notable personages. However, due to the manner in which ...

A 3 page essay that comments on director Steven Sodenbergh's 2001 film Traffic, which is concerned with drug traffic in North America, and traces its flow from the bottom of the supply chain to the top. In presenting this overall picture, the movie tells several parallel narratives that sometimes link together; sometimes not. At every ...

An 8 page research paper/essay that analyzes the structure in George Peele's 1593 play The Old Wives Tale and then contrasts and compares with the structure used by director Rob Reiner in the 1987 film The Princess Bride. The writer draws parallels between these two works, but does not suggest that the modern work is ...