Essays and Research Papers on Mixed Issues in Film Television Theater Music & Dance

This 5 page report discusses the future of digital television programs and the fact that digital television and programming for digital television has become one of the many technological conundrums of the early days of the 21st century. The current twist on the dilemma is even when digital television reaches a level of affordability for the mainstream consumer, will the ...

This 5 page paper provides an overview of the perspectives on the theater of the absurd, with a focus on Beckett and Pinter. This paper defines the concept of the theater of the absurd and demonstrates how both authors utilized this in their plays. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

An 8 page paper which examines how Diane Keaton's characters deal with different ethnic cultures in the films, "The Godfather" and "Annie Hall," specifically considering how filmmakers Francis Ford Coppola and Woody Allen employ her two characters to provide insight into these cultures. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

This 5 page paper provides an overview of the basic elements of Shaw's Arms and The Man and Sherriff's Journey's End. This paper considers the impacts of war symbolism and the irony of war, including issues like heroism and the search for peace. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 5 page paper which discusses the movie "Reds" and addresses how the movie was filled with content which helped to illustrate the time period represented. The paper also discusses the apparent reason for the production of the film. No additional sources cited.

5 pages in length. Provides an in-depth look at this famous 1952 musical starring Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds. The paper provides a summary of the film as well as commenting on the overall theme and significant images.

Jazz can be seen as the principle harbinger of the transition from rural to urban living in the United States, encompassing all races and ethnic backgrounds. This 9 page paper examines the connection between the inauguration of jazz music and the cultural foundations of an integrated America. Bibliography lists 9 sources.

The Broadway production, West Side Story, by composer Leonard Bernstein, lyricist Stephen Sondheim and choreographer Jerome Robbins premiered in 1957. This 12 page narrative paper examines the musical with an emphasis on the choreography. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

This 5 page paper examines the early 1980's classic film starring Robert DiNiro and directed by Martin Scorcese. Some discussion on technical elements, visual effects and pictoral scheme is included but there is decided focus on emotional undertones. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

An 8 page paper which discusses the movie "Splendor in the Grass" and further illustrates the works of Elia Kazan, who directed the movie, and William Inge, who wrote the screenplay. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

5 pages in length. This focuses on the play by Guillermo Verdecchia. Fronteras Americanas is an entertaining but darkly humorous look at the borders of Latin-America. Borders both without and within, and the stereotypes we deal with in the immigrant experience. It is at once poignant and funny, and makes us ...

This 6 page paper considers the impact of Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson and the influence that he had in breaking down social and economic barriers and creating a new, larger public forum for the vernacular dance. This paper considers his role, his perceptions and the views of others regarding his influence. Bibliography lists 4 ...

A 7 page paper which discusses the movies "All About Eve" from 1950, and "Showgirls" from 1995 and examines how they fit into the female melodrama genre. Bibliography lists 4 additional sources.

5 pages in length. La Vie Est Belle (Life Is Rosy) by Ngangura Mweze is a wonderfully funny story about love, social acceptance and the trouble people will go to achieve both in their lives. Director Mweze took a story line completely different from the typical African cinematic representation and offered the public ...

This 5 page report discusses the movie “Titanic” and interprets its major themes from the formalism approach. Literary formalism virtually always encompasses stories of epic proportions and certainly the story of Jack and Rose, situated against the background of one of the modern world’s most dramatic disasters, serves as an example of such. From the perspective of formalism, it is important to ...

A 12 page paper which examines how the Hollywood horror film genre portrays and structures racial representations, considering such cinematic examples as "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein," "I Walked With a Zombie," "Night of the Living Dead," and "The Shining." Bibliography lists 9 sources.

A 7 page paper which discusses the play "Death of a Salesman" and the recent film "American Beauty" and illustrates how they help to demonstrate that the perfect American family is only a myth, never achieved. Bibliography lists 16 sources.

This 3 page paper looks at the authenticity of the 1948 and 1997 versions of this Shakespearean work and compares and contrasts them. Both are compared to the play as well. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 5 page paper which analyzes the television play "Eh Joe" by Samuel Beckett. Bibliography lists 4 additional sources.

This five-page-paper presents an overview of immigrating to America based on the movie El Norte. Bibliography lists once source.

A 7 page paper which examines how the modernist American photographer Alfred Stieglitz influenced the contemporary landscape photography of Ansel Adams. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

A 7 page paper which analyzes the dreams sequence of Federico Fellini's 1963 film, "8 1/2," considering them in the context in which they were produced. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This six-page-paper presents a comparison to the assimilation of the main characters to the white community by a black man and a Korean man. Using Spike Lee's movie, "Do The Right Thing" as well as Chang Rae Lee's novel, "Native Speaker" the writer discusses the attempts at assimilation as well as the final decision made by both men. Bibliography ...

A 5 page paper which discusses the political aspects of "The Damned," a film directed by Luchino Visconti and produced in 1969. The address of political turmoil can be seen, in its most obvious form, through the presence of the Nazis, but the political climate and underlying issues of concern also address the social political aspects of homosexuality. Bibliography ...

This 5 page paper explores this landmark Ibsen play, where deceit and scandal bubble beneath the surface of the classically repressive domestic situation of Torvald and Nora, who, in order to save her husband's life commits forgery. The basic difficulties of relationship between a man and a woman are as relevant now as ...