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

This 4 page paper discusses the various ways that the play can be analyzed: feminist perspective, historical, and psychoanlytical. Bibliography lists 1 source.

A 4 page paper which examines the tragedy of ignorance in the character of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman.” Bibliography lists 2 additional sources.

This 6 page paper examples how science fiction has played a predictor over the years of the future of mankind. As such, then,this paper makes predictions based on more recent movies, including Matrix, AI, and others. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 2.5 page paper which considers whether or not three of literature’s most famous characters are tragic heroes, and if so, why. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 3 page paper discusses the significance of audiences in a courtroom. The films Inherit the Wind and Anatomy of a Murder are analyzed. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 5 page paper which examines how these films represent hybrids of the generic traditions of science fiction and film noir. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 6 page comparison between the film The Bourne Identity (2002) and the 1980 novel of the same name by Robert Ludlum. The writer argues that the screenwriters accomplished the tricky business of adaptation by keeping characterization and certain aspects of the novel, but disregarded the rest of the novel's plot. In so doing, ...

This 4 page paper looks at a variety of thematic elements from racism to ideas in education. This film about a boy and his mentor, and the personal struggle of Forrester himself, is disused in depth. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 4 page paper analyzes The Big Sleep by Howard Hawks as to its innovations and deviations from the noir genre. Examples, quotes given from the movie. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 6 page paper analyzes social problem films: Boyz N the Hood, Hate, and Kids for themes, genre characteristics, and social messages. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 5 page paper which examines why the Irish director is regarded as an auteur. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 5 page paper considers the statement that Chaplain “has no knowledge of camera direction. His films are completely theatre”. The writer considers if this is true, and I so whether or not this detracts from the film “The Kid”. The bibliography cites 5 sources.

This is a 5 page paper discussing realism as found in De Sica’s “Bicycle Thieves” and Eisenstein’s “The Battleship Potemkin”. Vittorio de Sica’s film “Bicycle Thieves” (1948) and Sergei Eisenstein’s “The Battleship Potemkin” (1925) both use various elements of realism in order to portray stories which relate to the realistic lives lived by ordinary citizens ...

This 3 page paper considers which members of staff from a theatre should be invited to a dinner party to ensure a lively and explosive conversation.

A 10 page research paper that examines Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller Psycho. The writer discusses the film in reference to Freud's psychoanalytical model. The writer argues that Psycho is a superlative example of the filmmaker's art, in cinematography, music and all other essential details. However, there is also another element. The structure of this film ...

This 3 page report discusses Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 classic, Rear Window, which starred the much-loved “Jimmy” Stewart as L.B. “Jeff” Jeffries, the man in the “rear window.” The argument is made that the character of Jeffries serves as the “eyes” of both the director and the audience and that what he sees is truly horrific. No sources listed. ...

This 6 page paper considers how and why the well known film “A Chinese Ghost Story” directed by Ching Siu-Tung, based on a novel by Songling Pu, can be seen as a post-modern artefact. The paper examines the film and its’ make up and how the post modernist models can apply to the movie. The ...

This 3 page report discusses the concepts writer Stephen King outlines in his 1981 essay titled “Why We Crave Horror Movies.” Bibliography lists only the primary source.

A 5 page paper which examines mankind's need for adventure in life as it relates to various films and John Eldredge's "Wild at Heart." Bibliography lists 4 sources.

An 8 page paper which examines various themes in Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman." Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 15 page report discusses two of the greatest playwrights of the “modern” Western world, Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) and George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) and how they created dramatic works that titillated, fascinated, and shocked audiences. In Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Shaw’s Saint Joan, the reader or the audience member sees each author’s point of view regarding what ...

A 3 page paper which examines the relationship between "The French Lieutenant's Woman" and Paganism and Christianity as present in the Victorian world. Bibliography lists 1 source.

This 4 page paper discusses the religious hypocrisy which is the main theme in both plays. Furthermore, this paper investigates the many differences of these plays, and how each author chose to highlight the theme of hypocrisy. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 5 page report discusses three movies: Train of Life (1998), the well-known and award-winning Italian work Life is Beautiful (1997), and the French documentary Night and Fog (1955). The question being asked is whether comedy/fantasy or a fictional representation has a greater impact than that of a documentary. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

This 10 page report discusses the 1991 documentary movie, The Good Woman of Bangkok, which was both written and directed by Australian Dennis O’Rourke. It is a sad and often horrifying story about the life of a 25-year-old woman who becomes a prostitute in Bangkok. Issues related to ethnographic representation are considered, as well as O’Rourke’s subjective point of ...