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

HVsemiot.rtf This 4 page paper analyzes two films, “Potemkin” and “The Man with a Movie Camera” using semiotic methods. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 3 page paper is a reaction to the documentary film, “The Heart Broken in Half” about the Latin Kings street gang in Chicago. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

In four pages an overview and analysis of this famous case in which Main Line Pictures, Inc. sued actress Kim Basinger for reneging on a handshake agreement to star in the 1993 Jennifer Lynch film Boxing Helena are presented with various questions pertaining to this court case also answered. Four sources are listed in ...

This 2 page paper provides an overview of the gongs throughout the world. This paper relates how gongs were first created and how they spread. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 4 page paper discusses Shakespeare’s Hamlet and the character Ofelia from the film “Pan’s Labyrinth,” and argues that the are both threatened by powerful step-parents, and that they escape from a painful reality by constructing fantasy worlds. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

This 3 page paper analyzes the 1927 film by Hans Richter, a short that is a good example of Dadaism in cinema. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 5 page paper which compares how the cinematic version differs from the novel and the motivations behind whatever changes that may have been made. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 3 page paper which examines how the film Clueless is different, as well as similar, to Jane Austen’s novel Emma. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 3 page paper which compares Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun. No additional sources cited.

This 3 page paper considers the punishment given to Oedipus the King, and argues that whether or not he receives justice depends in large part on how the reader defines the concept, but that the punishment seems excessive and unfair. Bibliography lists 1 source.

This 4 page paper is a discussion of Otto Preminger's film version of GB Shaw's play "Saint Joan." Bibliography lists 2 sources.

6 pages in length. Overcoming racial discord is a challenging yet necessary achievement in order to reach racial harmony. The example set forth in Remember the Titans illustrates how the duality of prejudice and discrimination serve as social psychological principles that successfully keep this from happening. To look at only one of ...

A 4 page paper which compares and contrasts the character of Amanda from Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie and Mama in A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. No additional sources cited.

4 pages in length. While The Last Emperor is replete with cultural and visual splendor that serves to illustrate the complexities inherent to Chinese heritage and the unchallenged dedication therein, it is just as overflowing with psychological underpinnings that demonstrate the overwhelming compromises people are forced to make in the name of tradition. ...

A 4 page paper which examines how Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman can be seen as an indictment against the American Dream. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 3 pages essay that analyzes the film "Fight Club" (1999, directed by David Fincher) which focuses on the life of "Jack," a nameless drone stuck in the cogs of the corporate machinery that drives the economies of Western society. Jack is plagued by insomnia and only finds release and sleep after purging himself of ...

This 6 page paper discusses the entitle movie and focuses on whether the writer believes the main character, Susanna, really did have borderline personality disorder. The writer recalls the era, the 1960s and what was happening in terms of Susanna's actions. The DSM criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder today are outlined and the writer ...

This 5 page paper discusses the “Spiderman” movie franchise, and particularly the latest installment, the less-than-brilliant “Spiderman-3.” Bibliography lists 2 sources.

This 3 page paper answers questions about Steven Spielberg’s film “Munich,” about the 1972 murder of Israeli athletes by Palestinians at the Olympic Games. Bibliography lists 1 source.

This 3 page paper argues that contrary to most opinions, Oedipus does have free will in the play “Oedipus Rex.” Bibliography lists 1 source.

A 4 page paper which compares and contrasts the book The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean with the film Adaptation. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 3 page paper examines the play “Oedipus the King” and argues that Oedipus, while guilty in fact of the crimes of which he is accused, is morally innocent, and so should be considered innocent overall. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 4 page paper which examines the relationship between Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five and the song So It Goes by Unearth concerning death. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A 10 page research paper that offers a detailed scene analysis from the film Fargo (1996) directed by the Coen Brothers. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

This 3 page paper discusses the movie “The Other Side of Heaven” and how it relates to Hofstede’s and Trompenaars’s value dimensions. Bibliography lists 3 sources.