Film Studies Essays

The Man With The Movie Camera
Example essay. Last modified: 27th Apr 2017
Introduction: Dziga Vertov’s 1929 film, The Man with the Movie Camera, documents life in a Russian city while also telling a story about filmmaking. The film is a dazzling mix of imagery and technique, inviti...

The Man With The Movie Camera Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 2nd May 2017
Introduction: Dziga Vertov’s 1929 film, The Man with the Movie Camera, documents life in a Russian city while also telling a story about filmmaking. The film is a dazzling mix of imagery and technique, inviti...

The Marketing Of Movies Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: In 1910s, the era commonly known as the birth of movie marketing, the big focus was on the movie stars. As motion picture audiences grew, so too did the importance of the actors. It was producer Carl ...

The Matrix Analysis Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 15th Dec 2017
Introduction: This report is based on Matrix movie. The Matrix movie is a science fiction-action film which was released in America on March 31, 1999. This film written and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski.it i...

The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) Summary and Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 15th Dec 2017
Introduction: The Motorcycle Diaries, directed by Walter Salles traces an 8000-mile journey of two close friends, Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, who would become the iconic Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara and his f...

The Movement Of German Expressionism Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: German expressionism occurred during the attempt of a liberal democratic republic after the so called “March revolution” in 1848. The revolution lead to the Weimar republic until 1933 wher...

The Movie Brokeback Mountain Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: The movie Brokeback Mountain is adapted from a piece of writing from 1997 by Annie Proulx. The novel, and consequently the movie, revolves around feelings that dare not speak their name. It is in effe...

The Movie Catch Me If You Can Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: A confidence artist is somebody who exploits a person in order to obtain something of value for free or next to nothing. The first known con man was in England in 1849 when an American would ask stran...

The Music of Star Wars
Example essay. Last modified: 5th Jul 2017
Introduction: The music of Star Wars has become a character of the films much as the characters of the films have become global icons. John Williams’ contribution to the films (he composed for all six Star Wa...

The Notion Of Film And Ideology Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: What do you understand by the notion of film and ideology. With reference All That Heaven Allows and or other films from this unit, write an essay that explores the ideological messages – or po...

The Opening Sequence Of Mary Poppins Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: The opening sequence of Mary Poppins shows a backdrop of the city of London. Credits scroll by as the camera pans from right to left on the backdrop until it zooms in on Mary Poppins, (Julie Andrews),...

The Origin Of Salsa Music Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: The Caribbean region was the first American area to be populated by the immigrants from Africa. Those people with features and traits that differed greatly from the population of two American continen...

The Origins Of Gill Sans Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: The beginning of the type is starting in the mid fifteen century. It was birth of printing industry but more importantly it was a birth of type. The invention of movable type starts with Guttenberg. H...

The Patriot Movie - Historical Accuracy
Example essay. Last modified: 5th Jun 2017
Introduction: The first thing I would say about the movie is that almost everyone watches the movie. People watch all types of movie including action movies, adventure movies, comedy movies, and many other categori...

The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
Example essay. Last modified: 3rd May 2017
Introduction: The Perks of Being a Wallflower takes us to adolescent places we either know or remember well: the heart-fluttering first crush or the high-school obsession with an SAT score. Yet despite the familiar...

The Portrayal Of Female Characters In Films
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Jun 2017
Introduction: Films have long been used as a tool to portray human imaginations and ideas that are sometimes deemed impossible in reality. The characters in films have had a huge impact, with regard to gender stere...

The Portrayal Of Homosexuals In Hollywood
Example essay. Last modified: 11th May 2017
Introduction: Since the 1960s, Hollywood film industry has typically treated and portrayed homosexuals as subject of negative stereotypes and social pariahs. Queer identities might be the most extreme sexual dynam...

The Portrayal Of Women In Film Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: I have chosen the following question. “To what extent do you agree with the statement that the female in film is on display, passive and purely there because of her to be looked-at-ness? Women i...

The Portrayal Of Women In Horror Films
Example essay. Last modified: 2nd May 2017
Introduction: This dissertation will consider the roles of women in the horror film genre and will deconstruct the way in which the conventions of the horror film prescribe such roles. Despite continued criticism f...

The Portrayal Of Women In Horror Movies Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: DEFINITIONS: Woman: Whist the term girl can be used for a child or female adolescent, the term Woman would refer to an adult female human. Horror film: Cinema that is created to disgust and cause ...

The Principle Of Color In Multimedia Technology Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: These three dimensions of color: hue, saturation, and value constitutes a color model that describes how humans naturally respond to and describe color: the HSV model. Because the HSV model has three ...

The Process Of Analyzing Movies
Example essay. Last modified: 12th Aug 2021
Introduction: In this reflective paper, I intend to describe how a film is analyzed as a whole. Analyzing films is considered an art form that attempts to “break up the whole to discover the nature proportion, function, and interrelationships of the parts”...

The Production Of Goodfellas Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Goodfellas is based on a book called Wiseguy written by Nicholas Pileggi. Martin Scorsese is the director to goodfellas and at the time never intended to create another gangster mafia film until he re...

The Production Process Of Monster Inc Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: The process of movie making entails four stages, development, pre-production, production and post-production. The development stage involves the process of creating the story line. At the pre-producti...

The Psychology Of Camera Shots Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Changing the shots, and the camera movements, has been used to give more expression within the scene. This is the way that emotion is created, and the audience is able to assimilate it. The psychologi...

The Purpose Of A Movie Analysis Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Film analysis is an important part of understanding films although this is overlooked by many people. There are various elements of films which are brought together to give the final outcome and enab...

The Relationship Between Cinema And Literature Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Introduction: CINEMA and LITERATURE are connected /related to each other but still they are different in their own ways.It has always been one of the most fascinating forms of knowledge which has mad...

The Representation of Africa in Hollywood:- Black Panther
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: REPRESENTING RACE AND ETHNICITY Introduction Five African clans war over a vibranium. One warrior ate a heart formed herb touched by the metal and it increased his superhuman ca...

The Representation Of Black Identity in Films
Example essay. Last modified: 16th May 2017
Introduction: The debates over race and representation of African American in films have been highly contentious for over a century. Blacks have generally been perceived and stigmatized, throughout history, as trou...

The representation of family on TV
Example essay. Last modified: 17th May 2017
Introduction: The term nuclear family can be defined as a husband, wife and their two children; however in the last decade the framework through present television shows such as Modern Family “Season 1-Episo...

The Representation Of Gender In Disneys Films Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: In the golden age of animation, 1928 – 1960s, Walt Disney was one of the famous animators in the industry who founded The Walt Disney Corporation. He was an American film director, producer, scr...

The Representation Of Women Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: In the past, women have been depicted on screen with negative stereotypes. They have been subjected to the male gaze by men in films like Gilda and Psycho (Smelik, 2009). A study by Bazzini et al. (19...

The Return Of Martin Guerre Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: To begin, film can be a dangerous method if audiences’ intend is to study history. Films can really persuade audiences to the direction of the perspective of filmmaker; this can be seen optimist...

The Role Of The Art Director Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: A firm and imagined set helps to bring forth a good visual and a better output. This is to the desire of the person who is putting up a set and what does it mean and how does it help him as many canno...

The Romantic Comedy Genre
Example essay. Last modified: 3rd May 2017
Introduction: If even half of the projects picked up this year actually get the green light, the first decade of the next millennium may be known as......

The Saxophone Changed The World Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Got Sax? This is an excellent paper. It has good info that is well presented. It is 1 page short of consideration for an A. Your grade is the highest B I can assign, and your point accumulation is ...

The Science Behind Movies
Example essay. Last modified: 13th Oct 2021
Introduction: Movies are usually one of the best tools to engage the audience with certain emotions that you would like to communicate, in order to tell a story, to make people conscious about something. All that we see is the actors developing a character in front of the camera and following a script line by line, but… What is hiding behind all this work?...

The Shining Film Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 12th Jun 2017
Introduction: The suspense, blood and gore made the film so intriguing; the audience was kept wondering throughout as to what would really happen next. The eerie hotel combined with music and sound effects played a...

The Shining: King vs Kubrick
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: Renowned director Stanley Kubrick was an excellent filmmaker of his time who drew his inspiration from various literary works which he transformed into his own. Due to Kubrick’s distinctive sty...

The Shutter Island And Insomnia Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Shutter Island and Insomnia. Movies such as “Shutter Island” and “Insomnia” both display attributes of neo-noir and classical noir films which contain a great deal of tension a...

The Significance Of Dance In History Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: The significance of dance has been proven from time to time in history. From the ancients who used dance as a religious art form to King Louis XIV’s court ballet1 during the Renaissance Era and ...

The Silent Era Of Hollywood Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: The Silent Era of Hollywood’s History was a great milestone in paving the way for today’s film industry. With great actors and innovative technology, silent films poked fun at society and ...

The Social And Cultural Messages In Apocalypto Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: When one decides to put history on film, one must be prepared for substantial tradeoffs (Rosenstone 16). Films cannot convey historical events with pinpoint accuracy or with exact detail because films...

The Sopranos as a Revolutionary Text in the Gangster Genre History
Example essay. Last modified: 19th Oct 2021
Introduction: While their are many aspects of that The Sopranos incorporated from the gangster traditional genre, it was able to transform this particular genre in response to social changes taking place in American society between the 1980s and the 1990s....

The South Park Research Paper Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Two gentlemen, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, created the television-hit series South Park. Trey and Matt started their journey in two completely separate ways that eventually brought them together.. In ...

The Style Of Quentin Tarantino Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction:  Quentin Tarantino has his own distinctive style that mirrors his quirky vision of the universe. From the early Reservoir Dogs  to the stylish Pulp Fiction, Tarantino has challenged both viewers and...

The Success Of The Woman In Black
Example essay. Last modified: 11th May 2017
Introduction: Susan Hill’s novel The Woman in Black was written in the Gothic tradition. Specifically, she wanted to write a Victorian Ghost story, even though her novel was written in modern times. Stephen M...

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Remake Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Released in 1974 Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre about a group of teenagers and their run in with a murderous family of cannibals has came to be recognised as an important American hor...

The Third Man Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 13th Jun 2017
Introduction: The Third Man Film Analysis. The creative talent involved with The Third Man was considerable, as was the creative tension between them....

The Title Of Atonement Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: The credits begin to be displayed and are in a type writing font, this suggests that a story is going to be told. Throughout the credits there is the sound of a type writer, this again suggest that a ...

The Types Of James Bond Films Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: James bond has survived as a franchise due to the formula: The recipe of a bond movie is consistent, with the ingredients modified to suit what is in season and keeping to the taste of the aging movie...

The use of Cinema in the Construction of a Nationalism State
Example essay. Last modified: 9th Sep 2021
Introduction: The paper aims to highlight the role of cinema in constructing and reconstructing the nationalism of a state. In doing so the paper is divided into three parts. ...

The Use Of Semiotics In The Theatre Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: For the French postmodern theorist, Lacan, each sign in a language is given a meaning by other signs in the language – there is no essential meaning to signs, only in chains of significance. For...

The Use Of Sound Design In Films
Example essay. Last modified: 24th Apr 2017
Introduction: Rationale/Research to Date: The origins of the term sound designer came from Walter Murchs work on the film Apocalypse Now, where he had the full responsibility of creating the films entire soundtrack...

The Visual and Aural Techniques used in the Picture book 'The Red Tree' and Movie 'Run Lola Run'
Example essay. Last modified: 7th Sep 2021
Introduction: The movie ‘Run lola run’ directed by Tom Tykwer and ‘the red tree’ written by shaun tan, both establish two core ideas which are chance and time. The use of a variety of techniques create distinctively visual images that are highly distinctive....

The Whale Rider (2002) Summary and Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 15th Dec 2017
Introduction: “The whale rider” Abstract “Whale Rider” is a drama film of the 2002, based on the novel of Witi Ihimaera, and directed by Niki Caro. The world première was on September 2002, at the Toronto ...

The Wizard of Oz-Beyond the Yellow Brick Road
Example essay. Last modified: 9th May 2017
Introduction: “Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore,” claims Dorothy Gale as she explores her new world of lively color in the Land of Oz. The film The Wizard of Oz, adapted from L. Frank B...

The Woman In Black Theatre Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: The “Woman In Black” belongs to the gothic genre. The genre was created by Horace Walpole, He wrote “The Castle of Otranto” which was the very first gothic novel which was writ...

The Work Ethic Of Heath Ledger Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Prescription pills became the ultimate demise of the young Australia, born actor Heath Andrew Ledger. Ledger was born April 4, 1979 in Perth, Australia. He was raised by his parents Sally and Kim Ledg...

The Work Of Saul Bass Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Moving and animated sequence titles are common to us nowdays. When we go to the cinema, play DVD or watch a movie in TV, we always know that there will be some. But what we do not usually know is who ...

The Works Of David Cronenberg Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: The dissertation reviews works of David Cronenberg circa 1976-1999 in relation to Truffaut’s theories of the auteur to show the relevance of auteur theory in today’s cinematic climate. The...

The Works Of Pedro Almodovar Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Pedro Almodóvar, the Spanish film-maker, has always been considered in Hollywood to be a “woman’s director” (Maddison 2000). This definition actually connoted latent homosexuality a...

The Zombie Horror Genre Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: -The zombie horror Genre is the theme and genre that will be analyzed to understand the detailed examination of a recurring pattern between these types of movies. There will be many examples of the fi...

Themes And Issues In Blade Runner Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: This essay will look at the themes and issues used in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982), Alfonso Cuaron’s Children of Men (2006) and James McTeigue’s V for Vendettea (2006) to conve...

Themes and Structures in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: Rear Window Hitchcock There are a vast number of angles to appreciate Rear window on, and one of them is the impeccable use of sounds and well as the score courtesy of lead characters. A...

Theory Of Orientalism And Disneys Aladdin Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Using the concepts and theory of Orientalism from the lecture topic race and whiteness this essay will analyse the 1992 Disney film Aladdin. This essay will use the theory of Orientalism to analyse ho...

This Gun for Hire, 1942 | Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction:  This Gun for Hire, directed in 1942 by Frank Tuttle, is a film rendition of Graham Greene’s novel, “A Gun for Sale”. This Gun for Hire, shares Greene’s dark and disturbing vision of...

Tim Burton and Johnny Depp
Example essay. Last modified: 17th May 2017
Introduction: They are two giants of films of our times or the Modern Cinema. Together, the magic they have created for big screen is certainly worthy of discussion as it is the longest lasting partnership betw...

Tim burton is an artist
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Introduction ?Tim Burton is an artist?(Odell, Le Blanc. 2005) and this can be well encapsulated by Burtons childhood, early ages of career and work as a film director. Many influences on Burton?s film...

Time and Space Manipulation in Christopher Nolan's Memento
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: Time and Space Manipulation in Christopher Nolan’s Memento Introduction Told in reverse chronology, Memento (2000) is a captivating film noir directed by Christopher Nola...

To Be A Real Hero Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: “Living life for one day as a lion is better than living as a hyena for a hundred”, is a proverb that captures the depth of personalities of those who die in this world with pride. Firstl...

To What Extent Can Blade Runner Be Considered To Be an Example of a Post-Modern Dystopia?
Example essay. Last modified: 18th Aug 2021
Introduction: The highly influential bleak dystopian view on the future in the film Blade Runner was realised in 1982 it became one of the most popular dystopian science fiction films. Blade Runner displays a post-apocalyptic setting after a nuclear war with its focus on the dystopian urban environment....

Toby Keith And American Nationalism Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Toby Keith, an American country music singer, has played a large role in American nationalism through nationalistic ideals that can be seen and heard in his music. Most notably, his song, “Court...

Tora! Tora! Tora! | Historical Errors
Example essay. Last modified: 9th May 2017
Introduction: The movie Tora! Tora! Tora! Was meant to be a historically accurate movie but the movie had mistakes in it. Several factor mainly this movie being about the Japanese made me choose it. The Director Ri...

Traditional and Modern Music of Malta
Example essay. Last modified: 21st Jul 2021
Introduction: Maltese folk music is intrinsic to the culture of the country and is valued worldwide since it is sung in English (Zahra & Borg, 2006). Over the years, interest In Maltese Music has spread significantly. In 17 century, Malta was an influential place where musicians and publishers recorded music....

Traditional Japan In Spirited Away
Example essay. Last modified: 30th May 2017
Introduction: The protagonist of the film, Chihiro, has lived a pampered life in the city and is naive and unprepared for adulthood. Her parents are portrayed as greedy and irresponsible in the symbol of the ̶...

Trans Industrialization in the Film Industry
Example essay. Last modified: 24th Nov 2020
Introduction: In recent times, the film industry has enjoyed the concept of trans industrialization in a bid to increase revenue and capitalize on film brands and other title lines. It is normal for film studios to want to capitalize on this and even improve the title lines...

Transformation of Young Ho in 'Peppermint Candy'
Example essay. Last modified: 20th Aug 2021
Introduction: Director Lee Chang Dong uses a male character as a symbol of deprivation during the political, economical and social crisis in the 80’s and 90’s in the militarized and masculinity Korean society....

Triumph Of The Will Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: There are many contrasting opinions on the subject. Some believe that the movie is a piece of Nazi propaganda meant to promote the Nazi image and discourage its enemies. Others believe it is a factual...

Triumph Of The Will Propaganda Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Leni Riefenstahl denied that her film Triumph of the Will was propaganda. She claimed “It is history – pure history”. Susan Sontag’s response is that the film is propaganda tha...

Triumph of the Will, More Than Just Propaganda
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: History is meant to change the way we think about our past, give us an understanding of what has happened and allow for change to be made to better everyday life. After the havoc of the first wor...

True Romance Sicilian Scene Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 7th Jun 2017
Introduction: Barthes saw the importance of keeping vital information hidden from the viewer in order to keep them excited and interested in the narrative. After watching a mystery unfold, we are often left kicking...

Twelve Years a Slave as an African American Classic
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: When one raises the question ‘What does classic mean?’ or ‘What belongs in the canon?’, many debates are sparked. Twelve Years a Slave should be read by all, young people included simply ...

Un Chien Andalou Experimental Movie Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Bunuel explains that historically the film represents a violent reaction against what in those days was called “avant-garde”, which was aimed exclusively at artistic sensibility and the au...

Unbroken Movie Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: Unbroken Movie Analysis The movie titled Unbroken directed by Angelina Jolie, including actors Jack O’Connell, Miyavi, Alex Russell and many more. The movie was released in 2014 a...

Unconventional Representations of Gender
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: This essay will focus on an unconventional representation of gender, which goes against the femininity and masculinity stereotypes that are still instilled in our chauvinist society. This will b...

Understanding Disney The Walt Disney Corporation Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: The Walt Disney Corporations mission, at least according to them, is to make people happy.  In order to fulfill this statement, the company has grown from a small cartoon studio run by Walt and Roy ...

Unforgiven Directed By Clint Eastwood Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Unforgiven is a dark and haunting film in what can be considered Clint Eastwood’s ‘finest hour’. A revisionist western, set in the 1880s that serves as the final culmination of Eastw...

Use of Cinematic Tools to Deliver an Anti-War Message in 'Apocalypse Now'
Example essay. Last modified: 25th Aug 2021
Introduction: In this paper, I will discuss how Coppola used cinematic tools strategically in his film Apocalypse Now to show warfare for what it truly is and the effect on soldiers that combat had in order to inspire society to re-evaluate and change its attitude towards war....

Use Of Music By Thomas Newman Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Since the advent of silent cinema in the late 1800s (Prendergast 1992), the film industry has grown into a global powerhouse contributing over £4.5bn to the UK economy last year alone (Oxford Economi...

Use Of Nature In Asian American Painting Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Nature played an important role in the history of Chinese and Japanese art. Many factors influenced the use of nature in these art forms. During the northern Sung Dynasty, the Emperor officially annou...

Using Color To Define A Character Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Edward Sissorhand, Moulin Rouge, Hero. Compare/contrast color and meaning how color define character. Color has an important role for a movie. The colors have many meaning such as love, happiness, sad...

Using Genre Theory In Studying Hollywood Movies
Example essay. Last modified: 30th Jul 2021
Introduction: This discourse aims to examine the advantages and limitations of using genre theory in studying Hollywood film. Also, the movie that will be examined are western genre which is Shane directed by George Stevens and The Searcher directed by John Ford....

Using Theatre To Promote Social Change Theatre Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Theatre can makes concepts coherent and real for people. It involves its audience both intellectually and emotionally, it sensitizes audiences to issues, ideas and people portrayed, and it engenders a...

Vertigo, 1958 | Film Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2017
Introduction: Vertigo is a 1958 suspense thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, written by Alec Coppel and Samuel Taylor and based upon the 1954 novel ‘D’entre Les Morts’ by Pierre Boileau and Tho...

Video Analysis Of Billionaire By Travis Mccoy Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Dreams of waking up as a billionaire have circled around the consciousness of many, especially through periods when life knocks you down and mostly to those who belong to an ethnic group that is looke...

Video Game To Movie Cross Media Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Following the Teaser – Show the benefits, it’s about selling your service. If the service allows them to win money this should be clear, if it’s of a narrative experience then the te...

Violence And Media Textual Analysis Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Textual analysis is crucial in film analysis of any kind. Almost all film studies module will always consist of textual analysis as the first assignment. Textual analysis is usually focused on sequenc...

Violence in Films | Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2017
Introduction: Violence is an important part of films in order to depict the sensational and explicit appeal. Films under the genre of gangster and war featured violence as the central theme of the film. The featuri...

Virtual Acting In The Cinema Industry Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Virtual actors (hereafter VA) are human shaped computer generated entities – not necessarily real-life entities – that perform various tasks in a wider range of applications such as motion...

Visual Pleasure And Narrative Cinema
Example essay. Last modified: 15th May 2017
Introduction: In this paper we are going to discuss the position of Laura Malvey in her work “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”. The psychoanalytic interpretation of the position of women viewers ge...

Visual Pleasure And Narrative Cinema Analysis Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: In this paper we are going to discuss the position of Laura Malvey in her work “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”. We will also discuss how Mulvey’s thesis may be convincing in o...

Visual storytelling in films
Example essay. Last modified: 3rd Mar 2017
Introduction: Literature Review Introduction In this preface section, more than a few factors that shape the art of relating visuals and stories in films will be listed down. These factors will be the root of the ...

Wag The Dog Movie Review Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: The 1997 Barry Levinson produced and directed film Wag the Dog is a satire that makes you laugh but on second thought makes you wonder. The film tells how easier than it seems for a spin-doctor and a ...

Walt Disneys Silly Symphonies Analysis Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Walt Disney, arguably one of the twentieth century’s greatest story tellers, found his voice in the 1930’s. Following from the success of the Mickey Mouse shorts, the Disney Studio began t...

Wat is feit en fictie?
Example essay. Last modified: 31st May 2017
Introduction: Inleiding Wij kregen een voorlichting van ons profielwerkstuk, tijdens die voorlichting kwamen wij eigenlijk gelijk op het idee om ons werkstuk over de Zeven Wereldwonderen te gaan doen. Helaas kwamen...

Watching Sherlock Holmes Online Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Those who grew up reading the adventures of Sherlock Holmes as written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle are looking forward to the screen adaptation of the notorious sleuth. But you do not have to wait until...

Watchmen A Social Commentary Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: The film “Watchmen” is a social commentary which tells the story of a dystopia 1985. Through flashbacks of certain characters we find out how the world, and the characters, ended up the wa...

West Side Story And Romeo And Juliet Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: West Side Story is an American musical written by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and choreography by Jerome Robbins. It is said to be a rendition of Shakespea...

Western Representations Of Chinese Women Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Topic: Discuss Western representations of Chinese women in the context of stereotypical, Orientalist views of Asian women (e.g., the Puccini opera, Madame Butterfly, mail-order bride agencies, represe...

What Creates Fear In Horror Movies?
Example essay. Last modified: 12th May 2017
Introduction: Why I am frightened?With my dissertation, I don’t want to explain the entire horror cinema story, nor mention all the important directors or the actually best movies in this genre. My aim is to ...

What Form of Nostalgia Is X-Men: First Class?
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: Nostalgia Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class is a fascinating depiction of the 1960s. X-Men dabbles in period nostalgia using the Cuban Missile Crisis as a backdrop to explore how th...

What Is British Humour?
Example essay. Last modified: 28th Apr 2017
Introduction: In popular culture, British humour is a somewhat general term applied to certain types of comedy and comedic acts from the United Kingdom. Many UK comedy TV shows typical of British humour have become...

What Makes A Movie Great?
Example essay. Last modified: 20th Aug 2021
Introduction: With thousands of films released each and every year and so few succeeding either commercially or financially, one has to pose the question: what is it, exactly, that makes a film great?...

Whats Eating Gilbert Grape Film Review Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Society’s ideological constructs and attitudes towards minority groups are created and reinforced through media imagery. Although negative......

Why Does Michael Moor's Documentaries Appeal So Strongly?
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: Roger & Me (1989) attracted positive reviews and a major distribution deal, but also a critical backlash against Michael Moore’s approach to documentary film-making. Why does Moore’s appr...

Why is the Movie Black Panther Important to the African American Community?
Example essay. Last modified: 3rd Aug 2021
Introduction: Black Panther builds on Afrofuturism. Afrofuturism is a cultural style where African Diaspora intersects with technological development (Bukatman et al., 1994). The term coined by Mark Dery in 1993 imagines the development of African culture amalgamated with technology (Bukatman et al., 1994)....

Why Is The Star System Important Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Firstly, the star system had a major significance in defining the elements in a Classical Hollywood film, which include the acting method and mise-en-scene. It was important to the development of the ...

Why Is the Term “World Cinema” Problematic?
Example essay. Last modified: 15th Dec 2017
Introduction: Generally the term “World cinema” is used for films produced in different countries of world, especially non-English speaking countries, i.e. why some people tries to explain it as a foreign langu...

Will Smiths Roles And Performances Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Born to Reign was the album released by Willard Christopher Smith Jr. also known as Will Smith, in the year of 2002. Although it did not reach the levels of success his previous albums had, it had a v...

William Kentridge Artist From South Africa Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: The sixth film in serious Drawings foe Projections was the History of the Main Complaint which was made in 1996. This film was made before the True and Reconciliation Commission hearing began. The plo...

Wings Of Desire Plot Analysis Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Wings of desire one of the movie reveled in the DVD could have twisted out to be one of the best movies. A hugely commended and multi-award winning movie including best directors for Wenders at Cannes...

Women In Bollywood Movies Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Bollywood Films are very unique and a different style of movie when compared to Hollywood. There are many things that are dissimilar in Indian films but here the different viewpoints of women in Bolly...

Women In Reality Television Dating Shows Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Reality television is viewed as a form of factual programming. It is easily identified by its apparently unscripted discourse, untrained actors, and the ability to voyeuristically watch events develop...

Women, Sexuality, and Technology in Metropolis
Example essay. Last modified: 20th Aug 2021
Introduction: In this paper, I would like to examine the relationship between women, sexuality, and technology.The first ever science fiction film, “Metropolis”, is a German Expressionism film released in 1927 that portrays women through femininity, technology, and sexuality. ...

Wong Kar Wai And Hollywood Cinema Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: The world today is essentially a bifocal world. Filmmakers everywhere are concerned with their own national cinema, and then with Hollywood. The world today is divided into Hollywood and a serious of ...

Work Of Stanley Kubrick Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: Stanley Kubrick became an amateur photographer after getting a camera as a gift. He became an associate photographer at Look Magazine after selling an photograph of a newsstand after Franklin Roosevel...

Writing a Movie Review
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Sep 2017
Introduction: Writing a movie review is a great way of expressing your opinion of a movie. The purpose of most movie reviews is to help readers in determining whether they want to watch, rent, or buy the movie. T...

Yoko Ono And Avant Garde Film Studies Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jan 2015
Introduction: According to some theorists, the twentieth century can be divided into two distinct periods.; The modernism movement and Postmodernism. By its loose definition, Modernism is a collection of movements ...

Zoot Suits: Play And Movie Comparison
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2017
Introduction: Traditionally, books and films are quite different because they refer to different forms of art. At the same time, many films are based on books and directors attempt to mirror the story conveyed by w...