Although its generic title suggests otherwise, Wes Craven's Scream (1996) is a horror film that in many ways transcends the banality of its genre. Indeed, Scream distinguishes itself from other horror movies by an understanding, made explicit within the diegesis of the film, of the horror genre...

Air, food, water, shelter, and fire are important elements of life for human beings. Without those elements, we could not possibly survive. Those are the obvious ones, but have you ever thought of something else that you couldn\'t live without? Did television or books come to mind? If they didn\...

1. Introduction Philosophy and film do not mix. This is the impression one has when one sounds out the literature in both fields. Therefore it is with some surprise that one reads that Ludwig Wittgenstein, the renowned Austrian philosopher, was an avid viewer of cowboy movies (Carver, 1995). However...

Introduction and Background Information The 2001 feature film Ghost World is one of only a few comic book-to-film adaptations that centers on a female protagonist, and it contains one of the first comic-to-film protagonists, male or female, to be a non-action character-in other words, the prot...

Last year was a year which was described by many as a disappointing year for film, with very little of significance coming from the film industry, in terms of ground breaking or memorable movies. For me last year was the year that Hollywood decided to make some interesting (The Insider), un-conventi...

The Beatles films If there was a time capsule that let the people of the future see what shaped the culture around the world in the 20th century there would be a few people who would be on the consensus list. Making up a part of that capsule would be the musical group "The Beatles". Th...

In the period previous to the 1930's, the predominant form of filmmaking was that of the crank camera. This is not to say that motor-driven cameras were not possible. However, the motors to advance the film were so large that they were s...

The Contribution of Mise-En-Scene to the Central Conflict within Crimes and Misdemeanors by Chris Faris In Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), two parallel stories revolve about a central conflict portraying the human dilemma of making moral or spiritually guided choices versus e...

Ever since the 1960s, when the Motion Picture Association of America under director Jack Valenti first established the system of labeling movies according to age and suitability for specific audiences, filmmakers and critics alike have criticized the rating system as ineffective, inaccurate and oft...

Introduction.The topic of my essay is "Cinematography in the United States of America and in Ukraine". Looking through all the themes which can be taken, I have decided to stop at cinematography. I have chosen this topic, because it is a part of our everyday's life.Cinematography is a mirror which r...

Since the publishing date of the first illustrated books, the hero characters have taken their places in the daily life of the people. In fact, many hero characters had existed for centuries through the history. They had been living in tales and epic stories and being spread by the word of mouth...

Western films are the major defining genre of the American film industry, a nostalgic display of praise to the early days of the expansive, untamed American frontier. Director John Ford was a much-celebrated director who made some of the most famous pictures in Hollywood cinema, if not ...

Persona is probably Ingmar Bergman's most famous film. Its notoriety goes beyond the sum of its controversial ingredients, however, which are many (the inclusion of footage of an erect penis in the pre-title sequence, graphic verbal descriptions of an orgy, etc.); rather, its enduring legacy ...

Violence in the media. This project is to look at violence in the media and to find out whether it influences people and there actions. There have been a lot cases in which people have committed crimes and then said they done this actions because of films. I'm going to look in detail about s...

Mr. Hulot=s Vacation (Tati, 1953) is a French comedy with a light touch.The film seems to exist in a time-warp of sorts, depicting a period whenFrench and British tourists mingled on the beach at small resorts withlittle pretension to be big resorts. The technique of the film isobservational from f...

Over the last century, queer roles have transcended through numerous changes in Hollywood. On the forefront of Hollywood during the 1930's, queer roles in film were looked upon as transgressions against society and humanity. At this particular point in history, the studios took great liberty at hidi...

'Excellence', 'popularity', 'typicality' - discuss the relative merits of each of these as a basis for the inclusion of films in a film historyAny attempt to study film history requires the consideration of films, which occur within the categories of excellence, popularity and typicality. They are ...