Romantic Comedies Most women are hopeless romantics, it's just that some do a much better job at hiding it than others. I'm sure that everyone has known someone in their lifetime who complains constantly about their significant other and simply wishes to find the perfect guy/girl. But ...

In the 1970´s, Brian Henderson predicted that, due to 'changes within family structures and sexual relationships´, and a 'loss of faith in the interest of romance as a subject´, the romantic comedy would become outdated and therefore, supposedly, an 'impossibility´ in today´s cinema (FM3011 - C...

Oftentimes, we hear the phrase about life imitating art and vice versa. When it comes to pop culture, this is especially true. Society and pop culture often reflect each other. One major influence in this category is the prevalence of organized crime in pop culture. Organized crime has become a last...

Lights, Camera, maybe Action? While not a motivating or inspiring film, Robert Altman's "The Player" is creative and amusingly satirical. The cinematography and editing tricks grabs the audience attention and throws them into the midst of Hollywood back-lot. "The Player's&q...

TV in the 1950's Reflected/Created Culture How many hours per week do you spend watching television? The average American child or adolescent spends 22-28 hours per week watching TV, which is more than any other activity other than sleeping. Did you know that there are more television sets in...

INTRODUCTION War has a great impact on popular culture within a society and in fact, infiltrates every aspect of pop culture including music, television, film, and even video games that children play. This has been highly evidenced during the present ongoing war in Iraq which culminated followin...

There was once a time in Hollywood when the stars were truly \"larger than life\" both on the screen and off. An era where the greatest dramas, comedies, and tragedies were best performed behind the scenes. It is a time when the studios controlled all of Hollywood. The \"Golden Era\" is when the fac...

The Playwright's Company: Saving the Art on Broadway The period in history from the Depression up until the beginnings of World War II were financially bleak for Broadway Theatre. The number of productions being produced were also down. Producers were going bankrupt left and right, and the S...

Throughout the years of movie making, directors, producers, writers, and studios have developed certain cinematic formulas that are continually successful. One theme that has proved itself to be classic and timeless is the romantic love story. In this essay, I will explore the idea of the couple ...

'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 ...