Film Studies Essays
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Bicycle Thieves (1948) and Umberto D (1952) Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 4th Sep 2017
Two films from the neorealism movement are Bicycle Thieves (1948) and Umberto D (1952) both directed by Vittorio De Sica. Both films in their own way show the real-life hardships that were faced dur...
Shutter Island Psychoanalytic Response
Example essay. Last modified: 4th Sep 2017
The film Shutter Island is an extremely complex mental thriller that you must watch multiple times to fully understand the movie. Teddy, believes he is a government Marshall looking for a missing pa...
In Time Movie Review
Example essay. Last modified: 4th Sep 2017
In Time starring Justin Timberlake as Will Salas, is what I believe to be an eye-catching action thriller with every right to be on your must watch list. Breaking onto the scene just as the occupy w...
Writing a Movie Review
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Sep 2017
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...
Alien (1979) and Prometheus (2012) Comparison
Example essay. Last modified: 7th Aug 2017
Introduction In this essay I will compare the visual effects of two movies – an older movie and It´s prequel. As a fan of sci-fi movies, for this writing I decided to compare Alien (1979) and...
History and Comparison of American Musicals
Example essay. Last modified: 7th Aug 2017
Utopia is an ideal world state where everything which happens is perfect and there are no negative emotions like sadness, anger or jealousy to exist in it. The world is perfect and has every situati...
Aesthetics and Sound of Japanese Horror Films 1990s-2000
Example essay. Last modified: 7th Aug 2017
Analyse the aesthetics and sound of Japanese horror films from late 1990s to early 2000s World Cinema is typically used to refer to films of non-English speaking countries and has a representation t...
Compositional Analysis of Images
Example essay. Last modified: 7th Aug 2017
DRAWING ON KRESS AND VAN LEEUWEN’S CONCEPTS OF THE GIVEN AND THE NEW IN READING IMAGES: THE GRAMMAR OF VISUAL DESIGN (1996), PERFORM A COMPOSITIONAL ANALYSIS OF ANY TWO OF THE GIVEN IMAGES. ...
Film Proposal Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 28th Jul 2017
FILM PROPOSAL CAMINO ‘Camino’ is a documentary about the life-changing journey to Santiago de Compostela in north-west Spain. It is a 500-miles walk and it usually takes between 30 an...
Freud's Concept of the Unconscious - Hitchcock's Psycho
Example essay. Last modified: 20th Jul 2017
In this essay I have analysed the famous Hitchcock film ‘psycho’ using Freud’s concept of the unconscious. The bleak, monochrome film is made more effective by Bernard Herrmann’...
Bowling For Columbine Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 20th Jul 2017
Throughout Bowling For Columbine an anti-political, critical and persuasive perspective is dominant. Bowling For Columbine is a documentary directed, written, produced and narrated by the controversia...
Juno Movie Analysis Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 20th Jul 2017
Females have been stereotyped, from the prefect wife to the maid.. Whatever the role, television, film and popular magazines are full of images of women and girls who are typically white, desperately ...
Rear Window Music Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 20th Jul 2017
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980), was one of the greatest English filmmakers and producers who not only pioneered many techniques in the psychological thriller genre ...
Impact of Cartoons on Children Research
Example essay. Last modified: 14th Jul 2017
Cartoon or animated movie is a form which uses optical illusion and movements of consecutive performing of many still images. The first cartoon in the world was “Fantasmagorie” which was m...
History of Hollywood
Example essay. Last modified: 14th Jul 2017
Hollywood cinema is the most popular in the world. Hollywood has a significant influence on the cinema of other countries, it’s no secret that it was Hollywood movies set in the fashion of ma...
The Lovely Bones Book vs Movie
Example essay. Last modified: 14th Jul 2017
Alice Sebold’s bestseller The Lovely Bones is another book that you don’t quite know what to expect when you pick it up, but when you read it you get it very quickly. It affects you emotio...
Coach Carter Review
Example essay. Last modified: 13th Jul 2017
Coach Carter is a 2005 film directed by Thomas Carter. It is based on a true story, after the Richmond High School basketball coach Ken Carter portrayed by (Samuel L. Jackson) made headlines in for be...
Fight Club Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 13th Jul 2017
Thesis Statement: An analysis of the movie Fight Club reveals the ambiguity of its themes about modern life, masculinity and nihilism. Ambiguity and Hope in David Fincher’s Fight Club A decade a...
Romeo And Juliet Scene Comparison
Example essay. Last modified: 13th Jul 2017
The renowned William Shakespeare’s play, “Romeo and Juliet” was directed into two movie versions; the traditional version of 1968 that was directed by Franco Zeffirelli and the moder...
Impact of Movies on Society
Example essay. Last modified: 12th Jul 2017
This essay gives a brief history of how movies were developed in the first place. This not only gives a bit of experience of how the movies were developed, but also the purpose of making the movie its...
City of God Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 12th Jul 2017
The films studied for this essay – City of God (2002) and Favela Rising (2006) have taken favelas from the marginality of Brazilian society and transported them into the consciousness of the int...
Saving Private Ryan Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 12th Jul 2017
Saving Private Ryan by Steven Spielberg. Introduction Steven Spielberg’s acclaimed 1998 war film Saving Private Ryan tells the story of the search for Private James Francis Ryan (Matt Damon), an Ame...
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Film Techniques
Example essay. Last modified: 12th Jul 2017
In this essay, I would like to talk about a film which is called Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. It is a ancient Chinese martial art film, it is according to Chinese novelist Wang Du Lu’s novels...
Moulin Rouge Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 11th Jul 2017
Nowadays we live in democratic society and all members take action in shaping our culture. From all forms of mass communication, from all types of art the cinema occupies in society unique position. M...
House Of Flying Daggers Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 10th Jul 2017
Chinese film-director Zhang Yimou is member of the Fifth Generation. The Fifth Generation itself is famous for its cinematography, specifically for the use of visual images, unusual camera movement, v...
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