Essay Database

… to the Crime, by Tom Murton and Joy Hyams (1969). The book is out of print, but I would wholeheartedly advocate checking one's library as Accomplices provides valuable background to the film. Tom Murton served as superintendent in the Arkansas Prison…

… The age of Renaissance (1300’s-1600’s) was the time line that the dramatized Michelangelo’s artist lifestyle. The Renaissance was begun by the humanist, scholars who studied Greek and Roman literature…

… normal or dysfunctional in today’s society, a society in which almost nothing can seem to surprise? However, having watched The Lion in Winter, directed by Anthony Harvey, there exists no question in my mind as to the dysfunctional nature of the royal…

… movie based on the novel by William Golding, a group of young, pre-adolescent boys are shipwrecked on an island, and they are on their own to fend for themselves. It would make the most sense for these boys to work together as a survival strategy until…

… “All is Quiet on the Western Front” is an anti-war movie. The movie expresses in so many ways the horrible aspects of war. Not only does it show of the horrible deaths and of ignorance, but also it shows the effects on the soldier’s mind and their…

… forms but one main difference then was recognition of socially acceptable and binding unions. Medieval society recognized more than one form of matrimony. These different forms of marriage included types such as Muntehe and Friedelehe as well as the…

… world that mirrors our own society. This is to give a legitimacy to the film, to allow the viewer to think about how similar the people on the screen’s lives are to their own. Some fantasy films, in contrast, tug at the viewers’ imaginations…

… Bicycle Thief by Vittorio De Sica is a movie that breaks the Hollywood aesthetic of beautiful people, fancy homes, and extensive wealth that only thrives in fantasy and sometimes-unconquerable dreams. It exploits the plight of working…

… and directed by Warren Beatty, follows the life of John Reed as it intertwines with Louise Bryant , the Russian Revolution, and other historical characters. Featuring Warren Beatty as John Reed and Diane Keaton as Louise Bryant. Also, including Jack…

… by Charlie Chaplin was at the time a controversial film because it exposed Nazism and anti-Semitism with both humor and horror. In his film, Chaplin plays the two main characters: Adenoid Hynkel, the tyrannical dictator of Tomania and a Jewish barber…