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Adultery in Literature and Film, 2004.
An overview of the theme of adultery as it has been dealt with by literature and film over time.
1,802 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 6 sources, MLA, £ 39.95
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This paper discusses how, when a book is published today that includes the story of an affair between a married man and/or woman, hardly anyone raises an eyebrow in protest, since, in today's society, extramarital affairs occur regularly in real life and even more so in literature and films. It looks at how the situation was quite different in earlier centuries when affairs were looked upon much differently, and novels covered the topic of marriage, but not of illicit love affairs. From works such as D.H Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley?s Lover" and modern-day films such as "The Good Girl", it attempts to show how the subject takes on a much greater significance in the past than its media portrayal today.
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"In the 20th century, the theme of adultery has become much more common, especially since it is more acceptable and openly discussed in Western society. However, it many cases, the results are not any more reassuring. In his 1998 novel Rabbit, John Updike has Rabbit cheat on Janice and indirectly cause the death of his daughter. In the second book of the series, he separates from Janice, but cheats on his girlfriend, who is killed in a fire. In the third book, he is prevented from consummating his lustful desires and nobody dies. But in the fourth novel, he cheats on Janice yet again. It is the same theme of adultery as in 19th century literature, but this time the book is written with humor and fun. And, once again, the readers can actually imagine that they, too, could be or have been a character like Rabbit. For Rabbit is the story of every person?a mixture of the good and the bad."
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The Art Film and the Genre Film, 2004.
Art and genre criticism in four classic films.
3,048 words (approx. 12.2 pages), 48 sources, MLA, £ 61.95
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An analysis of two genre films and two art films - Antonioni's "Blow Up," Kelly/Donen's "Singin' in the Rain", Truffaut's "The 400 Blows", and Sirk's "All That Heaven Allows". The validity of both genre and art film criticism are examined.
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"By its failure to accommodate the excess generated by its subject matter, All That Heaven Allows is not only critiquing the genre of melodrama, it also exposes the contradictions and conflicts present in American bourgeois society (Bourget, 1995, 45). However the subversive excess and contradictions present in the film prevent it from being ?just another melodrama?. Sirk worked within yet against the constraints of the Hollywood studio system to subvert the genre, and although the film is superficially a generic 1950s Hollywood melodrama, Sirk?s characteristic stylistic technique marks him as an auteur, a position usually associated with the art rather than the genre film."
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Adultery, 2002.
An analysis of adultery caused by the empty nest syndrome.
2,508 words (approx. 10.0 pages), 10 sources, MLA, £ 52.95
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This paper discusses adultery and its causes. The paper focuses on the empty nest syndrome and presents various points about the syndrome and how it may contribute to an extramarital affair. In addition, the writer provides suggestions on how to avoid empty nest syndrome based adultery.
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"In recent years the topic of adultery has moved from hushed whispers behind closed doors to the evening news and presidential inquests. Adultery has been splashed on every magazine cover, and discussed on every talk show and is no longer the taboo topic that it used to be. There are many situations that trigger adultery including the empty nest syndrome. When children grow up and move away the parents are often left with an almost bottomless pit of loneliness and emptiness. This can cause someone to turn to outside companionship in an effort to fill that void, and the result is an extra marital affair. There are many reasons that an empty next leads to an affair and there are several things that can be done to counteract its temptation."
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Is Adultery Right or Wrong, 2006.
A discussion regarding what constitutes adultery.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, £ 30.95
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This paper discusses the moral issue of adultery. It defines marriage as based on conditional promises including sexual exclusivity, trust, and maintaining a good relationship with one another. The paper goes on to discuss that when partners in a marriage agree to allow sexual relationships with other people, then having affairs is not adultery. The person must be open and honest to the marriage partner and as long as the person took care of the physical and mental needs of the partner.
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Adultery & the Media, 1999.
Analyzes trends in adultery & the impact of media coverage of infidelity among politicians, celebrities and military personnel.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 18 sources, £ 54.95
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" ADULTERY AND THE MEDIA
Introduction
This research paper presents an evaluation of adultery and how it is treated in the media. Incidence and prevalence of adultery are noted. The history of media coverage, values, attitudes, and beliefs, and current media coverage of adultery are discussed.
Incidence & Prevalence
The National Opinion Research Center reports that 20 percent of American men and 10 percent of American women are not faithful in their marriages and gender is the most constant predictor of marital infidelity. Media reports cite higher percentages. Alfred Kinsey stated that around half of the men and a quarter of the women in his samples had committed adultery. Playboy.."
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Seventies Films Versus Today's Films, 2001.
A comparison between films from different periods in time, and the differences in their entertainment methods.
2,625 words (approx. 10.5 pages), 8 sources, £ 54.95
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A comparison of three honored films from the seventies, "Easy Rider", "Five Easy Pieces", and "The Godfather" and two films from the the year 2000, "The Gladiator" and "Erin Brokovich". The paper considers how they differ in the realm of providing distracting entertainment versus probing consideration of timely issues, concluding that seventies films left a more lasting vision.
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"What do we want from our movies? Do we seek simple escape or deeper understanding of our lives? Can a movie be both probing and entertaining? Are entertainment, eye candy and special effects enough, or do we seek something deeper? Do we want to look inside ourselves and ask questions, or to merely stay on the surface, distract ourselves, and deny that there is anything more to be considered? These questions arise when comparing three movies from the 1970s with two films nominated for Academy Awards in the 2000. The films considered are: from the seventies, Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, and The Godfather, and from 2000, Gladiator and, Erin Brokovich. Pauline Kael, the well-know New Yorker film critic, commenting on how she got hooked on films, agrees another critic, Paul Coates, that in its ideal form, ?Cinema is the dream of an afterlife from which to comprehend this one? (Kael 63). In light of this quote, the films from the seventies embody elements which through the focused vision of the director offer mythic qualities that provide not only entertainment but an opportunity for viewers to examine their lives. That in accomplishing this, they provide images that remain in the mind?s eye could be considered the tradition of the seventies. In contrast, recent films Gladiator and Erin Brokovich are entertaining distractions, providing no lasting vision."
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Adultery, 2005.
An analysis of why people are unfaithful to their partners.
2,121 words (approx. 8.5 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 45.95
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Adultery and infidelity have become a very prominent problem in today's society. They are spreading faster than many people could imagine and are almost uncontainable. This paper examines the various issues surrounding unfaithfulness in the genders such as history, the media, religion and how adultery can possibly be prevented from the beginning.
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"Way back in time, adultery was considered as a serious crime, as murder is considered today. Those people who were caught in extra-martial affairs were either shunned from their communities or were subjected to massive humiliation. These steps were taken to frighten people who would be prone to committing acts of adultery. Adultery was something that lower class people would be involved in because it was such a dirty thing. Today our culture has gone from adultery being the worse thing a person could do, to now being something that's considered common amongst everyone. Why people commit adultery can sometimes still be a blunder. Groups in society think it's because the person isn't receiving all of his or her requirements at home, and others think it's a sick habit."
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Film Studies: Analyzing Three Films within the Context of South East and Asian Historical Perspectives, 2005.
The Chinese Communist Party soon came to power after years of exile and puppet rule that Pu Yi had experienced in the ever changing political and gove...
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 6 sources, £ 36.95
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The Chinese Communist Party soon came to power after years of exile and puppet rule that Pu Yi had experienced in the ever changing political and governmental landscapes of China. In 1950 Pu Yi was forced to leave his Soviet township and soon became a prisoner of the new Communist Party politics.
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ABSTRACT TOO SHORT
Film Studies: Analyzing Three Films within the Context of South East and Asian Historical Perspectives Essay 1: Understanding the Premise of Vietnamese Communism within the Film: Full Metal Jacket The film Full Metal Jacket (1987), directed by Stanley Kubrick, offers an American point of view of a Vietnamese conflict that depended heavily on the communist (NLF) National Liberation Front. The communist resistance to American pressure to abdicate to the puppet regimes of older leaders, such as Ngo Dinh Diem, resulted in the NLF being called the "Viet Cong" or a "Democratic Dictatorship" within military and governmental propaganda. The reason for this is reflected in the film, as the Tet Offensive becomes the symbolic part of the movie where the Americans begin to lose the war, marking the American military's last real ground-based initiative to take the country. In this manner, a historical perspective of the NLF can be analyzed, but
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Women in Film Noir, 2004.
An in-depth look at the role of women in the genre of film known as film noir.
7,839 words (approx. 31.4 pages), 21 sources, MLA, £ 118.95
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Among the various styles of producing films, the noir style is one that has come to be recognized for its uniqueness in characterization, camera work and striking dialogue. Film Noir of the 1940s and 50s was well known for feminine characters that were the protagonists, the femme fatale. This was most common with the French and later accepted in the United States. This paper begins by introducing film noir, its definition, how it started and also the history of this genre in the United States of America. It looks at films such as the "Maltese Falcon" (1941) and "A Touch of Evil" (1958). In the second section, the paper explores how women are represented in film noir (heroine and femme fatal) by discussing the aforementioned films and analyzing them. The paper examines different authors, such as Ann Mary Doane whose research is based on feminism and psychoanalysis and Ewing Dale ("Style and Content in Film Noir"), to discuss their ideas. The paper also compares two film noirs - the "Maltese Falcon" (1941) and "Basic Instinct" (a contemporary noir), to see how women express themselves, looking to see whether they express themselves through their sexual diversity. In the third and last section, the paper examines how women are represented in contemporary noir by analyzing and discussing one contemporary noir - "Mulholland Drive" (2001). The paper analyzes sequences to demonstrate the movie's connection with film noir and examines the role of women in the film. The paper includes illustrations from movies.
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"Mulholland Drive reinforces the dominance of the femme fatale in contemporary film noir. In present times the role of the woman in society is observed to have a variation, and this is because of the fact that there is a change in the way that she can express herself. It also highlights the way that she can dominate men without them even knowing it. It is perhaps only when they reach their ultimate doom that they realize that women have exploited them. This kind of character portrayal is one that has increased over the years since the beginning of the film noirs. From then it has developed itself in American filmmaking, which has reflected the strengths and weaknesses both in American society."
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Women in Film: "Jerry McGuire", 2006.
An analysis of the representation of women in film using the film, "Jerry McGuire" as an example.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 4 sources, £ 18.95
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This paper analyzes the film "Jerry McGuire" in order to analyze the characterization of women in film. Several analysis techniques are used for the analysis, such as looking at the life styles portrayed in the film, the film's language, the argument within the text, and the reception of the audience.
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Director Pedro Almodovar and the Spanish Film Industry, 2002.
This paper shows the influence of director Pedro Almodovar on the Spanish film industry and how his films helped pave the way for other Spanish directors to find an audience outside of Spain and to reestablish the viability of the Spanish film industry.
3,100 words (approx. 12.4 pages), 8 sources, £ 62.95
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The paper introduces the topic with a look at Robert Phillip Kolker's "The Altering Eye", which considers some of the economic and social forces that apply in different countries to shape their film. It then examines the life and work of director Pedro Almodovar as an example of these theories at work in Spain. It suggests that Almodovar's success was dependent on the social and political changes in Spain, namely the end of the fascist era and a move toward democracy.
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"Film is an international medium in spite of language differences, and different countries come to the fore at different times to make a mark both artistic and economic on the world cinema. After world War II, Italian neo-realism burst onto the scene, followed in the early 1960s by the French New Wave. In the 1970s it was a combination of films from Australia and films from West Germany, the latter led by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. More recently, Spain has become a contributor to the screens of the world, with the leading filmmaker of the time being Pedro Almodovar, in some ways an unlikely leader given his penchant for bizarre sexual themes, iconoclastic attitudes, and searing satiric humor."
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British Film Industry, 2008.
This paper provides a critique of the processes of British film in
respect to the influence of American film.
1,783 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 39.95
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In this article, the writer maintains that the British film industry often frames itself in respect to its counterpart, the American film industry. The writer notes that movies made in the United States typically gross larger sums than British films, a point that has long motivated the British film industry to identify American movie-making as a more profitable model. The writer argues, however, that the emulation of American films by British studios has typically fallen short of projections: the British film-going audience, which hungrily devours American blockbusters, is surprisingly hesitant to engage in films that are made in Britain and utilize American-style plots, cinematography, acting, and special effects.
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Introduction
British Film Media
Issues of Consideration in British Film
British Film and American Film
Summary
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"When this process occurs, the value of a film made by a British film studio is challenged. The outcome is problematic, as the film itself may contribute to the British film industry as a composition with significant artistic merit, but the lack of financial incentives indicates that there is a strong potential for the film to get "lost" in the cinematic archives. Films that have permanency within an audience are not necessarily those with the greatest intrinsic merit but are instead those that have had backing through a strong studio and have created a market identity through advertising, widespread distribution, and so on. A film that communicates a strong message or has profound artistic composition will not necessarily become a permanent achievement in the film industry, and for most investors and studios an obscure picture might as well have never been made."
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Documentary Films, 2004.
Discusses documentary films by analyzing the film "Capturing the Friedmans".
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 5 sources, APA, £ 43.95
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This paper use the documentary film, "Capturing the Friedmans", to define and examine the documentary film genre. The paper analyzes "Capturing the Friedmans", and discusses what the family's home movies reveal about contemporary American family life and the dynamics of the family relationships.
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"According to Bill Nichols, every film is essentially a documentary, but true documentaries, as opposed to wish-fulfillment fictions, represent a unique genre of film that engages with the world as it exists in reality. Nichols says that the documentary engages with the world by representing it in one of three ways. First, documentaries offer a likeness or depiction of the world that bears a recognizable familiarity. Secondly, these films stand for or represent the interests of others. Third, some documentaries may represent the world..."
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War Films as Military Propaganda, 2006.
This paper discusses both positive and negative depictions of the US military in films and looks at how the military has made use of some of these films as a propaganda tool.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, £ 36.95
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This paper discusses the military's use of film as a propaganda tool. The films that examined in the paper are "Battlefield" and "The Manchurian Candidate". Other topics discussed include the Cold War and the use of ideology.
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"Depictions of the US Military in film have varied considerably over the years. Some films portray the US Military as a negative force that is being used to repress the average citizen. Others portray the US Military in a very positive light by suggesting that they are the average citizen's last defense against hostile nations. Although both depictions can be found in films from any year there are definitely patterns in the proportions of the depictions. In certain time periods the negative depictions of the US Military will outnumber the positive ones. In other time periods the positive depictions..."
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