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D.W. Griffith, John Ford, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock and Ingmar Bergman, 1999.
Examines these five directors' major films, contributions to cinema, innovations, styles and techniques.
3,825 words (approx. 15.3 pages), 9 sources, $ 135.95
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"This paper is a discussion of the works of five of the greatest directors in international cinema. D. W. Griffith, John Ford, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, and Ingmar Bergman have each had enormous influence in their art because of their individual vision and striking approach to filmmaking.
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"This paper is a discussion of the works of five of the greatest directors in international cinema. D. W. Griffith, John Ford, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, and Ingmar Bergman have each had enormous influence in their art because of their individual vision and striking approach to filmmaking. Their visual concerns have been dramatically different, but the commitment of each has led them to create powerful, effective films that continue to affect the work of filmmakers in every genre and every nation today. All five have made significant contributions toward turning filmmaking into an art, while developing different aspects of cinema and varying genres, and all five can be considered great artists.
David Wark Griffith was born in Kentucky on January 22, 1875. He began his career as an actor in small touring ..."
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D. W. Griffith's "Way Down East", 2006.
A summary and analysis of D.W. Griffith's 1920's era film "Way Down East".
1,726 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 55.95
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This paper describes the characters and plot of D.W. Griffith's film "Way Down East" and explains that, in order to identify with the characters, it is necessary to first understand what their lives were like and what it was like to live at that time. The paper describes the societal morals and standards of the era in which the film was written and the sexual double standards that existed at that time and explains that the message that Griffith wanted to convey in the movie was that these double standards were unfair and unjustifiable.
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"Anna Moore is a model of "true womanhood" in the Victorian sense (Welter, 1983). Purity and constancy are considered prime virtues, and she is portrayed as this type of woman. Griffith sees the ideal Victorian woman as delicate, sweet, innocent, very domestic, and sheltered from evil and the corruption of the real world. Anna, when she comes to Boston, is exactly like this. Ironically, it is precisely because of these virtues that idle, rich Lennox Sanderson, a sly, conniving womanizer, is attracted to her and determined he will have his way with her. He sees seducing her as an adventure and doesn't care that trusting him will ruin her. He tricks her by arranging for a fake wedding ceremony, and because she is infatuated by him and impressed with his sophisticated ways, she consents to marry him."
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D.W. Griffith's "Birth Of A Nation", 2005.
An analysis of D.W. Griffith's film, "Birth of a Nation", about American society after the Civil War.
678 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 23.95
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This paper analyzes D. W. Griffith's epic film, "Birth of a Nation, as if it were viewed by an African-American living in the same era as the film's story and discusses the impact the film might have had on him or her.
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"D.W. Griffith's classic film, "Birth of a Nation", revolves around the Civil War and American society in the aftermath of the War. While many claim that the negative depiction of blacks including the Ku Klux Klan being painted as the saviors of whites is racist, others argue the film is historically accurate. One of these others was President Woodrow Wilson who lamented upon viewing the film. It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all..."
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"Joining Together: Group Theory And Group Skills" ( D. W. Johnson and F. P. Johnson ), 2002.
Examines the pattern of ideas in this book on group dynamics.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, $ 23.95
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Examines the pattern of ideas in this book on group dynamics. Primacy of the group in individual life experience. Group theory applied to effective problem solving. Factors of effective communication, social interaction, cooperation and leadership. Idea that social interaction can function for good or ill. Dynamics of social interchange. Types of groups.
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"This research examines the pattern of ideas in Joining Together: Group Theory & Group Skills by Johnson and Johnson, as well as the means by which the authors articulate their view of the primacy of group dynamics in individual life experience. The research will set forth the principal lines of thought in the text and then discuss the value of a solid grounding in group theory to the practice of effective problem solving via effective communication, social interaction, cooperation, and leadership.
Group theory cannot be understood apart from the concept of dynamics, i.e., that groups are living things, functioning as a consequence of communication and leadership (Johnson & Johnson, 2000, p. 38), and functioning in a continual state of change. Indeed, changing patterns of communication and leadership are the ..."
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Christianity from A.D. 50 to A.D. 100, 2001.
A discussion on how Constantine had some bearing on Christianity; the formation of single unified Roman Orthodox Church.
1,540 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 6 sources, $ 50.95
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This essay compares the Christian religion prior to and after the rise of Constantine from A.D. 50 to A.D. 100. The author examines the influence Constantine had on Christianity in forming a single unified Orthodox Roman Church.
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"When Constantine the Great took the throne in A.D. 306, Christianity began to be more clearly adopted as the religion of the Roman imperial government. While a struggle for spiritual authority had been going on since the time of Jesus, it was from this official embrace of Constantine that the idea of forming a single, unified and orthodox Roman church began to develop."
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Ford and Post-Ford, 2002.
The Federal state's approach to the welfare state in the Fordist and post-Fordist periods in Canada.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper discusses the federal state's approach to the welfare state during the Fordist and post-Fordist periods. It shows how the state intervened and regulated the economy from the end of the Second World War to the 1980s, when deficit mania led to a dismantling of the overseeing state. This led to cutbacks in all social programs.
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African Americans, 2002.
A comparison of the portrayal of African Americans in "Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. Du Bois with D.W. Griffith's 1915 film "Birth of a Nation".
754 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 26.95
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This paper discusses how in his novel "The Souls of Black Folk" W.E.B. Du Bois wrote that the problem of the 20th Century is the problem of the color-line and how written in 1903, Du Bois' analysis proved correct for the rest of the century, particularly the first two-thirds of the 20th Century when Hollywood films depicted blacks as inferiors. It shows how a comparison of his portrayal of African Americans with D.W. Griffith's 1915 landmark film "Birth of a Nation" reveals a vivid contrast in the depiction of African Americans. It looks at how Du Bois portrays African Americans as a people who experience racial suffering and injustices, but also as a people with great strengths and resources who must fight as opposed to the film industry which stereotyped them as ignorant savages or grinning, dancing stooges or people who could only hold menial jobs and who lacked morals and intellect.
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"Before the release of "Birth of a Nation" blacks remained for the large part politically indifferent to the derogatory images presented by the film industry. One historian attributes their lack of interest to the deep puritan fundamentalist roots that dismissed film as needless frivolity (Cripps 11). Another reason could be that African Americans had so many areas that required their attention that leaders did not have the time to deal with film. The depiction of African Americans in Hollywood films was horrific, with stereotypes of them as ignorant savages or grinning, dancing stooges or people who could only hold menial jobs and who lacked morals and intellect. D. W. Griffith, the single most influential director of his time, took the stereotypes even further in A Birth of a Nation,@ portraying African Americans as brutal, lusting menaces who represented a very real threat to society."
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"Broken Blossoms", 2003.
An analysis of D W Griffith's silent film, "Broken Blossoms".
690 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 23.95
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This paper analyzes D.W. Griffith's 1919 silent film "Broken Blossoms" starring Lillian Gish. It discusses the film's cinematic techniques and narrative, its editing and camera placement. The paper explores the use of intertitles. The author also expands on the storyline and structure of the film.
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"D W Griffith's silent film "Broken Blossoms" is an allegorical melodramatic tragedy about a teenager who lives with an abusive father and is loved by a gentle young Chinese man. All three characters come to tragic ends. Shot in a Hollywood studio the ..."
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"The Birth of a Nation", 2003.
An analysis of the D W Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation".
690 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 23.95
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This paper analyzes the innovative film techniques used by D. W. Griffith in the 1915 controversial film that helped develop cinema as an art form, "The Birth of a Nation". It expands on his use of camera angles, lighting and parallel editing.
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"D W Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation" utilized a variety of cinematic innovations and techniques that helped developed cinema as an art form. Among these innovations and techniques are the use of ..."
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"Intolerance", 2001.
A Study of D.W. Griffith's 1916 film.
2,205 words (approx. 8.8 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 68.95
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This paper reviews D.W Griffith?s 1916 film, "Intolerance", which has remained one of the most influential films of all time from its initial release to the present day. It attempts to reconcile the tremendous influence of "Intolerance" on the filmmaking industry over the years and the applause it has received from film scholars even with its categorization as a financial debacle and a box-office flop. It discusses the film?s and subsequent rerelease's lack of mass appeal and the theories as to why Griffith?s epic did not achieve the financial success of his previous film, "The Birth of a Nation".
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"It is thus clear that D.W. Griffith?s Intolerance has been an influential film for filmmakers of subsequent generations, and that its greatness has been largely appreciated by film critics and scholars over the past eighty-five years. How, then, can the affirmed greatness of this film be reconciled with its box office failure in 1916? I believe the answer lays in the differences in how a film critic judges a film, as opposed to how the average moviegoer would do so. Drawing from several reviews of Griffith?s film, it appears that critics view the film as a work divorced from the world?a film?s greatness is the product of its own intrinsic worth. General film viewers, however, judge a movie in the context of the world at large and their own lives, as is only natural."
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"The Birth Of A Nation", 2002.
Examines director D. W. Griffith's 1915 silent film.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 10 sources, $ 71.95
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Examines director D. W. Griffith's 1915 silent film. Griffith's revolutionary techniques and artistry. The cultural significance, impact and mixed response to the epic film that set off a nationwide controversy. Visual impact of film and its inventive images. Griffith's development of a cinematic language. Describes key scenes. Racist content. Protests by public and civil rights groups.
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"D. W. Griffith's 1915 silent film "The Birth of a Nation" is one of the most influential films ever made, and one of the most controversial. The movie was the first important innovative motion picture utilizing creative technical skills that were unmatched in its day, and that influenced filmmakers of later generations. The story, based on Thomas Dixon's novel The Clansman, is told in a melodramatic style. The basic plot centers on the friendship of the Camerons, a Southern family, with the Stonemans, a Northern family, and it is a friendship that is both threatened and tested by the Civil War and the Reconstruction period. The Southern family is ruined by the War, the Negroes (the word used at the time) gain some power in the South, and the Ku Klux Klan is formed in "self-defense" of white families and homes. The theme or spirit of the film can be ..."
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"Way Down West", 2006.
A report on the film "Way Down West", by D.W. Griffith (1920) examining the concepts of guilt and redemption.
3,216 words (approx. 12.9 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 92.95
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The paper analyzes the topics of guilt and redemption in the 1920 film "Way Down West" by D.W. Griffin. The writer examines the characters and their need for redemption in light of their promiscuity. The paper further examines the attitude of the filmmaker towards women and their role in society, as well as his attitudes towards those with money, and those without. The writer concludes that in the end Anna, the female lead, is redeemed and once again accepted when she marries.
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"In the structure of the film, Lennox Sanderson is the cad who seduces Anna and betrays her. Griffith may condemn Lennox, but he also seems to indulge him to a degree, much as society has tended to do at different times with the view that "boys will be boys.""
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"Broken Blossoms", 2002.
A discussion of the symbolism of D.W. Griffith's 1919 film.
1,285 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 43.95
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This paper explores the symbolism used in this silent film, unlike other films of its time. A summary of the story is presented, followed by an examination of character, plot, setting and props. The analysis reveals the film to be a highly complex examination of many controversial issues that continue to affect today?s society, namely racism, child abuse, drug misuse, and social injustice.
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"Richard Barthelmess plays the young Chinese Buddhist, whose downhill spiral is charted, from his initial dream of spreading spiritual enlightenment and harmony to the inhabitants of London, through the years of disenchantment and opium addiction, to his eventual suicide, resulting from a doomed relationship with an English girl. The introductory scenes of the movie present him as a highly educated man, and one who is universally recognized and respected by Chinese society. In contrast, his status as an immigrant is symbolized by his utter anonymity; a man who is denied even the basic acknowledgement of a name, and is known only as the "Yellow Man". "
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?The Birth of a Nation?, 2002.
A paper that discusses the social impact of D. W. Griffiths? film "The Birth of a Nation" and how it changed American cinema.
1,665 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 11 sources, APA, $ 54.95
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The paper argues the fact that the movie "The Birth of a Nation" - made in 1915 to give the American audience a new perspective to racial issues - left a deep impact on the American society long after its production and encouraged audiences as well as filmmakers to take a different view of cinematography. The essay first identifies the culture prevalent in American society at the time and then argues how the film guided cinematography from entertainment to a narrative portrayal of history.
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"Griffith?s portrayal of a parallel social theme made a deep impact, as Hollywood had not yet been institutionalized and such a realistic representation of the American governance and U.S. imperialism only magnified the social ramifications of racism. Later, movies tried to follow the same path as Griffith but were incomparable in their technique. Filmmakers could not recreate the depth of the concepts as portrayed by Griffith. For example, ?The Birth of a Race? was an attempt to counteract the implications as presented in ?The Birth of a Nation?. The production of the film directed by an African American manages to only depict what had already been realized in Griffith picture."
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The Ford Escort and the Mercury Tracer, 1994.
This paper compares two similar but competitive Ford products, the Ford Escort and the Mercury Tracer, in context of an industry overview: Competition, pricing, financing, global issues and marketing.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 6 sources, $ 47.95
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"The small car market in the United States has increased in importance since the gas crisis of the mid-1970s. American auto makers, who produced large automobiles which registered poor gas mileage, were surprised by imports such as Volkswagen, Nissan, Toyota and Mazda, all of whom stressed economy over luxury. Since that time, some of the luxuries formerly associated with large automobiles have been built into the smaller cars as American manufacturers have sought to build cars which can successfully compete in this lucrative and highly competitive niche. This research examines one auto maker, Ford, and two of its products which would seem to compete against each other: the Ford Escort and the Mercury Tracer.
The Escort was the best selling Ford car for eight consecutive years during the 1980s.. Its sister car, the Mercury Trace ... "
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