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"The Trojan Women"--A Film Review, 2007.
A review and analysis of Michael Cacoyannis' film "Trojan Women."
917 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 32.95
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This film review describes the challenges of translating the medium of Euripides' ancient Greek drama "Trojan Women" into cinematic technique. The paper explores how Michael Cacoyannis did this in his 1971 adaptation of the Greek tragedy. One method Cacoyannis used was using familiar character archetypes or actors to generate immediate interest in the plot. He also chose famous actresses to star in the film. The reviewer offers his own critique of the film, concluding that rather than making Euripides more intimate, the film only created a wider divide between the great Greek tragedian's world and today's.
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"The characters endure very extreme situations, like having their child murdered by Greek soldiers or being forced to become concubines. However, the long, formal speeches that dominate the screenplay, no matter how well-delivered, do not convey a sense of reality. Even close-ups of the women's contorted wailing faces do not stimulate empathy in the heart of the viewer. The advantages of film as a medium, as opposed to the stage, might be defined as being able to convey emotion without a great deal of hysteria, as might be seen in 'real life.' However, Euripides' play did not attempt to convey a realistic portrayal of life, but show a myth on an epic scale."
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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, $ 170.95
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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, $ 26.95
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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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Women in Film, 2004.
An analysis of various portrayals of women in film, where the audience is subjected to the director's view of women and femininity.
2,301 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 71.95
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This paper presents the opinion that women, at least in certain films, are portrayed as the objects of men. The writer uses the archetypal examples of film noir, such as "The Lady From Shanghai", "Gilda" and "Kiss Me Deadly", all of which show a world in which women are the property of men. The writer concludes that the films were all written at a time when men were afraid of the modernizing woman and wanted to show what they believed was the true role of a woman in a man's world.
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"Although it is certainly not an original idea that male artists undress and serve up their female subjects for a variety of different kinds of pleasure, it is still somewhat disturbing and even shocking for us to come across such blatant and not entirely consensual acts of revelation and display of the female flesh as one sees in these films. But a second viewing of such images suggests that the ways in which women are presented is more complex than it at first appears: These femmes fatales are not simply ciphers, not simply signifiers for some of the more problematic aspects of masculine identity. They are other things as well. But first of all they are the subjects of the director?s gaze."
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The Role of Women in Film, 2002.
The roles of women in film with a focus on three specific films: "His Girl Friday" "Semi-Tough" and "Flirting With Disaster."
1,078 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 37.95
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This paper explores the roles of women in three films, starting with "His Girl Friday" from the 1940's, "Semi-Tough" from the 1970's and "Flirting With Disaster" from the 1990's. The various roles and stereotypes played by the female stars of these films are contrasted and compared as to their characters and their motivations.
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"The history of women in the cinema can be traced back to the early days of film production, beginning ca. 1896 with films by director Alice Guy Blache, such as ?The Cabbage Fairy? and ?The Bewitched Fianc?.? With the advent and popularity of the so-called ?silent era? of film production, women began to be depicted as various stereotypes, such as ?damsels in distress,? weak-minded, timid city girls and impoverished ?white trash,? while men played an overwhelming majority of lead roles, usually as heroic figures who rescue these ?damsels? from a plethora of dangerous situations. In a study of one hundred films released between 1930 and 1940, part of the ?Golden Age? of American cinema, ?eighty percent focused on the love/hate of a man with a good/bad girl, while fifty percent had the good/bad girl opposing another bad girl? (Doane 134)."
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Violence in "Odyssey" and "Trojan Women", 2005.
Comprehensive analysis of how Homer's "Odyssey" and Euripides' "Trojan Women" intricate conceptions of violence and their overall meanings for Greek society.
2,014 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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This essay describes how Homer and Euripides view the meaning and legitimacy of violence in their plays "Odyssey" and "Trojan Women". It presents a detailed, text-based analysis and evaluation of the two works' arguments and perspectives on the societal implications of violence.
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"The Odyssey portrays the fall of Troy and the subsequent events from the point of view of the victorious Odysseus, while Euripides' play The Trojan Women depicts the experiences of the defeated Trojans: how the Greeks enslave them, burn their city, and kill the newborn son of the fallen hero Hector. In spite of the two poems' disparate narrative perspectives, they share the same view about the legitimacy of violence: that it depends upon the underlying intentions causing the violence. While violence performed in order to fulfill egoistic aims is impermissible, in some cases, constructive ends may justify destructive means. This emphasis on the intentions involved in applying violence, rather than its actual results, helps in understanding why the two poems judge the same event, the conquest of Troy and, more specifically, the role of Odysseus during and after the war, entirely differently. Thus, it serves to explain why Odysseus is an exalted hero in one poem, but a cruel coward in the other."
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Status of Women in the Film Industry in India, 2001.
Indian commerical cinema; traditional role of women in Masala films; rape portrayals; Indian New Cinema. Indian model of feminism.
3,825 words (approx. 15.3 pages), 20 sources, $ 135.95
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"India has the largest film industry in the world and, since 1992, one of the fastest growing television audiences in history. Popular media in India, as anywhere else, tend to reflect and shape -- or attempt to shape -- people's attitudes on many issues. In the mixture of cultures, languages and religions that make up the Indian nation the status of women is a question that is capable of generating immense, furious controversy. But the question of full female emancipation, or even relatively moderate change in women's status, is nearly taboo in the popular commercial media of film and television. Greater strides have been made since the 1980s in so-called "New" or "parallel" cinema, yet even in that arena filmmakers have strained to emphasize the nonradical, nonfeminist, tradition-oriented nature of their calls for change in women's status. Still more..."
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The Tragedy of the "Trojan Women", 2004.
Summarizes the play and argues that the play is a great tragedy.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper summarizes Euripedes play "The Trojan Woman", and argues that the play is a great tragedy. It looks at the drama and tragic fate of the noble women of fallen Troy. The paper also examines the suffering of the female royal characters of Hecuba, Cassandra, Andromache. It looks at Helen as the character who undergoes less suffering.
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Women in Literature and Film, 2002.
An examination of the portrayal of women in D.H. Lawrence?s novel, "The Rainbow", Vera Brittain?s memoir, "The Testament of Youth", and Francois Truffaut?s film, "Two English Girls".
1,687 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 54.95
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This paper discusses how all these works of art present the issue of how women in the 20th century deal with the legacy of Victorian morality and how they shape their own lives, both in response to and in defiance of those virtues. It explains that in Victorian society, women had an extremely well-defined, repressive, and limited role in society; women were generally seen as matronly figures and were generally not involved in matters outside of the household. Similarly, there were a series of intense and strict taboos surrounding female sexuality, which was not a subject available for polite discussion. It shows, however, that in these works, several different young female characters raised in the shadow of the Victorian era are coming to grips with their identity, especially as it relates to the typical idea of women that people held in the Victorian era.
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"Ursula in D.H. Lawrence?s novel Rainbow is extremely disturbed by her mother?s unwavering acceptance of her role as being wholly and completely defined by her influence in the household sphere. Ursula resolves never to be like her mother and feels the burning yet vague desire to somehow meaningful differentiate her life and fulfill the destiny that best befits her. Vera Brittain details how, by exiting her family and working as a nurse, she was able to discover new and important facts about the reality of the world that she would have never been able to discover while trapped in her own home. Lastly, in the movie Two English Girls, Anne discovers her own sexuality and expresses it even though it runs contrary to the morality of Victorian-era England.
These three characters all embody the way that women struggled for their sense of identity and the right to exist in a place outside of the traditional home. Their struggle is one to define themselves as actors in the real world and to discover the truth that their actions can have profound and important effects on the world around them."
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Oppression of Women through Film, 2002.
Using feminist thought and theories to prove Hollywood's male dominance and oppression of women.
1,500 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 49.95
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The basis for the analysis of two popular films is based on the theories written and discussed by Laura Mulvey and E. Ann Kaplan. The two films discussed are "Cruel Intentions" (1999) directed by Roger Kumble, and "10 Things I Hate About You" (1999) directed by Gil Junger. Both films are based on other stories from different periods of time, and given a new swing to be popular for teenage audiences of today. The writer shows how these films help illustrate the ideas of Mulvey and Kaplan.The writer focuses on directing and the eyes of the camera, through the portrayal of women in popular culture youth centred films.
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"Gender perspective is an important facet for studying society and culture through film. Gender is an essential perspective because we watch films on a screen as a portrayal from the eye of the camera and the director?s point of view. There are two views the hegemonic male gaze and the feminist perspective, meaning through the eyes of a man, or the eyes of a women. The male gaze is the most common in film because of our patriarchal society. Most of the famous Hollywood directors are male. Very few females have made the transition into film making as a blockbuster director. Through the ranks of independent and art house films, female directors have begun to make their mark in the industry. Feminist filmmaking is often confused on negated by feminism in the broader sense. The ideologies and goals of feminism are the strive for equality, it seems that many have confused the search for equality with a more extremist view that women should be superior to men. By definition, feminism is a doctrine that advocates equal rights for women, as well as the movement aimed at equal rights for women , this is distorted in film through a fear of this empowerment and is therefore represented by bra burning, man hating, feminist cults. Equality has made many strides forward yet in some aspects of culture, a male dominance is so abundant. "
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Portrayals of Women in Film, 2004.
Compares the female characters in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", "All That Heaven Allows" and "Far From Heaven".
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 23.95
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This paper compares the different female characters portrayed in three movies and looks at how each character goes against what is expected of women in society. The three movies, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", "All That Heaven Allows" and "Far From Heaven" show women acting against the conventions of society, looks at examples of female bonding in the film and discusses the French film "Choas" in terms of female bonding.
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"The female protagonist in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" is quite different from those in "All That Heaven Allows" and "Far From Heaven", yet all three exemplify unruly women who go against the norms of their respective societies, especially the expected or proscribed behavior of women. The three women in these films choose to redefine their traditional roles and, in so doing, they break female stereotypes. The musical comedy, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", features Marilyn Monroe as the traditional, beautiful, sexy but dumb blonde, Lorelei Lee. Contrary to her innocent looks..."
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Images of Black Women and Film, 2002.
A look at the image of African American woman in the movie "How Stella Got Her Groove Back".
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper discusses the depiction of African American females in American culture. The Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings demonstrated the difficulty American culture has in considering the issues of race and sex/gender. Thus, the movie "How Stella Got Her Groove Back" is used as a reference to explore this theme.
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Film Versions of "Little Women", 2004.
Critiques two different film versions of Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women".
1,837 words (approx. 7.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 58.95
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This paper discusses the 1994 film version of "Little Women" and compares it to the 1933 film version. The paper tries to determine how just a representation of the book each film is and in what way each version is characteristic of the period in which it was made.
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"'Little women' was written by Louisa May Alcott in 1868 and since then it has been one of the most talked and written about books. With readers obsessing over the novel for more than a century, the book has been adapted to cinema four times with the most last version coming out in 1994. The book and its cinematic versions revolve around four young sisters who grow up during chaotic times of Civil War. The most well known cinematic adaptation of the novel came out in 1933 with Katherine Hepburn in the lead as JO March. This version was universally accepted for being most faithful to the book. Subsequent versions of Little Women were not as powerful as this one yet they have their fair share of merits. In this paper, we shall discuss the 1994 version and compare it to the 1933 version of 'Little women'."
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The Film "Pretty Woman": A Sociological Perspective, 2001.
This paper reviews the popular movie ?Pretty Woman? and relates the movie to sociology concepts, such as social influence, social norms and stereotypes.
1,715 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 55.95
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The paper states that the two main male (Edward) and female (Vivian) characters come from different cultures; but, as people are not that different, they simply react to social norms differently. The author feels that the entire movie?s concept is built around the dilemma of coupling someone who is used to conforming to the norms of polite society with someone who is totally clueless when it comes to these norms. The paper presents examples from the film that demonstrate the sociological principles.
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"Julia Roberts? character in ?Pretty Woman,? Vivian, the prostitute, strongly exhibits individualization. She is her own person, acting as she pleases, without worrying about what society thinks of her. Societal norms don?t affect her. Edward, Richard Gere?s character, however, is different. He is a rich man who has been brought up in the aristocracy and has learned societal norms. He adheres to these norms strongly. He is embarrassed by others around him who do not conform to the norms of ?polite society.?"
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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, $ 89.95
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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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