Academic papers on Music, Film, Television, Theater & Photography

An Analysis of Bowling for Columbine
This 3 page paper evaluates the film in the context of concepts to come from a textbook. Many details are relayed and explored. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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American History X/Social Process Theory
A 6 page research paper that combines a film review of American History X (1998) with an analysis of the film in terms of social process theory as an explanation of juvenile delinquency. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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A 3 page paper which examines whether or not the play
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Cinema: writing in images
A paper which considers the definition of film as "writing in images", with reference to the difference between written and visual texts, and the function of iconography within cinema. Bibliography lists one source
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A 4 page analysis of the play
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Marriage in
A 4 page paper which examines the condition of marriage in the main characters from Henrik Ibsen
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Theatre of the Absurd: Ionesco and Beckett
A paper which looks at the way in which the Theatre of the Absurd does away with traditional dramatic conventions in order to explore the instability and irrationality of the human condition. Examples from the works of Ionesco and Beckett are...
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Jack Nicholson
This 4 page paper examines the persona of Jack Nicholson and how he exemplifies American values and culture. Jack Nicholson's personal life and roles are explored. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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The Folk Musical and the Film
A 5 page paper which examines how the film adaptation of the Rodgers and Hammerstein stage production fits the folk musical semantics and syntax described in Rick Altman
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The Allure of Dead Composers
A 6 page paper reviewing articles by Weber (1977) and Burkholder (1983) discussing the development of the classics and the inability of living composers to eclipse their popularity. The dichotomy had its origins in the mid-19th century, toward the...
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All in the Family and Sitcoms Today
A 3 page paper which examines how racial comments and discord were a common trait of the old sitcom All in the Family, and how television sitcoms have developed through the years to create situations where blacks and whites live together peacefully,...
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Musical Interpretation/Beethoven's Orpheus?
An 8 page essay that compares and contrasts two essays that evaluate the second movement from Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto. Owen Jander, in his essay, "Beethoven's 'Orpheus in Hades': The Andante con moto of the Fourth Piano Concerto," poses...
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"A Beautiful Mind" And "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" - Mental Health
3 pages in length. The extent to which mental illness plays an integral role in each film is both grand and far-reaching; that one film depicts psychological instability as something one can successfully pretend to have, while the other profiles a...
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Harpsichord & Piano Performance
A 12 page research paper that contrasts and compares the performance practice of the Baroque harpsichord with the Classical piano. Topics addressed including fingering, ornamentation, improvisation and accompaniment. The writer particularly focuses...
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The Chieftains & Irish Music
A 15 page research paper that examines the career and music of the Irish traditional music group, the Chieftains. In connection with this, the writer also explores the characteristics, dance features, and instruments of traditional Irish music,...
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