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

Glassner/Moore--Response to Postings
A 3 page rebuttal to statements made arguing in favor of the position taken by Barry Glassner in Culture of Fear and Michael Moore in Bowling for Columbine. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Bach Cantata 140/Wachet Auf, ruf uns die Stimme
A 7 page research paper that offers a detailed analysis of this cantata. This is one of Bach's best known and most beautiful cantatas. The writer, drawing on Machlis (1970), takes the cantata section by section, offering description and...
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Spike Lee Does the Right Thing
This 6 page paper discusses Spike Lee's film "Do the Right Thing," and the 'messages' (with regard to racism in particular) therein. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Bach/Invention 11, BWV 782
A 5 page research paper that discusses Bach's Inventions, in general, and then offers specifically an analysis of Invention 11 in G minor. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Persuasiveness of Cinema
A 7 page research paper that discusses the persuasive quality of visual images, focusing on film, but also discussing advertising and television images. This paper posits that film can influence behavior and that this influence can be either...
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Oliver Stone: Historical Revisionist/Filmatic Biographer In "Platoon" And "Born On The Fourth Of July"
6 pages in length. Meant more derogatorily than complimentary, Oliver Stone's reputation as an historical revisionist speaks to the writer/producer/director's tendency to rewrite history according to a less biased and more truthful depiction. ...
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Four Plays
This 4 page paper answers specific questions about four plays in relation to each other:
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Run Lola Run/Analysis
A 5 page research paper/essay that summarize and analyzes the 1999 film Run Lola Run (directed by Tom Tykwer). The writer summarizes the film and then relates the aesthetics of Aristotle and Tim Burton to a particular scene. Bibliography lists 5...
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Hitchcock
This 3-page paper examines Hitchcock
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Michael Moore and His Critics
This 3 page paper discusses the logical fallacies to be found in some of the criticism leveled at Michael Moore
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Language and Identity in Film
This 5 page paper talks about the issues of language and identity in the films
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Reaction to Verdi's Aida
A 5 page essay that discusses the writer's reaction to a production of Verdi's Aida. The impact of the set decoration, the pageantry and the drama of the narrative are discussed as well as the music. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Movement in Everyday Life
A 5 page paper that discusses and analyzes two non-dance events in regards to how movements involved resembled dance. The two events analyzed are a baseball game, focusing on the pitcher, and observing a yoga class and exercise in general....
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28 Days Later/Film as Nightmare
A 5 page essay that analyzes the 2002 film 28 Days Later, Fox Searchlight Pictures, directed by Danny Doyle, written by Alex Garland and produced by Andrew Macdonald. The writer argues that this film is a nightmare of the first quality that...
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Comparative Cinematic Analysis of Natalie Portman in
A 10 page paper which examines the seductive ways in which these women are gazed at by the viewer, focusing particularly upon their intimate interaction with the camera. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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