Introductions

Cameras

Documentaries

Dracula

Editing

Zombies

Glossary of Film Terms

Introductions
Watering Down Classic Movies to Make them Modern [Closely Watched Trains,8 ?, Notorious]
..Eric Hovis
Films: Not Always Historically Accurate [Battleship Potemkin, Bonnie and Clyde, The Gold Rush]
..Ashley Wilson
Table of Contents--Introductions

Across the Universe
Across the Universe: Saved by the Beatles
..Ashley Wilson
Table of Contents--Across the Universe

All the President's Men?Good Night and Good Luck
Table of Contents--All the President's Men

Pedro Almodóvar
Table of Contents--Pedro Almodóvar

Amadeus
Table of Contents--Amadeus

American Beauty
Table of Contents--American Beauty

Animation
Table of Contents--Animation

Apocalypse Now
Table of Contents--Apocalypse Now

Apollo 13
Apollo 13: A Stimulated Documentary
.. Ryan Bellendir
Table of Contents--Apollo 13

Babel
Table of Contents--Babel

Batman
Hollywood?s First Heroes
..Lorrie Veach
Table of Contents--Batman

A Beautiful Mind
Table of Contents--A Beautiful Mind

La Belle et la Bête (The Beauty and the Beast)
La Belle et la Bête versus Beauty and the Beast
..Sherri Anderson
French Contributions Behind the Camera*
..Brant Veal
La Belle et la Bête: Not Your Childhood Beauty and the Beast
..Ashley Wilson
La Belle et la Bête and Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens
..Brian Schuldt
Table of Contents--La Belle et la Bête (The Beauty and the Beast)

A Beautiful Mind
Table of Contents--A Beautiful Mind

Biography
Table of Contents--Biography

The Birth of a Nation
(See also Introductions.)
Birth of a Nation: A Thought-Provoking Movie
..Ashley Henderson
Learning about History from a Controversial Film
..Ashley Henderson
Birth of A Nation: A Glimpse at the Past
..Brian Schuldt
Society Reflected through Birth of a Nation
..Kyra Williams
Silent War
..Ashley Yates
Table of Contents--The Birth of a Nation

Blacklists
Blacklists: From Government to Films
..Ashley Wilson
Table of Contents?Blacklists

Blade
Table of Contents--Blade

Blazing Saddles
Blacklists
Blacklists: From Government to Films
..Ashley Wilson
Table of Contents?Blacklists

(See also Bonnie and Clyde).
Table of Contents--Blazing Saddles

Blood Diamond
Table of Contents--Blood Diamond

Don Bluth
Don Bluth and the Preservation of Traditional Animation
..Lorrie Veach
Table of Contents?Don Bluth

Bonnie and Clyde
(See also Introductions.)
Cinema Loves Violence [Psycho]
..Ryan Bellendir
Necessary Violence
..Kortney Bullock
The Impacts of Bonnie and Clyde
..Jenny Meier
Bonnie and Clyde: Staying More or Less True
..Lorrie Veach
Violence in Film
..Kyra Williams
Table of Contents?-Bonnie and Clyde

Marlon Brando
Table of Contents?-Marlon Brando

Braveheart
Table of Contents?-Braveheart

Brazil
(See also Science Fiction.)
Table of Contents?-Brazil

Brokeback Mountain
Table of Contents?-Brokeback Mountain

Bronenosets Potyomkin
The Battleship Potemkin Repeats the History of Cinema [The Untouchables]
..Derek Owen
Bronenosets Potyomkin (Battleship Potemkin): A Classic of Russian Cinema*
..Brian Schuldt
Table of Contents--Bronenosets Potyomkin (Battleship Potemkin)

Tim Burton
A Dark Director
..Lorrie Veach
Table of Contents--Tim Burton

Caddyshack
(See also Duck Soup.)
Table of Contents--Caddyshack

Cameras
Table of Contents--Cameras

Catch Me if You Can
Table of Contents--Catch Me if You Can

Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin and Duck Soup
Table of Contents?Charlie Chaplin

Un chien andalou (An Andalusian Dog)
(See also Introductions.)
The Two Most Valuable Films to Me in the History of Cinema Course 313 [Citizen Kane.]
..Brandon Boyd
Table of Contents--Un chien andalou (An Andalusian Dog)

Chicago
(See also Introductions.)
Table of Contents_Chicago
Cinderella Man
Table of Contents--Cinderella Mane

Citizen Kane
Citizen Kane on Cinematic History
..Jenny Meier
Citizen Kane: The Greatest Film of All Time?
..Brian Schuldt
(See also Un chien andalou, Eight and a Half, Introductions, and Special Effects.)
Citizen Kane and Pulp Fiction
Table of Contents--Citizen Kane

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Table of Contents--Close Encounters of the Third Kind
(See also Special Effects.)

Color
Color versus Black and White Films*
..Brian Schuldt
Is Color the Difference?
..Ashley Yates
Table of Contents--Color

Color and Sound
Music and Sound: Cinema?s Universal Translator
..Eric Hovis
Table of Contents--Color and Sound

Comedy
British Comedy*
..Brant Veal
Table of Contents--Comedy

Cool Hand Luke
Table of Contents--Cool Hand Luke

Courage under Fire--Rashômon
Table of Contents--Courage under Fire

Crash
Table of Contents--Crash

David Cronenberg
Table of Contents--David Croneberg

D. W. Griffith
Table of Contents--D. W. Griffith

Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks
Table of Contents--Tom Cruise

Culture
Table of Contents--Culture

Curious George
Table of Contents--Curious George

Dances with Wolves
Return to the Roots
.. Stelios Hadjiloizou
(See also Into the Wild
Table of Contents--Dances with Wolves

Dead Poets Society
Table of Contents--Dead Poets Society

Leo DiCaprio [The Aviator, The Basketball Diaries, Catch Me if You Can, The Departed, The Man in the Iron Mask, Romeo and Julietand in Titanic, What?s Eating Gilbert Grape].
Table of Contents?Leo DiCaprio

Definitely, Maybe
Characters and Their Roles
..Sherri Anderson
Table of Contents--Definitely, Maybe

Domino
Table of Contents--Domino

Down with Love
(See also Introductions.)
Table of Contents--Down with Love

Dracula
It Is a Nefarious World: Bram Stoker?s Dracula on Film*
..Kimberly Marx
(See also Nosferatu
Table of Contents--Dracula

The Dreamers
Table of Contents--The Dreamers

Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb
Table of Contents--Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb

Duck Soup
(See also Caddyshack.)
See Charlie Chaplin
Duck Soup--King Kong
Table of Contents--Duck Soup

Easy Rider
Table of Contents--Easy Rider

Editing
Table of Contents--Editing

8 1/2
Two Valuable Global Cinema Films* [Rashômon]
..Brandon Boyd
8 1/2, Making Sense at the End
..Ashley Henderson
Fantasy versus Reality
..Greg Humkey*
8 ?: Influential in Concept and Form
..Jenny Meier
8?: An Inner-Space Odyssey [Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind]
..Derek Owen
8 ?: The Mind of an Italian Filmmaker* [Citizen Kane]
..Brian Schuldt
(See also Citizen Kane.)
Table of Contents--8 1/2

Elizabethtown
Table of Contents--Elizabethtown

Erin Brockovich
Table of Contents--Erin Brockovich

The Evil Dead
Table of Contents--The Evil Dead

The Exorcist
Table of Contents--The Exorcist

Expressionism
German Expressionistic Influence on Film Noir [The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu]*
..Greg Humkey
German Expressionism?s Greater Contribution to Cinema*
..Michael Belcher
Kammerspielfilm*
..Kimberly Marx
Table of Contents?Expressionism

The Faculty
(See also Invasion of the Body Snatchers.)
Film Noir
(See also Expressionism.)
Table of Contents?Film Noir
The Fog of War
Table of Contents--The Fog of War

Forrest Gump
(See also Introductions.)
Table of Contents--Forrest Gump

The French Connection
(See also Introductions.)
Table of Contents--The French Connection

The French Connection
(See also Introductions.)
Table of Contents--The French Connection

The Gangs of New York
Table of Contents--The Gangs of New York:

Gertie the Dinosaur
(See also Special Efects.)
Table of Contents--Gertie the Dinosaur

Gladiator
Table of Contents--Gladiator

The Glory Road
Table of Contents--Glory Road

The Gold Rush
If Music Could be the Background to Real Life
..Brandy Couleas
Making a Modern Silent Film Using Gold Rush as an Example
..Eric Hovis
Pure Gold--A Look at the Historical Effects of The Gold Rush
..Derek Owen
Humor without Words
..Ashley Yates
Table of Contents--The Gold Rush

The Golden Age of Hollywood
The Golden Age of Hollywood
..Lorrie Veach
Table of Contents--The Golden Age of Hollywood

Gone With the Wind
(See also Introductions and The Birth of a Nation.)
Table of Contents--Gone With the Wind

Good Morning Vietnam
Table of Contents-Good Morning Vietnam

Good Night and Good Luck
Table of Contents--Good Night and Good Luck

Good Will Hunting
Table of Contents--Good Will Hunting

The Graduate
Table of Contents--The Graduate

Cary Grant
Cary Grant: The Everyman Cinema God
..Kyra Williams
Table of Contents?Cary Grant

The Greatest Story Ever Told
A Comparison Between The Passion of the Christ and The Greatest Story Ever Told: (A Look at How One of the Most Known Stories in History Is Told through Cinema)
..Derek Owen
Table of Contents--The Greatest Story Ever Told

Greed
Love + Greed = Death
Daniel Whitt Lawson
Greed: A Butchered Masterpiece*
..Derek Owen
Greed: A Lost Treasure
..Brian Schuldt
(See also The Birth of a Nation.)
Table of Contents--Greed

Halloween
Table of Contents--Halloween

Tom Hanks
Table of Contents--Tom Hanks

Harold and Maude
Table of Contents--Harold and Maude

Harry Potter
Table of Contents--Harry Potter

High Noon
High Noon: Desirable Destinies
..Sarah Hurley Austin
Back in the Day
..Ashley Yates
(See also Introductions.)
Table of Contents--High Noon

Alfred Hitchcock
Table of Contents--Alfred Hitchcock

Hollywood Film Studios
Table of Contents--Hollywood Film Studios

Horror
History of Horror
..Lorrie Veach
Remaking the Asian Horror Film*
..Brant Veal
Horror Films Reflect Our Primal Fears
..Kyra Williams
Table of Contents--Horror

An Inconvenient Truth
Table of Contents--An Inconvenient Truth

Industrial Light and Magic
Table of Contents?Industrial Light and Magic

Into the Wild
(See also Dances with Wolves.)
Table of Contents?Into the Wild

Invasion of the Body Snatchers
?Godless Commies?
..Kortney Bullock
Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Omega Man: Both Remade, Both Propaganda
..Sarah Hurley Austin
Invasion of the Body Snatchers: Communists versus Anti-Communist McCarthyism
..Sarah Hurley Austin
A New Kind of World: An Analysis and Comparison of Don Siegel?s Invasion of the Body Snadchers to Robert Rodriguez?s The Faculty
..Chelsie Taylor
Weird and Almost Good
..Ashley Yates
(See also Introductions.)
Table of Contents--Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Jaws
Table of Contents--Jaws

Jesus Camp
Table of Contents--Jesus Camp

Joy Luck Club
Table of Contents--Joy Luck Club

Jump Cuts
Table of Contents--Jump Cuts

Jurassic Park
(See also Science Fiction and Special Effects.)
Table of Contents--Jurassic Park

Elia Kazan
?The Birth of a Salesman?
..Derek Owen
Table of Contents?Elia Kazan

Kill Bill: Vol. 2
Table of Contents-- Kill Bill: Vol. 2

King Kong (1933)
Monkeys versus Dinosaurs [Jurassic Park II: The Lost World]
..Eric Hovis
King Kong: Well ahead of Its Time
..Jenny Meier
Man versus Beast
..Chelsie Taylor
(See also Introductions, The Birth of a Nation, Duck Soup, and Special Effects.)
Table of Contents--King Kong (1933)

King Kong (2005)
King Kong (1933) versus King Kong (2005)
The Two Big Kongs
..Eric Hovis
King Kong: The Most Remade Film in History?
..Brian Schuldt
Table of Contents--King Kong (2005)

Stanley Kubrick
(See also Dr. Strangelove.)
Table of Contents--Stanley Kubrick

Akira Kurosawa
(See also Special Effects and Star Wars.)
Table of Contents--Akira Kurosawa

Labyrinth
Table of Contents--Labyrinth

The Last Samurai
Table of Contents--The Last Samurai

Legends of the Fall
Table of Contents--Legends of the Fall

Un long dimanche de fiançailles (A Very Long Engagement
Table of Contents--Un long dimanche de fiançailles (A Very Long Engagement)

Loose Change
Table of Contents--Loose Change

Lord of the Rings
Women?s Roles in the Lord of the Rings
..Ashley Wilson
Table of Contents--Lord of the Rings

The Lost World: Jurassic Park
(See also King Kong 1933)
Table of Contents--The Lost World : Jurassic Park

Magnificent Seven
Table of Contents--Magnificent Seven

The Man with the Golden Arm
Table of Contents--The Man with the Golden Arm

Marie Antoinette
(See also Introductions.)
Table of Contents--Marie Antoinette

Penny Marshall
Table of Contents--Penny Marshall

The Marx Brothers
The Marx Brothers: The Family of Comedy
..Kyra Williams
Table of Contents-- The Marx Brothers

Table of Contents--Magnificent Seven

Memoirs of a Geisha
Table of Contents--Memoirs of a Geisha

Metropolis
(See Special Effects.)
Table of Contents--Metropolis

Mission Impossible II
Table of Contents--Mission Impossible II

Monty Python Skits
Monty Python
Table of Contents--Monty Python Skits

Michael Moore
Table of Contents--Michael Moore

Monsters
The Monster Mash
..Lorrie Veach
Table of Contents--Monsters

Motorcycle Diaries
A Revolutionary Motorcycle
..Derek Owen
Table of Contents--Motorcycle Diaries

Music
The Value of Music
..Chelsie Taylor
Music Makes a Difference
..Ashley Yates
Table of Contents--Music

Naked Lunch
Table of Contents--Naked Lunch

Napoléon
Table of Contents--Napoléon

Natural Born Killers
Table of Contents--Natural Born Killers

Neorealism
Realism Trumps Escapism in Post-War Italy*
..Michael Belcher
Table of Contents--Neorealism

New Wave
Riding La Nouvelle Vague*
..Michael Belcher
Table of Contents?New Wave

Night of the Living Dead
Table of Contents--Night of the Living Dead

Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu, a Symphony of the Horrors)
?The Marks of a Vampire?*
..Derek Owen
?The Silent Dracula?
..Derek Owen
A Definitive German Expressionist Film
..Brian Schuldt
?What a Lovely Throat?
..Chelsie Taylor
Nosferatu: Ahead of Its Time*
..Brant Veal
See also Blade, La Belle et la Bête, and The Birth of a Nation.)
Table of Contents--Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu, a Symphony of the Horrors)

The Notebook
The Notebook: Love versus Money
..Ashley Henderson
Table of Contents--The Notebook

Notorious
Notorious: Post-War Influence*
..Greg Humkey
Undercover Woman
..Ashley Yates
(See also Alfred Hitchcock.)
Table of Contents--Notorious

Obscenity
Table of Contents--Obscenity

On the Waterfront
(See also Citizen Kane.)
Table of Contents--On the Waterfront

Ostre sledované vlaky (Closely Watched Trains)
Closely Watched Trains: How Close to Notice the History, Politics, and Culture in Film
..Sarah Hurley Austin
Czech New Wave: Closely Watched Trains*
..Greg Humkey
Closely Watched Commies*
..Derek Owen
Table of Contents--Ostre sledované laky (Closely Watched Trains)

Paris Je t'aime (Paris, I Love You)
A Collaborative Piece of Love*
..Derek Owen
Table of Contents--Paris Je t'aime (Paris, I Love You)

The Passion of the Christ
(See also The Greatest Story Ever Told.)
Table of Contents--The Passion of the Christ

Patch Adams
Table of Contents--Patch Adams

Pearl Harbor
Table of Contents--Pearl Harbor

Phantom of the Opera
(See also La Belle et la Bête [Beauty and the Beast])
Table of Contents--Phantom of the Opera

Psycho
(See also Bonnie and Clyde.)
Table of Contents--Psycho

Vsevolod Pudovkin
Table of Contents--Vsevolod Pudovkin

Pulp Fiction
(See also Citizen Kane.)
Table of Contents--Pulp Fiction

Raging Bull
Table of Contents--Raging Bull

Rashômon
Conflicting Stories in Rashômon
..Ashley Henderson
Rashômon: Whom Should the Audience Reside with?*
..Greg Humkey
The Value of Truth
Daniel Whitt Lawson
Rashômon: A View of Japanese Samurai Culture*
..Brian Schuldt
Rashômon: Rape or Guilt?
..Ashley Wilson
(See also 8 1/2.)
Table of Contents--Rashômon

Table of Contents--Rashômon

Rear Window
Table of Contents--Rear Window

Rebel without a Cause
Table of Contents--Rebel without a Cause

Red Violin
..Stephanie Utley
Table of Contents--The Red Violin

Remember the Titans
Table of Contents--Remember the Titans

Rent
Table of Contents--Rent

Road to Perdition
Table of Contents--Road to Perdition

Romance
Table of Contents--Romance

Romero
A Comparison between Two Global Films: Salvador and Romero (A Look at War, Politics and Religion from the Global Cinema?s Viewpoint)*
..Derek Owen
(See also Salvador.)
Table of Contents--Romero

Salvador
(See also Romero.)
Table of Contents--Salvador

Saving Private Ryan
(See also Introductions.)
Table of Contents--Saving Private Ryan

Scarface
(See also Bonnie and Clyde.)
Table of Contents--Scarface (1983)

Schindler's List
(See also Culture.)
Table of Contents--Schlinder's List

Science Fiction
Table of Contents--Science Fiction

Scotland, PA
Table of Contents--Scotland, PA

Ridley Scott
Table of Contents--Ridley Scott

Scream
Table of Contents--Scream

Seven Samurai
(See also Magnificent Seven.)
Table of Contents--Seven Samurai

Shakespeare
Shakespeare: Hijacked!
..Kortney Bullock
Shakespeare

Silent Movies
(See also Sound.)
Table of Contents--Silent Movies

Singin' in the Rain
Table of Contents--Singin' in the Rain

The Societé Film d'Art
Table of Contents--The Societé Film d'Art

Something's Gotta Give
Table of Contents--Somethin's Gotta Give

Sound
Startling Introduction of Sound
..Kortney Bullock
Silence versus Sound in Films
..Brian Schuldt
The Element of Music and Sound in Film [Dumbo]
..Kyra Willliams
(See also Silent.)
Technical Advancements? Huge Impact
..Ashley Yates
(See also Special Effects.)
Table of Contents--Sound

Special Effects
(See also Sound Effects.)
Table of Contents--Special Effects

Star Wars
(See also Akira Kurosawa and Special Effects.)
Table of Contents--Star Wars

The Stepford Wives (1975)
Table of Contents--Stepford Wives

Stop Motion
Table of Contents--Stop Motion

A Streetcar Named Desire
Table of Contents--A Streetcar Named Desire

Super Size Me
Table of Contents--Super Size Me

Sydney White
The Seven Dorks
..Kortney Bullock
Table of Contents--Sydney White

Quentin Tarrantino
Table of Contents--Quentin Tarrantino

Technology
Technical Improvements in Films
..Ashley Henderson
Table of Contents-Super Size Me

Terminator 2: Judgment Day
(See also Special Effects.)
Table of Contents--Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Titanic
Table of Contents--Titanic

Tombstone
Table of Contents--Tombstone

Touch of Evil
Citizen Kaneand the Touch of Evil
..Sarah Hurley Austin
Table of Contents--Touch of Evil

Toy Story
(See also Special Effects.)
Table of Contents--Toy Story

Traffic
Traffic: An Important Hyperlink Movie*
..Brandon Boyd
Table of Contents--Traffic

2001: Space Odyssey
(See also Special Effects.)
Table of Contents--2001: Space Odyssey

The Untouchables
(See also Bronenosets Potyomkin (Battleship Potemkin.)
Table of Contents--The Untouchables

V for Vendetta
Historical Aspects of a Fictionalized World
..Lorrie Veach
Table of Contents--V for Vendetta

Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
Table of Contents--Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price

War
Table of Contents--War

Orson Welles

(See also Charlie Chaplin and Citizen Kane.)
Table of Contents--Orson Welles

Western
Table of Contents?Western

What Dreams May Come
Digital Magic in What Dreams May Come*
..Brandon Boyd
(See also Introductions.)
Table of Contents--What Dreams May Come

Wild at Heart
Table of Contents--Wild at Heart

Wizard of Ozt
(See also Introductions.)
Table of Contents--Wizard of Oz

John Woo and Hong Kong New Wave
Table of Contents--John Woo and Hong Kong New Wave

Zombies
Zombies and the Shopping Malls!
..Kortney Bullock
Table of Contents--Zombies

Glossary of Film Terms
. .Gregory Campbell

Table of Contents--Glossary of Film Terms

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