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

Rowell/Thinking About Music
A 10 page book review that summarizes and critiques Lewis Rowell's Thinking About Music, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Music (1983). The writer points out that a careful reading of the title suggests that the author does not limit himself to...
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The Gods Must Be Crazy/Critical Response
A 4 page film review that critically analyzes this picture, focusing on how it portrays technology. The writer argues that it can best be understood as a fable against technology. Examination of this film shows that the anti-technology theme is...
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Robert Schumann/Romantic Composer
A 5 page research paper that examines the music of Robert Schumann in regards to how it exemplifies the Romantic era. Music of the Romantic era differs sharply from that of the Classical period that proceeded it. While Classicism promoted reason and...
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Avant-Garde Music of the 1920s vs.
A 10 page paper which examines how the music of the European and American avant-garde illustrated the rebellions they and their supporters wished to stage against the
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Marxist Themes in O Brother Where Art Thou?
A 4 page essay/research paper that analyzes the Coen Brothers' film O Brother, Where Art Thou? In terms of Marxist ideology. The writer argues that the characters, uniformly, express an overwhelming concern with capitalism, money and in placing...
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A Documentary From a Rogerian Perspective
A 6 page research paper that, first of all, focuses on one of these girls, Anna, and then introduces the principles of therapy developed by Carl Rogers, and how this particular method of counseling would have facilitated Anna's task of developing...
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Diary of a Mad Black Woman/Film Review
A 5 page film review/summation of Diary of a Mad Black Woman (directed by Darren Grant for Lions Gate, 2005). The writer argues that this film tries to be all things to all people. The film tries hard to be a comedy, as it features the outrageous...
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Anti-romantic elements in neo-classical music of the early twentieth century
A paper which looks at the development of neoclassical music, such as that of Stravinsky, in the early twentieth century, with particular reference to the rejection of the Romantic movement and the socio-cultural changes brought about by the First...
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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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