Films rarely live up to the expectations set up by a great novel and this is due to the limitations of working with film as a medium. ... In the film, the viewer has to rely on the ability of the actor to convey the character's thoughts and reasoning through facial expressions and body language. ... Demme's method is less affective because, without reading the novel, the viewer does not fully grasp the importance of the characters" past experiences and the effects they have on the characters through a few short flashbacks. ... The past experiences of the characters in Beloved, whi...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

At one moment, in the film we see the one of the characters watching The Landlord. ... Along with this angry grad student, Slacker has a significant number of camera bearing characters in it. ... Characters in Linklater's films are always brimming with creative ideas for film and television projects. ... Similarly, in Waking Life, the main character, a man trapped in a dream world, meets performance artist Tiana Hux as he is going down to the subway. ... The primary character speaking is actually a film director himself by the name of Caveh Zahedi, who is also referred to by his actua...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She offers that female characters add nothing or very little to actual elements of plot and character but rather are subjected to male scopophilia, the fetishistic and voyeuristic, due to phallocentricism and psychoanalytic fear of castration. ... From a tertiary level the female characters seem to gain more respect and authority as the years progress, but these scopophilic elements still persist through all the narratives. ... At the end of her essay Mulvey establishes three 'looks' in which this scopophilic dialectic can take place: between the camera and what is being shot, betwe...

• Word Count: 4301
• Approx Pages: 17
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate