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What is Film?

Film is one of the most versatile subjects in the arts and humanities, appearing in courses ranging from media studies and communication to sociology, psychology, and cultural criticism. What makes it academically compelling is its dual nature: film functions simultaneously as an art form with distinct technical and aesthetic conventions and as a cultural artifact that reflects the values, tensions, and relationships of the society that produces it. Students are asked to analyze specific works such as Mean Girls, Tough Guise, Sarafina, Wit, Menace II Society, and True Grit precisely because these films open up larger conversations about identity, violence, gender, race, and human behavior.

The papers archived here approach film from several directions. Some focus on technical and production elements, examining terminology, cinematography, and the conventions of silent film. Others take a sociological or psychological angle, using specific movies to explore addiction, domestic violence, and human behavior. Comparative essays place films side by side to highlight contrasting storytelling choices, while genre analysis papers examine why a film like The Hangover operates as comedy. Reflective and reaction-based writing also appears frequently, asking students to connect a film's scenes and story to real-world experience.

A strong film essay anchors its argument in specific scenes, dialogue, or cinematic techniques rather than plot summary. A well-scoped thesis makes a clear interpretive claim about what a film communicates and how it achieves that effect. Evidence drawn from the viewer's experience of particular moments carries more weight than general impressions. The most common pitfall is treating a film purely as a story to retell rather than as a constructed text where every choice — sound, framing, character relationship — contributes to meaning.

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Religious Expression and Symbolism in Pulp Fiction

When Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction was released, it met with a storm of critical discussion. Some critics hated Tarantino's work, finding it unnecessarily and excessively violent, and suggesting that Tarantino's…

Research Paper Masters

Media Violence: Effects on Children and Parental Role

Media Violence Introduction What impact does media violence have on society? How are children affected and how are adolescents affected by violence portrayed in movies, television, video games and in other forms? This paper reviews and critiques peer-reviewed articles that address the subject of media violence from several perspectives – and takes positions on the arguments and research presented in those scholarly articles. Thesis: There is ample empirical research available to back up the assertion that violent video games, movies and television programs have a negative impact on young people. It is the thesis of this paper that ultimately the responsibility for guidance vis-à-vis violent media is not on schools or law enforcement but in fact is on the shoulders of parents.

Essay Doctorate

Television History: From Invention to Public Consciousness

Television's evolution is both familiar and unexpected, because although it developed along the same lines as radio and film, the effect it had was much more dramatic. Television was created within mass media, rather than as a founding element of the mass media, and so it affected the public differently. When viewed in the context of the twentieth century, television's more important effect was the way it transitioned entertainment away from uniform experience to the multiplicity of products seen today with the internet.

Paper Undergraduate

BBC Planet Earth Series: Science for General Audiences

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) series Planet Earth is a stunning eleven-part series filmed in high definition. Sigourney Weaver narrated the series in its North American release for Discovery, whereas Sir…

Research Paper Doctorate

National Ballet of China: History and Cultural Legacy

One of the world's top 10 ballet companies, the National Ballet of China was founded on December 31,1959 (CCTV 2005, Orange County 2005) and has, in the past four decades, consisted of generations of striving and gifted…

Thesis Doctorate

Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis and Weimar Cinema

This essay considers the potential political and social message in Walter Ruttman's Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis. Though Ruttman's message is subtle, one can see how he is disgusted by elite indifference to the plight of the public. By examining how he treats the avatar of official political power as well as the eating habits of the rich, one can see how Ruttman expresses the simultaneous excitement and anxiety of Modernity.

Paper Undergraduate

Macbeth and Martin Luther: Conviction vs. Ambition

Both Macbeth and Luther made decisions which were catalysts for much bloodshed. Here the comparison ends. The internal conflict both men endured and the repercussions felt by many others as a result could not be more…

Paper Doctorate

Formalism vs. Realism in Film Theory and Practice

The paper defines formalism in the context of film production. It takes into consideration the various varieties of formalism by analyzing the French, German and Soviet movies. In addition, the paper identifies the use of realism in the movies. It performs a comparison of the three movies by analyzing various film features.

Essay Doctorate

Corporatocracy: How Corporations Influence Government

The Effects Corporatocracy Has in Government

Essay Doctorate

The Cinema of Attractions and Early Film History

To identify how early cinema developed during its formative years, this paper provides a review of the relevant literature concerning the development of early cinema, as well as its technology, industry and cultural context. An examination of the concept of the "cinema of attractions" in relation to a perceived need to address the early cinema audience is followed by a summary of the research and important findings in the conclusion.

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