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Category Archives: Comparative Analysis
Favorite Versions of A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol has been adapted as a film so many times, it seems almost impossible to count. Everyone has a few of them they like more than the others. Here are three of my favorites: Continue reading
Posted in Comparative Analysis, List
Tagged acting, Alastair Sim, British, Christmas, Critical Analysis, Dickens, Holiday, movie review, Movies, muppets, Screenwriting, Scrooge, television, TV
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Film Noir: The Mother of the Psychological Thriller
I believe it is possible that psychological thrillers such as Rope (1948), The Shining (1980), Jaws (1975); and the genre of psychological thrillers as a whole are natural extensions of film noir. Continue reading
Posted in Comparative Analysis
Tagged Critical Analysis, Critical essay, film, film noir, film student, Film Theory, Hitchcock, Jaws, Kubrick, movie review, Movies, Spielberg, Thriller
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The Angsty, Angsty Antihero
My previous post about superheroes got me thinking about the rising popularity of antiheroes. In attempting to define antiheroes, however, there seems to be some conflict as to whether an antihero is a protagonist who happens to be a villain or just a severely flawed hero… Continue reading
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Tagged Antiheroes, Critical Analysis, Dexter, film student, Film Theory, Hamlet, movie review, Movies, Semantics, Superheroes, television, TV, Vampires
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Are the aliens in The Day The Earth Stood Still (2008) Intergalactic Eco-Terrorists?
The violent invaders in the new Day the Earth Stood Still are certainly a far cry from the essentially pacifistic aliens of the original version, but are they really eco-terrorists from space? Continue reading
The X-Files and Kolchak: The Night Stalker (part 2)
Now, where was I . Ah, yes. What elements of The X-Files made it more appealing to the more modern viewer of the 1990s? Several things, actually. Continue reading
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The X-Files and Kolchak: The Night Stalker (part 1)
The X-Files began largely as a modernized take on the 1974 series Kolchak: The Night Stalker – or so it would appear. Both shows focus on a character who is investigating paranormal phenomena (although Kolchak does so only whenever he happens to come upon such situations while Mulder usually seeks them out), but the parallels don’t end there… Continue reading