Essays on Film Analysis

Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List is perhaps the most critically acclaimed of WWII Holocaust films; since its release in 1993, it has been the recipient of 34 awards, over 300 million USD in the box office, and 25 years of international parley between critics worldwide. For...

The Shining (1980) is a beloved and chilling 1980 American psychological thriller directed and produced by acclaimed director Stanley Kubrick (2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Eyes Wide Shut). The film was adapted from the 1977 novel of the same name written by the...

The Shining disturbs and hypnotizes. It creates an urge for the viewer to look over their shoulder with the feeling that someone or something is in the room with them. Co-writers, Stanley Kubrick and Diane Johnson, approached writing the film with the intention to set...

Brooklyn (Crowley, 2015) tells the story of Eilis, a sheltered young woman from 1950s Ireland who is persuaded to immigrate away from the comfort of her small hometown to Brooklyn, New York where employment and education prospects are much better. Her initial homesickness makes it...

Gertrude Vaughan’s The Woman with the Pack, first achieved on December 8, 2011 on the Portman Rooms, Baker Street, also addresses the plight of a burgeoning New Woman, Philippa, who nevertheless lives at with her circle of relatives; however, Vaughan demonstrates the strength of the...

Happiness is a unique word. If you were asked to define what happiness is, you would probably have to put some thought into it. Everyone’s perspective on happiness will be different. For example, a rich person’s definition could be to have all best branded clothing...

Joy is one of my favorite finance-themed movies. I categorize it as a finance or business movie because it tells the story of how one woman went from idea to product, eventually going on to sell billions of dollars worth of household products and becoming...