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or rouged (Brabazon, 2000, p. 98). At an awards ceremony, Davis was asked if she regretted not being the sort of movie star that w...
out of the selection" (Mikiro). They have never really been presented in film, showing how Natives were actually treated. One o...
incidence of fire breaking out during operations. In one of ABCs 20/20 episodes in 1998, the audience was cautioned that this ha...
1998). Derek is induced into joining a neo-Nazi movement by a older hate-monger played by Stacy Keach, who uses him as a neighbo...
but always something that is made in a four-party meaning-situation. An author... circulates a text... to an audience... whose pe...
(Benshoff and Griffin 132). A voiceover at the beginning of the film explains that because of this law, 1940s Chinatown was exclus...
clearly an attempt to redefine the modern cowboy for modern audiences by penetrating the invincible stereotype and revealing vulne...
In eight pages this paper discusses films Evita and Selena in a consideration of the depiction of Hispanic women in U.S. cinema. ...
In five pages this paper examines how the 1950s are represented in the drive-in, 'hot rods,' and early rock and roll music feature...
American values were the primary motivation of the U.S. participation in the southeast Asia conflict. Author Richard Slotkin expl...
In twelve pages the communication patterns exhibited in the French film Cousin, Cousine and its American counterpart Cousins are c...
Schwartz towards the woman he is longing for; the disappointed gaze of his wife Lotte (Cameron Diaz). When a person is presumably ...
above racism as he deals with his fathers death. White supremacy groups are, like many hateful groups, designed to control their...
to the settlement of the American frontier, Drums Along the Mohawk. It is the story of farmer Gil Martin and his privileged bride...
Fasts text of the same name). They each offer depictions of George Washington as perceived by authors, screenwriters, and filmmak...
In five pages this paper discusses how these films reflect expansionism, individualism, success, economic wealth, the 'American Dr...
brutalized in this event and the historical record shows that such a background would be historically accurate. Alienated against...
of Boston and Philadelphia. Rather, the film endeavors to expose the man behind the myth. It discusses his life essentially in c...
a shock for white audiences. Poitier invested his character with dignity and strength, and although later that tactic no longer re...
in their lives when they are accustoming themselves to their impeding morality and the problems that come with old age. Catherine ...
of childrens costumes in ancient Egypt and Rome. VI. Conclusion a. Culture is the great equalizer when it comes to establishing th...
to by Jim in very earthy, concrete terms that nonetheless indicate that she is pretty. When she says that blue "is wrong for-roses...
toward consumption. As such, the public began spending money, causing various industries to take notice of such disposable income...
one-way interplay between the ad and the viewer is a result of what Marx termed commodity fetishism, whereby the illusion of immed...
pain and trying to find herself as she divorces herself mentally from her poor beginnings when she was married at fifteen to a hor...
the market. This sums up the strategy of a company which wishes to be a leader rather than a second mover in...
problems and the pollution of the towns water table by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E). Brockovich instinctively felt that the case ...
Cuban Missile Crisis the following year. The film implies that JFK made a deal with Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev, in which h...
their own various ways of struggling for coherence, for a compelling faith, for social vision, for an ethical position, for a sens...
In this paper consisting of five pages life's beauty is demonstrated in a core curriculum of art, music, and literature. There ar...