Essays 1981 - 2010
the structural and relational factors, including patterns of poor communication, Gils work issues, and problematic financial issue...
Fang Deng and Fang Da are inseparable siblings, depicted before the earthquake "swaying in unison in front of a rotating fan" (Hal...
being suppressed both physically and emotionally for years by brutal treatment, Celie blossoms under the sunshine of Shugs love. A...
obvious (Aronson). But they did: approximately 75% of those tested gave the wrong answer (Aronson). This experiment, which was re...
begins using drugs, stealing, experimenting with sex, and seeking out more radical means of self mutilation. Each of these change...
honest, hes not an operatic singer-his background is in rock. But he trained for a year and his voice, if not the quality of a Pav...
film that we can interpret as a sign, with another signified added to it. It is thus a triple layer of meaning: the object itself,...
will acquire gender related behaviors. Yet, there is some case for biology in respect to feminism and masculinity and this is tied...
value, Sherilyn Fenn, a B-movie actress who had starred in David Lynchs television series Twin Peaks (Thompson, 1992). As a resul...
purchase expensive consumer goods. The stress and psychic pain of this situation causes chronic insomnia. A disinterested and unsy...
Many of his early Star Wars films feature several shots of models and miniatures that convey realism as impressively and in less t...
a woman-suit out of women (using their skin)-the ultimate in objectification" (Vorndam). Lecter is initially contemptuous of Starl...
in explicit language and vivid descriptions of sexuality that were shocking within the conservative cultural context of the period...
commercial solar power projects and the company is undertaking international expansion as well as domestic expansion, two producti...
lightly and surely not a topic that one could conceive of as being used as the foundation of a comedy film that would actually rec...
not something that sprung up in the 1990s or 1980s. Yes, it is a 1950s phenomenon ("Film History of the 1950s"). McDonalds was fra...
an afternoon off and a swim. At the beach house, the first camera shot has Monte showing a closet full of bathing suits (Dirks)....
kind of money people like Lester makes. He has all these schemes and dreams and he ultimately learns they are pointless, just as L...
Angeles finds out hes not real, he sets the rest of the film in motion. The questions are: what makes contemporary LA different f...
seems to ring true" (Rosenstock, 2003). In the film, Nashs hallucinations take a visual form; his roommate, the man he believes re...
there is a certain allure to the way in which both Caine and O-Dog are portrayed. Cinema has since its inception been one of the...
fell considerably short of avoiding stereotypes. For example, one review, that is typical of those produced by white critics, de...
they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. In The Birds, for instance, Melanie (Tippi Hedren) pursues Mitch (Rod Taylor), a m...
are used to match up, such as a person getting out of a chair and then being shown form a different angle entering a room. The use...
someone was sick, or out of a job, or when things were going wrong, they asked God for help (Rodriguez). At home, "God the Father ...
Brussat, 2007). A student bites a teacher; a gym coach "has sex with three students"; a boy is shot and killed; and the school, wh...
and emotionlessly micromanages his employees while engaging them with superficial small talk" (Office Space, 2008). Lumberghs la...
respects it is not a film that illustrates how art education impacts students but how one student is inspired by art education and...
and society would become even more fragmented than it already is. The question also arises: do we have the right to design our chi...
identity in relation to the various products of the national and international film and television industries, and the conditions ...