YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Narrative Analysis of the American Beauty Film
Essays 421 - 450
as relatively nonthreatening throughout the course of the film, which actually makes it even more sinister. The theme of go...
The writer discusses the efforts made by the U.S. during the Cold War to win other nations to its view. The methods discussed incl...
was developing. But, when her husband was taken it was very hard for her to do nothing. She constantly ended up battling with the ...
that mirrors such interpretation as brought about by the likes of popular culture, but it has also been quite successful at reachi...
In eight pages the effects of alcoholism on Native Americans and the therapeutic impact of the film Smoke Signals are examined in ...
In a paper consisting of nine pages drug use as depicted in American films is examined. Fifteen sources are cited in the bibliogr...
In five pages the depiction of Native Americans in the novel by James Fenimore Cooper and in the film by Kevin Costner is contrast...
In five pages this paper considers how Hispanics have been stereotyped by American society and how cinema has perpetuated this dis...
a fairly ordinary guy, even if he is a cop. The movie offers numerous and viciously cynical commentary on the media, the FBI, and ...
In five pages this paper discusses how these films reflect expansionism, individualism, success, economic wealth, the 'American Dr...
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...
a jury in the wake of racial stereotypes and roles. The defendant is an uneducated, teenaged Puerto Rican slum dweller. The "peer...
In six pages this essay examines Hollywood Shuffle, Glory, and Gone with the Wind in order to analyze how African Americans have b...
This paper examines the relevance of the film, Sankosa, and others like it that focus on African-Americans holding onto their heri...
Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon - worked to make the institutions of a "free society" available to that half of the nation to which ci...
This paper examines the problems involved in transferring novels from print to the big screen in twenty seven pages and includes s...
A 6 page essay reviewing both the film and print versions of this popular tale. Both the negative and positive aspects of America...
sociologist, Erving Goffman and Elaine Pagels, a historian of religion. The concept of otherness as a proponent of discriminator...
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 ...
such a level of significance which allows it to be seen as a representation of the issues which are applicable to the society, and...
to by Jim in very earthy, concrete terms that nonetheless indicate that she is pretty. When she says that blue "is wrong for-roses...
in explicit language and vivid descriptions of sexuality that were shocking within the conservative cultural context of the period...
bed, or even beginning to become amorous might secure a PG rating, but during that time period, blatant sexuality in film was not ...
opens just after her birth. Like all babies, she is crying. Lucinda, a rather stupid fairy, is intent on giving Ella a "gift" and ...
and complicated issue of AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) in any notable fashion" prior to this movie (Tepper, 1995). Fi...
characterize Mexican tradition with the contemporary realism of complex family relationships. It is a cinematic postcard for fami...
more of art imitating life rather than the other way around. II. DISCUSSION The good old days of the colorful, romantic, s...
of Boston and Philadelphia. Rather, the film endeavors to expose the man behind the myth. It discusses his life essentially in c...
This 7 page paper compares Alexie's 1993 book with the Chris Eyre 1998 book that was inspired by the film and its representation o...