YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Narrative Analysis of the American Beauty Film
Essays 451 - 480
In five pages this paper discusses how these films reflect expansionism, individualism, success, economic wealth, the 'American Dr...
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 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...
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...
brutalized in this event and the historical record shows that such a background would be historically accurate. Alienated against...
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...
that mirrors such interpretation as brought about by the likes of popular culture, but it has also been quite successful at reachi...
the market. This sums up the strategy of a company which wishes to be a leader rather than a second mover in...
traditions and societies" (Said, 1979, pp. 45-6). Nakashima (2001) touches upon an issue that has long eluded multicultural...
extent of freedom. With more and more populations becoming indigenous by virtue of their longevity in America, a blending of cult...
laborers, domestic servants, families - all made the monumental decision to search out a better life. Regardless of the quest for ...
This essay uses research to discuss the experiences of African Americans who enlisted in the British army in order to obtain their...
specifically address black independent filmmaking. Diawara (2001) highlights the tendency of the mainstream to consistently borro...
an imaginary podium, and is steadily building volume when Socrates interrupts.) Socrates: Oh, I see. Then the nude statuary that s...
in 1980, Puerto Ricans organized a protest outside the theater in order to draw attention to the stereotypical images of Latinos ...
thousands lost their loves. However, there was also wide scale support as many in the country believed in Mao and the idea that al...
was put into prison and made to wear a scarlet leader to indicate that she was an adulteress. However, she never revealed who the ...
middle of filming the commercial he has come to do and the director is attempting to give him directions in Japanese using an inte...
in a British field weeks before the books release (msn, 2004). Both of the above hits are sandwiched in between the ads...
Ulmer relied on things like voiceover and dark shots that create a very powerful sense of darkness. There are the close ups and th...
attempt to make to the viewer sympathetic to his ideas...the film highlights the many conflicting realities which are inherent in ...
politics. Gore Vidal wrote the screenplay, as well as the original Broadway play on which the movie is based. Vidal was friends wi...
the symbolism of this tattoo as honoring her brother James Haven (Schwarz). A large Asian tiger, as well as some "Borneon-style ...
around the emperor was protected from prosecution. Thus the films main villain, Baron Takahasi, the commander of the Ambon camp an...
Aruru to create a man mighty enough to subdue him if necessary: "It was you, Aruru, who created mankind, now create a zikru to i...