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Essays 241 - 270
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...
out of the selection" (Mikiro). They have never really been presented in film, showing how Natives were actually treated. One o...
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...
incidence of fire breaking out during operations. In one of ABCs 20/20 episodes in 1998, the audience was cautioned that this ha...
clearly an attempt to redefine the modern cowboy for modern audiences by penetrating the invincible stereotype and revealing vulne...
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...
of Boston and Philadelphia. Rather, the film endeavors to expose the man behind the myth. It discusses his life essentially in c...
in their lives when they are accustoming themselves to their impeding morality and the problems that come with old age. Catherine ...
a shock for white audiences. Poitier invested his character with dignity and strength, and although later that tactic no longer re...
A 6 page essay reviewing both the film and print versions of this popular tale. Both the negative and positive aspects of America...
Fasts text of the same name). They each offer depictions of George Washington as perceived by authors, screenwriters, and filmmak...
sociologist, Erving Goffman and Elaine Pagels, a historian of religion. The concept of otherness as a proponent of discriminator...
commit violence on anyone who is not white and protestant for any small reason. They will deliberately instigate events so as to d...
the nature of good and evil. In "Shadow," there are the two "Charlies," Uncle Charlie and his niece, Charlotte, who is known as "C...
bed, or even beginning to become amorous might secure a PG rating, but during that time period, blatant sexuality in film was not ...
how dependent upon technology the average citizen has become in everyday life. The fact that God initially contacted Bruce via hi...
This paper examines the problems involved in transferring novels from print to the big screen in twenty seven pages and includes s...
Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon - worked to make the institutions of a "free society" available to that half of the nation to which ci...
was developing. But, when her husband was taken it was very hard for her to do nothing. She constantly ended up battling with the ...
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...
American values were the primary motivation of the U.S. participation in the southeast Asia conflict. Author Richard Slotkin expl...
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...
is particularly evident in the spread of American culture seemingly to the far corners of the globe (Eslake 61). On practically e...
This paper examines the relevance of the film, Sankosa, and others like it that focus on African-Americans holding onto their heri...
In a paper consisting of eight pages the African American gangster and gangs depicted in Boyz 'N the Hood and Hoodlum are contrast...