YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Analysis of the Film American Beauty
Essays 271 - 300
In eight pages this paper examines the shift from Orson Welles' perceptions of the American Dream to the subversion represented in...
in the destructive power of nuclear energy. Osteen (1994) points out that few events have affected the American psyche in a manne...
and well-thought out film. This film makes us ask the question, however, about whether our United States Presidents truly have pe...
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...
In six pages this essay examines Hollywood Shuffle, Glory, and Gone with the Wind in order to analyze how African Americans have b...
Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon - worked to make the institutions of a "free society" available to that half of the nation to which ci...
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...
of Boston and Philadelphia. Rather, the film endeavors to expose the man behind the myth. It discusses his life essentially in c...
his five years at Biograph, Griffith took the raw elements of moviemaking as they had evolved up to that time -- lighting, continu...
brutalized in this event and the historical record shows that such a background would be historically accurate. Alienated against...
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...
the market. This sums up the strategy of a company which wishes to be a leader rather than a second mover in...
pain and trying to find herself as she divorces herself mentally from her poor beginnings when she was married at fifteen to a hor...
This paper discusses 2 scenes from the film "Good Morning, America" and offers summation and analysis. Three pages in length, thre...
mans face. The fish slips from his fingers and manages to make it over the side. The perspective follows the fish. The fish turn...
The film follows the three hapless goofballs as they come across the sirens (three gorgeous women washing clothes in a river); alm...
that offer the viewer/reader a different look at the western worlds involvement in other cultures. In offering these different v...