SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Analysis of the Film American Beauty

Essays 241 - 270

America's Ailing Healthcare as Depicted in Michael Moore's Documentary 'Sicko'

have reattached since he could not afford the cost of both. According to Rick, the hospital priced the reattachment of his middle...

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Its Contradictions

In six pages the antiabolitionist intent of Stowe's novel is compared with the African American stereotypes it was responsible for...

The Film American Gangster and the Social Issues It Raises

as icon ... you dont cast Denzel Washington unless youre willing to accept that charisma is often the secret weapon of the success...

Strangers in Good Company/Women and Old Age

in their lives when they are accustoming themselves to their impeding morality and the problems that come with old age. Catherine ...

Portrayal of Blacks in the Media, 1960s-Present

a shock for white audiences. Poitier invested his character with dignity and strength, and although later that tactic no longer re...

Hitchcock/Psycho & Shadow of a Doubt

the nature of good and evil. In "Shadow," there are the two "Charlies," Uncle Charlie and his niece, Charlotte, who is known as "C...

Women in the American Revolution

was developing. But, when her husband was taken it was very hard for her to do nothing. She constantly ended up battling with the ...

American Culture and Actress Bette Davis

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...

Film Entertainment and Native Americans

out of the selection" (Mikiro). They have never really been presented in film, showing how Natives were actually treated. One o...

Using Mass Media to Argue for Gun Control

incidence of fire breaking out during operations. In one of ABCs 20/20 episodes in 1998, the audience was cautioned that this ha...

Social Process Theory and the Film American History X

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...

Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma

but always something that is made in a four-party meaning-situation. An author... circulates a text... to an audience... whose pe...

Women's Roles in American Cinema Since 1967

bed, or even beginning to become amorous might secure a PG rating, but during that time period, blatant sexuality in film was not ...

American Religion and the 2003 Film Bruce Almighty

how dependent upon technology the average citizen has become in everyday life. The fact that God initially contacted Bruce via hi...

Cinema, Discrimination, and Prejudice

sociologist, Erving Goffman and Elaine Pagels, a historian of religion. The concept of otherness as a proponent of discriminator...

The Illusionist as Myth

The God of the Waning Year is associated with the sacrificial victim, whose death was believed necessary in order for the earth to...

Tokyo Story as a Reflection of Conditions in Post World War II Japan

such a level of significance which allows it to be seen as a representation of the issues which are applicable to the society, and...

American Popular Culture of 1951 Represented in James Jones’ Best-Selling Novel From Here to Eternity and George Stevens’ Film A Place in the Sun

in explicit language and vivid descriptions of sexuality that were shocking within the conservative cultural context of the period...

Three American Families

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 ...

Actress Julia Roberts

of his life. He realizes that he has been living in an emotional vacuum, operating more as a robot than a human being, and he subs...

A Review of A Bronx Tale

A 6 page essay reviewing both the film and print versions of this popular tale. Both the negative and positive aspects of America...

Depiction of Asian Americans

(Benshoff and Griffin 132). A voiceover at the beginning of the film explains that because of this law, 1940s Chinatown was exclus...

Early American Cinema, 'The Other,' and Social Tensions

makes constitutes the "others" uniqueness. "The Other" inFilm The existence of "the other" has figured prominently throughout the...

Passion of the Christ v. The Bible

"the Son of Your handmaid" (Longhenry, 2004). Additionally, John and Peter address Mary as "mother" numerous times during the film...

American Culture and the Film Manhattan by Director Woody Allen

Brando, the apples and pears of Cezanne...and Tracys face" (Chances 66). Throughout the film, Ike professes his belief that "It is...

'The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven' and 'Smoke Signals'

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...

Films My Darling Clementine, Manhattan, and Identity

character and Brian, however, are that Brian did not go through a stage where he involved himself in an affair to ease the transit...

Eyes in Film

Schwartz towards the woman he is longing for; the disappointed gaze of his wife Lotte (Cameron Diaz). When a person is presumably ...

“American History X": Sociological Analysis

above racism as he deals with his fathers death. White supremacy groups are, like many hateful groups, designed to control their...