YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :An Analysis of the Film Imitation of Life
Essays 1891 - 1920
an afternoon off and a swim. At the beach house, the first camera shot has Monte showing a closet full of bathing suits (Dirks)....
kind of money people like Lester makes. He has all these schemes and dreams and he ultimately learns they are pointless, just as L...
in explicit language and vivid descriptions of sexuality that were shocking within the conservative cultural context of the period...
commercial solar power projects and the company is undertaking international expansion as well as domestic expansion, two producti...
lightly and surely not a topic that one could conceive of as being used as the foundation of a comedy film that would actually rec...
and society would become even more fragmented than it already is. The question also arises: do we have the right to design our chi...
identity in relation to the various products of the national and international film and television industries, and the conditions ...
such a level of significance which allows it to be seen as a representation of the issues which are applicable to the society, and...
about how Jamal would not know a particular author whom Forrester begins quoting. Jamal proves him wrong, illustrating he does kno...
and while the film industry was just a gleam in the eye of motion picture gurus, the industry would later become important to Holl...
and emotionlessly micromanages his employees while engaging them with superficial small talk" (Office Space, 2008). Lumberghs la...
by persistent discomfort with ones sex" (Meyenburg, 1999, p. 305). This gender identification with the opposite sex typically com...
but be of a military mind and take such realities as par for the course in warfare. There may be others who used the war to make t...
the not-too-distant past; the guards on the battlements talk about how the previous King Hamlet "smote the sledded [Polacks] on th...
actually the perfect place for Americans to diverge from Eastern standards of rigid control as they sought a more morally ambiguou...
the majority of people in the United States today still disbelieve that people actually evolved from another species, it seems acc...
War can be seen as an event that ends in ruin for all concerned. He also says that society in general was dividing into two "grea...
(Bacchus, 2007). The atomic age is the real villain here, because its radiation from the atomic testing in New Mexico that causes ...
they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. In The Birds, for instance, Melanie (Tippi Hedren) pursues Mitch (Rod Taylor), a m...
fell considerably short of avoiding stereotypes. For example, one review, that is typical of those produced by white critics, de...
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 ...
are used to match up, such as a person getting out of a chair and then being shown form a different angle entering a room. The use...
her friends are at a diner of sorts, prior to the scene with her father, where all the kids hang out, she is laughed at by some yo...
how dependent upon technology the average citizen has become in everyday life. The fact that God initially contacted Bruce via hi...
that adolescence is a time of life that skews peoples thinking. People the age of the Latin Kings have a terrifying illusion of im...
labor. Rather than being totally dependent on custom, these societies are held together primarily through mutual obligation betwee...
still essentially the same (HBO, 2007). In this series, therefore, it seems as though the image of Rome is one that is historical ...
capacity of the individual to be expressed and to strengthen (Kirschenbaum, 2004, p. 116). In pursuing this line of thinking, Ro...
Brussat, 2007). A student bites a teacher; a gym coach "has sex with three students"; a boy is shot and killed; and the school, wh...
respects it is not a film that illustrates how art education impacts students but how one student is inspired by art education and...