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just not appeal to me....Yes, the movie does have that somewhat annoying trait of finding gut-wrenching humor in the very existenc...
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...
In eight pages the effects of alcoholism on Native Americans and the therapeutic impact of the film Smoke Signals are examined in ...
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...
incidence of fire breaking out during operations. In one of ABCs 20/20 episodes in 1998, the audience was cautioned that this ha...
but always something that is made in a four-party meaning-situation. An author... circulates a text... to an audience... whose pe...
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...
(Benshoff and Griffin 132). A voiceover at the beginning of the film explains that because of this law, 1940s Chinatown was exclus...
in the destructive power of nuclear energy. Osteen (1994) points out that few events have affected the American psyche in a manne...
In eight pages this paper examines the shift from Orson Welles' perceptions of the American Dream to the subversion represented in...
everyone reveals their powerful inner human side, and all comes out well in the end. Some may argue that this film depicts the ...
sociologist, Erving Goffman and Elaine Pagels, a historian of religion. The concept of otherness as a proponent of discriminator...
The ways in which the style and storyline of this film can be regarded as critiquing the superficiality of American culture and so...
A 6 page essay reviewing both the film and print versions of this popular tale. Both the negative and positive aspects of America...
Burnham and his mid-life angst., a compelling subplot provides a telling commentary on the manner in which homosexuality is percei...
relationship between a city or Nations government and a person is much like that of a parent/child relationship. The state nurture...
brutalized in this event and the historical record shows that such a background would be historically accurate. Alienated against...
clearly an attempt to redefine the modern cowboy for modern audiences by penetrating the invincible stereotype and revealing vulne...
have reattached since he could not afford the cost of both. According to Rick, the hospital priced the reattachment of his middle...
to the settlement of the American frontier, Drums Along the Mohawk. It is the story of farmer Gil Martin and his privileged bride...
symbols and letters, writing implements that resemble modern day pencils and a legend of some sort to indicate the meaning of each...
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...
above racism as he deals with his fathers death. White supremacy groups are, like many hateful groups, designed to control their...
counterculture. Thus, by setting his film there (he filmed most of it on location), Lester was tapping into the one spot in the co...
was developing. But, when her husband was taken it was very hard for her to do nothing. She constantly ended up battling with the ...
"historical facsimile" of the House of Representatives for the State of South Carolina in 1870 (Dirks). In this scene, the audienc...
in economic terms, which depends largely on equating national cinema with a countrys domestic film industry. As this suggests, thi...
bed, or even beginning to become amorous might secure a PG rating, but during that time period, blatant sexuality in film was not ...