YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Five Foreign Films on Social and Religious Identity
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religion is treated in Hollywood film; what forces of religion are considered "box office" (i.e., profitable); and what values do...
and behaviours, and seen as being in direct opposition to "femininity", which is equally constrained in its parameters, and define...
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...
uncompromising manner that demands to be interpreted as truth (This is Spinal Tap PG). It is the perfect device for Rob Reiner to...
Cuban Missile Crisis the following year. The film implies that JFK made a deal with Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev, in which h...
love, but have to ultimately abide by their previous obligations, as they are both happily married. Death of a Salesman (1985, pro...
to "study things in their natural setting, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people br...
that it has always been a colony of sorts. Its independence is illusive and while things have changed since 1997, it seems as if H...
homeless man, or a prison inmate that has been arrested for some outrageous reason (Nissley 165). To illustrate how technology ha...
police detective that suspects his department is turning a blind eye to organized crime after refusing to further investigate the ...
However, Condon never allows the characterization to slip from deliberate parody into stereotyping; his characters are complex and...
This 4 page essay explores the long-lived concept of May-December romance as it is presented in the movies. Social class and age ...
their jobs back, women were suddenly deemed weak and incapable of doing "mens jobs" and so were pushed out of the labor force and ...
a thicket of vines. This is a slow tracking show that is designed to five the audience the impression that they are seeing the poi...
her supposed advice and is incredibly confused and upset by Celies advice. While Celie is sorry she is not in a position in her li...
obvious (Aronson). But they did: approximately 75% of those tested gave the wrong answer (Aronson). This experiment, which was re...
as a commercially viable and attractive genre by its continued existence and evolution. In all three of the production to ...
Ann Beard, in her essay The Fourth State of Matter, illustrates how a young man, Gang Lu, becamse so disgruntled with life and wit...
psychology, and mentoring assisted educators like Professor Lambeau and his college roommate and counselor Sean McGuire (Robin Wil...
directed by David Van Taylor and R.J. Cutler) is a documentary that follows the 1994 senate race between incumbent Senator Charles...
public, which is basically whats going on here; that is widely accepted and understood. If it were not a cultural norm for people ...
first released, but since its debut it has grown in popularity until it is now generally considered one of the greatest films of a...
horrifying story of the evil of greed, set against the backdrop of the Sierra Leone civil war. This paper explores the messages of...
This essay offers discussion of "Saturday Night Fever" and "Taxi Driver" as films that exemplify the social environment of the 197...
This film review pertains to "Medicine Man," a 1992 film directed by John McTiernan. The writer gives an overview of the plot, whi...
over the credits, signifying that Judah has recovered from his burden of guilt and is prepared to get on with and enjoy his life (...
instance), and externally (how the cinematic techniques used communicate with one another, and with the audience, to convey some t...
In four pages this paper examines the films of Oliver Stone with the focus being a social analysis of Natural Born Killers. Three...
The use of sexually explicit films in the context of teaching sex education is the subject of this research paper. This report loo...
This paper consists of five pages and examines the controversies surrounding this film director, producer, writer, and actors uses...