YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :High Fidelity and the Films Social Commentary
Essays 301 - 330
provides evidence of repressed female sexuality, and reveals how the traditional patriarchy was threatened as a result of these ch...
their jobs back, women were suddenly deemed weak and incapable of doing "mens jobs" and so were pushed out of the labor force and ...
homeless man, or a prison inmate that has been arrested for some outrageous reason (Nissley 165). To illustrate how technology ha...
This 4 page essay explores the long-lived concept of May-December romance as it is presented in the movies. Social class and age ...
In five pages this research paper considers religious and social identities in such films as Omar Gatlato, My Son the Fanatic, Fea...
was cast as the Indian renegade Magua and a "less likely and more melodramatic Indian...is hard to imagine" (Magills-1920). Beery ...
is no "true print" of the film, but it stands as a historical film nonetheless (Lang, 1994; 37). "The film was based on former No...
it is about a silent film star, Don Lockwood (played by Kelly) making the transition to sound pictures, a leap that not all popula...
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...
love, but have to ultimately abide by their previous obligations, as they are both happily married. Death of a Salesman (1985, pro...
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...
to "study things in their natural setting, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people br...
Burgess poses basic questions regarding the...
makes constitutes the "others" uniqueness. "The Other" inFilm The existence of "the other" has figured prominently throughout the...
the second quatrain and then the third, on her own (Downing 126). In so doing, she overturns the Petrarchan convention wherein th...
freedom supersede mans other concerns in daily life. Before exploring philosophy in respect to freedom, a student writing on this...
Indeed, boys tend to like football and rough house almost from birth where girls seem to mature into beings who like to talk on th...
human. Analyzing how Kubrick utilizes the Vietnam War as a means by which to expose violence, sexism and racism inherent to Ameri...
the story of twelve men (all stereotypical white and middle class) who by luck of the draw are brought together to deliberate the ...
the beginning perhaps, a cop who felt that policeman could truly offer some form of social control that would eventually benefit a...
by Heinrich Boll, on which the screenplay was based (Anonymous, 2001). Katharina Blum (played by Angela Winkler) is an innocent,...
sympathy" (Strauss 06F). Hitchcock was famous for employing the aspect of location as a means by which to portray his desired sen...
true it probably isnt," the outcomes of the story may easily be predicted. Added to the overall sense of "too-good-to-be-true" is ...
in reality is not one of the "good girls." She is living an illusion. Her need for self improvement has reached an emergency lev...
the most fundamental truths of human existence and the ways in which all human beings relate to stress and feelings of social and ...
indicate a real trend or did producers want to make the unlikely romance more intense by denoting the male protagonist as someone ...
In five pages the ways in which the film depicts the AIDS epidemic, the frustrations, social attitudes, and lack of funding associ...
an exaggerated representation of the fiction from which they are culled. The realist movement of the 1960s was centered on "the ...