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Analysis of 1976 Documentary The Kawelka Ongka's Big Moka

In two pages this documentary on the Papua, New Guinea tribe known as the Kawelka is discussed in terms of what an uncivilized cul...

Analysis of 1987 Documentary Cannibal Tours

In two pages Dennis O'Rourke's 1987 documentary is analyzed especially in terms of its effective employment of both irony and humo...

Analysis of 1964 Dead Birds Documentary

In two pages this ethnographic documentary that focuses on Western New Guinea's primitive tribe known as Dani is examined in terms...

Characteristics of Mexican Cinema

(Mexican Film Institute) and the British Film Institute, a major two-month season of Mexican Cinema presented at the National Fil...

Cuba of Fidel Castro

Castro's Cuba is examined in terms of the book and subsequent documentary about Castro's 1959 Cuban Revolution and discusses the f...

Social Theory and Michael Moore's 1989 Documentary Roger and Me

In five pages this paper applies symbolic interactionism and conflict social theories to Michael Moore's documentary of onetime Ge...

Overview of Documentary Television

to make it irrelevant whether or not the details are portrayed correctly. The distinction between narrative and fiction is that n...

Robert Drew and the Development of Cinema Vérité (Direct Cinema) in America by P.J. O'Connell

In five pages this paper provides a textual overview of Robert Drew's life and career as a documentary filmmaker with his influenc...

Bowling for Columbine

emotions and sympathy for the Columbine victims and families. For example, it is difficult not to agree with Moore that the decisi...

What I’ve Learned About Foreign Policy by Dorrel

former U.S. Attorney General and is in Segment 9, illustrates how Kissinger, in relationship to the Iran/Iraq War claimed that the...

Spike Lee's When the Levees Broke

Lee, what the victims share is that they had little before Katrina and now have nothing (Samuels 94). It should be noted, howeve...

Summary of the PBS Documentary Myths and the Moundbuilders (1980)

this historical puzzle dating back to the novice citizen investigations to the more scientific and sophisticated Illinois River Va...

Reaction Paper on Michael Moore’s 2004 Film, Fahrenheit 9/11

narrative of Fahrenheit 9/11, then-Texas Governor George W. Bush was able to steal the 2000 presidential election with the help of...

Last Abortion Clinic/ A Frontline Documentary

This research paper describes a documentary, "The Last Abortion Clinic," which aired on PBS's Frontline in 2005. Eight pages in le...

'Sicko' Michael Moore's Film Commentary on Healthcare

in part: "Edgar Kaiser is running his Permanente deal for profit. And the reason he can do it, I had Edgar Kaiser come in and tal...

Profit Motive and the Destruction of Health in "Food, Inc."

determined to adopt sustainable practice, more attention than ever is being leveled at what we eat. Some experts believe that ther...

Tort Reform and HBO's Hot Coffee

had to undergo numerous skin grafts and almost died because McDonalds was serving coffee at absurdly high temperatures ("Synopsis,...

Documentary about Sergio Vieira de Mello

documentary effectively tells the story of his life and death, and his concern for others and good works. Sergio Vieira de Mello...

The American ideal of Beauty

wonders now what prompted him to be so superficial, stupid and shallow. Therefore, this wide-ranging documentary is his quest to f...

An Inconvenient Truth: Analysis of the 2006 Motion Picture

A review and analysis of the 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth are presented in 3 pages. The bibliography cites 4 sources....

Mass Media's Influence

This essay uses the Civil Rights movement and the invasion of Iraq as examples of how the influence of the mass media has had a se...

Sex, Drugs, Alcohol, and Media's Portrayal, the Effect on Children

clear that the portrayal of underage alcohol and drug abuse that is presented in the media, as well as the portrayal of sexual beh...

The Media's Impact on Society

societal input is the formation of a number of dysfunctional assumptions and negative automatic thoughts. We are brainwa...

China's Water Pollution Challenge

the incidence of "infectious diseases and cancer" (Kim, 2007, p. 120). It has been asserted that the water challenges facing China...

Book Reviews China's Growth

regular basis. One story is very nearly unbelievable. A young woman took her application to college tests and was informed that sh...

China's Entry into Africa

many of the trade barriers lifted and restrictions relaxed, for trade and good going into and coming out of China (Thompson, 2007)...

China’s Increasingly Important Role in the Global Economy

to as market socialism. 1.1 Aims and Objectives The objective of this paper is to assess the way in which China is adapting to ...

Media's Responsibility for the Obesity Epidemic

would work to resolve the problem and in fact, some people report that religious activity has helped them lose weight. The author ...

Japan’s Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu and China’s Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi

shared this view. Tensions heightened after the Shoguns death in 1858 and the emergence of Ii Naosuke as tairo or temporary leade...

Overview of Imperial China's Last Emperor Puyi

In six pages this paper discusses the events that resulted in removing Puyi as the final emperor of imperial China. Five sources ...