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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...

Corporations and Globalization

150 years ago, corporations had an insignificant impact on human society. However, after Congress passed the Fourteenth Amendmen...

Documentary Photography Defined

1980s and things change. From the 1980s to contemporary times, theoretical writing on art, film, popular culture, feminism and pol...

Maverick Filmmaker Sam Fuller

been said that his films were against anything that he perceived as "anti-American." According to von Busack (1997), after Fulle...

Medium Cool Film by Haskell Wexler

In five pages this paper examines the surrealism and documentary styles featured in Haskell Wexler's 1969 film with behaviorism an...

Documentary 'The West' by Ken Burns and Stephen Ives

This paper examines how information on the history of the West was presented in this PBS documentary series in five pages. There ...

Documentary Objectivity and Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will

In eight pages this paper considers the objectivity of documentary style filmmaking in this examination of Leni Riefensthahl's Tri...

Comparison of Films Robert Altman's Nashville and Robert Drew's Primary

Dean Story, was far more interested in film as an expansive theatrical art, represented by the Hollywood blockbuster features (ONe...

'Mr. Strehlow's Films' Analyzed

past and present. The result was an overwhelming collection of footage that has since been entitled, Mr. Strehlows Films. Thes...

FSA Photography

photo truly realistic, or was it somehow "staged" that way by the photographer in order to achieve a semblance of realism? This d...

A Review of the Documentary Film, The Ax Fight

first place in response to a conflict between the villagers of Mishimishimabowei-teri and their visitors from another village (Ax ...

Boxers and Boxing in the Films When We Were Kings and Raging Bull

conscientiously misanthropic" (pp. 55). "Raging Bull" was about the life of a man who actually had something of a heart and was de...

Comparative Analysis of Roger and Me and COPS

and trust-busting sentiments, put the brakes on the greediest corporate pillagers and the concentration of economic power; demande...

Truth and Documentary Theater

call to action. Bruskin explains that "The essence of the period is that we were galvanized to do something." (32). While docume...

Comparing and Contrasting 'Anne Frank Remembered' and 'Triumph Of The Will'

it to be banned for more than three decades. Riefenstahl, who was commissioned by Hitler to cover the events, captured such power...

Documentary Evolution

it can be seen to have been on its way out at the dawn of all the other television competition for viewers time. Perspectives shif...

The Photography of Walker Evans

matter which would make him a household name in photography, that is, signs, cafes, bridges, street scenes, poor people, and the l...

Australian Filmmaker Dennis O'Rourke's 1991 Film The Good Woman of Bangkok

has nothing to do with love. But the idea of ORourkes full intent of his own trip to Thailand and that it had the potential to be ...

John Hersey's Hiroshima

loss of life and suffering. Many continue to claim that in reality there were no feasible alternatives to the use of atomic bombs...

America and Lewis Hine Video Review

Child Labor Law was declared unconstitutional because the Supreme Court had ruled that the federal government had no jurisdiction ...

What Leads to Homelessness?

are many people in the lower and middle income brackets who have little put away. If they have no credit, and no one to bail them ...

The Work of Nations by Robert Reich and the PBS Frontline Telecast Bigger Than Enron

in 1993, which allowed corporations to avoid recording stock options on their balance sheets. According to a Merrill Lynch study, ...

Media and Film Documentaries in China

which provided free education, pensions, and social services to the people and peasants. Instead, the self-sacrificing citizen of ...

Roger and Me by Michael Moore

Moores documentary follows this dictum and offers scathing social commentary, demonstrating the flaws in the capitalist system, wh...

Essay on 1999 Documentary Nuyorican Dreams

at an alternative school which he founded. Robert is an eloquent spokesman regarding how the culture of poverty harms minority mem...

Hoseini and Divorce Iranian Style

many of the cases a wife has brought charges against her husband for failing to financially provide for their family, perhaps enga...

Documentary Paradise Lost The Child Murders At Robin Hood Hills

more than the rest: mental illness. Indeed, an adolescent individual who is suffering from any one of many forms of mentally inst...

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...

A Review of the Television Presentation The Real Malcolm X

This five page paper analyzes the CBS television program. The documentary reviews the Nation of Islam alongside Malcolm X's belie...

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...