Blaxploitation Films Essays and Term Papers
229 Essays on Blaxploitation Films. Documents 151 - 175
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Terrific Looking Film, Especially During This Era
Terrific looking film, especially during this era Nanook of the North is one of the first documentaries made in the early nineteen hundreds. Robert J. Flaherty's helps establish the film by successful adapting to his environment by filming extraordinary hunting and fishing scenes consisting largely of medium shots. At times, this film resembles a home made film, concentrating on Nanook’s family personalities, rather than the everyday tasks they take on. This film gets somewhat intimate,
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The 1931 Film Version of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is an English film which was classed as a horror when it was released. Now more of a comedy when you watch it, the special effects are nothing compared to the new effects of today. The film is about an English gentleman who wants to releases his inner desires and do all the things he longs to do, so he makes a potion and changes into another character (the evil
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Gandhi the Film and How It Compares to Early 20th Century Indian History
Gandhi While ‘Gandhi’, the movie, when combined with Metcalf and Frankel’s research , gives a comprehensive and multi-dimensional understanding of India towards the end of the British occupation, and helps us empathize in a way the readings alone cannot, I feel that the movie on its own, irresponsibly conveys a dangerously limited understanding of the early 20th century dilemma in the Asian sub-continent. By failing to capture the salient class tensions and problematic notions
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Ikiru Film Study
The film "Ikiru" is a medium of social criticism. The film has satire about the gender roles seen in a patriarchy japanases culture. In this film we see a reversal of the gender roles especially in the characters of Eun-Jin and Kang Su-il. Shin Eun-kung, as Eun-Jin is depicted as a fearless masculine warrior. On the other hand Kang Su-il is a civil servant that follows the law and lacks masculinity. There is even a
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Shakespeare on Film - Observations
Shakespeare On Film 02/10/04 Hamlet 20002 Observations It was a difficult movie to sit through. It is not because the movie is inherently bad but because of my own neurosis. The works of Shakespeare, in my humble estimation, are not meant to be modernized. Modern settings, along with modern stylization detract from the original beauty of the work. It is illogical to watch Polonius giving fatherly advice to the young Ophelia in a penthouse
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Fight Club - What Did the Film Distort?
What did the film Distort? A film adaptation of a book can be like hearsay. The author writes a novel to send a certain message. Someone else reads it interprets it in a different way and talks to a film producer. The film producers then take its, leaves out major events, change the ending and make a film with a completely different message than the author. The author then screams bloody murder then takes his
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Ethnic Notions: Film Response
Ethnic Notions: Film Response The 1987 film documentary Ethnic Notions directed by Marlon Riggs, identifies the evolution of African American cultural depictions through ethnic stereotypes and caricatures in American culture. I feel Ethnic Notions exposes the roots of false generalization from the beginning and presents a series of classifications for racial depictions that still are noticeable in today’s society. These racial depictions identified with in this film begin in the mid 1800's and continue
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Film Noir
Unit 1 Interactive Assignment 1: Reading Discussion Definitions are as difficult as they are necessary. In the case of "film noir" we always begin with the question: What is it? But this is perhaps the wrong question. Perhaps we should ask a deeper question: Is it? In other words, is the word empty of meaning, that is, so general that in practice it is useless? Let us begin, then, not with what it is or
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Film Prioritization
In this scenario, a large film making conglomerate wishes to examine a number of potential film making projects. Each project is to be ranked according to its feasibility, measured by the ability to adhere to a number of corporate objectives. There are seven proposed movies to be judged and the conglomerate will produce four to six each year. First is to examine each of those projects to the corporate objectives, compare and contrasting project selection
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Teenage Film Essay
Teenage films are a type of film made to attract an adolescent audience. The main ways that film makers try to attract teens to a teenage film are to create an unreal adolescent world, to make the teenager the hero, the adults stupid and incompetent and to use stereotypes that teens can relate to. By doing all this they can manipulate the teen audience and suck them in to the film, making it an affective
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Film:analysis: The Life of David Gale
The debate about whether capital punishment should be used has raged incessantly since it was reinstituted in the Democratic United States in 1976. The latest statistics on the death penalty reveal that 71% of Americans favor it for citizens convicted of murder, while 26% oppose it. Although the United States doesn’t lead the world in total numbers of executions per year, it is within the top five. Of all the 38 states that still have
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Ten Best Performances in English Films
In any movie, the hardest job is probably that of the actor. He not only has to give his character an air of believability but also must bond with the viewer emotionally. As always, a few things first, • In compiling this list I have tried to focus on what in my opinion should be the best performances in English films. However when speaking of performances, it is impossible to keep one’s personal choices
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Thoughts on Tania Modleski's “cinema and the Dark Continent: Race and Gender in Popular Film”
Tania Modleski’s “Cinema and the Dark Continent: Race and Gender in Popular Film,” discusses how popular film perpetuates stereotypes of black women. Some controlling images of black women include: the mammy, the jezebel, and the sapphire. While Modelski doesn’t analyze the sapphire stereotype, she does use Whoppi Goldberg’s past film roles as examples of the nurturing and maternal mammy and the over- sexualized jezebel. While I could clearly see Modelski’s comparison of Goldberg’s roles and
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The Place of an Auteur Director in the Nigerian Video Film Industry
Introduction Films are the product of many individuals working together. This is evident in the credits that are scrolled at the end of each finished work. I could easily say that it takes a village to make a movie. Consequent upon the above stated, it becomes shocking to find out that there is a significant tendency among film scholars to treat films as the product of a single individual. To toe this line of interpretation
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Analyse Shane with Specific Reference to the Films Visual Style and Western Themes
‘ Analyse Shane with specific reference to the films visual style and western themes.’ By analysing ‘Shane’ (1953) in conjunction with its visual style and western themes, it will clearly show what aspects of western culture are apparent in the film. By looking at the visual style, this will show how the mise-en-scene informs the audience that ‘Shane’ is placed in the western genre. Firstly I will analyse the western themes that are visible in
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Film Analysis of the Movie
The movie begins with the screen displaying the words of Isaiah 53:5 which reads “He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.” I think the director is giving us a introduction of the movie. A close-up shot of the full moon appears and then a long shot showing us the entire sky. The camera moves
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Chinatown: Above the Film Noir Genre
The viewer sees a private eye and beautiful client. First thought, “It’s definitely another Hollywood crime drama.” On the surface, Chinatown has all the elements of a film noir: the presence of a beautiful but dangerous woman, otherwise known as the femme fatale, a gritty urban setting, compositional tension (highly contrasting light and dark colors or oblique camera angles), and themes of moral ambiguity and alienation. Chinatown, however, is different. Polanski shot Chinatown with color
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The Film Metropolis Film Shots
The film Metropolis is a unique film. If one thinks about the time in which the film was made and then thinks of how little technology was available to the film industry, they would see how awesome the film truly is. A specific scene that had two camera angles involved in it was when Maria was saving all the children from the flooding. It was filmed with a crane, but it also moved around her
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Fear and Trembling Film Anaysis
Fear and Trembling Film Analysis Paul Regallis Intercultural Communication 35852 Dr. Mei-Chen Lin November 28, 2007 Abstract The movie Fear and Trembling shows many examples of intercultural communication. Amйlie, one of the main characters in the movie, encounters different kinds of intercultural adaption difficulties. A few examples of these are making friends, cultural knowledge and appreciation and pressure to conform. Some of Amйlie’s experiences have her going through some aspects of culture shock such as
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Film Studies
People’s lives cross with other people’s every day. Strangers become a vital part of our lives, often in ways we don’t ever recognize. Crash is an ensemble piece about a circle of strangers whose lives all touch. Director Paul Haggis successfully conveys this through epiphanies that burrow deep into the truth about racism, and its manifestations. Haggis forces the audience to examine their own motives, raise questions, and scrutinize the ugly side of ourselves through
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Femme Fatale in Film Noir
The term film noir was coined by French critics for 1940s-50s American films that shared a dark sensibility and a dark lighting style, such as Double Indemnity (1944), Out of the Past (1947), and The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946). Many theorists related the common noir attributes and aesthetic elements to a post war society characterised by insecurity about gender roles, the economy, changing definitions of race, and nuclear technology. One of the cultural problems
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Documentary Films Have Played an Important Part in Determining the Way We Construct History and Memory. in What Ways Do Documentary Films Dealing with the Holocaust Determine Contemporary Understandings of That Historical Event?
Documentary films and their representations of the Holocaust have served not only to speak their ‘truth’ of the atrocities but also to document changing paradigms of social thought concerning Holocaust ‘truth’. Holocaust History and its documentation: Theodor Adorno’s famous 1949 injunction that ‘to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric’ is indicative of the initial approaches of documentary to the subject matter. The first documentary footage of the Holocaust was shot as Allied troops entered the
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The Art of Advertising: Selling Products Through Film
The Art of Advertising: Selling Products through Film When thinking randomly about ads on television or at the theatres, as long as it is presented in some form of film, a few successful ones voluntarily emerge in our minds. Whether they have conquered their places in our memory by means of violence, comedy or any other possible way is a subjective matter. The unquestionable truth is that all of these vending tools have auspiciously achieved
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A Dsm-Iv Diagnosis as Applied to the Portrayed Character John Nash in the Film
A DSM-IV Diagnosis as applied to the portrayed character John Nash in the film “A Beautiful Mind” In the movie, “A Beautiful Mind”, John Nash displays classic positive symptoms of a schizophrenic. This movie does a fair job in portraying the personality and daily suffering of someone who is affected by the disease, although the film does not give a completely historically accurate account. In the film, John Nash would fall into the category of
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Beowulf Film Comparison
1) The film character Beowulf is much older and alone in this story because he is described as some kind of immortal. Rather than just being a warrior with a great reputation from another kingdom as he was in the original text, in the film he is the son of some kind of god. Beowulf relates the story of his conception to Kyra in the film, saying that his mother had been drawn to
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