1998 in film

This essay analyses the quandary about the individual privacy against the continuous surveillance presented in Peter Weir’s film The Truman Show (1998) by applying Foucault’s ideas on panopticon developed in his work Discipline and Punish (1975). After the understanding and summary of the main ideas of the book, they are applied to the film in order to question the hypothetical benefits that the panoptical system offers. Discipline and Punish belongs to the postmodern critical movement arisen…

Mulan; Honoring Entertainment When searching for a great movie to watch, don’t bother looking further than Mulan! This classic animated movie will forever be a endless source of entertainment, so grab some popcorn and enjoy. Mulan, released in 1998, is a Disney movie set in Medieval China, at the time of a Hun attack. Mulan, voiced by Ming-Na Wen, defies the law by dressing as a boy and joining the defending army in place of her ailing father. After proving herself as her alias, ‘Ping’, she is…

The 1998 film American History X, directed by Tony Kaye, delves into issues of race, class, gender and ethnicity as it confronts us with the story of the Vinyard sons Derek and Danny. Reeling from the shooting of their father at the hands of a black gangster, Derek and Danny become heavily involved in a neo-Nazi gang. The movie sheds light on racial tensions and relationships both in everyday Los Angeles and in prison, which stabilize the concepts of race and ethnicity, as they rooted in…

research methodology in mass communication studies and social sciences with the arrival of television. Media content analysis has been a primary research method for studying portrayals of violence, racism and women in television programming as well as in films Shoemaker and Reese (1996) note that media content is characterized by a wide range of phenomena including the medium,…

a brief role in the crime film Teen Patti (2010), which then was quickly followed up with a lead role in the teen drama Luv Ka The End (2011). However, her real claim to fame (other than her father’s fame in the Bollywood sphere) was in the romantic drama Aashiqui 2 (2013). In this movie, she received several accolades such as a Best Actress nomination. Not only is Shraddha a talented actress, she’s also an accomplished singer. In fact, she has sung several of her film songs, including the one…

Full House, The Powerpuff Girls, and Star Wars. People may find these to be common household names from the nineties and early two thousands. However, in 2016, almost twenty years since these shows and movies were relevant, billboards and commercials announce the return or reimagining of these intellectual properties. Some look forward to experiencing their earlier memories again. But for others, the revival of these defunct shows is evidence of dwindling creativity or companies looking to make…

slowly but surely dominating their individual universes. Overtime, television and film have shown that modern culture focuses on positive stereotypes that represents women to have limitations which can be seen through portrayals of professionalism, single women, and…

Japan on March 23, 1910 and died September 6, 1998 at the age of 88 of a stroke. Kurosawa was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, who to this day is regarded as one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Kurosawa began his journey in the Japanese film industry in 1936, after a brief pursuit of painting. Kurosawa debut as a directer after many years of working on films as an assistant director and scriptwriter, with his film Sanshiro Sugata (a.k.a. Judo Saga) during…

Brother (2000-) but in April 2002 the eighteen- to thirty-four-year-old age demographics top ten shows all of those including The Osbournes. The Osbournes managed to use the dynamics of shows like Celebrity Fear Factor (2001-), Celebrity Death Match (1998-), and Celebrity Boxing (2002-) in the authors’ words she says, “Rather than turning ordinary people into celebrities, these new shows turned celebrities into ordinary people.” Which is exactly what The Osbournes sought out to…

Spielberg’s Influence: An analysis of Lawrence of Arabia (OUTLINE) I. Introduction A. Introduce topic and key points. 1. Making of realistic based film 2. Lawrence of Arabia and Empire of the Sun 3. History of Lean 4. History of Spielberg II. Body A. Making of realistic based film 1. research concept a. supporting ideas b. connect to next concept 2. research concept a. supporting ideas b. connect to next concept 3. research concept a. supporting ideas b. connect to next concept B. Lawrence of…