American films

In the movie, “Frankie and Alice” Halle Berry plays an African American stripper named Frankie, who just happens to also have multiple personalities. She has three personalities: Frankie, a strong, intelligent stripper trying to make her way in the world. Genius, a seven-year-old little girl who is very intelligent and Alice who is a southern Caucasian woman that happen to be racist and sexist that behaves as if she’s perpetually loitering at community theater auditions, and broadcasts her…

Fairytales, Femininity and Film: Feminine Ideals in American and Japanese Children’s Animation The nature of social expectations evident in children’s animated films is compelling. Socialization structures, values, morals, spirituality, gender expectations, and national culture and identity are all expressed through animated media and marketed toward children. Animation is more than entertainment, it is a major means by which children assimilate culture. Film is one of the most useful sets of…

influences people to think differently about others. Men have always been seen as the dominant leader. For women, they don’t receive any sort of credit when they accomplish something equally as a man would. The media is manipulating the minds of many Americans to get them to think men are the best in this country. The media has restricted women from showing the people that they can be just as powerful as a man has been. Therefore, the media needs to change the way it influences people to think a…

In the original film released in 1941, Dumbo, we see an animated film generated for children with a cute elephant with floppy, large ears which actually help him and become his wings giving him the ability to fly. However, the hidden messages of racism and stereotypes are knitted within. To start, his nickname becomes “Dumbo” as a direct insult in calling him dumb. Towbin et al. states, “Unfortunately, research shows that many stereotypes based on gender, race, age, and sexual orientation are…

The science fiction film based on a novel by Ernest Cline - Ready Player One, has the American director and producer Steven Spielberg planning to leave himself out of the cutting room floor. Ready Player One is a thriller about a kid on a high-stakes treasure hunt, by going through a virtual reality world made in a society that's been preoccupied with '80s pop culture. And even before Steven Spielberg signed on to helm the film version of the book by Ernest Cline, the director was all over the…

of Hollywood.” Paramount films one of the top conglomerates in the film industry and was by far one of the most resilient studios to survive a time of great uncertainty. There were some crucial decisions that needed to be made to aid in the company’s success not just for Paramount Studio but also in Hollywood. Although filming in studios began in the 1920’, the stock market crash of 1929 was a year no one can forget. This was the economic demolition of America and a film industry desperate to…

Chico & Rita was released into theatres November 10th, 2010. This is a dazzling love story that began in Havana, Cuba, and ends on American soil; however, it is the journey as a whole that should be admired, not simply the end. Their love story is like no other, and yet it strikes a familiar tone that resonates with William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet since they are portrayed as another pair of star crossed lovers. They are both musicians; he was a pianist and songwriter, while she was a…

many ways. The reasons why these films are not alike is because of the different directors; there is a Canadian director and an American director which makes the film styles different from each other. ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ uses propaganda to try and convince the viewers that they are right. These documentaries were very hard to follow for someone who knows very little about politics, and coming up with things to write the paragraphs on were difficult. These two films may have been about a similar…

is one theme in film whose treatment has differed over time; this is most evidently illustrated in the two films Since You Went Away, directed by John Cromwell in 1944, and Hope and Glory, directed by John Boorman in 1987. Since You Went Away was produced by David O. Selznick in 1944, and in addition wrote the screenplay for the film, originally based on the novel by Margaret Buell Wilder, Since You Went Away: Letters to a Soldier from his Wife (1944). The release year of this film is important…

Once sought as a luxurious consumer product film ended up becoming one of the great national pastimes that told stories and allowed it’s viewers to escape their lives. At the end of World War II however things changed permanently for the film industry. No longer were they able to enjoy their assumed monopoly; they had to fight against the advent of television. Fighting against television film makers turned to some interesting traits such as the film matter, changing of the production code and…