Gangster films

Paris is Burning is an iconic film that gives the heterosexual world a look into the underground scene of queer culture that is the ballroom. The film presented new slang and phrases that people in the present still use, but the stories and the issues of the oppressed are often overlooked and forgotten. At the time of release in the 1990s, gay culture was still somewhat misunderstood, but Paris is Burning portrayed the struggles that gay individuals experience every day. The movie showed that…

The adventure novel The Hunger Games has become a famous movie and chapter book. They are beloved by many people, but there is a debate on which is better. The movie or the book. I am going to tell my point of view on which version is superior. The movie and the book are very important because they both show two different points of view and have many differences and both show many different things. The hunger games series has made about three books. The first book is called the hunger games, the…

The Miles Ahead movie is very different from the previous jazz performances I attended, of course that was anticipated considering it's a movie about Miles Davis not an actual live concert. To start, I did not like this movie. To me, the movie portrayed Miles Davis as a bad-ass, ready to kill man, instead of a wonderful performer which he was and still is. The Evolution of Jazz book depicted Miles Davis differently than the movie did, in the textbook they showed Miles as a musician ready to…

the names, there are many other differences that set the two apart. Treasure Island’s vivid theme, plot, setting, and list of characters was much more superior than that of Treasure Planet. Most of the characters from the novel remain in the film version but have been altered in some way. The others are simply absent. Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver remain as the main focus. In Treasure Planet Jim is made out to be a juvenile delinquent whose father abandon him when he was a small…

In “Baka: Cry from the Rainforest,” the is film focused on a Baka family and their lifestyle. The film represents The Baka in a believable manner. I have not read or done any research on The Baka but I think that this film provides accurate and unbiased views. The film doesn’t seem to exclude any information that could be biased. The film really portrays how Indigenous people live and the issues that they are facing. A scene that represents these changes that stands out is the whole sequence of…

For this assignment I chose the Blindside. There are a couple reasons I chose this movie, one being it is the only movie I had on DVD, and the other being that it has to do with my future career. I hope to work with adoption and foster care, as well as low income communities. This movie was filmed and publicized in 2009, and was based off of a true story. The story line is about a character named Michael Oher, or in the beginning he is called Big Mike. Within minutes of the movie, you learn that…

reconstruction of collective memory. Popular media, such as films and songs, were essential in accomplishing this seemingly gargantuan task. At the heart of Roberto Rossellini’s Rome Open City, for example, is the active reconstruction of memory. As a work of fiction, Rome Open City honors the resistance against the Nazi occupation of Rome. Yet, as a work which provides insight into the emotional landscape of postwar Italian society, this film underscores a subliminal need to reconcile with life…

There is a difference between copying and remixing someone’s work. Now copying is taking someone’s work exactly and saying it is theirs. Kirby Ferguson once said, “Our creativity comes from without, not from within. We are not self-made. We are dependent on one another. Admitting this to ourselves is not an embrace of mediocrity, or derivativeness. It is liberation from our misconceptions. And it is an incentive to not expect so much from ourselves, and to simply begin." While copying is an…

Through LaCroix article there can be many assumptions made in account to the consumption on Disney films and what they “really” intend for its children viewers to inherit. Though made to be somewhat realistic LaCroix Challenges its view of women and their capability. LaCroix article brings consideration to physique, clothing and activeness of Disney princess. Some of her accusations of these Disney films are spot on while others fall short. Though much has changed the features, daintiness, and…

during the time of the Golden Age of Hollywood and are often viewed as the fall of the studio system. During this time, studios had almost complete control over the entire film industry. They had total jurisdiction over all of the different aspects of filmmaking beginning with the development, all the way until the release of films. A great number of the biggest theaters were owned and run by the studios during this time. As for any theaters that weren’t being run by studios, their only good…