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exercise any form of agency. This notion that slaves did not try to actively resist the confines of slavery is untrue and is illustrated by the work Kindred by Octavia Butler, Black Thunder by Arna Bontemps, and Django Unchained directed by Quentin Tarantino. These creative works of historical fiction do accurately represent how slaves were treated but also, perhaps more important how slaves resisted such unjust treatment. The three aforementioned pieces were all created at different period of…

While Eurocentrism primarily refers to looking at the world with a European, colonial perspective, it is a complex term to break down with regard to its ‘tendencies’ (Shohat and Stam, 3). One key tendency however is to bifurcate the world into ‘the West’ and ‘the rest’ (Shohat and Stam, 4). For the purposes of the argument that ‘Cidade de Deus’ confirms Eurocentric tendencies and ‘Diarios de motocicleta’ subverts them, this essay will focus on the notion that the first focuses on the violence,…

Ever since Titanic was released during the holidays, studios have looked at the holiday season as a prime spot to release huge movies. Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Avatar, and Titanic have all seen gigantic numbers during this time of the year. This makes Winter the new Summer for movies. Sure, there are now Avengers films being released at that time, but December is where they roll out the films that could be nominated for awards. If you take a look at this holiday season — I have taken a…

All stories, regardless of genre, are basically the same. This is not always true in the most obvious aspects like the structure, main points, themes, and the traits of main characters, but it is always applicable to the basic plot of a story. According to Freytag’s Triangle, proposed in 1863, all stories, and even jokes with a punchline, follow the same sequence of events that create the progression of a story. This includes the exposition, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling…

This essay will focus on the notion that the first focuses on the violence, aggressiveness and underdevelopment of a Brazilian favela through a limited, privileged perspective and the latter emphasises the diversity of indigenous Latin Americans, avoiding limiting South America, ‘non-European’ and aiming to give indigenous people some form of voice. 'Cidade de Deus ' (Meirelles and Lund, 2002) is constructed in a similar way to a Hollywood 'Gangster Film ', using many of the genre 's tropes…

This method of weaving back and forth through time, in flashbacks and memories, has been used skillfully by other directors like Quentin Tarantino most famously in his films like Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), and Kill Bill (2003). Other well-known films of the past have played with the chronological order of scenes depicted within a movie to move the story along such as Stanley…

The French New Wave, also known as La Nouvelle Vague in its home country, France, came to be during the 1950s and 1960s. It was created by a group of French filmmakers who proved that they don’t need mainstream cinema to create and produce successful films. Even if the New Wave wasn’t really a conscious movement it left a legacy with films like À bout de soufflé/Breathless (written and directed by Jean-Luc Goddard). French New Wave rejected the idea of a traditional story in films – they didn’t…

Respected for his artistic efforts, Lewis had that special quality the French called auteur when making a picture truly in his vision. Lewis was a chameleon with each film he directed and still managed to input his style while maintaining the mood of the characters in the story and designing the scenery to fit the tempo of the film, as Hirsch recognizes, “Lewis shifts his own style to accommodate the style of his characters and their setting. The detective in So Dark the Night, on the surface,…

In Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, released in 1994, the audience is able to view story play out from the point of view of the gangster. The audience is only able to grasp the true complexity of the characters and story at the end. One cannot truly understand how the pieces of the story fit together until they reach the end of the film where their mind is able to fit the pieces together like a puzzle pieces. This is because of the alternative structure of the film. The film deviates from the…

Rohan Francis Prof. West African American Literature 5 May 2016 Police Brutality In accordance with Black Boy “He didn’t see a man with hopes and dreams, with disappointments and accomplishments. All he saw in front of him was just another nigger.” I wanted to start my research paper off with this quote because it speaks to me in a way where it is in accordance with police and the novel Black boy in this research paper I will talk about both of these topics. In spite of the way that it is…