The Hollywood Reporter

It is simply not fair to criticize a movie based on whether the movie involves politics or not. . Matt Taibbi seems to be a political reporter for the Rolling Stone. All of the articles that he has written have been related to politics somehow. This particular article is the most far fetched from politics than any other of his articles, but still relates it back to politics. Matt Taibbi…

Raymond Nahikian December 6, 2017 Rhetoric and Narrative Professor Welling Final Paper What Killed Music? The Slow and Mysterious Death of Music “Real music is dead! Why isn’t there any good music like this nowadays!” I have seen this short, exclamatory sentence frequently in the comments section on YouTube. They can be found on multiple videos involving music approximately from the 1950s to the mid-to-late 2000s. Online comments like these have divided music lovers and casual listeners…

more dead friends than he cared to remember. (Audie Murphy biography.com) “There is VE-Day without,” he wrote of his mixed feelings at the war’s end, “but no peace within.” (Andrews, Evan 2015) Murphy returned home in June 1945 to parades, swarming reporters and his face on the cover of Life…

with six year-old children and snapped over one thousand pictures of children in the school across his house. He was sentenced a few years later for sexual exploitation and for distributing sexually explicit material. Handy is just one example of a Hollywood staffer that uses a job title to commit this type of…

Ray Bradbury: The Art of Science Fiction Since the beginnings of science fiction, outrageous ideas of time travel, robots and outer space have found their way into imaginative stories. Ray Bradbury was one of the first authors to combine the idea of science fiction with his own unique writing style. Bradbury’s childhood experiences greatly influenced his unique writing style and genre, winning him many awards. Ray Douglas Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920, in Waukegan, Illinois. His father,…

Reality TV shows play a very important part of how different groups of people are represented in the media. These type of shows are highly popular in mainstream media and have the power to reach a wide range of audience members and shape their ideas of certain groups of people in our society. Big Brother is a reality TV show that gathers up its contestants in a camera covered mansion where there every moment is recorded and at the end the last remaining houseguest receives the grand prize of…

Author J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye features Holden Caulfield, a young man who struggles through getting kicked out of multiple private boys schools, society’s expectations, and depression. The lense this book is being analyzed under is psychoanalytic theory. Psychoanalytic theory is the concept of the unconscious part of the human brain contains biological motivators and conditioning from past experiences. The specific part of psychoanalytic theory that is being used is the idea of…

What A Purr-fect Idea! Why Halle Berry’s ‘Catwoman’ Needs A Proper Reboot Halle Berry is no stranger to the superhero genre. Since 2000, she has played Storm in Marvel’s #XMen films. However, people may (or may not) remember her short stint in a DC film. Yep, Berry played a role in a DC film while serving as a Marvel hero. What was this film exactly? Well, it was Pitof’s 2004 film, #Catwoman. The film became a massive box office failure. While it is not exactly the world’s worst film it ranked…

For centuries, confining women to the private sphere was one of the main methods powerful men used to avoid dealing with their fear of women; it's still happening in some parts of the world. In the west, that just doesn't work anymore. Women are much more visible, and so is the negative response towards more women on the screen. While men in society are traditionally seen as humorous, women are traditionally not seen as funny . Especially in a big-budget film like the new Ghostbusters, whose…

To adapt David Mitchell’s complex novel into film, the directors have used storytelling techniques that vary greatly from classic Hollywood movies. These techniques, such as having the same actors play different roles across time, have assisted in the portrayal of themes. In two hours and fifty-two minutes, Cloud Atlas explores interconnectedness, ripple effects, human nature, dominance…