Essays on Cinematography Page 89

As racial inequality and injustice prevail throughout American culture, the lack of and far too often, misrepresentation of people of color (PoC) and other minority groups, is perpetuated in American cinema. Studies have observed such lack of color across popular American films and TV shows, the Institute for Diversity and Empowerment at Annenberg (IDEA) found…

The Glass Menagerie is a memory play written by Tennesse Williams about the Wingfield Family. Williams uses different symbols to represent each character’s perception of life. Tom Wingfield is an aspiring poet who watches movies during his spare time and enjoys his alone time smoking on his fire escape. The movies, fire escape, and poetry…

A film that was created back in 1993. The two pieces of work are very similar, but the focus of this analytical essay is the media form. Simple Justice is about a famous lawyer named Thurgood Marshall, whose main fight included integration and equality for schooling across America and around the 1930s-1950s. Marshall wins Supreme…

After the Second World War, the country of Germany was in such complete disarray, both politically and economically, that the nation found itself near the same state it was before the war. The shame of the Nazi legacy, coupled with high rates of employment, the imposing Red Army Faction, and protests all challenged the capacity…

I decided to do my Intercultural film on The movie Higher Learning produced by John Singleton. Higher learning is about a group of incoming freshman and how their college lives are impacted by cultural diversity. This film highly relates to intercultural communications because it shows how diverse college is but also distinctive.This movie mainly focus…

The Graduate (1967) is a classic drama and romance concerning the rift that exists between generations. The story mainly examines the life of youths in the late 1960s bumping against the rules and regulations that are set up by their parents. This paper is mainly going to look into how Benjamin who is a disillusioned…

Synopsis Directed by Chito S. Roño, this adaptation of Lualhati Bautista’s prize-winning novel Dekada 70 chronicles a middle-class Filipino family who, over the space of a decade, become aware of the political policies that have ultimately led to repression and a state of martial law. Vilma Santos stars as Amanda, who realizes the implications of…

All thrillers seem to clothe themselves in a pretentious cloth of unoriginal uniformity so much so that we have a handle of what will happen as soon as the heart-thumping cinematic music starts. They all follow the theme of a few ready-made American fetishes: demonic activity, psychopath killer, a ghost of the past, and corny…

The movie Stand By Me is a story about four boys that has a very strong friendship and would do anything to help out each other. These boys go on a quest to find a missing boy along the way they learn the value of friendship, trust, and what is right and wrong. The boys…

I chose the movie, “It’s a Wonderful Life” for my individual movie response paper because well for one, it is getting pretty close to Christmas time, but also because it is one of my favorite movies of all time and it presents countless ethical issues that are easy to spot. And, right of the bat…