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The paper explores how racism and sexism are present in fairy tales and how even the Disney stories of our more enlightened era are filled with all sorts of stereotypical depictions of good characters and evil. The paper uses the Walt Disney movie, "Alladin", to show how the characters have become "Anglicized" to suit a more Caucasian audience.

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"It probably surprises no one to see to recognize the racism, and sexism, that was everywhere in traditional fairy tales. After all, that was a very unenlightened time when people were uneducated and rarely had the opportunity to get to know, and come to understand, people of other races.

"But things are different now. We have had decades of education and desegregation. It is surprising, then, to see some of the blatantly stereotypical images that fill Disney's movie screens. After all, a long time has passed since the brothers Grimm penned their tales, when bad men were always swarthy, or black, and could be spotted the second they stepped onto the page. Nevertheless, after looking closely at a few of Disney's recent hit movies, one might conclude things have not changed that much at all."

Tags:Pocahontas, Arab, Mickey, Mousing, Middle-Eastern

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"While it may be debated for years to come if the term auteur belongs to Hitchcock, it will never be debated that he was a genius in his own right. And if being an auteur means that one exerts much control over his films, it is impossible to contradict the fact that Hitchcock, did indeed, show an unprecedented amount of control in each of his films. If the argument is to be sound, a closer examination of the meaning of auteur might be recognized.Hitchcock was a genius of film and art. His work was revolutionary and gave inspiration to many other filmmakers. His unwavering discipline of creating the best works proves him to be one of the best filmmakers in history. No doubt, his work will be debated and discussed for centuries to come. "

Tags:biography, british, film, vertigo

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This paper provides a look at the making of "Schindler's List". It lists the many prizes awarded to the movie then discusses the story line. It examines the effects and the significance of the movie. It also looks at the angle from which the movie was told and whether it possessed any biases.

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"The film is set in Poland in World War II, at the time when Poland was occupied by Nazi's. The primary theme of the film is the events of the Holocaust and the persecution of Jews. The central character is Oskar Schindler, played by Liam Neeson, a Nazi businessman who recruits Jews to work in his factory, saving them from death in doing so. While he begins the film recruiting the Jews only for his own needs, by the end of the film he is actively trying to save them, and saves the lives of over 1200 Jews. The film is essentially about the Holocaust, presenting the horror and truth of the holocaust to a modern audience by combining a number of stories into a film. The end result is a film that presents the human side of the Holocaust in all it's tragic reality."

Tags:nazi, film, jew, holocaust, movie, award, review, german

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" PSYCHOANALYTIC ANALYSIS OF MARILYN MONROE
Introduction
This research paper presents a psychoanalytic analysis of Marilyn Monroe. Psychosocial development includes two latter stages of Erikson's theory. Omnibus analysis discusses personality factors which include the following: abilities, talents, and temperament, family members and cultural tradition, sexual behavior, cognitive style, affect and impulses, motives, attitudes and impulses, and relationships to principle figures.

Psychosocial Development
Erikson's later stages of psychosocial development included "intimacy versus isolation" for the young adult, and "generativity versus self-absorption" for the middle adult. Marilyn Monroe failed to encounter true intimacy and she became.."

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This paper analyzes the movie "Godfather" and shows that the women in the film played a very important role for setting the tone. It looks at how stereotypes are fitted into the movie in many ways but with the women's role, this changes. Each of the important female characters are analyzed individually.

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"Certainly, those qualities were not valued in Puzo's Italian-American female characters. The fact that Puzo's women are not well-respected translates over into Coppola's Godfather. Locked out of the family business, the women who were married to the mob seemed to have little to do beyond looking pretty and getting blown up. His men, on the other hand, were dynamic supermen -- cold-hearted killers, yes, but also devoted family men, guys who could go to work, knock off a few enemies, carve out a little more territory and still remember to bring home the cannoli. They were the inspiration for the generation of rising mobsters that included John Gotti. The Dapper Don with the sunlamp tan and Brioni suits carefully cultivated his image after that of Puzo's mobsters. Now, it turns out, the Dapper Don's role model was really a welfare mom who held her family together in the tenements of Hell's Kitchen while her husband broke down under the stress. This theme is carried well throughout Coppola's film The Godfather."

Tags:italian, mafia, male, family, female, puzo

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A detailed look into the the use of imagery and symbolism in the film Fight Club. This paper analyzes the depiction of the characters in the film through the use of color schemes and images as well as the different techniques used such as Subliminal messaging, a process by which visual or auditory influences are hidden amongst other images or sounds, such that the conscious mind and self are totally unaware of the information, which it has just absorbed.

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"In the film Fight Club there are two main characters played by Edward Norton and Brad Pitt. Norton's character is a stressed out insomniac. To deal with this stress, his character tries attending support groups, and getting sleeping pills, unfortunately nothing seems to be working. During his most stressed out moments, there are flashes on the screen, which would not be noticed really in a first screening in a theatre, but easier to notice in DVD or VHS copies of the film. These flashes are not the director or editor's mistakes; they have significant underlying meaning. The flashes are director David Fitchers idea of subliminal messaging. They are images of Brad Pitt before his character Tyler Durden is introduced to the film. The significance of the editing is explained later in the film, when the topic of splicing porn into kids? films is discussed. It is believed that these flashes of Pitt show the significance of when Tyler Durden first starts coming into the mind of Norton."

Tags:brad, en, film, insomniac, messaging, mise, pitt, scene, subliminal

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The paper attempts to answer the question of why this film is so popular when compared with other French classics. The writer posits that although the film does not have a distinct storyline, the film perfectly captures the mood of the 1960s. The paper gives examples from the film of techniques used by Goddard to inspire viewers and other artists alike.

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"But Goddard didn't achieve this goal through the storyline alone but also made use of distinctive camerawork. He is known for introducing a totally different set of camera techniques including jump cut, lifted filming, out-door shooting and quick-cuts. Filmmakers have repeatedly copied jump-cut technique since A bout de souffl?'s phenomenal success. One website explain what jump cut really is: ?A jump cut occurs when two shots are mismatched in space or time. The transition between the two shots thus feels abrupt or awkward. shows the continuity of action by showing its start in one shot and its follow-through in the next shot. For example, Shot 1 A woman walks down a sidewalk toward a car. Shot 2 She stands next to the car and opens the door. The cut interrupts the flow between her walking down the street and her opening the door. In the first shot she appears in one place in the frame, and in the second frame she appears in another. We must pause a moment to figure out what happened between shots 1 and 2.""

Tags:character, expression, camerawork, direction, film

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This paper reviews the movie "8 Mile", a fictionalized version of the Detroit rapper, Eminem's life, where the white hip-hop singer overcomes the black skeptics with his undeniable skills. The paper discusses how the movie tells about growing up, how people relate to their peers and finding ways out of seemingly hopeless situations. The paper shows that the movie is not so much about Eminem's rise to fame, but rather revolves around the quest for respect.

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"David Elliot (2002) compares Eminem to a young James Dean. Elliot speaks well of Eminem's role by saying, "he has a laser stare and a smart, gravely centered presence, even if it's a stretch when he piles furiously into black guys double his size. Like Dean's, Eminem's rage and brooding is offset by tenderness." His honesty in dealing with people who make fun of him and criticize his efforts depicts how a person can overcome obstacles and ridicule by working hard and persevering. The movie held my interests as I enjoyed seeing how he battled controversy while engaging in loud verbal battles with various characters who continued to compare him to Vanilla Ice."

Tags:Waldron-Mantgani, Kim, Basinger

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This essay traces the ideas that influenced Charlie Chaplin and modern times. It uses the theoretical ideas of reification to explain state control and mechanization of the populace in a dystopian modernism. The main focus is on the movie "Modern Times".

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"Reification is "the act (or the result of the act) of transforming human properties, relations and actions into properties, relations and actions of man-produced things which have become independent of men and govern his life". In other words when man, the subject, loses what defines him as man to his own creation, and begins to act as his own creation does. This is the fear of the modern. What happens when man comes closer to being a machine? Be it social, industrial or technological. What happens when man becomes indistinguishable from the machine? In Charlie Chaplin's film "Modern Times" we see a society that is becoming not only more mechanized in its mode of production but also on a social scale. The film illustrates a society heading towards state control, where the subject loses their identity to the machine. When Chaplin and the Gamin head off down the road at the end of the film, we realize that this road will not lead them or us to a better place but "we know now with certainty that we are on the road that does not lead to anywhere" . The road that the pair plan to travel on metaphorically leads us to the idea that is representative of Singapore and the literature of a modern state controlled society, the unavoidable by-product of reification. I will examine Modern Times and the short story "Beginning" by Ah Leong, in the light of Michel De Certeau's work on the navigation and incarceration created by the railway . I will use De Certeau's work as a symbol of our modern times and an identifier of the plight of the subject in Modern Times."

Tags:film, human, imagination, post, reification

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The films of the soviet montage were historically inaccurate films made to service the needs of a very powerful communist government, a government very aware of the power of the cinema and propaganda. This paper explores the way Eisenstein re-created the past in his films and created a filmic mythology of the revolution. It explains that Eisenstein created this mythology by creating politically successful films, also by introducing the idea of heroic realism, by using documentary conventions and by using the techniques of plotless cinema.

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"We stopped the event where it had become an asset to the revolution" ?Sergei Eisenstein This quote summarises the attitude of the filmmakers of the soviet montage era. The films of the soviet montage were historically inaccurate films made to service the needs of a very powerful communist government, a government very aware of the power of the cinema and propaganda. The revolutionary filmmakers who were sponsored by the government pandered to the taste of the current leaders, and by doing so created a filmic representation of reality far different from actual events. Filmmakers such as Eisenstein twisted reality to suit the needs of the revolution."

Tags:bordwell, cinema, maniplulation, montage, revolution, stalin