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of racism. However, viewing John Travoltas portrayal of Louis Pinnock through the stereotype of the "brute Negro," that is the s...

spirit of her brother and grandfathers abolitionist movement, however, this attempt is only an extension of what two strong men be...

was apparently encouraged by leading minds of the time the work was completely his, indicating he was not working, so to speak, fo...

that defines segmentation and the power of one definable group over another. Understanding elements of gender bias, cultural ster...

director was, quite literally, involved in every possible aspect of filmmaking, from raising money to hiring actors to helping to ...

including children who were racially different from themselves, as well as a different gender or body type.ii The results of the s...

was, and it should be said that this was a different place and time. Yes, the people did not have abundance, but also, one can say...

notes that this is the first film crew to be given permission to film extensively at the UN and this gives the movie a feeling of ...

own life. With Scottie in pursuit, Madeleine climbs a bell tower and apparently falls to her death; in reality, the Novak charact...

embraced and coddled when they are hurt. A boy may be given masculine toys and a girl given dolls. If a boy wants to play with dol...

her bedroom wall and uses this to confide in. However, even at this very early level there are indication of the culture clash and...

daytime and snow is falling. "Charlie" (Charles Foster Kane) is playing outside, and the camera stops on him. He rolls a snowbal...

(Manvell 37). While Pudovkin would occasionally use non-professional actors in the name of realism, he preferred relying on profe...

first started to administer to the injured and the sick, the notion that nurses should be women has prevailed (Odendaul, 2004). T...

keep a minority in control (Wolfson, 1998). With this background, lets see what we can find about gender stereotypes in such tale...

he or she is married. Does marriage really lend stability to life? Is there in fact a prejudice against singles? The answer is mix...

his five years at Biograph, Griffith took the raw elements of moviemaking as they had evolved up to that time -- lighting, continu...

a women faced with the types of situations that they face in his plays. Twelfth Night examples this most concisely. The plot of T...

an identical twin brother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia in a mental hospital; a sometimes overbearing stepfather (Ray); an...

early years of the century. George Albert Smith was the first to experiment with composing scenes from individual shots and camera...

it is quite obviously going to have a lot of action throughout the film. However, too much action and the theme and characterizati...

street until one of the bolder residents stepped from his home and planted himself directly into their path. "Just what are the l...

To date there has been no argument that sinks in with her, and we are nearly to the point of giving up. My own inability to criti...

lends great insight into the cinematic development of any film, especially the films of Hitchcock. In his movies, every shot has ...

politics. Gore Vidal wrote the screenplay, as well as the original Broadway play on which the movie is based. Vidal was friends wi...

across, and thus get the power of the film across. The predominant focus of the film is the story and the man who is an alien. It ...

Ophelia to see how women characters have changed over the years. Penelope was able to fight off suitors for decades while maintain...

the audience a close up of Othellos face and the audience is able to watch the doubt creep over Othellos face. Without saying anyt...

be made about film noir and its enduring popularity is that it strikes a chord at the depth of nearly every viewer. Film noir focu...

evolution of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment until its climactic attack on Fort Wagner, South Carolina of July 18, 1863, that resulted i...