YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Blurring of Gender in the Films of Pedro Almodovar
Essays 91 - 120
"the assumed needs" (Anonymous, 2000) of the masses. The Republican view of government back in the 1930s reflected the nee...
of the Old South, which is where she bases her identity. She sees the antebellum era and everything about the Southern values in t...
Manual (DSM) III, transgenderism has long been described as a psychological problem due in great part to the manner by which child...
earning him an Academy Award (Raging Bull, 19950. De Niro made Jakes decline more believable by gaining 60 pounds over the course ...
draw and paint, which is a "direct expression" of "her interior life" (Young 29). When she is finally able to walk again, she visi...
one in which Danny Torrance, the seven-year-son of Wendy and Jack, has a vision of blood engulfing a hotel hallway in torrential w...
a different "historical memory of the Maori," as they remember "fierce fighters who battled against British colonizers for decades...
resonates with the viewers and that, in part, is why the film is so successful (Short and Short). In addition, writer and Angelo...
demanded. They were depicted as speaking little or no English and as sticking out in terms of being different due to their distin...
standard serves to jeopardize the militarys fundamental objective (McSally, 2007). "Recruits are sent to learn the rudiments of m...
by persistent discomfort with ones sex" (Meyenburg, 1999, p. 305). This gender identification with the opposite sex typically com...
dizziness and dislocation. For most of the first 45 minutes of the film, Scottie (James Stewart) gazes at Madeleine (Kim Novak) f...
their jobs back, women were suddenly deemed weak and incapable of doing "mens jobs" and so were pushed out of the labor force and ...
a woman who is a leader of her people, and yet her role is reduced to love and childbearing. War of the Worlds does not have any s...
will acquire gender related behaviors. Yet, there is some case for biology in respect to feminism and masculinity and this is tied...
death, Maggies family comes to see her just to secure their inheritance, something that brings money into the picture. Clearly, th...
In the film generally, gender is marked by an exaggerated sense of male and female. That is, the men are aggressively male while t...
the office building is a womans voice. It is a soothing voice and one could well argue that a womans voice will make people more s...
story, mise-en-scene, editing, and music, they collectively provide a common theme that speaks of the uniqueness of the feminist e...
uncompromising manner that demands to be interpreted as truth (This is Spinal Tap PG). It is the perfect device for Rob Reiner to...
this when Edward Nortons character slowly develops the alter ego played by Brad Pitt. Edward Nortons character wants nothing to do...
and behaviours, and seen as being in direct opposition to "femininity", which is equally constrained in its parameters, and define...
She does not confine herself to a single domestic location, and is overtly...
terms of interpretation, due to different apparent political agendas and a different political environment, as such we will use on...
choice to live and abide by a certain set of unwritten expectations. The movie, Menage, directly challenges this idea. Powrie al...
he returns a sarcastic comment before turning around to discover he had been addressing a Captain. Brenners absolute rank is not ...
because of the Civil War, and many of whom were still alive when the film was produced" (The Birth of a Nation PG). The director ...
humanism refers to the personal worth of an individual and that individuals right to his own particular values, and freedom from p...
7). In the third section of the novel, Patrick, the boy from the first section is now twenty-one years old and arrives in Toronto....
couple of cars who happened to be drag racing. This gives the woman a chance to get away. She runs into the city and for some reas...