I watched the film “Dedicated to Chaos PBS Episode 7” . The film talks about the changes Jazz was going through during WWII. Many Americans were already used to Swing music that it was already considered America’s music during the war. Although Swing music was popular among the majority of Jazz musicians‚ some musicians were in fact tired of the many restrictions found in Swing. So they decided to change the formula of Jazz music once again to create a highly complex form of Jazz: Bebop. The predominant
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After watching Jimmie Lee get murdered against a wall adorned with African American achievement‚ showing there is so much left to still fight for‚ reality set in. The biting sounds of a billy clubs smashing the heads of a demonstrator are not to be forgotten. Selma was loaded with moments of view-altering shock and disturbing clarity‚ where the audience had to step back and re-evaluate. The movie was created for this exact reason. Selma served as an eye-opening reminder of the relentless struggle
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Review on the Film: The Stoning of Soraya M. Director: Cyrus Nowrasteh Genre: Drama‚ Tragedy The film‚ The Stoning of Soraya M.‚ is based on a best-selling book written by Iranian- French journalist Freidoune Sahebjam‚ adapted by Cyrus Nowrasteh. The film’s greatest strength besides an outstanding script‚ was its gifted cast: Shohreh Aghdashloo as Zahra‚ Mozhan Marno as Soraya Manutchehri‚ James Caviezel as Freidoune‚ and other great actors starred in this movie which was filmed in the year
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Film Review of The Movie Blackboard Jungle This was an interesting movie about a man named Rick Dadier who is married to his wife Anne Dadier who is pregnant. Rick is a war veteran who lands a job teaching. Now this isn’t your ordinary teaching job because he has to teach a class of thugs who don’t listen. Rick is hired at a North Manual High School‚ which is a boys school. Now this is the first thing he is faced with as a new teacher at this school. As he is there he discovers that the rumors
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Film Review: Good Night‚ and Good Luck By Nina Karimi “Good Night‚ and Good Luck” is not your typical Hollywood film full of conventional action‚ cliff hangers‚ and romance. It is however a masterpiece of its time‚ about an era that many Americans try to forget. George Clooney‚ an esteemed American Actor and director of this film tried to capture a period of time known as the McCarthy Era where the “red scare” or fear of communism allowed the Senator from Wisconsin to try and convict
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Film Review for “An Anthopological Introduction to YouTube” Michael Wesch’s short film “An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube” does exactly what the title entails- he introduces YouTube from an anthropological point of view. While many may have issues thinking of YouTube as anything other than entertainment‚ Wesch does an exceptional job of connecting these two subjects. Wesch begins with introducing YouTube; that is‚ he explains how YouTube really got big. From the beginning of YouTube‚ he
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way to capture the way the audience at the time would have felt in that setting. In other words‚ if he used music that today’s audience associates with old-fashion and retro themes‚ the feeling of being at a wild party would be lost. Many of the reviews I have read were complaining about a feeling of detachment from the characters. While they may be right about that feeling‚ I do not think it is a mistake. In chapter nine‚ Fitzgerald writes ”They were careless people‚ Tom and Daisy—they smashed up
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(Jean de Coras) is a well-made film that stays loyal to history while entertaining the audience by portraying the social and cultural atmosphere surrounding the story. The Return of Martin Guerre is set in a small French village in the 1560‚ twelve years before the St. Bartholomew Massacre in 1572. Considering the timeframe‚ it takes place during the peak of the French Renaissance‚ past the Italian War of 1551 and after Renaissance humanism spread to France. The film highlights these historical events
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From American Animated Film to See American Cultural Characteristics Introduction 1. Introduction to the background and significant of American animation We have already learned that the American continents were peopled as a result of migration. The United States of America is a young country in the world with a history of only more than two hundred years. But this very country forms its own culture system which has already affected almost every corner of the world. This culture system
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Comparison of Chinese and American Film industry Introduction A Film‚ also called a movie‚ is a modern art that combines pictures and voices to entertain people and express certain ethnic or political attitudes and other concerns. Movies have absorbed the characteristics of literature‚ photography‚ painting‚ music‚ dancing‚ writing‚ sculpture‚ architecture and many other kinds of arts. However‚ they are not produced through a simple combination‚ but rather‚ with a process that includes digestion
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