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    America Televising the Holocaust During the 1950’s The events that took place during the Holocaust began to make its way to film during post-World War II America. In the 1950’s‚ the film The Diary of Anne Frank‚ and the Judgment at Nuremberg and the TV show This is Your Life gave the American audience an understanding of the disturbing events. The objective‚ of most TV and film writers that chose to portray the Holocaust‚ was to get the American audience to connect with the Jewish people. Through watching

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    Spotlight Film Analysis

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    The lead editor of Spotlight Walter "Robby" Robinson stated‚ “It’s like everyone knows the story‚ except us and we work right there.” This quote demonstrated that this story was known by many but was not publicized. The fact that people would cover it up provided more of means to actually get the story out so people can be aware. The team took a different approach since this story was very covered numerous times. Michael Rezendes (one of the investigative reporters) thought that the story would attack

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    Frida Film Analysis

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    com/od/1920s/a/flappers.htm>. "Frida Kahlo Biography." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television‚ n.d. Web. 28 Sept. 2012. <http://www.biography.com/people/frida-kahlo-9359496?page=1>. Frida. Dir. Julie Taymore. Perf. Salma Hayak and Geoffrey Rush. Miramax Films‚ 2002. DVD.

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    “You can’t kill your way out of this” former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Directors‚ Michael Hayden‚ David Petraeus‚ John Brennan‚ and James Woolsey all state during a montage in the Showtime documentary The Spymasters: CIA in the Crosshairs. The Directors go on to lament the CIA’s evolution from an intelligence gathering entity to a targeting and strike organization‚ albeit not publicly acknowledged as such. More specifically‚ the former CIA Directors seem to regret the agency’s lack of field

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    Film Analysis: The Help

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    The movie The Help‚ produced by Kathryn Stockett‚ depicts the average lifestyle of African American women during the 1960’s‚ at the advent of the Civil Rights Movement.The most conventional job for an African American woman during this period was a maid for an American family. The movie has a social message and “explores race relations in the 1960’s South by telling the stories of four black housekeepers and the white women for whom they work ” (“Former Slave Sues Author For False Portrayal” 1)

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    Rwanda Film Analysis

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    During the 20th century‚ approximately 174 million people have been killed by the government only and mostly by the communist governments (Dominic & Abimbola‚ 39). The figures are quite shocking. This clearly depicts that government exploits the innocent people and incite them to stand against their brothers and sisters. The same story happened in Rwanda‚ It was the Habyarimanian government‚ who planned the genocide a long time before to retain their political power. The magnitude of the genocide

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    put on their plates and has given me an altered view towards the food industry which has drastically changed my food habits. Many emotional scenes were shown on this film to give viewers empathy towards the problem that is occurring. The documentary shows many vivid details and explains what is in the food that consumers eat. The film food‚ Inc influenced my habits of consumption by eating organic meats‚ purchasing most foods in the farmers market‚ and checking for food labels. I have learned that

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    In his Book Black Film‚ White Money‚ Jesse Algeron Rhimes makes an interesting parallel. He declares “Edison initiated mass film viewing with the introduction of the large-screen projector in New York City on April 23‚ 1896. Less than one month later‚ on May 18‚ the U.S Supreme Court formally sanctioned “Jim Crow” segregation by formulating its anti-Black “separate but equal” doctrine in Plessy v. Ferguson”. He adds‚ “ Racial segregation and mass film viewing are siblings‚ if not forever squabbling

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    The lighting techniques used in Edwards’s film influence greatly the meaning of the shot. Tim Burton used a dreary light‚ an expression to display the mood of the movie. Lightening made the characters’ setting and several things look mysterious. The first appearance of Edward happens to be a dark corner of an empty room. In a mare look up‚ Edward is clothed in stiff black fabric encaging his upper body. The dark character of the room makes the Avon woman stare and want to come closely to examine

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    The Hours - Film Analysis

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    The Suicide of the Author and his Reincarnation in the Reader: Intertextuality in The Hours by Michael Cunningham Andrea Wild In his novel The Hours‚ Michael Cunningham weaves a dazzling fabric of intertextual references to Virginia Woolf’s works as well as to her biography. In this essay‚ I shall partly yield to the academic itch to tease out the manifold and sophisticated allusions to the numerous intertexts. My aim‚ however‚ is not to point out every single reference to Woolf and her works--such

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