WGST 300—BLACK CINEMA Option A: Select two or more films from this course and compare and/or contrast them‚ using one or more of the above criteria (shared themes‚ etc.). SUPERFLY and DUTCHMAN “Lights‚ camera‚ and action!!” A popular phrase noted throughout the film and cinematic industry‚ but to directors‚ actors‚ and viewers of African American or Black Cinema this famous phrase helped jumpstart a movement throughout the black culture. Starting with radical movies that explained racial undertones
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African American Studies CNN- Being Black in American 2? CNN continues its investigation of the most challenging issues facing African-Americans with "Black in America 2." Soledad O ’Brien reports on people who are using ground-breaking solutions to transform the black experience. The documentary goes on to identify what is “Being black in America”. It discusses‚ what I call the old Jim crow laws. What rights we have and still do not have still how blacks still gets racially profiled. Also‚
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Racially Charged The movie CRASH pertains to a day of encounters of people of different races. An interaction between strangers ended in chaos‚ hatred‚ and fear. The movie portrayed interactions of different races causing clashes between victim and aggressor‚ superior and inferior and an idealist and racist. Racism was portrayed as a common attitude of the characters played. Crash is an eye opener to the problem of our society; racial discrimination and stereotyping. In the movie‚ communication played
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are the major conflicts of the movie and are these conflicts resolved satisfactorily at the end? Would you characterize the ending of the film as happy‚ sad‚ or somewhere in between? Stanley Kubric in the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey” does a great job using as little as possible to make the most out of a movie. What he actually did with the film was make a philosophical statement about man’s place in the universe. He did this by using images and left the movie up for interpretation‚ allowing
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Exploratory Essay Dressed in Black A classic is something that has a tendency to stick around when other trends die out. Every woman’s wardrobe has an essential little black dress‚ and it has become an epitome of timeless fashion. A little black dress is an evening or cocktail dress cut simply and often quite short. The classic black dress has been around for a great while now‚ it has never gone out of style. Fashion historians ascribe the origins of the little black dress to the 1920’s design
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AND CONTRAST ESSAY THE BOOK AND THE MOVIE Two weeks ago I finished reading the book “The Firm” by John Grisham. It was really interesting for me to read this story because of the unpredictable plot and the bright characters. At that moment I thought that the book had a really fantastic ending. But when I saw the film about “The Firm”‚ I was surprised that the book and the movie could be so different. I was amazed with the last episodes of the movie because the
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Overtime‚ many individuals will bring out their “dark side”. Some are pushed to their limits and in order to perfect themselves and to please others‚ they would do things that is benefit to them. In this essay‚ I will be discussing Erving Goffman’s dramaturgical perspective and analyze it to the movie Black Swan. Erving Goffman’s dramaturgical perspective of social interaction suggests that a person’s identity will change overtime based on interaction with others. It proposes that a person’s identity is
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Black Hand - The Conspiracy that started War. In 1911 ten politically important men of Serbia formed a secret society called the Black Hand in one of their sister’s basements. Three years later‚ the Black Hand had started World War one. Fifteen million people died‚ 20 million people wounded; all because of the bad judgement of one man and the death of another. The cause the Black Hand was fighting for was a worthy
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where he tried to make friends and find someone to cherish and love. The book and movie both show different characteristics which the monster possesses and how they directly or indirectly relate to one another. In the movie‚ "Frankenstein" has a green complexion and bolts coming out the sides of his neck. The bolts symbolize the way the monster was brought to life‚ through electricity. Also he usually wears a black suit and pants‚ this shows the darkness which surrounded the monster. In most of the
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Movie genres By Saba Sadeghi By the start of 20th century movies started to play a big role in entertaining people all around the world‚ the earliest movies were made only in one shot with no editing or specific story but little by little movies started combining different scenes to tell a story. Slowly by producing different movies‚ different movie genres were shaped. Nowadays we have nearly 20 different main movie genres and some of them contain subgenres. Most of the movies are a combination of
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