"The reluctant fundamentalist nostalgia" Essays and Research Papers

Sort By:
Satisfactory Essays
Good Essays
Better Essays
Powerful Essays
Best Essays
Page 50 of 50 - About 500 Essays
  • Good Essays

    and kitsch. Anderson tells the story of a scout who flees his camp in order to pursue a love interest with a consistent use of many aesthetic post-modern features‚ such as nostalgia‚ parody‚ eclecticism‚ pastiche and hyperconsciousness in order to give further depth to the initial story. Anderson constructs a strong nostalgia through attention to detail in the form of props such as books and record players with an affectionate look at the different aspects which construct the 1965 scout camp setting

    Premium Film Adolf Hitler Narrative

    • 683 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Martin Scorsese and Raging Bull Martin Scorsese is said to be one of the greatest American filmmakers of all time. Graduating with a Masters in filmmaking from New York University‚ Scorsese has directed films including: Taxi Driver‚ New York New York‚ Good Fellas‚ Raging Bull‚ and more recently – The Boardwalk Empire. Now - to dive into the aspect of color versus black and white in the movie‚ Raging Bull. Researching both the movie and the mindset of Martin Scorsese led to some interesting

    Premium Robert De Niro Film Martin Scorsese

    • 672 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    emotional appeal of love between themselves and their pets. For pet owners‚ the safety and care of their pets‚ which in turn evokes love from the pet‚ is an effective motivator. The Kal Kan “18 year-old-grandpa” ad targets loving pet owners‚ using nostalgia‚ storytelling‚ and music to make an emotional appeal. In hard times‚ advertisers look to comfort their consumers‚ and entice them to depend on their brand. One writer proposes “More often than not‚ the technique they chose to create such comfort

    Premium Emotion Love Advertising

    • 700 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    sense of nostalgia in responders; "My father’s dream was to sit in the sun with the old men...lighting candles in a wind-swept church...sit in the sun of sepia photographs". Then‚ the truth is slowly revealed‚ often through the form of letter excerpts from her mother; "She didn’t recognise her sisters...winded by the force of time. Finally‚ there is the final sharp contrasting image; "It was all McDonalds’ and pigeon shit". This continues on throughout the text‚ each time emotions and nostalgia is induced

    Premium Musical notation Perception Emotion

    • 680 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Volkswagen‚ the privatization of mining‚ and the year of 1999 contextualized the rapid change occurring in the fast-growing Chinese economy started near the end of last century. It was nostalgic to me. Yet in watching the first part of the film so the nostalgia soon wore off. My dad had his first car in 1996‚ also a red Volkswagen‚ as if it was yesterday. I was inevitably nostalgic‚ however‚

    Premium English-language films Film Narrative

    • 699 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    often conjures images of a wooden puppet‚ lies‚ a growing nose‚ a whale‚ and occasionally the fairy. If you had asked me the same question a month ago I would have responded similarly‚ however‚ now The Adventures of Pinocchio invokes a sense of nostalgia for myself‚ accompanied by memories of the trial and tribulations of childhood and adolescence. This is because the story of “Pinocchio” is not just another fairy tales with a simple moral‚ “Pinocchio” is rather a tale with a wealth of valuable morals

    Premium Children's literature Lie Fable

    • 698 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Poverty in Pakistan

    • 5469 Words
    • 22 Pages

    Poverty in Pakistan Abstract: Poverty is Pakistan’s biggest problem which today’s Pakistan facing‚ it is interconnected with several elements which are having direct or indirect relationship with poverty. This paper is an effort to find out and discuss the elements related to poverty and it is a contribution from author to do something for his country and same time for the rest of world. Poverty in Pakistan does not affect people of Pakistan only but it has an effect on rest of world as well. Today

    Premium Poverty Pakistan

    • 5469 Words
    • 22 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    I have learned a great deal from this class in a short amount of time‚ but one of the most interesting things studied would have to be the 1920’s. Not only did the United States become the wealthiest nation in the world during this era‚ but some major social changes took place during this time. Consumerism grew during the 1920’s due to products being made more obtainable. Henry Ford’s assembly line contributed greatly to this. Each worker was given a specific task to do on the assembly line‚ and

    Premium United States Industrial Revolution Roaring Twenties

    • 757 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Alliteration In The Raven

    • 745 Words
    • 3 Pages

    The Raven analysis draft The Raven is a poem‚ written by Edgar Allen Poe‚ who through gothic and mysterious themes tells a story of nostalgia‚ loneliness‚ grief and death. The reason for all his despair is because of his lost love‚ Lenore. Poe uses alliteration and rhyme to captivate the reader‚ setting the poem into a rhythmical pattern. He does this from the very first paragraph; “Once upon a midnight dreary‚ while I pondered weak and weary‚ Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten

    Premium Edgar Allan Poe Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe The Raven

    • 745 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    John Bruni ENG112 Professor RobinsSevel 5 February 2014 Behind Your Style Rajeev Ravisankar‚ a writerwrite for Ohio State University’s newspaper‚ The Lantern‚ brings the term sweatshop to the attention of his readers (when does he do this? In a 2004 article about bananas? Give the reader more to go on here).. He (Ravisankar) first connects with them (who) by putting himself in the same boat as them by stating that being a “poor” college student drives them to go to extreme lengths to get clothing;

    Premium Manufacturing United States Sweatshop

    • 1030 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
Page 1 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50
Next