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    Blaxploitation In Film

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    Blaxploitation Blaxploitation began in the early part of the 20th century when films in Hollywood hit a new high. This exploitation of Black America began when films started to characterize Black’s as what “White America” saw them as. The stereotypes of these incompetent‚ unintelligent and hyper-sexualized people were depicted throughout the film industry. Black’s were given these roles in different films. The roles were anything from playing the role of a pimp‚ hoe or criminal. If they weren’t

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    Film Review

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    directed by Somarathne Dissanayake‚ produced by  Renuka Balasooriya. This is my first review. So here goes nothing. As mentioned above‚ this film is created by the award winning famous director himself‚ Somarathne Dissanayake. After doing movies like Saroja‚ Punchi suranganavi‚ Suriya Arana etc‚ now the director has done his first periodic film Siri Parakum. Magnificent So does the newest movie also stand among the previous well created movies? I would say no. So lets start from the

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    The Film "Crash"

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    Have you watched the film Crash directed by Paul Haggis? It is a marvelous film which consists of sensational and emotional realistic scenes‚ and was played by professional actors. Moreover‚ it is directed by a well-known writer whose works have won several Academy awards‚ and Crash is one of them. In this film‚ Haggis tends to represent major issues that occurred in a city of diversity by exposing different kinds of social and multicultural differences. The title of this film Crash‚ which also means

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    The Untouchables - Film

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    The Untouchables In the film “The untouchables” directed by Brian De Palma‚ It’s a very inaccurate portrayal of real life events. The screen writers twisted the truth to make for a more entertaining storyline and overall more appealing movie. Characters in the film are somewhat made up and also depicted in different ways to make them seem better or worse. Elliot Ness is portrayed to be the perfect 1930’s husband but in reality he is quite the opposite. Elliot Ness is real life is an unmarried

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    Filipino Films

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    Filipino films? Why not? Most of us would prefer watching American movies than Filipino ones. When we are in the cinemas‚ I noticed that there are more people paying to watch American movies instead of supporting locally made ones. For most‚ they better understand movies spoken in English than in Filipino. In addition‚ for most people‚ the quality of American movies is better than Filipino movies. However‚ there are some people that think otherwise but sadly majority of Filipinos think this

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    Interpreting Films

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    “From Construction to Perspective: Interpreting Reality‚ Interpreting Films” Based on what I read‚ Friedrich Nietzsche has many different views about perspectivism. Perspective is determined by communication‚ the world of “phenomena”‚ the antithesis of this phenomenal world‚ and questions. The communication is necessary. The world of “phenomena” is for it to be real. The antithesis of phenomenal world is called the “true world” according to Nietzsche. Last but not least‚ questions for our understanding

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    film techniques

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    Filmic Techniques Establishing shot • An establishing shot is usually the first shot of a new scene‚ designed to show the audience where the action is taking place. It is usually a very wide shot or extreme wide shot. • To orientate the viewer to the flow of the narrative by alerting the audience to the beginning of a new sequence‚ but does not itself carry narrative information. Effect: When the director wants the responder (us) to understand the emotion being experienced by the character

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    Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul on Tough Stuff is a book for teenagers about all the hardships going through the teenage years. It is a book compiled by Kimberly Kirberger‚ Jack Canifield‚ and Mark Victor Hansen. They used a bunch of stories that readers sent in about their own personal experiences. This book covers many subjects such as‚ self-acceptance‚ family matters‚ tragedy‚ growing up‚ eating disorders‚ suicide‚ death‚ alcohol‚ and learning difficult lessons. I am not sure if I really

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    Homosexuality in Film

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    Homosexuality in Film When sultry‚ womanly JoAnn steps into the five and dime‚ rarely would a viewer automatically leap to the conclusion that twenty years prior‚ that gorgeous she had been a he. Ed Graczyk and Robert Altman pushed the envelope when they so blatantly portrayed homosexuality and trans-genderedness in a movie in 1982. They were not‚ however the first to choose to display homosexuality in movies. "In fact‚ homosexuality‚ or the idea of it‚ has been with [the viewer] since movies

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    Blaxploitation Films

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    Popular culture can sometimes be used as an instrument to analyze a particular ideology of a time period. One example of popular culture is seen in blaxploitation films. Blaxploitation films were crafted in the seventies and were mainly focused on "black social identities" (Porter 51). The nineteen seventies was a decade that put an enormous amount of emphasis on "the importance of racial and ethnic identities" (Porter 54). The Black Panthers were not a novel organization‚ getting their start

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