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The Purge: Violence in Horror Films Increasing Violence in the Real World

Psychological theories explaining media violence, threats and the effects have been established and they try to create awareness on the demerits of exposing the society to violent content. The Purge for example as a movie could have numerous effects on the viewers mostly the younger generation. These effects could either be long-term or short-term. These short-term effects include priming, arousal and finally, the affected individual starts to mimic the behavior observed. The purge for example containing numerous violent scenes sparks […]

Glory Review

The American Film, Glory of 1989, is based on the actual historical story, of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, seen through the eyes of the commanding officer Gould Shaw who was a white officer during the American Civil War. The story is told by Kevin Jarre the author of Glory who was walking in Boston and came across a Civil war memorial, and this became the inspiration forGlory. The war was characterized by both white and black soldiers. The officers […]

13th Documentary Analysis

Every person that has watched this film could confirm that the director Ava DuVernay conducts a concrete research into the American system and comes up with shocking statistics The director relies on a number of liberals and conservatives whom she interviews in an attempt to dig in about the African-American society has been affected by the prison complex in the country. The film kicks off with s shocking statistics that one out of four Black men is likely to go […]

Comparison between the Japanese and the American Culture in the Gung Ho Film

Gung Ho is a movie that gives a candid parallelism that exists between the Japanese and the American culture. A movie explores the experiences of a Japanese company that has relocated to the America in search of perhaps better opportunity. The film through the experiences of the Japanese protagonist explores the challenges that they face as they are presented with a completely different culture from what they are accustomed (Howard et al). Hunt who is an American but working in […]

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Introduction The boy in the Striped Pajamas is a film with a WW11 setting. The drama explores horrors of extermination in German concentration camps. The movie is mainly based on two characters; one is a young boy called Bruno who lives in Berlin with his family and Shmuel a young Jew in a concentration camp. Bruno’s father is promoted after a visit by Adolf Hitler in their home, and he has to move to Auschwitz concentration camp to be the […]

Systemic Approach in the Film Little Miss Sunshine

Using systems theory as an approach to analyze people and their problems means putting more value on understanding the interactions between themthan each individual as a separate entity. Hansen (1995) explains this as non-summative and the idea that the whole is greater than its parts. Your perspective becomes relational instead of intrapsychic, allowing you to understand that problems are found in the interactions and are maintained by unhealthy patterns. In the film Little Miss Sunshine, a dysfunctional family tries to […]

Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Rear Window’

The film ‘Rear Window’, directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1954, enthralled worldwide audiences through its clever and original depiction of a suburban murder. It is a widely renowned crime thriller that employs many conventions of the genre, while subverting others, in order to portray a realistic environment that collapses into tension and mistrust. The depiction of protagonist L. B Jefferies as the ‘everyman’ is an important subversion of the conventional detective, piquing the audiences curiosity and interest in the film. […]

Justify the Means

Does “the end justify the means”? Does “The end Justify the means”. In the movie, Mississippi Burning, the end justifies the means in a way because when you think about it most of the time there are certain limitations to getting what you want. In the movie the only way to get the Ku Klux Klan to confess and give each other to the police was to trick them and make them think that the Ku Klux Klan was after […]

Understanding Movies

‘Understanding movies’ was the most interesting class which I have ever taken. People expect many advantages from taking various classes. Some people want to take a sports class to have fun while other people like a science class to enlarge their knowledge. In my case, I could get both entertainment and knowledge form the movie class. Through the use of a couple of examples and specific explanation, I will demonstrate why I liked the movie class most. First, ‘Understanding movies’ […]

Why did i Get Married too Review

‘Why Did I Get Married Too? ’ Review Tyler Perry is back with another spontaneous movie, ‘Why Did I Get Married Too? ’, the continuation from ‘Why Did I Get Married? ’ Filled with laughter, love, drama, and tears, Perry and the rest of the folks from the 1st movie reunite once again at a couple retreat to the Bahamas. Perry also plays a part in the movie, Terry, as a loyal and loving husband whose wife becomes very secretive […]

Film Critique Paper: and the Band Played on

The movie is about the first couple years of AIDS, mostly in the United States. It tells the political as well as the scientific struggle that occurred with the discovery of AIDS. The main character Dr. Don Francis heads the research of AIDS with little money and little help. This was because AIDS was considered the “gay man’s disease” and there was more emphasis on who discovered the disease than actually helping those who had it. Basically, the movie was […]

Analyse ‘Saving Private Ryan’

Analyse the methods used to make the opening battle sequence of ‘Saving Private Ryan’ both shocking and realistic, and say how effective you find it as an introduction to the film ‘Saving Private Ryan’ was released on the 11th of September, 1998. The film was directed by the renowned Steven Spielberg and was a joint production by Paramount and Dreamworks Pictures. ‘Saving Private Ryan’, is a two hour, fifty minute war film. The film won 5 Academy Awards, including the […]

The Life of a Superstar

In modern society the media strongly influences the world around it. Today people of all ages enjoy watching movies by way of computer, television, and theatre. What used to be a “big event” in going out to watch a movie at the local town theatre has technologically changed, where now just about anyone can experience watching a movie from the comfort of his or her own couch. Although one can watch a movie at home or in a theatre, watching […]

Gender-Stereotyped Cartoon – the Flintstones

1. What cartoons did you watch or books did you read? I had chosen to assess whether children’s media is gender-stereotyped by watching various episodes of The Flintstones from the ABC televison station. 2. Are male and female characters portrayed in gender-stereotypic roles? “Flintstones. Meet the Flintstones. ” As the song entails, the Flintstones were in fact your modern Stone Age family. This 1960’s American sitcom had placed an emphasis on four leading characters each of which are portrayed in […]

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