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This paper examines the film, "Rabbit Proof Fence", which is based on the true story, "Follow the Rabbit Proof Fence," written by Doris Pilkington and Nugi Garmara. It highlights representations of aboriginality in the film and discusses the main ideas around which such representations, both negative and positive, are organized. The paper also looks at the how the film's audience is positioned.

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"The terminology used throughout the film was relevant for its time but it is considered very racial and controversial today. The Aboriginals were often referred to by the colour of their skin. They were called "half caste" and "full blood." These terms would be unheard of today, and although the movie was set in the 1930's, hearing these words can be offensive to many people - emphasizing the viewers understanding of the Aboriginals. For example in today's organizations and policies, an Aborigine is defined as by the Federal Government as someone who: ?Is of Aboriginal descent, identifies as an Aboriginal person or is accepted by the Aboriginal community in which he or she lives in.? (Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, 2001, Pg 27). It reinforces to the audience that they should feel sympathetic for the Aborigines."

Tags:indegenous, Moore, River, racism

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This paper examines Fannie Flagg's novel "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe" written in 1987 which contains many social issues like gender equality and racism and the 1991 film version of the same name. It connects the film to the novel by examining racism between whites and blacks with the thesis statement that Hollywood keeps perpetuating the stereotype of blacks and it doesn't show the treatments they really received in the early 1900's and before as the novel does.

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"The book shows Evelyn Couch, a mid-aged Alabama 80's woman who is unhappy and bored tries to 'transform' herself into, well, being happy and to add some excitement in her life. In the book, she has a daughter while in the movie she is childless. The book makes a funny reference about her smoking weed from her own daughter. While trying to transform, she takes advice from Ninny Threadgoode, an elderly woman that tells her a story about the Whistle Stop Cafe and thus Evelyn tries to become more like Idgie Threadgoode who is a very interesting character that does everything she wants, whenever she wants to. Evelyn, in order to get out of that current mental state she is in, will have to overcome her fears."

Tags:hollywood, racism, blcks, evelyn

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This paper explains that, in Martin Scorsese's "Raging Bull", Jake La Motta (Robert DeNiro) is constantly at odds with himself and with the people around him. The author points out Scorsese's use of the formal elements of film making to convey the visceral nature of what it is like to be in the ring and even to be one of the fighters during a fight. The paper describes, scene by scene, a pivotal sequence, the second fight between Jake La Motta and Sugar Ray Robinson, which demonstrates this visceral effect through lighting and composition for mise en scene, camera work for cinematography, editing and sound. The paper concludes that, in this sequence, Scorsese effectively plays with time, framing, light and sound to create feelings of defenselessness and power, victory and shame, during and after a pivotal and crucial fight.

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"The first shot of the sequence begins as a handheld, high angled close-up on Sugar Ray Robinson's feet, dancing and shifting about in the ring. We hear a commentator on the stadium speakers, and the cheering crowd as La Motta's feet enter the frame. A title appears in the bottom center of the frame: "La Motta vs Sugar Ray Robinson Detroit 1943" in true 1940s television style. The camera rises (or tilts) up to reveal the back torso of La Motta and Robinson in front of him, ready to fight. Then we see a medium close-up of Robinson, over La Motta's left shoulder."

Tags:defenselessness power close-up lighting, mise en scene

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This paper explores the depiction of seduction, passion and female costuming in the Hollywood Production Code of the 1930 era. It suggests that although the code prohibited most sexy behavior from women, the studios continued to flaunt sex in their pictures. It also pinpoints many of the causes of the Production Code of 1934 administration, and discusses the history of the code from it's beginnings in the 1920s to its end in the 1960s.

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""The complete spectrum of vice, not sex alone, infested the films " an epicurean spirit of enthusiastic indulgence in activities illegal, forbidden, and stimulating," meant that by 1930 Hollywood was in desperate need of regulation (Doherty 103). State and City censors passed legislation against certain films, beginning with Chicago in 1907, in response to public protests (Bernstein 1). Censorship boards were established to review and license moral and decent films; by 1922 six states had organized censorship boards (Jowett 25). Hollywood's self-regulation policies functioned as a middle ground between the industry and their enemies, reform groups and state regulatory agencies (Jacobs 87). The result of self-regulation was the Production Code of 1930; a document loosely outlining the principles filmmakers should follow in order to produce moral films. Sklar writes, that the Code was written with "the precise aim of uniting religious morality with box-office necessity" (173). This document was based on the "Don'ts and Be Carefuls" of 1927, an earlier attempt at influencing Hollywood to include less sex and violence in their features (Vasey 104). The Code was divided into two parts; one outlining the moral vision films should contain, and the other a precise listing of forbidden material (Doherty 7). The Production Code could not have arrived at a worse possible time for Hollywood. In 1930 the studios were still making money, despite the depression, but by 1932 theater attendance had dropped, dragging down the industry's profits (Black 73). Their initial efforts were mainly motivated by a fear of a boycott during the worst years of the Depression, but once they realized what the audience wanted to see, they could no longer afford to censor potential box-office stars like Mae West (Cook 283)."

Tags:actresses, film, mae, movies, studio, west

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This paper discusses how the film "Se7en" has often been referred to as imitating the popular mid-twentieth century style of film noir and attempts to support this statement by looking at various conventions of this style and seeing how these conventions apply and affect the film itself. It shows how "Se7en" is filmed around the basic principles of traditional crime noir, in an attempt to group itself in the new emerging category of film noirs the modern noirs. It also looks at how with the use of dim lighting, unbalanced compositions, character and plot traditions and rain-soaked settings, "Se7en" seems to suit the label "modern noir" well.

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"The character and plot themes that run throughout include those that deal with the dark and inhumane side of human nature, including topics such as doomed love and cynicism, two frequently used topics in crime noirs. Tracy and Mills' happy marriage was doomed due to the sinful ways of the world, while Somerset's cynicism is proved well-founded time and time again as he deals with more disturbing cases as his career progresses, triggering his desire for retirement. Themes of crime noir also emphasize a brutal and unhealthy side of the human experience, shown through the exposure of humans' sins in the murderer's killing spree. They aim to express the depressing realism of life which is the message Doe is attempting to portray through his murders the world is doomed because of humanity's endless sinning."

Tags:cinematography, detective, fincher, modern, murder, noir

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This paper describes how, while working within the most innovative period in Soviet cinema, before the coming of sound, Dziga Vertov created the film "Man with a Movie Camera", a tribute to the newly formed Communist State, urban environments and technological advancement. It analyzes how in order to create a variety of themes, including those comparing the bourgeois and working classes, man and machinery and the nature of film itself, Vertov uses editing to relate a series of seemingly unrelated shots. It looks at how these shots are comprised of five types of images: industrial construction, traffic, machinery, recreation and citizen-workers. It also shows how he constructs meaning through editing in the film to form an argument in favor of the newly formed soviet state by juxtaposing disjunctive images, but also linking the images through composition.

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"The main theme of Vertov's film is a cameraman performing his daily routine in an urban environment, and this meaning is produced through the films ability to show both the cameraman at work and the reaction he receives from the people he films. The entire film is reflexive in the sense that the audience is constantly reminded that film is a constructed environment, designed by the filmmaker. Mixing in shots of the camera, the cameraman, and the editing process maintain the idea that the film is just a part of Vertov's usual routine. The sequence opens with a shot of the cameraman reflected in the camera's lens, continues with a shot of the urban setting in which the events will unfold, and then returns to the filmmaker's "work" of filming traffic."

Tags:working, classes, bourgeois, cameraman, recreation

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The author argues that the inferior societal role of women is still depicted in the way female characters are represented in films and that the male patriarchal dominance is still evident today. The paper focuses on two films: "Letter From an Unknown Women" and "The Piano", which speak for females and about females, and still fall victim to the male-dominated world in order to gain recognition and audience.

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"Sex objects, housewives, heart broken lovers, and caring mothers this are the role of the female in Hollywood cinema and other film forms. The societal role of the women has changed yet social consciousness within the genre conventions of the women's film has remained. The women's film is made to target female viewers, by using topics, which the patriarchal Hollywood society of directors and producers feels are appropriate for the housewives of the post-war era to learn and be entertained about. With the evolution of the women's film, ?women could ruin their lives - get free of everything - down at the movie house for twenty-five cents with butter on their popcorn.? (Basinger, 1993) A women's cinema, is the first movement where women were making films themselves, for and about women. Although the women's movement has been active since before the 1950's when women were told to go back to the home and return to being both as consumers and items for consumption. Film and Cinema has continued to further suppress and enclose women within the male dominated hegemonic world, which continues to exist in the cinema with insignificant change or evolution."

Tags:basinger, letters, noir, piano, unknown, female, society, patriarchy, inferior

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This paper focuses on the similarities and differences that occured within the film noir genre from the classical age to the post-modern age. Some differences include changes or variations to the genre's conventions and iconography, and similarities include the basic plot structure.

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Simply stated, a genre film involves familiar, essentially one-dimensional characters acting out a predictable story pattern within a familiar setting (Schatz 6). The traditional conventions of film noir include a suspenseful, mysterious plot, usually including a murder, that resolves itself with the protagonist making sure justice prevails over crime. Filmmakers have recently begun to play with such conventions to introduce new elements into the genre. The basic plot structure, and iconography of film noir movies have remained relatively intact, though present day directors use variations in temporal order, narrative depth and narrative range to modernize the genre."

Tags:cinema, classical, convention, directors, film, genre, hollywood, iconography, modern, movies, narrative, order, plot, post, temporal

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This paper examines the formation and recent development of reality television: the type of television that reflects personal lives and encounters. The author attempts to tackle why reality television exists, the types of reality television that is offered and the future of reality television and society. Included is a review of different television shows that fall under this category.

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"In the past few years? society and the entertainment industry has been more and more obsessed with the idea of reality-based television. This desire to find the real amongst society is a reflection on a society, which is based on lies, fraud and war. Television shows such as Real World, Cops, and Hard Copy introduced television viewers to the world of the unscripted and spontaneous. We often put aside these television programs calling them trash TV, or game shows, when really it is society, which has made these shows popular and allowed for the major networks, to demand for our attention in their scheduling. This essay will introduce many different types of reality television and begin to guide us to understanding why it exists and where it is expected to go. Society has been waiting for television to reflect our personal lives and the real world in which we live, and now it does."

Tags:911, abc, big, brother, cbs, cops, copy, crossing, entertainment, fox, hard, island, line, nbc, prostitution, real, rescue, september, survivor, temptation, tonight, world

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The paper discusses the subject of schizophrenia and utilizes the film "A Beautiful Mind," a movie based on the life of John Nash, to introduce the subject. In the movie Nash was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. The paper shows how the movie portrays the misperception that genius predisposes people to mental illness. The movie portrays the insulin shock therapy and anti psychotic medications he was given,and his determination never to use them again. The paper shows that schizophrenia symptoms can differ greatly between patients, but they usually exhibit some combination of delusions, hallucinations, thought disorder , movement disorder and inappropriate emotional expression that adversely affects their daily life. Nash, as portrayed in "A Beautiful Mind," exhibited all of those symptoms. The paper highlights the prenatal risks that are connected to schizophrenia and also the many reasons why this topic is important in the practice of medicine and/or mental health.

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"There are many reasons why this topic is important in the practice of medicine and/or mental health. One reason is that it is a global problem with virtually all societies identify acute or chronic breakdowns in functioning, although the labeling is not universal. "There are significant gender variations in the findings surrounding schizophrenia. These include neuroanatomical differences, as well as differential developmental and behavioral patterns" (Galliano, 2003, p. 282). As we take individuals, regardless of gender, into account, an awareness of risk factors and then how they typically play out will be beneficial as we try to understand and help."

Tags:developmental, behavioral, patterns, prematurity