Essays Tagged: "american films"
How and Why Did American Popular Culture Influence Australian Society in the 1950s and 1960s? To What Extent Did Australia Develop its Own Response to these Influences?
950s and 1960s were times of unprecedented change, and Australian society was influenced greatly by American popular culture, through various mediums, such as: music, film, television and fashion. Thi ... on. This especially affected teenagers. It will be explained how Australian society was impacted by American popular culture, and also why American popular culture had such an affect. Australian devel ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History
Review of The Graduate
Oscar for best director, was nominated for best picture, and made the top tem list of A.F.I.'s best American films ever made.Regarding the film in late-60s political ideology, The Graduate is a decide ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
Film Noir Conventions in The Maltese Falcon
taphoric symptom of society's evils, with a strong undercurrent of moral conflict. It is a style of American films that first evolved in the 1940s, became prominent in the post-war era, and lasted in ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
Giorgio Armani: Fashion Icon.
ransient time in history Armani's only escape was the local cinema which he attended often watching American films with actors such as Humphrey Bogart. Largely influenced by his American counterparts ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies
Whose Future?
ENG 314: Essay One "Whose Future?"� In his book American Films of the 70's, Peter Lev states "science fiction is removed from the world of everyday ... ce Fiction, points to the major tie-ins Star Wars has with what could be considered the traditional American movie: the western. Roberts suggests that the Cantina scene "" reminiscent of a bar fight - ... and evil, and a benevolent father figure who guides the hero are all conservative qualities of the American fairy-tale, or western, which are also present in Star Wars.Lev quotes Dale Pollock, who st ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
"Good Will Hunting" Movie Review/Analysis
ith the flawless performances of Matt Damon and Robin Williams makes it a classic in the history of American films. Most films use a balance of cinematography, storyline, and acting to bring the end r ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Capitalism in mass media
d ideas." (Chadwick 1989:221) Capitalism and its values are nurtured within the mass media. Popular American films have carefully targeted particular markets to sell the idea of a successful capitalis ... itional business is forced to close, it appears as a natural occurrence.To watch simply one Popular American film, you have also watched several others. The formula the media uses is the same, dictati ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media
Initiation into American Cultu
Initiation into American Culture: The Hollywood Smoke Screen As a foreigner looking inward through a glass w ... od Smoke Screen As a foreigner looking inward through a glass window, the foundation of the American culture appears to be based on the idealism of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. ... year thousands migrate into the United States in search of freedom, democracy and the distinguished American Dream. The perception of the American Dream is initiated by several secondary source ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community
Genre study: film noir
lores the problems encountered in attempting to apply a generic category or categories to a body of American films made in the 1940's and 1950's that became known as film noir as well as to a body of ... inant that noir films, according to Walker, offer "a generally more critical and subversive view of American Ideology than is the norm" (8). The logic behind this claim for noir's progressivity is sim ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Genre Study
The Graduate
scar for best director, was nominated for best picture, and made the top ten lists of A.F.I.'s best American films ever made.Regarding the film in late-60s political ideology, The Graduate is a decide ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Were the 1927 and 1938 British Film Acts Successful?
talkie era, was trivial and without contemporary emphasis." The quota quickies were often shown by American renters in the UK, so that American films would have less competition. Historian Kenton Bam ... the UK, so that American films would have less competition. Historian Kenton Bamford believed that American films were more popular because the lower classes could identify better with them and that ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film History
Steven Spielberg and Alfred Hitchcock - influences
the London Film Society which showed French, German and Soviet art films, as well as early and new American films. This provided a unique opportunity where Hitchcock could observe and gain different ... hcock.(Haeffner, 2005)Two predominant influences of Hitchcock were German Expressionistic style and American films. During the silent period of film making Hitchcock was working in a German studio. Wh ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies