... which hit screens in the year 1998 has two unique aspects to it – one being an historical milestone in the development of Native American Cinema, and second being a movie that has brought in innovation in terms of cinematic storytelling. Smoke Signals, rather than being a cohesive screenplay, is more of a ... around the journey of the two brothers for collecting their father's ashes. The effect of fathers who are either absent or abusive towards their families has a very serious impact on children, especially on male children and this was one of the most popular themes on which many fil...

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... continue to punish these poverty-stricken and usually violently abused women (Paltrow 7). A drug-addicted father has yet to be charged for providing a mother with the drugs that were eventually exposed to their child. Men have been totally stripped of their responsibilities as fathers in the eyes of the law. Under Michael Omi and Howard Winant's theories of racial formation ... , CRACK can be identified as a racial project. In Omi and Winant's Racial Formation in the United States, a racial project is defined as "simultaneously an interpretation ... daily basis just to survive. Unjustly...

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