... how it is made is a snapshot of our past, present and in some cases future social, political and cultural makeup. From blockbusters to independent films, cinema represents individual and collective responses to how film makers and film watcher's view the world. The production and reception of cinema is a ... agreeing on what they see. For each of these characters there is an initial subjugation followed by a period of realisation as to what is really going on, sometimes too late. These two films are also a reflection of societies cynacism (or lack of) towards manipulation by others in ....

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... the highest grossing film of all time. Meachum also stresses that Spielberg would have never been able to gain success if he had not, at first, followed his childhood dreams and lived in a world of pure imagination (Meachum 93). In contrast, Alexander Walker states that if Jaws put him on the map ... only because of the many awards it received, but because, on the charts, it ranked higher than any other Spielberg film. On the 100 Most Successful Films chart it holds steady at #9, while others such as E.T. come in at #25 (Worsely 106). Surprisingly, while writing this paper, my opinion on ...

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... , certain conventions will be expected and produced like an assumed contract between the two parties. As Barry Keith Grant puts it. "Stated simply genre movies are those commercial feature films which through repetition and variation, tell familiar stories with familiar charactors in familiar situations. They have been exceptionally significant in establishing the popular sense of cinema as a cultural and ... western, The Great Train Robbery (1903) directed by Edwin S. Porter was one of the first great films in cinema history and included three major components - chase scenes, crime and...

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... use it to make his army invisible." (Planet Indy NP) Indiana Jones finds the Ark, but as he finds it, so do the Nazis. They had followed him the entire time and planned to take the Ark as soon as he found his prize. They did eventually get the Ark but Indy out-smarts them ... accomplishes his primary goal and then defeats evil by out smarting them and showing a pure heart. Again, Indiana is showing the attributes of an American hero. These films show a get deal of heroism by Indiana Jones by evading danger, finding trust in his faithful companions, being smarter than the enemy, and always...

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... , put them together and make it work. The movie wouldn't have worked the same without a good director and that was Henry Hathaway. He had done semi-documentary films before with two of his previous films: The House on 92nd Street and 13 Rue Madeleine. A reviewer said, "Though those were good this one tops them in realism, suspense and dramatic interest." (Variety) So ... to believe that people did want to see something different. Both the social disturbance of the World War II and the antisocial aggressiveness of American gangsterism in the decade that followed it created a class of char...

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... come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots and chariot drivers." Exodus 14:26 The waters covered the chariots and the chariot drivers, the entire army of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea, and not one person survived. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is an example that not all movies of today's society is ... the audience and have no true meaning to it. Just from small observations, JRR Tolkien has proven that his movies have biblical references to them, as well as them being films that can attract and properly entertain very diverse people. ...

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... of character representations through an analysis of labor force participation, sex-roles of occupation, prestige of occupation, and gender- (Eschholz et al., 2002, p.299). Eschholz had the content of fifty films from 1996 analyzed to gather and compare data about the female portrayals. Eschholz trained three individuals to code the characters in each movie. Lead characters were specifically looked at; leads ... and planned research project. The authors seemed to be aware of potential shortcomings of such a study and managed to avoid them. The goal of the study was clearly defined and fo...

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