Billy clearly does not belong where he is, yet when the students start dancing, the camera angel focuses solely on the dancers feet, eliminating our ability to tell which dancer he is, and we see here that although he might not stereotypically fit in to the situation, when you eliminate the stereotype and you focus on the dancing, he is just as good, if not better than his female classmates. This scene is a two-point perspective of the traditional American dream versus its modern version. ... He bans Billy from ever dancing again, showing sometimes strict nature of traditional beliefs. ... Thi...

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Heckerling's Clueless is indeed a clever film, transforming a 200-year-old story and making it relevant to today for a modern screen audience, despite radical social changes. ... This cleverly fits into the cliché of modernity as he represents the homosexual male stereotype present in modern imagination. ... Clueless can be viewed as a humourous indictment of modern society while Emma is also a humourous indictment of Austen's society. ... From this, the difference in the film technique, such as Murray's use of language "a disco-dancing, Oscar Wilde-reading, Streisand t...

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This was not to be, Madonna was her father's favorite and persuaded him to let her take dance lessons instead. ... Her sexuality appeals to many, mainly to young girls who are growing up in this post-modern society.One may dispute this by pointin! ... This makes MTV an important aspect in the study of post-modern theories. ... Looking at videos of fully clothed men , singing about love while bleach-blond girls in bikinis dance around them can be quite confusing at times. ...

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" (9) Kasson identifies that the people of the 20th century were using Coney Island as a way to revolt against the prior culture and establish a new modern culture in America. Coney Island undeniably ushered in multiple social changes in the US landscape and in large reflected the emerging modern society that was taking over the genteel culture of old. ... Coney however offered attractions and architecture from around the world such as exotic animals, dancers, music, food, and recreations of landmarks in other countries.Coney also hosted "freak" shows involved midgets, giants, ...

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Such as for women fortune-telling, begging or dancing and for men instrument playing, animal trade, animal training.With modern time, jobs has changed. ... By modern times nomad mean, in summer, traveling city by city and doing temporary jobs like being pitchman, musician or shepherd and in the winter, staying at home neighborhood and trying to live with summer income. ...

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