... So this paper will demonstrate that Martin Scorsese drew upon The Searchers for inspiration for Taxi Driver, therefore containing certain characteristics of the Western genre. To prove my thesis, I will show the similarities that both films share by analyzing the characters, themes and the socio-historical background of ... alienated and "misunderstood by others" (Ben Famiglietti, 1995). This alienation and misunderstanding of characters by others is a general feature in the Western genre of the hero or anti-hero type in these cases. Also, both characters carry a profound hatred towards ...

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... men are allowed to view their desires projected onto the screen in such a patriarchal society, whereas women are there to be desired. Psychoanalytic film theorists have suggested since about the 1960s, that cinematic spectatorship is similar to being in a dream like state in the sense that the ... spectator can symbolically fulfil their unconscious wishes according to Freud. Mulvey further investigated psychoanalytical film theory in order to confirm her theories on the dynamics of cinematic spectatorship. Mulvey was particularly interested in Freud's theory of how children ... as mascu...

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... . Nonetheless hip-hop has its roots unquestionably within the black community and represents a relevant subculture in African-American youths. Therefore hip-hop should be considered beyond its original status of a genre but as an essential learning tool to understand a consistently misunderstood and isolated faction of people. The Center for Mental Health in Schools at UCLA contends that Hip-Hop is not ... just a genre of music but also a complex system of ideas values and concepts that reflect newly emerging and ever-changing creative correlative expressive mechanisms including but not ...

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