my journey towards a BA in photography
From Childhood to Adulthood Lukas Moodysson’s 2013 film, We Are the Best! (Swedish: Vi är bäst!), and Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter… and Spring, released by Ki-Duk Kim in 2003, are prime examples of how films about the transition from…
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Westworld (1973) Director: Michael Crichton Cast: Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin: Summary: A robot malfunction creates havoc and terror for unsuspecting vacationers at a futuristic, adult-themed amusement park. Reflections and Analysis: The portrayal of ‘masculinity’ in the film Representations of masculinity…
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The Reader (2008) Director: Stephen Daldry Stars: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz Summary: Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she…
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To what extent to The Graduate (1967) and Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001) present a similar idea of sexual awakening despite temporal and geographical difference? The Graduate (1967) and Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001) are both movies that focus on…
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Do tough women in film break gender stereotypes? Heather Donahue in The Blair Witch Project (1999) and Louise in Thelma and Louise (1991), are not the “rampaging female” cliché (Inness, 1999) but they are perceived as strong and independent…
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“rite of passage” noun a ceremony performed to facilitate or mark a person’s change of status upon any of several highly important occasions, as at the onset of puberty or upon entry into marriage or into a clan. any important act or event that serves to mark a passage from one stage of life to another. Rites of passage are theme that run through many movies; however, they are very prevalent in film from a mythological nature, for example, The Legend of Hercules (Dir Renny Harlin,…
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Y Tu Mamá También (2001) Director: Alfonso Cuarón Cast: Maribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal, Daniel Giménez Cacho Summary: In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship,…
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Hercules and Cinema As most of us know from our childhood or film and TV Hercules (or Heracles) is a mythical Greek hero who is the illegitimate son of Zeus and Alcmene. The mortal son of a God, estranged from his…
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