In a Hollywood movie the hero has great importance because he is the one who will capture the audience. When writing the script directors have always been preoccupied to paint a very attractive character with distinct qualities, almost perfect. Andre Bazin was a very important French film theorist ...

TRUE LOVE AND CHAOS DIRECTED BY: Stavros Andonis Efthymiou Starring: Miranda Otto Ben Mendelsohn Naveen Andrews Kimberley Davies Noah Taylor Hugo Weaving Rating: (M) A GOOD old- fashioned road trip. Old being the word emphasised in this low budgeted movie. ...

In 1947 the House Un-American Activities Committee, or HUAC, started a trial and investigation of communism in the Hollywood motion picture industry. The Committee, including Chairman J. Parnell Thomas a young Congressman from California, and Richard M. Nixon tried many celebrities asking them ...

Today American, and worldly, society views movies as one of it is most center focus of Entertainment and Media Culture. They started out in disjointed, scratchy, non-real-time clips. Short silent films soon grew into full silent movies. Eventually, piano was added as decorative background music, ...

BEHIND THE FAME When one sees the big Hollywood sign, it might look glamorous; however, behind it is a world where no celebrities knew existed. Gossip. Everyone thinks being famous is wonderful. One gets paid enormously, Versace wants one to wear to his clothes, one can finally get that BMW, ...

An artist picks up a brush and dips it into paint to draw a picture. A public relations person picks up a pencil and puts words to paper. The main ingredient that links these two endeavors is creativity. Neither will succeed without it. In fact, the public relations person has a lot more variabl...

Beauty is often equated with physical appearance, but beauty can be perceived with the eyes and felt with the heart. It really is true, as they say, that \"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.\" We all have different opinions and standards for what constitutes beauty. We may all get a similar feel...

'The Crucible'; underestimated and underratedBy JonState High Student I must be honest in that I had never heard of the movie 'The Crucible' until a few weeks ago when my English teacher had us watch it for a unit we were currently doing on witchcraft. Figuring it was some teacher's educational vi...

Andy HuckabayPE 401January 24, 2001Missy FrostAre athletes getting paid too much? Maybe they are, but I don't really believe that athletes are over paid. People don't understand how the lifestyle of a professional athlete really is or who would get the money we spend if the athlete's didn't get it...

As I sat down one night to watch television, I continuously came across shows that had more sexual content in them then I wished to view. Female characters were having sex with several male partners, yet suffering no apparent consequences. In some instances joking and bragging about who they slept...

Andrew DennewitzPeriod 2In the award winning novel, The Catcher In The Rye, author J. D. Salinger shows the phoniness of 1950’s society through the character of a young boy named Holden Caulfield. Holden Caulfield is an intelligent and bright, sixteen year old boy who attends Pency Prepatory ...

Circular ImagingThe American society has oppressed the black culture and society since the first slave was dragged onto American soil. Hollywood first embraced this oppressed image and depicted it on film. Early depictions of blacks on film (commonly played by whites in blackface) fulfilled the wh...

Body Image Portrayed by the Media Through the use of imagery, the display of life-styles, and the reinforcement of values, advertisements are communicators of culturally defined concepts such as success, worth, love, sexuality, popularity, and normalcy. Of particular concern over the past...