The New Yorker has been a staple of the reading public's diet for almost 80 years. During this time it has tackled every relevant issue in New York City and abroad. It offers an upscale view theater, films, and books. Basically all of the top arts are covered, every month in the one hundr...

Quentin Tarantino: The Art of the Movies"Storytelling has become a lost art. There is no storytelling, there's just situations. Very rarely are you told a story." These phrases are from Quentin Tarantino, a screenwriter, storyteller, producer, director, an actor, and film maker. Though his films are...

Images--they draw us into their sinful lust, invigorate us, suck us in like zombies or candy. I, like most of us, am a media junkie, and gladly process sparkly music videos with no content and horrific movies that I later dislike. Undoubtedly, many times I have paid more attention to the beauty of t...

EssayEmma and CluelessIn comparing the two texts Emma and Clueless, it is apparent that the contexts have caused important changes, transformations, between the two texts. Both texts are based along the story-line of a young woman, with fanciful notions, who is rich, beautiful and essentially good-n...

I have elected to take a closer look at movies that deal with the "ghetto" social institution. There have been several movies that attempt to depict the harshness of growing up in predominantly black urban neighborhoods. The three films that I have selected are what I believe to be the top three f...