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...? A Comparative Essay: The Movie “Freedom Riders” by PBS and the Book “The Struggle for Black Equality, 1954-1992” by Harvard Sitkoff Introduction One of the most comprehensive dramatic documentaries that focused on the history of the civil rights movement is the film produced by PBS, entitled “Freedom Riders.” This film actually tried to depict the civil rights movement through the narratives of then people who commuted in buses that went into the Deep South, recalling their stories of how the witnessed racial prejudice and discrimination with their own eyes while they were travelling in a bus. Meanwhile, another narrative tried to recount the course of the civil rights movement through four decades, tracing the development... of this...
3 Pages(750 words)Essay
...?First and and number June Transformers To begin with, the movie “Transformers” has been an all time favorite to millions of audience and has set records leaving the box office awed and has won the acclaim of critics. It was just not the movie which has left the audience enthralled, but also the comic books which swept many records. Though both the cinema and comic books have won the hearts of millions, it was the cinema indeed that has had a stronger impact on audience and better success. But this never renders the comic books inferior, because despite the effect of cinema impact, the comic books are still hot cakes when it comes to sales. The major differences that one can identify in the cinema and the comic book medium would... to be...
2 Pages(500 words)PowerPoint Presentation
...?Psychology Topic: Movie or Book review Instructions: This assignment provides an opportunity to apply psychological theory in the exploration of a book or film. Choose a film or book of special interest to you. Make sure the book or film has content that can be meaningfully explored through application of psychological theory and research. You might want to look ahead at some of the later chapters in your text that deal with emotion, motivation, personality, the development of the individual over the life span, health and stress, and psychological disorders and treatment, so that you have a more complete idea of the different concepts that might...
7 Pages(1750 words)Research Paper
...Book review, Movie Made America The evolution of movie industry in America began from the silent era to the ical Hollywood cinema, new Hollywood to the contemporary period. The silent period involved the art of showing actors in action form without any sound of words and music. Cinemas were the most sought form of film and people travelled for miles to advertise and present their work to audiences. Then a rise in Hollywood emerged. Hollywood rose to fame due to its convenient location and the conducive weather. The sunny weather enabled the filming of clear pictures that made the movie pictures presentable (Sklar 114). A number of movie producers and...
3 Pages(750 words)Essay
...identified after investigation by warren commission revealed that the president’s assassination was carried out by Lee Harvey Oswald. In addition the movies twist and emphasis on conspiracy is brought in by facts that were isolated by the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations. In its facts in 1978 differed with the findings of warren commission and concluded that the assassination was a conspiracy. (Wicker,1963). It is within this frame work that the film is developed though some scenes have been made to appear too much fiction. This is based on the findings that further gave evidence that the evidence provided in the warren commission had been tempered with. United States House...
6 Pages(1500 words)Essay
...The Motorcycle Diaries (Review) The film “The Motorcycle Diaries” is based on the life of the Cuban revolutionary Dr Ernesto Che Guevara. Directed byWalter Salles, the film won 1 Oscar award and 25 other awards (IMDB). The film has a total running time of 126 minutes. It was mutually produced by Michael Nozik, Edgard Tenembaum, and Karen Tenkhoff and earned revenue of $16,680,023 in box office. The role of Dr Ernesto is played by a Mexican actor Gael Garc’a Bernal and Alberta Granado’s rule by Argentine actor Rodrigo de la Serna. It is an adventure and a drama film and can also be called a biography.
This movie is an excellent amalgamation of superb cinematography, great acting, and excellent chemistry between the two main actors... . The...
2 Pages(500 words)Essay
... Latin American on Film ‘Soy Cuba’ is a film that shows the relationship between Cuba and the Soviet Union. The phrase means I am Cuba and the film’s director is Mikhail Kalatozov. The release date of the film was in 1964. Neither the Cubans nor the Russians accepted the film well. The film distribution seized after a week of its release by the countries’ film industries that the state controlled. The screening of the film happened thirty years later in the US through Pacific Film.
The emergence of the film was during Fidel Castro’s reign. He had just taken control of the Cuban government and he thought film was the best way to communicate to the public. He created the ICAIC, which was a film office officially managed... Latin American on...
2 Pages(500 words)Essay
...Hazardous waste “Thunderheart”, was a 1992 movie directed by Michael Apted displaying an FBI agent’s journey towards solving a murder in a Native American reservation. Conversely, “Blood Shot”, was a novel authored by Sara Paretsky depicting the exploits of an FBI agent tasked with the job of uncovering the truth behind her the disappearance of the father of her former classmate. Both works were fictional; however, Apted and Paretsky’s choice of location mirrored real life locations. Meaning, scenic descriptions in the movie and novel resembled South Dakota and Chicago respectively to some extent. Discussed below is the impact of hazardous waste on the environment, regulations of municipal and industrial...
2 Pages(500 words)Essay
...). Tony Hillerman’s “The First Eagle”, concurs with Elia’s representation of communicable diseases; however, his focus is on “Black death” (contracting the pneumonic plague from exposure to infected dead tissue). Communicable diseases are highly contagious, which necessitates timely and adequate containment before an outbreak that indiscriminately attacks the population (CDC). Discussed below is transmission, shift in vector location, and pollution spread of the bacterium that causes the pneumonic plague as portrayed in Elia Kazan’s film and Hillerman’s novel.
Kazan’s movie reveals that some pathogens remain active in dead tissues (corpses), which have not undergone proper sanitization procedures aimed at suppressing the...
2 Pages(500 words)Essay
...Black Book Movie 2006 The movie Black Book is a Dutch movie that was released in 2006. Key actors in the film are Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, and Halina Reijn and directed by Paul Verhoeven. This film depicts the events that took place in World War II. The film is about a Dutch-Jewish lady, Rachael Stein, who found her way to the Gestapo headquarters where the Dutch resistance had set camp. She had escaped the war that broke out in Holland against the Nazis. She later, after joining the Dutch resistance, find out the person, Van Gein, who betrayed her parents who had perished in and undevout to liberate the southern part of Holland.
Betrayal is one of...
2 Pages(500 words)Movie Review