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Film: Die Hard...? Die Hard, released in 1988, is an action film starring Bruce Willis as John McClane, a New York police officer visiting his estranged wife, Holly (Bonnie Bedelia), in Los Angeles for the holidays. After a tension-filled flight to New York, McClane joins Holly at an employee party on Christmas Eve in the high-tech office building where she works, Nakatomi Plaza, and meets her boss, Mr. Takagi (James Shigeta), and cocaine-addicted coworker, Harry Ellis (Hart Bochner). Though they are initially pleased to see one another, the couple quickly gets into an argument about Holly’s use of her maiden name at work. Their reunion is interrupted, however, when a group of European terrorists, led by German mastermind Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman...
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Option 2: Violence and Masculinity...of masculinity and violence and the author implicitly invites the reader to reflect on the text with this message in mind. References Boon, Kevin Alexander. “Men and nostalgia for Violence: culture and culpability in Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club.” Journal of Men’s Studies 11 (3) (2003), pp. 267-276. Bowker, Lee H. (Ed.). Masculinities and Violence. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1998. Kimmel, Michael. Manhood in America: A Cultural History. New York: The Free Press, 1997. Palahniuk, Chuck. Fight Club: A Novel. New York: W.H. Norton, 1996. Tuss, A. “Masculine Identity and Success: A Critical Analysis of Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley and Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club.” Journal of...
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The Representation of Masculinity in One of the Die Hard FilmsThus, it has improved to be the mainstream Hollywood action films. Due to the action and excitement of its films, Bruce Willies has become a popular film star in action epics. This paper will focus on the masculinity of those ways of the representation of McClane, the persona in the Die Hard films; also this character, In particular, it would discuss using one of Die Hard series, Die Hard 2: Die Harder. In this film, the symbol of masculinity is the build of body. Bruce Willies as McClane has an athletic build. Compared with the first series of Die Hard, Die Hard 2 does not show a lot of his bodily physical beauty. There is some different approach for presenting the masculinity. Furthermore, his speaking style is marginal at best...
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Masculinity Representation in Films...? Representation of Masculinity in Die Hard 2 of Representation of Masculinity in Die Hard 2 Topic 4: Drawing on your Mulvey and Neale readings, as well as Tasker’s discussion, analyse the representation of masculinity in one of the Die Hard films. How is the McClane character represented as a site of identification? As spectacle? The extant literature in the field of films incorporates gender studies that examine the representation of masculinity or the male action hero....
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The Representation of Masculinity in Die Hard 2...? The Representation of Masculinity in Die Hard 2 of 15th November McLane and Masculinity Drawingon your Mulvey and Neale readings, as well as Tasker’s discussion, analyze the representation of masculinity in one of the Die Hard films. How is the McClane character represented as a site of identification? As spectacle? The Representation of Masculinity in Die Hard 2 The dominance of masculinity over femininity is visible in many aspects of human life; it has occurred throughout history, and it is likely to continue following the presence and continued production of films depicting males, as the characters to look out for in the said films. In Renny Harlin’s film Die Hard 2 (1990), masculinity has both physical and mental power over... ...
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Contemporary Masculinity... of masculinity and its determination to maintain the gender status quo.
Hegemonic masculinity is predicated on the longstanding notion that distinct gender differences exist between men and women.1 Hegemonic norms are accepted because "mass culture generally assumes there is a fixed, true masculinity beneath the ebb and flow of daily life,"2 where men are expected to be strong, independent, competitive, risk-taking, aggressive, powerful, display sexual prowess, be emotionally distant, and be dominant over women in both the private and public spheres.3 Gender differences underpin an unequal system of power relations where "men, as a group, enjoy [access to certain] institutional privileges"4 not afforded to women. Although... Contemporary...
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Archplot in the film Die Hard...Diehard: The Archplot Illustrated This essay will address the application of McKee's Archplot framework to the Die Hard screenplay. The Archplot isconsidered the most commercial of all movie plot structures and has been defined as "a story built around an active protagonist who struggles against primarily external forces of antagonism to pursue his or her desire, through continuous time, within a consistent and causally connected fictional reality, to a closed ending of absolute, irreversible change." (McKee R 1996:45).
This definition, though seemingly brief, sets forth a rather nuanced framework for the creation and the interpretation of characters and plot structures. As an initial matter, there must...
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Representation of New Zealand masculinity in beer advertising.... They draw from themes that are used for advertising beer in the western countries. They always show men at hard physical outdoor work, olden men passing on wisdom to the younger generation, and even heterosexuality. Many commercials show how man can dominate over the animal world. That is why the use of dogs, horses, sheep in all their campaigns. Robin Law tries giving emphasis on the place, which adds to the image of the representation of masculinity.
Rural background, natural landscape draws on the cultural tradition. Most importantly, in New Zealand, being rural is masculine (showing rugged, simple and honest) and urban is effeminate (polished, delicate, glamour)....
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Representation...to create diabetes awareness through commercials is Ispot TV. This is a company located in New York and its main mission is offering real time commercial television advertisements on a number of fields such as business, sports and health (“Ispot TV’). The study seeks to relay how Ispot TV creates diabetes awareness through commercials in addition offering medication guidelines and how to curb the menace.
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The main objective of Ispot TV is advertising of television commercials in real time to the public. Recently, the company has focused most of its attention on diabetes campaign because according to research, the disease is causing many deaths annually hence it is important for companies...
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The concept of genre in studying Die Hard. (1988)...The Concept of Genre in Films By Die Hard Film GenreThe Concept of Genre in Films
The core goal of this article is to address the aspect of a genre and the understanding it brings to the audience. I intend to discuss on what genre is, its usefulness with regards to film and specifically the application to the Die Hard film. The other objective of this research and discussion into is to establish an understanding of how films are built to effective represent the genre to its audience. Readers appreciate the concept of genre because of its encouraging and familiar potential of repetition and variation. The notion of type is essential in arousing the anticipations of an...
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