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Visual Arts & Film Studies Essays

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Early Byzantine and Christian Art Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Byzantine art, which is found at the Walter Art Museum, is unique because it took an unorthodox set of circumstances for it to come into being. The most significant event that led to Byzantine art was when public Christian worship was permitted in ancient Rome and “the Byzantine period can be conceived as above all a religious art“.
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Text and Image in Landscape Painting Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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This essay analyzes text and image in landscape painting. The backing silk has darkened with age and some of the details of the painting have been lost. However, it is a painting which invites contemplation by its beauty and structure. This fits well with the philosophy expressed in these documents: Guo Xi’s essay Sha-Shui Hsun.
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ET The Extraterrestrial: A Film Full of Hopes, Dreams and the Importance of Friendship Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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 This crash landing had supposedly taken place in the 1960s, but the government had still not managed to quell the rumors 20 years later.  Partially because of the great uncertainty regarding the nature of the craft and the aliens it might have held inside, rumors regarding the intentions of aliens.
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Understanding Art Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Art is a hard concept to define. This stems from the fact that art means different things to different people. Dr. Lois Fichner-Rathus teaches the history of art. Fichner-Rathus explains that there are fifteen purposes of Art, each prevailing on an aspect to further views about why and how art can be understood.
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Clement Greenbergs Past Theories of Post-Modernism Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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This essay explores theories about post-modernism by Clement Greenberg. The first is to review Greenberg’s modernism/post-modernism theory and its applicability to the photographic arts and the second is to determine the extent to which the listed photographers-artists subscribe to Greenberg’s theory.
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Sidney Lumets 1957 Film 12 Angry Men Visual Arts & Film Studies Assignment
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Director Sidney Lumet’s 1957 film “12 Angry Men” has maintained a firm grip on its position as social commentary since its release 50 years ago.  It provides an intimate look into the American justice system, complete with its breakdowns, weaknesses and strengths and has withstood the test of time, holding its own among the classic films of American cinema. 
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Societys Fascination with Reality TV Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The term “reality” associated with a TV program itself suggests that the events transpiring on the television screen may be true and based on actual life events. This may be one of the prime reasons society is fascinated by such programs because they appear to offer glimpses of reality and truth.
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Process of painting own picture Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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This paper focuses on how to create an own painting. I have collected acrylic paint in all the different colors I needed, as well as an 18x24 inch board. Lastly I got the pan I needed for the painting. For this piece of work I chose brown, dark brown, black, white and green and various shades of each.
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John Q Movie Critique Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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John Q discovers that his son has an enlarged heart and needs a heart transplant operation that will cost $250,000, but his health insurance will not cover it. The family then starts working hard organizing yard sales and working overtime to try and raise the money so that the operation can take place, but the hospital decides instead to release his son.
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The Humor of Woody Allen Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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He is critical of the manner in which Allen uses humor as a tool to trivialize the serious problems of his characters. He contends that Allen never allows the audience to be truly disturbed by any of his characters and quickly sanitizes any dangerous situations that may be momentarily revealed by blowing it away in a puff of humor.
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Contemporary Art vs. Crafts Movement Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The essay explores the difference of Contemporary Art and Crafts Movement. “A craft is usually a cookie-cutter or close-ended activity. The craft activity is based on a formula or recipe and all participants follow the same directions and end up with roughly the same result every time.” This is contrasted with her definition of art.
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Greek Sculptures - Greek and Roman Art Visual Arts & Film Studies Report
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Generally, the Greeks during the high classical age (470-430 BC), created standing sculptures of human figures, carved out of limestone and marble, adapting seventh-century Egyptian models. These sculptures were stiff, rigid, decorative, subordinate elements of tombs and temples rather than true sculptures.
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Wheel of Fortune and Invocation by Flack Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The essay discovers Flack's Wheel of Fortune and Invocation. Flack is an internationally recognized artist out of New York who pioneered photorealist painting. Although she approaches her work with a fascination for the surface illusion, she does so with a unique collage-style approach in works such as Wheel of Fortune and Invocation.
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Art of Postmodernism Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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This essay explores the changes that postmodernism brought to art. The era of enlightenment had brought along a major shift in human thinking, understanding, and perception. People started to put more and more confidence in science and it came to the point where a scientific explanation was given to almost everything on earth.
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Film Review: The Simpsons movie: A mixed blessing Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The family patriarch inadvertently sparks an environmental disaster. The environmental disaster causes the government to lower a giant dome over the town.
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Ideological Criticism of PHAT Girlz Visual Arts & Film Studies Research Paper
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What is beautiful in the eyes of one beholder could be no less than ugly in the eyes of another. However, when applied to the female human figure, this maxim holds true only when it comes to the subtle nuances of beauty – only when the barriers of what has been ideologically defined and specified as ugly and beautiful have been crossed.
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Oliver Stones 1991 film JFK Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Beginning with a video montage set to impressive military music and capitalizing on the use of television footage in its own aspect ratio, leaving ample empty space on the screen, the movie details the only
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Prominent English Architects of the Eighteenth Century Visual Arts & Film Studies Case Study
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Both are looked upon as experts in the neoclassical style of architecture, or ‘new’ classical style, so-called because it represented a revival of classic forms of architecture that both men studied at length in France and Italy. While Chambers embodied the essential characteristics of high fashion tastes of his time, Adam created his own unique style, which was built on the style of those times.
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Discourse Analyse of the Simpsons Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The Simpson family spends much of the movie isolated from the world that has captivated viewers of the TV show for so long. Eleven writers (including many from the show’s earlier days) spent years crafting a script . that seems like the victim of way too much second-guessing,
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The Film Baraka as a Collage of Images from Around the World Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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A thought that is ‘seeded’ or impregnated into a film maker’s mind is outputted in his or her work or films. That impregnation of thought could be initiated or influenced by the environment in which the filmmaker lives. So, most times a Filmmaker writes directs and films what he/she sees, feels and lives.
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Comparing Duchamp and Modigliani Visual Arts & Film Studies Case Study
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Both works of art were based within the same time period and contain similar subject matter using similar materials for representation, these two works of art represent entirely different points of view. Through the use of color and composition, the artists manage to achieve a sense of balance and solidity even as they work to express the imbalance and malleability of the world in which they find themselves. 
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Post-Classical Historiographics and Consolidated Entertainment Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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For the last two decades, academic criticism has predominantly viewed mainstream cinema as a sequence of emptily expensive, aesthetically impoverished spectacles.  This seems particularly true when one is speaking of the Western genre, perhaps because the main ingredients of this type of story seem to be so predictably similar.
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Comparison of the Two Artists Matisse and Picasso Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The paper will help to understand the contrast of Pablo Picasso's and Henri Matisse's art. The essay also will explore the important role of their works in the art history. These two artists are still revered to this day, and their artwork can give us a magnificent canvas of our own to use as a comparison of the two artists.
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Film Analysis-Holes Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The Warden assigns the daily chore of digging holes five feet deep, in the dry lake on a daily basis. She dominates everyone involved in the camp, inflicting pain on the assistant warden and threatening the patient counselor, Pendanski. It is evident that she is in control of her surroundings and those she interacts with.
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Acting Style: Cast and Outcast Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Acting is not a task; it’s an exposure to the audience. The better response from the audience can be revealed as better acting. The two recorded performance will obviously get more response even though they are by different actors/actress.
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Learning Principles in Video Games Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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In 1977, the release of George Lucas’ block buster movie “Star Wars” battling against aliens became a rage in the first popular coin- operated machine. Video gaming has come a long way since then due to the massive advancements made in both Science and technology.
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Contemporary Video Art Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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There are many reasons why people might choose to take photographs today, including self-fulfillment to capture memories or explore artistic inclinations or for commercial purposes of various types. In general, there is a very positive attitude among those who opt to express themselves through the media of the personal camera.
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Modern and Postmodern Ideas Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The aim of the study is the analysis of modern and postmodern ideas. The modernists, such as Picasso, focused on the emotions themselves with little or no reference to the symbols or issues of the times. The postmodernists, such as Marshall, make these symbols and issues key elements of their work, illustrating the emotions these cause.
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Street Art is a style and an influence Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Street art is among the more fascinating forms of art because of its quicksilver nature of being there and then gone, changing form as it moves. “As an artifact, it is the most ephemeral of all contemporary art forms: surviving only long enough to be documented before it is buffed, painted over and forgotten”.
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Television News Programs Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The conclusion from this study states that the average news programs of today are filled with a lot of non-news items that can be very distracting and annoying to the viewers. Frequent breaks to air advertisements take away the viewer’s attention from the news. Similarly, announcements and teasers that keep the viewers on hold can be very irritating.
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Compare three cinematic figures of Jesus Christ Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The movie starts with both sleeping on the field, where Jesus is having a dream about people being burned on his name and a battle field where a soldier dies crying His name, he wakes up puzzled, but he doesn't give it much thought.
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Jean-Louis Baudry and Christian Metz Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Using the concept of suture, film theory explains narrative closure not just in terms of the film and its formal construction, but rather as a process of drawing in and enclosing the viewing subject in the film's textual system. The filmic concept stems from Lacan's account of how in the psyche a coherent, unified subject is "sutured" within a symbolic order.
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The Eight and the Ashcan School Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The early 20th century was time of rapid changes - railroads and the first electric subway line in New York City, the expansion of the telephone and telegraph, the start of the automobile industry, first successful airplane flight, and innovations in science and medicine. During this time the way of surviving was seen in moving to city.
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Landscape Artist Joseph Mallord William Turner Visual Arts & Film Studies Research Paper
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The research paper on the nineteenth-century artist J.M.W.Turner’s landscape art, in order to be comprehensive, takes into account various aspects that went into the making of the master painter and his work. This was only a very small part of his vast repertoire. The sheer variety and beauty of the masterpieces, his techniques in creating them, and his expert use of both oils and watercolors are inimitable.
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There Is No Gene for the Human Spirit Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Irene is herself part in-valid because of her heart condition, she falls for the perfect guy because he is the perfect catch, yet when she shockingly witnesses Vincent beating the police officer she also learns through Vincent that she is able to overcome the impediment of running because of her heart condition.
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Mean Girls - Film Review Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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For decades, maybe centuries, being part of the In circle has always been everybody's dream; everybody talks to you, everybody talks about you, everybody follows you, looks for you company and your presence is a must in every party.
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Godfather I by Francis Ford Coppola Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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 In the genre of gangster films, Godfather I, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and released in March 1972, is a landmark film both in its treatment of the topic which has violence in the backdrop and the transition of values and familial ties in an acculture society of post-war America. 
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Comparing Films About The Christopher Columbus Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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Each film undoubtedly has some created elements, although these are much more evident in the Hollywood film than in the documentary. Although the documentary presents itself as being straightforward and completely factual, some question is raised regarding the images used throughout the presentation.
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DSM applied on A Beautiful Mind Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The therapeutic technique used was insulin shock therapy, among other psychotic drugs. Given the time (60s onwards), psychiatric treatment was obviously not as well developed as is today. Even now, two practicing psychiatrists may differ on the ‘mode’ of treatment being given; hence one cannot really criticize the methodology adopted on the subject in question.
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Dakota men and the Pictographic Style Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Howe learned that Dakota artists frequently contemplated the painting surface, often for days, until an arrangement of “aesthetic points” appeared the intersections for all lines subsequently drawn or painted in making the picture.
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The Film Charulatha by Satyajit Roy Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Though Pather Panchali is recognized as his best work, this credit went to the movie perhaps because of the limited sensibility of his audience rather than a lack of cinematic style he displayed in Charulatha. He explores some aspects of upper-class women in colonial India in this movie, Charulata (subtitled as The Lonely Wife).
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A contemporary artist Robert Smithson Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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This essay analyzes the art of Robert Smithson. The nature of his works attempts to frequently show the relationship of landscape and the art. All through his life, Smithson enganged himself in his artistic creations, more particularly out-of doors projects. His works involved making observations and creating maps for different geographical locations.
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Reflection of Politics and Social Criticism in Arts Visual Arts & Film Studies Coursework
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The work Woman House, The menstruation Bath Room, portrays a bathroom with a dustbin filled with trash placed at a raised plateau on the ground. This speaks obviously of the wretched anatomical situation of woman. The whole space is thick with yellow, barring the patches of blue at the top and edges as if spilled from a receptacle.
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Symbolism in Days Of Heaven (1978) Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Terrence Malick was the director of this movie, Days Of Heaven, made in 1978. There are many symbols in this movie. Even the title itself, is a symbol, taken from the Bible’s Book of Deutronomy 11:21-21;
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Space Cowboys Film and Genre Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Clint Eastwood has worked his way out across a number of Hollywood flicks, which have literally been the foundation for this belief amongst the film critics around the world that the man is a serious actor, producer and director as well. He is an all rounder by all means and his talent is simply awesome and endless in the show business world.
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Daumier's The Third-Class Carriage Visual Arts & Film Studies Case Study
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“This Daumier still remains to be located in his time.  His complex attitude toward the bourgeoisie was an attitude of real class consciousness … The attitude is tied to the peculiarities of Daumier’s class position, his equivocal membership of that artisan, semi-intellectual class which was being destroyed by industrialism.  His feelings towards his class have their own evolution” (Clark, 1967: 651).
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The Movie Lost in Translation Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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“Lost in Translation” has certainly proved that communication is much more complex than verbal language. Communication is a recipe for disclosure, intimacy, actions, empathy, and what is simply not said. It is extraordinarily difficult to decipher every aspect of communication, even to realize that words communicated are not technically words intended. After all, it is easy to lose the translation even if everyone speaks the same language.
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Vincent Van Gogh at the National Gallery of Art Visual Arts & Film Studies Report
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Today, Vincent Van Gogh is widely regarded as one of the most famous artists of all time.  His talent, use of color and heavy use of impasto to help illustrate his vision and emotion regarding his subject have long inspired artists of all types to study his work.  He is, perhaps, the most famous post-impressionist, giving birth to the style known as Expressionist thanks to his emotive form of creating images.
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Film Analysis: Mildred Pierce Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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The story of Mildred Pierce deals with a woman who divorces her husband, takes up a business, and is savvy at it. But the outcome is tragic and she finally returns to her husband, with the film subtly portraying the message that the end result of women’s emancipation and renunciation of their female duties is destructive.
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Psychological Reaction to the movie American Beauty Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The title American Beauty is a hodgepodge of symbolism; it encompasses a variety of meanings. For the viewer it can stand for the American beauty raised a rare and antique climbing rose much like the roses in the Burnham garden.
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