...Option #2: Review of a Book, Film, or Event For this extra credit option, you can chose any topic relating to child and adolescent development you are curious about, find controversial, or want to further understand. It may or may not relate to topics we have already covered in the course. You may select a book to read, a film or documentary to watch, or you may attend an event that relates to this topic. Whichever choice you make, you should endeavor to broaden your understanding of this topic. Write a 3 page (double-spaced; 1 inch margins) review of the book/film/event and address the following: 1. Give a brief overview of the topic you chose. The film “Stand By Me” 2. Discuss why you chose this particular topic. 3. In what ways did you hope to broaden your understanding of this topic through reading/watching/attending your respective books/films/events? 4. What were your thoughts on this topic prior to this assignment? 5. How, if at all, did this assignment shift your understanding of this topic and in what ways? If it did not, why do you think that is so? 6. What questions remain for you after investigating this topic? Stand By Me Functions of Friendship Stand by Me explores the groups’ transition from “care-free” children to young adults. As the group of four journeys to find the dead body, they also make a personal journey in their individual identity. They break away from their parent’s care by saying that they are camping out in one of the boys’ backyard...
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...The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was a failure of a movie. Despite its great storyline it did poorly at the box office. It was not nominated for any important awards in the U.S. The movie also received many negative awards. First reason why The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was a failed movie was how terrible it did at the box office. The movie had a budget of 12,500,000.00 dollars (IMDB). Not only did the movie not make enough money for a profit, it didn’t even what they spent on making it. The total domestic income that the movie brought in was 9,046,156 dollars (Boxofficemojo). Second reason why the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was a failure is it was not nominated for any important awards in the U.S. It was nominated for a few awards...
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...Weir, 1989) is an American must-see drama film, which both make you laugh and shed tears. Robin Williams (as Mr. Keating) is once again making a movie exceptional with his acting competences. The film takes place in 1959 mainly at Welton Academy, the best preparatory school in the United States. It is an all-boys preparatory school. The school is for students with excellence who someday are going to educate themselves as lawyers, doctors, etc. Mr. Portius of the English department retires, so he gets a replacement, John Keating, who has his own idea of how to teach. His lessons mostly includes poetry, and he is trying his best to spread a message that will change the students’ viewpoint of life. “Carpe. Carpe Diem. Seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.” Mr. Keating wants his students to take chances and do what they actually want to. They should enjoy the present and not worry about the future; live in the moment. This remarkable message is repeated several times, and the Latin words “Carpe Diem” will be stuck in your head for a while after watching the film. Keating tells the students about a secret society, that he was a part of when he was a young boy; The Dead Poets Society. The boys bring the club back to life by organizing meetings just as Keating did. Neil’s father, Mr. Perry, wants Neil (Robert Sean Leonard) to become a doctor, but Neil will rather become an actor. Mr. Perry will not accept that his boy is interested in acting. It is very touching...
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...Media coursework Bibliography: Keith Grant, B. (1st Dec 2003). Genre And Youth. In: Film Genre Reader III, Volume 3. Texas: University Of Texas Press. Pages 492-497. Films about teenagers have utilized different techniques and stories to represent young people within a codified system that delineates certain subgenres and character types within the “youth film genre”. Unlike other genres that are based on subject matter, the youth genre is based on the ages of the films characters, and thus the thematic concerns of its sub-genres can be seen as more directly connected to specific notions of different youth behaviours and styles. Eggert, B. (2013). The Definitives: an ongoing series of indepth essays and appreications of the very best cinema. Available: http://www.deepfocusreview.com/reviews/rebelwithoutacause.asp. Last accessed 10th September 2015 Through the film, a division of young adults received a personality and individualism never before represented onscreen, establishing their place within their own unique cultural identity, language, and social rituals, as represented by Ray’s picture and in those which followed to use his film as a benchmark. Ray’s picture was the first to “get” 1950s adolescents with all their conflicts, oblivious parents, sexual confusion, social anxiety, and alienation Keith Grant, B. (2003). Youth In Film History. In: Film Genre Reader, Volume 3. Texas: Texas: University Of Texas Press. 499. However. Hollywood did not suddenly bank on hedonistic...
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...Film and Politics: Term Paper Salaam Bombay! Directed by Mira Nair in 1988, “Salaam Bombay!” is a fine piece of cinematic art that portrays the unfortunate reality of how life is for street children in Bombay, India. The film makes a brave jump from the typical, happy-go-lucky, capitalist representation of life on the streets, to a more convincing one. Following the daily struggles of children living on the streets of Bombay, this film sheds light on the socio-economic realities of their lives. In this paper, I will analyze “Salaam Bombay!” in terms of its ability to provide a near accurate depiction of urban poverty in India, and the lives of its street children. “Salaam Bombay!” follows the story of a young boy, around the age of twelve, named Krishna. Shortly into the movie we find Krishna living on the streets of the largest city in India, Bombay, surrounded by drug addicts, prostitutes, pimps, and other homeless children like him. Through a conversation Krishna has with a drug addict he befriends, we discover that Krishna was abandoned by his mother at an Apollo Circus where she tells him that he can only come back home once he raises five hundred rupees to pay his brother back for destroying his bicycle. Krishna, named Chaipau by those around him, starts working as a tea deliverer for a local teashop so he can earn enough money to go back home. As the film traces Krishna’s struggles to earn enough money and survive on the streets of Bombay, his story clashes with...
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...Film review of 'Billy Elliot' Short summary: In the film ‘Billy Elliot’, 11 year old boy Billy is bought up into an economically repressed mining town. In a small cramped house, in northern England, he lives with his father, his brother and his grandmother. Like most men in the town his father and brother works in the local mine. But due to cutbacks from the government they are on a strike. Billy goes to boxing in his spare time, to make his father proud. But he soon discovers his interest in dancing, and not just any dancing, but ballet. For a long time he hides this from his father, and when he is at ballet dancing he tells his pap that he is at boxing practice. But after a while his father discovers Billy's secret and is furious. His father doesn't want his son to dance, "cause boys don't dance, they wrestle!". But as time progresses his father comes to terms with Billy's wish to become a ballet dancer. And it turns out that Billy is also very good at it, and is recommended to go to the Royal Ballet School in London. But his family can't afford to send him to the school. Ultimately his father breaks the picket line, to get money for Billy. But Billy's older brother sees their father break the line, and runs over to stop him. They decide that they have to make the money in a different way. Again time passes and they get the money. After a hard tryout in a school where Billy feels like a total mismatch, he is accepted and gets to live his dream. Setting and Characterization: ...
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...World Society in Literature and Film-Japan Asian Studies 0868 Temple University Fall Semester 2015 Dr. P.B. Reagan Class meets Tuesday and Thursday 9:30.A.M.-10:50 P.M. in Ritter Hall 107 Office: 830 Anderson Hall Office Hours: TR 11:00-1:50 P.M. and by appointment E-mail: paul.reagan@temple.edu Course Description and Objective “Learn about a particular national culture-Japanese-by taking a guided tour of its literature and film. Knowledge of Japanese language is not required to take this course. The student will gain the fresh, subtle understanding that comes from integrating across different forms of human expression. Some of the issues that will be illuminated by looking at culture through the lens of literature and film: family structures and how they are changing, national self-perceptions, pivotal moments in history,, economic issues,, social change and diversity…” NOTE: This course fulfills the World Society (GG)requirement for students under GenEd and International Studies (IS)for students under Core. Attributes: Gen ED Global World Society GenEd World Society courses explore societies and cultures outside the United States. These courses take one of two approaches. Some concentrate on a single nation or region, examining in depth its political, social, historical, cultural, artistic, literary, geographic, and economic landscape. Another approach is to investigate globalization and its effects across nations and regions. Goals and Expected...
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...Post-modernism in Baz Luhrmann’s film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet: a comparison of two creative works from two different periods. In 1996, Baz Luhrmann directed “Romeo + Juliet”, a modern twist on the famous tragedy play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare in 1597, in which the main characters Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet where portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes. While some praise the strange interpretation of the old tale, there are also those who condemn the rendition as destructive and disrespectful to the great work of Shakespeare. There will always be two sides to every story and this study will take that into consideration as well as comparing the two different yet similar works to see how post modernism has played a role in Luhrmann’s version of Romeo and Juliet. Postmodernism has been given many definitions. Some say it’s simply the outlook that the generation of late twenty first century has on life which entails the mistrust and dismissal of theories that existed before such as religion, ethics and law. According to these youths, the difference between right and wrong or what the meaning of life is based solely on that individual’s perspective. In film, the idea of postmodernism is somewhat similar as it’s an artist medium in which to undermine social norms and present one’s individual belief. The difference lies in that postmodernism in film concerns bringing in many aspects of popular culture to produce something...
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...What’s Eating Gilbert Grape In the film What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, the main character Gilbert takes on the “Father Role” to support his family economically and financially. The fact Gilbert is the man of the house causes him to repress his anger. His sorrow begins to strengthen his rage in a very unhealthy manner. The melancholy that leads to Gilberts weakening has its roots in his family which is what begins to eat Gilbert alive. All his family members play important individual roles in finding out what’s eating Gilbert Grape. What's Eating Gilbert Grape is a beautifully shot movie of tenderness, caring and self-awareness that is set amongst the fictional working class one street town Endora. Centred around the Grape family Ellen and Amy and their two brothers Arnie and Gilbert, who, along with their morbidly obese widowed mother Bonnie Grape are striving to survive and coexist with the absence of a father figure, low wage work and seventeen-year-old Arnie's severe mental condition. It is in this awkward and extremely one sided affair that the unfortunate Gilbert has to constantly, while working for the town's slowly dying Convenience Store, take care of his younger brother Arnie. Gilbert's life, his future, is thwarted he knows this, but it is in this Guardian Angel that his love and bond for Arnie cannot, and will not, be let go. That is until the free spirit of Becky arrives in town, and with her grandmother are stranded for the ...
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...Issues 12 Angry Men (original title: 12 Angry Men) is an American film from 1957, written by Reginald Rose. The film received three Academy Award nominations, best picture, best director and best adapted screenplay. It is an excellent example of 1950s social awareness and preparation of the common people in everyday situations. The film is thus a purely naturalistic wonders where all the action happens in real time, except for the film's beginning and end, in one place. Historically, we can look at the film in the context of the year of publication, 1957. USA was at this time in a political transition period. The civil rights movement was already well underway with the judgment of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 and the bus boycott in Montgomery in 1956. Many of the film's themes is about racial and social inequalities which characterize this era in American history. The film is critical of society and provokes important social issues in the course of action. Examples are "class differences", "justice", "doubt", "one-to-many" and "the relationship between father and son." Together these stresses, a specific, comprehensive theme through action races, namely the "prejudice". Jury members' prejudices and personal insights against the accused, the trial and to one another is driving both the problem and the resolution of the action. The problem is thus as follows: How are the jury members' judgment influenced by prejudice? Action Report It is late summer...
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...stars as Charlie Kenton, a former boxer who is now hanging onto the fringes of the fight game as the owner-operator of a ramshackle robot he tours with. It's no match for the competition, and when the desperate Charlie replaces it with another battered veteran, it can't even outfight a real bull.If the movie were all robot fights it might be as unbearable as well, a Transformers title. Drama enters in the person of Charlie's son, Max Kenton (Dakota Goyo), a smart, resilient pre-teen who, like all kids, seems to have been genetically programmed to understand computers, video games and all allied fields. Charlie is a very bad absent father, and as played by Hugh Jackman, he is actually mean toward his boy. Charlie's sister (Hope Davis) and her husband (James Rebhorn) plan to adopt the boy, but in a complicated arrangement, Charlie first has to take care of Max for a summer.This Max is some kid. He loves robots. During a scouting expedition in a 'bot junk yard, he comes upon an ancient training robot named...
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...stars as Charlie Kenton, a former boxer who is now hanging onto the fringes of the fight game as the owner-operator of a ramshackle robot he tours with. It's no match for the competition, and when the desperate Charlie replaces it with another battered veteran, it can't even outfight a real bull.If the movie were all robot fights it might be as unbearable as well, a Transformers title. Drama enters in the person of Charlie's son, Max Kenton (Dakota Goyo), a smart, resilient pre-teen who, like all kids, seems to have been genetically programmed to understand computers, video games and all allied fields. Charlie is a very bad absent father, and as played by Hugh Jackman, he is actually mean toward his boy. Charlie's sister (Hope Davis) and her husband (James Rebhorn) plan to adopt the boy, but in a complicated arrangement, Charlie first has to take care of Max for a summer.This Max is some kid. He loves robots. During a scouting expedition in a 'bot junk yard, he comes upon an ancient training robot named Atom literally covered in mud and convinces his dad this relic still has fighting...
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...not until you learn the terminology that you start analyzing and judging films in a more knowledgeable way. This paper will discussing the movie “Big Daddy” in depth and judges it based on it content. Mise en scène consists of the three major aspects of filmmaking that are also components of staging a play: the settings; the subject being filmed, usually actors or people as themselves; and the composition, the arrangement of the settings, lighting, and subjects (University of Phoenix, 2009). The mise en scène of “Big Daddy” consists of a clueless slacker who lives in New York named Sonny Koufax, played by Adam Sandler. Sonny, to try and lure his girlfriend to get back with him, adopts a boy named Julian played by Dylan and Cole Sprouse who he lives with at his house for a couple months. The lighting was great when transition from day to night. Film editing is take all the film sequences taken and blends them together. Film editing is the art, technique, and practice of assembling shots into a coherent whole Big Daddy’s film editing wasn’t te best but it still was decent work. The transitions sometimes were noticeable and the mood of the movie changed dramatically many times. The movie made me laugh at a man with no focus or ambition trying to raise a kid to impress someone, and then all of a sudden, the movie wanted me to feel sorry for him. You go from laughs to feeling sad many time during this film. It definitely makes you go on a roller coaster ride of emotions that doesn’t...
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...Review of “This is England”, directed and written by Shane Meadows “This is England”, centers on the young skinheads in England, in the year 1983. Summary: It is a story about the 12-year-old boy Shaun who is getting bullied in school. He does not have any friends and his father is dead, so it is only his mother and himself. Walking home from school one day, he meets a group of young people under the bridge. They are all skinheads, wearing Doctor Marten boots, shaving their heads and with their Ben Sherman shirts. Woody, who is the leader of the group, sees how sad Shaun is and invites him to join the group, among them Milky is the obly black skinhead in the group. Everyone accepts Shaun as a member, except Tubb who feels that Shaun is taking his place. But soon after the problem is solved between them and Shaun feels better than ever between his new friends, also the older girl Smell he feels attracted to. Then the older skinhead named Combo, with racist views, returns to the group after a prison sentence, together with two friends. He tries to take the leadership of the group from Woody, which leads to a rift. Woody stays leader of the apolitical group, whilst Combo becomes leader of the new political group. Combo likes Shaun and identifies with him, who in turn sees Combo as a role model. They go to a White Nationalist meeting and on their way back, a member gets thrown out because of his doubt over the group’s racist and national politics. After being rejected by...
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...Sybil – Movie Review Sybil is a three hour film, and it discovers the reason behind Sybil’s multiple personality disorder. The film was released in 1976 and was directed by Daniel Petrie. The important actresses were Joanne Woodward and Sally Field. Sally Field plays the main character, Sybil and Joanne Woodward plays the character Dr. Wilbur. This movie fits into the drama a biography category. The movie Sybil, is an excellent and educational movie, because the main actress, Sally Field portrays Sybil very well and the characters are well rounded. The film Sybil is about a young woman named Sybil who suffers from blackouts and massive headaches. On one occasion Sybil breaks the window and rushes to the hospital. Sybil speaks to the doctors with a little girl's voice. Dr. Wilbur is concerned about Sybil and wants to help her. Later in the movie, Dr. Wilbur diagnosed Sybil with multiple personality disorder. Sybil has a tots of twelve different personalities....
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