1920s Classical Hollywood

Taking here Sherlock Jr and Thief of Bagdad as prime examples of 1920s Classical Hollywood, what are some key similarities and differences? Consider comedy v. adventure; consider also assumed values around gender and race. How might some of Gladfelder’s ideas on...

Posts of film

Would you say that The Searchers, critiques the frontier myth’s ‘triumphalist narratives’ of white Europeanconquest? Or, would you say that it perpetuates and reinforces such narratives? Explain your response withexamples from the film.Decolonization is the process of...

“Migrant Dreams” movie review

“Migrant Dreams” available at this link: https://www.tvo.org/video/documentaries/migrant-dreams-feature-version Remeber, this review must discuss at least three examples of abuses that are faced by temporary foreign workers in the film and must not exceed 500 words....

Seeing Talentime from different angles

As mentioned in the reading and discussed in the lecture, film scholar Dudley Andrew proposes that we look at world cinema in terms of multiple overlapping “maps”: political, demographic, linguistic, orientation, and topographical. How can these terms...

Ruby Red Movie Theater

Ruby Red Movie Theater has experimented with using different numbers of workers in the concession area of the theater as well as at the ticket counter. In these experiments, Tracy, the manager of the theater, collected data on total number of buckets of popcorn as...

Film analysis

Does the film endorse a Strawsonian conception of free will?Does the film endorse a Lockean conception of personal identity?Does the film endorse the belief the qualia do make a difference to how we act? Sample Solution