Cinema Annotated Bibliographies Samples For Students

Beard, W. (2011). Gran Torino: Clint Eastwood as Fallen Saviour . CineAction, 54-61.

"Gran Torino: Clint Eastwood as Fallen Saviour" is about the theme of the American Dream throughout the film, but it is not optimistic. It is about Walt's slow realization that he has simultaneously lost and found the American dream. He has lost it himself. After the war, he never had a chance at the typical American dream everybody lusts after. However, he sees the American dream he once wanted, ironically, reflected in the eyes of his young Hmong neighbor. Having once hated the Hmong people because of the war, this is at first perplexing to him, but Tao ...

Introduction

"I think Italian cinema is one of the most creative contributions modern Italy has made to 20th century culture" (Bondanella,qtd. Karl, 54). This quote features in most of the scholarly works that discusses the impacts of Italian cinema on today’s film. A common opinion seems to be the fact that “recent films that people watch are the same: they talk about girls or boys growing up, vacations of the mentally impaired, and couples having crisis,” social issues such as crime, unemployment, and class bias among other similar topics (Hake, pp. 23-25). Most of the ...

- “Appeal for Widows 2013.” Saynotoviolence.org. 2013.

This video is informative about the contemporary scenario of violation against women. The video gives detailed figures and message about the discriminatory activities against women folk of the world society. Coupled with pictures of widows, this video is emphatic about the baleful presence of chauvinism and patriarchy.

- Asinas, Edelwina. “Battered Woman” FamilyFriendPoems.

This is a stirring poem by Edelwina Asinas which depicts the tumultuous emotions of the heart of a woman. The poem explores the helplessness of a lady who is tortured by the man whom she is with. This is a harrowing ...

Aubrey, J.S., & Frisby, C.M. (2011). Sexual objectification in music videos: a content analysis comparing gender and genre. Mass Communication and Society 14: 475-501.

In this article, Aubrey and Frisby (2011) create a coding system which measures the correlations between representations of women and sexual objectification. According to their findings, female artists provide a greater amount of sexual objectification in their videos, and are placed under greater pressure to appear more attractive and glamorous. They are also more likely to showcase sexually suggestive behavior and attitudes. This evidences adds to the argument that women are problematically presented in popular culture and media, as they are placed under a male gaze to be as attractive as possible; a woman’s sexuality is shown to be her primary feature, ...

The media and reality shows portray women in different ways. Initially, women were portrayed as objects that could be easily manipulated by men. Women are usually degraded in terms of the representations or portrayal that they get from the media and reality shows. Most of the representations show that women are valued by their body and not the brain or talent that they may have. Some of the reality shows also do not encourage the young women to get a life and become better people in the society. Women portrayal in the media and reality shows has also been a subject ...

Introduction

Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was a prominent American playwright who was born in 1930 in Chicago and died at the age of 34 in New York City. She was also a renowned stage director and civil rights activist. As a Black-American woman growing up during the depression, her life was characterized by the negatives that accompany slavery and gender discrimination. However, it was this same restricting environment that shaped her writing career because she was able to capture the struggles and conflicts within black families in her works. Her most prominent work of literature is A Raisin in the Sun which derives its ...

The book is written by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) which happens to be one of the 17 specialized UN agencies. The book talks about various patents. The author explains in detail about the copyright laws and related rights. The author proceeds to explain the use and protection of trademarks and the industrial designs. Carlo, F Bosch. Vying for the Best in Intellectual Property. Daily Journal February 9, 2011. Web.21 March 2012 This is a daily journal release by Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP’s intellectual property group. The journal offers legal advice on various patent applications ...

Annotated Bibliography

Baym, Geoffrey. "The Daily Show: Discursive Integration and the Reinvention of Political Journalism." Political Communication, 22(3) (2005): 259-276.

The article informed about disappearing boundaries between politics, pop culture and entertainment. During earlier time programs containing political information & news were completely different from the programs designed for entertainment. Programs containing mix of politics and comedy are gaining popularity, and liked by the people. The article informed about how fake news is utilized in comedy shows, and make audience sometime confused. The emerging media or entertainment can be described by the multiplying technological forces, discursive integration and ...

The country of United States of America has had different times in its history that different important things have happened. These things have helped shape the country to where it is now. Among these things that help shape the country are wars, demonstrations, strikes and other rebellions that have been of great help in the introduction of several laws in the country. The differences between the groups that constitute the population of the country have been differing over time, and this has helped since they discussed and came to a common ground after many years. These different incidences and different ...

Mikhail Baryshnikov once said the words: “Dance for me and I will tell you who you are” (Crompton 1). These words lend themselves to different interpretations in the context of wheelchair dancing. This is because there are different reasons why people dance. Dance could be for enjoyment, cultural events, expression, therapythe list is endless. Dance is about trying to achieve rhythm with one’s body or parts of the body. This implies that even disabled people can dance for the same reasons that able-bodied people dance and more. Several researches imply that when dance is used in therapy, ...

Early Career

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was born on 29 July 1883 in Varano di Costa, Predappio northeast of Italy (Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia; Benito’s Birthday). His parents Alessandro a blacksmith and his mother Rosa a schoolteacher had two other children. Despite both being in employment, they were poor like many families were in Italy at the time. As soon as he could, Mussolini helped his father. This gave him an opportunity to listen to and share his father’s ideological beliefs. Alessandro was a republican and a socialist. He strongly believed that the monarchy should be scrapped and Italy’s wealth fairly distributed among ...

Thesis Statement

When stateless nations are discussed most often the Eastern European states of the former USSR are given as examples. But some may be surprised to know that in Europe stateless nations still exist. The tension over their autonomy and the use of their culture is still an issue. Kosovo of the former Republic of Yugoslavia is the most recent “stateless state” that has succeeded, for the time being anyway, as being recognized as an independent state and a member of the European Union. Will other stateless nations have the same good fortune?

Cyprus is the one of the oldest ...

Annotated Bibliography – Climate Change

Cooper, Anderson. "Pacific swallowing remote island chain." CNN.com. N.p., 31 July 2007. Web. 26 Sept. 2011. . Anderson Cooper's blog post on the Carteret Island climate change mentions the status of the Carteret as "the world's first environmental refugees." While Cooper mentions the lack of impact the Carteret have had on the rest of the world, the rest of the world is impacting them greatly. This particular type of narrative furthers the idea that the Carteret refugees are helpless victims of a failing planet and poor environmental policies. Also, it is implied that they are helpless, simple people who are ...

Lionel Richie's life and music career has been a fascinating and eventful one. He is a famous singer, songwriter, musician and record producer as well as an activist. Lionel Brockman Richie was born on June 20, 1949 in Tuskegee, Alabama USA; son of a system analyst and an educator1. He grew up on the campus of Tuskegee Institute before his family moved to Illinois, where he graduated from high school. Being a great tennis player, he was granted a tennis scholarship and went to Tuskegee Institute, where he graduated with a major in economics in 1974. While he was in college, he ...