Sociology Movie Reviews Samples For Students

Introduction

The ability to assist someone to understand himself or herself and his or her capacities besides developing his or her potentialities to solve the problems at hand and achieve social and psychological compatibility depends on a number of factors. The counselor needs to have better communication skills, knowledge and experience, passion, adequate resources, among others. Everyone needs guidance and counseling, which is vital in helping one solve the everyday problems.

Lack of guidance and counseling when one is going through difficulties eventually makes one become sick and even is some circumstances makes one commit suicide as a better way to deal ...

Compare "THE BICYCLE THIEF" and "PAPER MOON"

The Paper Moon and The Bicycle Thief are a production of Frank Marshall and PDS (Produzioni respectively). To begin with, the two films are somewhat similar to each other a number of ways. In the Paper Moon, Moses and Addie are in search of ways of survival throughout their way to Addie’s aunt. Copying from Moses, Addie becomes a con girl claiming the she is Moses’ daughter. Similarly, in The Bicycle Thief, Antonio is in desperate need for work in order to be able to provide for his family. This desperation leads him into acquiring a job in an advertising company but ...

Titanic is one of the timeless classic movies released into the media in the recent times. It is an epic romantic film directed, produced, co-edited and written by James Cameron. Its success in the big screen remains unrivalled because of the momentous influence it had on its audience. It is a fictionalized account depicting the sinking of the Titanic; a ship meant to be the epitome of luxurious cruising. The movie is a witness recount of the events that led to the sinking of the ship and the actions that transpired before it went under. It is based on a true story of ...

The butler movie written by Lee Daniels came in a period when the world was going via the pop culture history. The racial struggles are portrayed in the movie not only as a remnant of the past, but still evident and painful part of what is happening in most countries. The movie demonstrates the current condition by focusing on the decades of racial politics and injustices that have managed to prevail in the 20th century. The movie reflects the racial, social, economical and political struggles by marrying the ideas of the character’s private life and the political world. Therefore, we ...

1- What variables does Rosling use to talk about social well being?

The variables that Rosling use to talk about social well-being are fertility rate, life expectancy at birth, child mortality rate and the length of life.

2- What does he illustrate when he plots social well being variables against economic development (income per capita)?

What Rosling is trying to illustrate in plotting social well-being variables against the GDP per capita is that social well-being factors play a major role in the economic growth of a country. He also points out that there are some countries that are more advanced in terms of health, education and human resources development, than they are economically. He argues that for some countries social progress is more enhanced than economic progress. 3- What is the ...

Though not always elitist, movies are excellent at reflecting the reality and human history, just as poetry and prose are. The movie industry was being developed over the 20th century while the human civilization was being shaken by major military collisions, be they regional or conflicts of world proportions. There was no way the movie industry could sit sluggish in the circumstances, with film directors addressing the most vital social issues of the day. Genocide is one of grimmest crimes committed during the conflicts. Atrocious was the genocide of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and Jews in Nazi Germany – ...

Introduction

The film, The Hunger Games is a trilogy that tells a story of unending oppression, exploitation and injustice in the society. In the plot, there are twelve districts that are ruled by the capitol, and they are destitute, most of the inhabitants die as a result of starvation. The trilogy Hunger Games is set at some time in the future, and this story takes place in Panem. The setting consists of a capitol and twelve other districts though they were initially thirteen which were and ruled by the capitol.The Social Justice Issues
Social injustice manifestation occurs in relation to poverty. Evidently, there ...

Movie Review: Maya Lin

Maya Lin is an award winning film that explores the artistic work of Lin—a renowned designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The documentary focuses on her other works that have considerably impacted on the community’s social and political aspects. The archived resources such as old clips, interviews and modern footages are used to explain how Lin’s artistic work developed to be an important tool for activism, confront and healing. Lin from her viewpoint explains the implication of her work and attempts to explain to the audience the criteria and motivation behind developing her design and structures.

How Maya Lin’s Design can be Considered Courageous

Maya ...

Our world is rapidly changing due to technologies. It concerns our social life most of all that is completely different from our parents’ society, when they have been young, for example. Today the children and the teenagers are growing online. It is caused by more possibility to have the Internet, computers and other digital devices not only for receiving the information, but for communication as well. It leads to bringing the new technologies into our daily life, like studying. Indeed, all inventions are appealed to improve our lives. But there are some risks.
First of all, the Internet ...

The movie “Hunger Games” has the best sociological perspective that is visible right from the start of the movie (The Hunger Games 2012). A sense of poverty prevails in District Twelve. Katniss Everdeen shoots a deer sells it off and gets some bread for the family to survive. People of District Twelve live under the hardships and are oppressed by the capitol forces. The children of the District assemble at one place for selection through draws, for the Seventy-fifth hunger games. Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark are selected to participate and are privileged to visit the capitol. A class changes ...

English

It is a known fact that not all human beings and not all societies follow the same social norms. There is however, certain aspects of social behavior that takes a universal paradigm as opposed to a regional and societal paradigm. We consider these social norms as universally accepted social norms. Even in the face of these universally accepted social norms, every society has its own reception of these social norms, which more or less are unique in that particular society. This is because no two societies view a given aspect in the exact same way. There must be certain elements of the aspect ...

The connection between the Montgomery Bus Boycott and Liberation theology and how liberation theology has had an impact on society today.
The connection between Montgomery bus boycott and liberation theology, is that they apply the church and faith to facilitate the solving of problems affecting the people across the world .The desire to solve the problems is due to the need to bring about ``political , economic, social changes”, by using the problems which the poor people face to challenge the society.
Liberation theology applies science in interpreting the bible in order to address the social injustices in ...

I do believe that legislations like SOPA, ACTA, PIPA, TPP, and ITU should be there in the online world. They help reduce piracy and promote creativity. With these legislations in place, there is increased protection of content creators. The cloning of products from the United States by China and India is not right because it will kill the economy. In the end, the social aspect that these technologies wanted to bring forth will still be achieved. The laws on copyrights should be implemented and in place. With the strict implementations of these laws, I strongly believe that a free economy ...

Appearing on TED Talk, Stavridis “A Navy Admiral's Thoughts on Global Security” offers a substantive review on various issues aligned with global security. A reflection on Stavridis talks indicates that his opinion on how to global security can be maintained aligns with the need to advocate for connectedness and transparency on various matters. Having been a leader with the United Sates Department of Defense, and the NATO, his opinion advocates for the need to streamline these two bodies since they contribute immensely to the security at the global level. Worth noting is the fact that the Admiral’s main point is ...

Children are an attractive demographic for marketers because of the amount of products they consumer per year. These products include electronics, movies, toys, snacks, music and clothing which total up to $ 40 billion annually. They also influence their parents in other pro9ducts and services acquisition family car, where to go for holidays which in total sum up to $ 700 billion annually. Children are known for the nagging, this is when children nag their parents to influence the product they purchase. This is seen in the documentary when a child creates a seen in a supermarket demanding for a particular product. 360 degree immersive ...

The movie “Thunder heart” touches upon the social aspects of poverty, exploitation, cultural taboos, deviances and other anomaly that may exist in a certain society. This is a directional presentation by Michael Apted who is famous for his movies which touch upon the social issues and events of past incidents that have prevailed and in a less milder way haunted the free existence of different communities within a society. In this project he undertakes the same challenge of representing the social differences yet he has presented them in form of the political spectrum and scope.

It also sheds light on the elementary part ...

Introduction

There are several sociological processes that are exhibited in the movie, Remember the Titans. These processes have the aim of exposing the poor relationship that exists between the thought of the humans and the social context provided. The extent and the limits of the social influence which is displayed on the people’s lives in the movie and the social-cultural basics are also displayed. In achieving to put across all this information, several theories have been employed in an intertwining manner. Among the theories that have been employed are the conflict theory and the critical theory (Bankston, 2000). Several ...

Movie Review:

Movie Title: The Great Gatsby
Director Name: Baz Luhrmann
Social issues:
Since the individual actions are reflective of the social impact, social undertaking and social standing, thereby sociological studies and observations apply to the behavior.

With context to the movie:

Social class conflict and stratification:
The social narrative of the movie is depicted in multiple modes, one in form of presence of a fact that is part of every society, another in form of a deviance. The existence of multiple social classes is the former reference, while the deviance in form of unprolific competition is the deviance depicted. Originally hailing from a lower ...

This film depicts the suffering that followed the bombing of Hiroshima. Analyzing the people and situations that Gen comes across, it is evident that the Japan citizens suffered a lot. It feels one with pity to see the dead bodies of the victims and the continued deaths that occur along the way in the hope of sooner recovery.
The fact that Gen is rejected and criticized in every family, social and cultural setting that he and his mother attempt to establish themselves indicates that their suffering is widespread and social and political lives have been affected massively. Throughout the ...

- Paris Is Burning is about the performance of gender. How is it about race? (3)
The movie is also about racism, where the story’s protagonists are portrayed to be segregated based on their racial background by the fact of being African American and Latino. It also portrays gay and transgender communities to be prevalent in the two racial groups.
- Paris Is Burning is about the performance of gender. How is it about class? (3)
It portrays a cliché of African American and Latin transgender and gay community from a poor economic background and social class. ...

Dance is described as the art or science of making steps and making body movements to a proscribed tune. The success of acquiring the skills of dance depends on one's knowledge and effort of getting used to the principles of the dance. The Chinese have the unique dragon dance that is performed in annual festivals. The dance is significant for its traditional value. The dance is used alongside the lion dance in festive celebrations. The dragon dance signifies the descendants of the great Chinese King who was the first to rule. He also taught the Chinese people agriculture basics of ...

Introduction

The Hunger Games, based on the series of novels by Suzanne Collin’s, is about a televised competition in which two teenagers are chosen at random to fight to the death. The film is “directed by Gary Ross, with a screenplay by Gary Ross, Suzanne Collins and Billy Ray, and produced by Nina Jacobson’s Color Force in tandem with producer Jon Kilik” (Hunger Games). The story follows the struggle of one girl, Katness Everdeen, who graciously takes the place of her younger sibling in the games. Thus, The Hunger Games is extraordinarily packed with deep sociological concepts and ideas within ‘ ...

The study of self and society and in particular social influence is made complex by the fact that the tenets of this area and the relationships are complex. This paper presents a review of the classical movie Twelve Angry Men by Director Sidney Lumet (1957) in the context of the theory above. A succinct overview of the film is presented, followed by an evaluation of some of the concepts in the title above that feature in the film and finally a conclusion.

Brief description of the film

The film, Lumet (1957), tells a story of a jury consisting of 12 white men who deliberate the guilt or acquittal ...

Movie Review: Farmingville

If someone were to ask me what I think about illegal immigration, I would have a hard time figuring out where to get started. Honestly, I have never really thought about the issue of illegal immigration, and it is not something that directly affects me in any way. However, I am fond of documentary films in which political and social climates are analyzed, and Farmingville (2004), directed by Carlos Sandoval and Catherine Tambini is one such documentary. Moreover, the issue of illegal immigration that this documentary film raises is also a good debate, especially since it is a political and social issue ...

Movie Reviews

This 2011 sports drama follows real-life coach Billy Beane (an entertaining Brad Pitt) who decides to take a different approach to assembling sports teams; unlike the old-school approach that divines players through straight play history, personality and likability, Beane consults Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) to come up with a new way to find good players - sabermetrics. The sabermetrics approach applied in the film is a way to objectively assess sports players and their records in baseball; with this, the only factors that matter are baseball statistics that analyze activity within baseball games. Instead of factoring in the subjective elements that many ...

Sociology is a lens through which people interacting individually are weighed as a whole, viewed from various perspectives of viewpoint and understanding. It endeavors to study society scientifically, bringing in relevant information from a variety of disciplines. It is the scientific study of society using various methods to further develops knowledge of human society. The tool employed to study a society from other than one’s own point of view is “Sociological Imagination.” This is a method that sociologists use to put themselves in the shoes of another to create a link with the subject(s), allowing them to make decisionsthat will lead to a better ...

Introduction

The Dark Knight brings to surface the fate of human society in the new century. Batman is the one who plays a major role in determining this fate. The occurrences of September 11, 2001is not perceived as a crime that was organized but is seen as an organized terror. It is hard to understand how the society could fight terrorism and they themselves had not become terrorists. From the beginning batman decided to,” strike fear into the heart of animals.” Since he lacked the superpowers, he used effective performance and psychology to scare the enemies.
These places the human society ...

The Lord of the Rings film series are a trilogy and one of the best epic fantasy mythological films. The Lord of the Rings – The Fellowship of the Ring, directed by Peter Jackson, is a movie based on the novel written by J.R.R.Tolkien. My goal in this paper is to review the heroics of the fictional protagonist Frodo Baggins, describe how his experiences are universal to the humankind, and how Frodo is considered a model by which people can comprehend their experience and cope with enormous and often mysterious task of being human.

Hobbits are usually not considered humans; however they are ...

Movie Title: The Pursuit of Happ(y)ness

Released Date : 2006
Director: Gabrielle Muccino
Written by : Steven Conrad
Cinematography : Phedon Papamichael
Produced by : David Alper, Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, Mark Clayman, Louis D'Esposito, Chris Gardner, James Lessiter, Will Smith, Steve Tisch and Teddy Zee.

Genre: Drama

Story : Bibliographical, based on the true-to-life story of Christopher Gardner
Main Cast : 1. Will Smith as Chris Gardner, 2. Jaden Smith as Christopher 3. Thandie Newton as Linda

Plot Summary

The movie is based from the true events on the life of a man named ...

Social Control theorists maintain that most people obey the laws, rules and regulations of mainstream society because they have been trained and socialized to do so, while those who are more likely to become criminals and delinquents have weal social and community bonds. Travis Hirshi wrote the classic work on social control theory, Causes of Delinquency in 1969. Numerous studies of juvenile delinquents over the last forty years have confirmed Hirschi’s views that such youths do feel detached from society and conventional morality, and have a weak attachment to family, friends and school. Poverty, segregation and racism are the ...

According to James Snead, marking, mythification and omission happens to be the three common devices which get applied by filmmakers to consign blacks to obscurity on screen. Snead postulates that, when these three devices get employed on screen, they succeed in showing the little significance of blacks (Snead 4). Therefore, this paper shall examine four films, which tend to support Snead’s ramifications; these four films are; “cabin in the sky”, “a raisin in the sun”, “nothing but a man” and a “killer of sheep”. Taking a closer look at these films will end u revealing the use of the three devices mentioned ...

This review of the movie shall take a different treatment to the cinema. We shall be analyzing the movie on the whole with the social problem or issue associated with it, which was prevalent at that time and might be still relevant today. There is a variety of social issues that the movie highlights. Those are the divide between the rich and the poor, the humanism, and the conscience of the mankind, both from the perspectives of the rich and the poor. There is an inherent link between all the three issues that our review shall also try to establish. Our ...

John Hughes’ 1985 film, The Breakfast Club is a teen movie that addresses the imperative stage of childhood to adulthood transformation in a school set up. From a sociological point of view, the film brings forth an important display of teenagers’ interactions that is based on social labels, that is, appearance, interests and general behavior. The five major teenagers in the film, Allison, Andrew, John, Brian, and Claire are different in appearance, interests, and their behaviors too. The manner in which the story is presented remains relevant to the current times and is applicable to the adolescents’ daily lives.

One intention of ...

Introduction:

Bringing Down a Dictator is a classic documentary featuring how the Serb dictator, Slobodan Milosevic was eventually overthrown not through force of arms but eventually through non violent opposition spearheaded by student groups mainly with the backing of The United Nations and other NGO’s.
It is a powerful film featuring some great filming and focuses on the ruthless brutality of the dictator paired with the intrinsic bravery of the opposition groups who faced considerable obstacles in attempting to get what they wanted. They used rock concerts, general banter and other methods to achieve their ultimate goal although it has to ...

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Sociological Movie Analysis: Passion of the Christ

Introduction

The film viewed is called “Passion of the Christ.” Mel Gibson presents the passion which is known by Christians as the sacred crucifixion of their Lord and Savior by Jews who did not accept him as the messiah. The major plot and characters were deducted from accounts given in the gospels Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Scenes included Sermon on the Mount; Mary Magdalene and the last supper. (Passion of the Christ)
The predominant sociological perspective as espoused by the author is religion. In this discussion Functionalist theory of Herbert Spencer and Talcott Parson ...

In Daybreakers, the world has fallen victim to a plague that has turned everyone into vampires, giving them rule over society. Because so much of the population consists of vampires, however, the supply of blood is running out, and scientists are working around the clock to find a blood substitute before there is no more human blood left. Over the course of the movie, Ethan Hawke’s character, a hematologist, falls in with a small pack of humans hiding from the vampires and attempting to find a cure for vampirism, which he eventually discovers. Daybreakers, despite being a low-rent science fiction horror movie on the ...

One of the hallmarks of public life in the twenty-first century and especially since the rise of social media is in understanding how these developments have actively worked to change the way that not only people communicate with each other but how governments and institutions communicate with the people. The rise of social media technology has been largely concurrent with another very important change in the way that the world is organized; namely, globalization. Globalization as a process has for the most part been a force which has weakened the power of national governments, has created real constrictions on ...

Social Justice issues:

The Verdict captures the growth of Frank Galvin, a character who goes from being a keen law graduate to a chronic alcoholic after being framed by his firm’s senior partner for jury trampling, when Frank tried to expose the corrupt practices his firm employed. Post this incident, Frank loses interest in his career. He defines a person who has given up on his life. The defining moment in Frank’s life occurs when he takes up a case of medical negligence in which, a woman developed complications during child-birth and was rendered permanently vegetative due to lack of ...

The 2001 boxing-oriented film, “Ali,” which was directed by Michael Mann and starred Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, and Jon Voight, among others, delves on the life story of the controversial former heavyweight champion of the world, Muhammad Ali. The film’s setting begins in 1964 just before Ali defeated Sonny Liston for the championship belt, up to the middle part of the 1970’s when Ali recaptured the belt by dethroning the previously undefeated champion, George Foreman. In addition, the film attempts to capture the life dilemmas and conflicts that Ali underwent during the aforementioned years, including his stance ...

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William Goulding’s novel, Lord of the Flies has not only been a classic piece of literature that is studied and admired throughout both the literary and academic world. The fascinating story of a group of young boys stranded on an island after their plane crashes was also produced into a film in 1963 by director Peter Brook, and then remade in 1990 by director Harry Hook. After observing the 1990 version of the film I was able to capture numerous core concepts and theories of sociology that were applicable to the events unfolding among the characters of ...

Summary

Fireproof is a 2008 Christian movie directed by Alex Kendrick that revolves around conflict resolution in marriage. A young girl who has always dreamt of being married to a man like her father gets the shock of her life when she is married to a man who seems to care less about her needs. The man, a firefighter, is skillful in his work and could sacrifice anything to ensure his work is done well. He even advices his colleagues on the importance of working together and ensuring that no victim perishes in the fire. The dedication that he shows towards his work is ...

“Secret of the Wild Child” hands out numerous sociological and psychological grounds. Taking a look at this documentary film has led most analysts into heartbreaking conclusions about a range of aspects in different disciplines: psychology, sociology and more. Albeit unfortunate, “Secret of the Wild Child” is believed to be one of the film productions that rendered the disciple of psychology and sociology both into a range of expose and criticism. Based on the assertions of the documentary “Secret of the Wild Child,” this paper studies a variety of critical analytical points, thus:

Purpose of the Agents of Socialization

Agents of socialization are critical to holistic ...

The Displaced Person movie review

How often in life some considerable things that are passing by people prefer not to perceive at all. It is easer to fence yourself off the obscure situation, to take the role of the unbiased arbitrator and just observe. However, there comes a day that all your indifference will strike a knock-down blow. To prevent such an unpleasant moment or avoid these consequences at all you should learn to take every event in life into your own consideration and try to experience them as an instructive lesson. If you recognize your own fears and make efforts to overcome them ...

Throughout the years there were numerous endeavors made by a few producers in both Hollywood and free silver screen, to counter the variety of negative pictures of African Americans in film. Maybe a standout amongst the most brave, radical moves made accompanied Melvin Van Peeple's 1971 film, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. The film was created autonomously by Van Peeples who acquired cash from a few sources including $50,000 from Bill Cosby. For Van Peeples, Sweetback was to be a solution for Hollywood's conventional way to deal with dark centered stories. With the ascent of Black Nationalism, changes in ...

Waiting for “Superman”

Waiting for “Superman” is a documentary film produced by Lesley Chilcott and directed by Davis Guggenheim. This documentary produced in 2010 analyzes the shortcomings of the American public school system by following the struggles of several students and their families to gain access into a charter school (Guggenheim, 2012). It features students from across America that has been negatively affected by the public school system. These students together with their families have numerous hardships to overcome yet show a strong determination to succeed and an attitude of never giving up (Spina, 2011). The producer says that the problem lies with the public schools ...

Produced by Caitlin McNally and directed by Dretzin and John Maggio, the film, Growing up Online shows a clear difference between the virtual world and the real life of emotions with regard to teenagers and young people. From the film, young people have made the internet part of their social and academic life. The film agrees that the internet is today a way of life and the young IT generation of today are influenced by the internet in many ways. The web shapes how the youth behave, learn, interact and share information. Therefore it becomes a crucial tool for learning. However, virtual ...

Movie Review: "Crash"

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Movie Review: "Crash"
Paul Higgins, writer and director for the controversial movie “Crash” does an excellent job in delivering heavy duty sociological issues in American culture through this riveting film. Numerous concepts and theories studied in sociology can be identified in nearly every scene of the movie. The uncomfortable topics of racism, classism, and sexism are at the hub of the storyline of Higgins film, forcing the audience to acknowledge the truth about morally troubling behavior and actions that are still currently issues in American society. Although the movie has received both acclaim and ...

The facebook and the open source movement are both social sites where people share information. Facebook started in 2003 in Harvard University out of a love affair which went sour among two student partners, where a male partner hack the database of the institution trying to tarnish the name of the female partner (Harris 25).

Social network movie is about a website facebook which came about due to a lawsuit directed by David Fincher and it was released on 1/10/2010. It explains how people share social and personal information. It is popular among the student body and they call it Thefacebook and due ...

The Great Gatsby

Movies are often a reflection of the political and social changes that are occurring at the time of their creation. Movies typically reflect the views and attitudes of society and do so in a way that is dramatic and captivating. This holds true for The Great Gatsby, both during the time period in which it was written as well as during the 1970s when the motion picture was released. Written by F. Scotts Fitzgerald, the story takes place during the Roaring Twenties, a time in history many refer to as a period of great transformation and wealth. Following World ...

The Social Network is the film that tells us the story of real business. From the very beginning it warns us that you don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies. This film really raises several ethical issues of business conduction and responsibility to others as well as responsibility to oneself.
With a large number of characters the film The Social Network travels from class rooms of Harvard University to dormitory rooms in Palo Alto. It tells about exciting moment of birth of cybernetic miracle that will soon capture minds of millions. In the middle of ...

Movie Paper

The movie, North Country has shown the controversial nature and the ugliness of the sexual harassment issue that is still prevailing in the developed as well as in the developing countries (Collin-Vezina, Dion, and Trocme). The story of the movie is an indication of the fact that the prejudice and bias against the women have never concluded in spite of the persistent claims of the theories regarding the efficiency of the law in promoting the equality between men and women. The movie North Country, has, however, also pointed out towards the fact that how the declared official equality of ...

Introduction

The book and movie Animals make us Human by Temple Grandin focus on the way that autistic children could actually benefit by mere interaction with animals. This is because animals exhibit behaviors that are similar to those of human beings, especially those that are driven by instinct. The movie especially focuses on the way this interaction is conducted for the successful cognitive development of an individual. The book points out the specific behaviors exhibited by animals and the way that they are exhibited in response to the environmental factors surrounding the animal. This essay shall focus on dogs, cats ...

William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe is a documentary that follows the life of a radical-leftist attorney. However, the captivating and incendiary film is also based on the tragic form of liberal guilt. The movie revolves around the numerous cases that Kunstler was involved with until his demise. The film depicts William Kunstler as the passionate defender of the American people’s civil rights, earning him the reputation through defending a majority of the controversial defendants during the 20th Century. In Kunstler’s profession, he defended the American Indian Movement, Chicago 8, the Attica Prison rioters, the Freedom Riders, and ...

Review Essay 3

Godzilla
Monster figures can be used in affirming the existing order in that they indicate the presence of theaters to normality, which is purged. In most contemporary monster films, no reassuring vision of restored order is affirmed, and Godzilla is not an exception. The monster is usually figured as a less of an external threat to essential good social order and exaggerated as the most normal features of the same order
In the film, “Godzilla” MUTO is introduced as the antagonist; MUTO (Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organism) is a species of a giant monster. They are considered the first giant ...

The mysterious growth of the Chinese economy today had diverse effects on the social well-being of the country. The economic growth in the country failed to portray equal social development among the citizens. This fantastic colossal growth of the economy has impacted negatively on the social lives of the people in the country. Through globalization, today cultural crashes and the need to embrace the changes continuously affect the national development in a country (Williams, 2008). In the case of China, a communist country is trying to adapt to the capitalist world to sustain its development. With the integration of ...

The Appalachian Mountains can be seen to be a barrier and divide between developed and rural America. The people who live in the region are certainly steeped in past rural traditions and are stuck in their lot with not much hope for improvement. Since the settlements and towns here are cut off from the regional towns and cities in West Virginia such as Wheeling and Charleston, they are also in a sense detached from reality. In the short documentary, The Hollow we can observe this sense of detachment and as such the society here is deviant from the norms which we ...

Introduction

Movie producers undergo several obstacles before the completion of their respective projects. Peter Jackson goes through similar predicaments in his creation of the “King Kong Movie”. However, he still manages to create a fascinating movie that has several significant aspects. For example, this movie by Jackson tells an adventurers story that teaches its viewers unique aspects of movie production. The intent of this paper is to provide a social, economic, technological and aesthetic analysis of the movie.

Social

Peter Jackson introduces diverse aspects of socialization throughout this thrilling movie. He begins by letting his protagonists fall in love when they sail to ...

Essentials of Organizational Behavior

Organizational behavior is a study that has something to do with the way how people or groups of people inside an organization interact (Dalton, 2000). The different groups of people and how they interact is the bread and butter of this field of study. There are several principles and variables that affect how people interact in an environment. Most of these principles have psychological and sociological roots (Fill, 2003). Organizational behavior is often confused with other fields of study like Human Resource Management, and Organizational and Industrial Psychology. While there may be similarities and links between these fields of study, ...

Japanese horror films through the years had made astounding contribution to the movie industry and to the horror genre in particular. One of the notable directors of great Japanese horror flicks is Kurosawa Kiyoshi who is often compared to Andrei Tarkovsky and Stanley Kubrick in terms of directing style and influence. Most of his films are focused on ho a general society affects an individual and how the society also reacts to adverse irrational and disintegrated social mechanisms. Japanese horror movies are not typical to the usual western made fright movies. As observed from many western horrors movies, they incorporate ...

Many critics called the film Sholay (1975) directed by Ramesh Sippy the best film in the history of Bollywood, or the "Film of the Millennium". The critics praise it so much so that several critics insist that "innovation in Hindi films ends with Sholay and that everything after that is repetitious trash" (Banker 55). This picture is a mix of crime thriller with the elements of "Japanese samurai epics and American and Italian Westerns, most obviously The Magnificent Seven (which was based on Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai)" (Banker 55). The director involved a number of best Indian actors ...