Chewing Gum Film Analysis

The film Mosquita y Mari directed and created by Aurora Guerrero is a coming of age story set about Huntington Park in the southeastern part of Los Angeles. It uses tense scenery that seeks to explore what it means to be in a romantic relationship versus a close friendship. Furthermore, upon legitimizing Yolanda and Mari`s relationship the film provokes the audience to ask the question, “If they are queer, what is keeping them in the closet?” This question is most effectively answered by examining how Yolanda and Mari`s ethnicity, locational, and immigrant descendant identities intersect to keep them in the closet.

Chasing Amy is a movie that uncovers the hardships we find within the confusion of love and sex in our lives. Sometimes the line between love and sex seems almost invisible, but the differences and complications of understanding that are quite clear in this movie. The issues presented in Chasing Amy are directly related to the discussions of “Politics of Sexuality” as well as everyday life in our culture.

Smoke signal is directed by Chris Eyre and with a screenplay by Sherman Alexei. The movie came out in theaters in 1998. Also, it is the first feature written, directed, co-produced and acted by Indian Americans. The movie is about Indian Americans who lives on a reservation. In the movie there are two actors, Adam Beach and Evan Adams. Adam plays the Victor’s character, and Evan plays the Thomas’s character. In the movie, Victor and Thomas differ from each other even though they are both Native Americans and poor. First, although they are both young, they differ in physical appearances. Victor is attractive, but Thomas is nerdy. Victor wears jeans, has long hair, and plays basketball. In contrast, Thomas wears glasses, suits, and does not play

I think the movie it titled “More than Honey”, because the director is trying to make a statement about the important role bees play in our society, and how he we grossly underestimate the importance of preserving them. The movie provides us, the viewers, with some of statistics to illustrate the importance of bees in our world. For example, we learn that 80% of plant species require bees to be pollinated, a third of our food wouldn’t exist without bees, and the value of bees pollination is over $15 billion.

The movie chosen to be written about was “Easy A” where the director, Will Gluck, directs a film about a student, Olive Penderghast, who feels bad for those who do not necessarily fit in. Therefore, she allows them to spread rumors about her and certain sexual exploitations. In doing so she becomes the school’s most talked about student, while jeopardizing her reputation, while at the same time making some financial gains. She first pretends to lose her virginity to a friend who is too afraid to come out and say he is gay, causing praise for him and humiliation for her. This rendezvous begins a whirlwind of endeavors and a chain reaction of situation she would soon regret. Luckily, in this movie, there is also a

2. Jump Cut - A Review Of Contemporary Media, Sexual innocence & film: a look at scholarship on virginity, by Susan Ericsson – Internet http://www.ejumpcut.org/trialsite/EricssonTeen/index.html

Sex and relationships are recurring themes throughout the genre and are essential elements teen narrative. Their portrayal ranges from comic interactions to serious exchanges and emotional liberation from restrictive forces. Timothy Shary explains the significance of these two thematic threads: “Romantic longing and sexual curiosity take on heightened intensity and profundity for youth in the adolescent years struggle to recognise and cope with the emotional and psychological changes”(2002). The character’s experience with sex are usually comedic and linked to sexual discovery and loss of virginity, which are continually present topics in the narrative. It is is often a determinant that shapes teen identity, as well as providing a commentary on societal questions regarding a desire of intimacy. The sexual exploits between the teen male and female investigates teen behavior and the conceptualization of feelings and emotions in their discovery of identity.

One of the norms Kincaid questions is virginity, whether sex is actually meaningful, that it could be enjoyable without the feeling of love. As a nineteen-year-old girl, Lucy is new to what a sexual relationship could have

This highlights the shift in values from marriage and chastity to sex before marriage and experimentations amongst adolescents. Cher changes the tone of her voice when she welcomes Christian into her “classic” house highlighting the value of image above truth. Cher’s failed attempts to seduce Christian and lose her virginity, with Christian covering her “cold” legs with a pillow when she tries to run her foot up and down his leg display how she was wrong which leads to her self-reflection later on. Her superficiality is reinforced through “I don’t get it, did my hair get flat?” with image more valued than

With reference to relevant cultural theories analyse the representation of sexuality in a film/television text of your choice.

1.2. RACISM: IS IT THE ROOT CAUSE FOR THE BLACKS TO BE INVOLVED IN CRIME AND VIOLECE?

The movie begins with a commentary by a black passenger, who is also a detective that was involved in a car accident. The driver also a detective has gotten out of the vehicle to interact with the Asian driver who has caused the accident. As they exchange racial insults, the black detective exits the vehicle and arrives at his crime scene. The movie moves on to a Persian shop owner and his daughter looking to protect their shop by purchasing a gun. He is immediately insulted by the gun shop owner because they are not speaking English in front of him. On another part of town, two black young men carjack the local district attorney and his wife. Later that night the district attorney wife is upset because a Hispanic worker is changing her locks

Keywords: Juno, sexuality, sex, teenagers, adolescents, adolescence, media, advertising, film studies, media analysis, cultural studies, human sexuality, human development

When choosing a film for this assignment, my original choice was Bend It Like Beckham because I had heard of it and I had a general idea what it was about. I then decided that I wanted to take on a more challenging film, one that I had never heard of, and one that I would really have to study to understand its full meaning. After looking into a few of the listed movies, I ended up choosing Whale Rider, a drama filmed in New Zealand in 2002. After watching the movie two times, I feel that I now understand some of the more drastic cultural and gender based problems that are occurring today.

* The main focus of many teen dramas is sex, with each episode containing countless verbal and visual references to sexual activity. These highly sexualized portrayals of relationships bear little resemblance to the real lives of teens—and are generally not balanced by clear messages about safe and healthy attitudes towards sex.