How Does the Film Shown Reflect the Time in Which It Was Made, and Satirise American Stereotypes, Views, and Society?

To start, the film seems like your basic run-on-the mill coming of age tale with a group of teenagers growing up to desire more after they graduate high school. However, there are various more themes discreetly displayed throughout the runtime of the film. For example, one central sociological overtone of this film is Marxism. With this overtone, it becomes possible to view this light-hearted and comedic movie in a

Bulman explains, “I analyze these films as data, as cultural artifacts, to see what patterns and trends they reveal…I intend to gain access to certain aspects of American society through the myths that Americans tell to them in the movies (12).”Therefore, this shows how the division of social groups and economic inequality plays a role in our perception of American society. Bulman introduces his topics of different social school by separating each and dismembering them WORK ON INTR

Portrayal of the south in the film Forrest Gump This film tells the story of Forrest Gump, a slow-witted but kind hearted young man born and raised in Greenbow, Alabama. Viewing the world a little differently than others, he manages to find himself involved in and even influencing many major events that play an important role in American history. Being as this film takes place in the south, there were many scenes where the stereotypical ideas of southerners were brought to attention. Touching from subjects like race relations between blacks and whites to southern culture this film takes you through many decades of Forrest’s life.

When discussing American culture, the influence and interplay of film cannot be understated. We are a nation consumed with the media. Today, the movie business is one of the highest grossing businesses there is. We hold movie stars up as though they are super human. We closely watch their style, their dating lives, their party habits, and even their favorite restaurants, among many other things. We rely on movies to lift us up, teach us about other cultures and time periods, and even to teach us about our own culture. Often, movies reflect the time period they are filmed in and directly reflect the social tensions of that time and the film noir genre is no different. One of the most famous film noir movies out there, The Maltese Falcon,

Disney has faced a large amount of criticism from critics over the tropes and stereotypes that it portrays in its animated films. This is not a recent event however. One of Disney’s most notorious and controversial films, Song of The South, was released in 1946. Song of the South, set during the Reconstruction Era, focuses on a young boy named Johnny who learns that his parents will being living apart for an unknown amount of time, moves to a plantation in Georgia, while his father continues to live in Atlanta. Depressed and confused over the recent events Johnny decides to run away to Atlanta, but is drawn to the voices of Uncle Remus, an ex-slave living on the plantation, telling stories of Br’er Rabbit. Although it is implied that the African American workers are no longer Johnny’s family property, the black characters are still wholly subservient and are happy to be so. James Baskett plays Uncle Remus as a blissfully, happy companion ready to please. Due to this “magical negro” trope, the characters’ ridiculously stereotypical voices, and the unrealistic happy and joyful relationship between the white landowners and their black help, Song of The South, is one of Disney’s most offensive, racist, and fictitious film. Disney’s portrayal of Uncle Remus is his veiled justification of the mistreatment that minorities received before and after the Reconstruction Era.

This movie Directed by Paul Haggis who also directed Academy Award Winning "Million Dollar Baby" and had also won an Academy Award for this movie as well puts a twisted story in this film. This movie is trying to symbolize what goes on in the world today in regards to racism and stereotypes. He tries to make a point on how societies view themselves and others in the world based on there ethnicities. This movie intertwines several different people's lives, all different races, with different types of beliefs. Such ethnicities include Caucasians, African Americans, Hispanics, Asians and Middle Eastern. This movie includes conflicts on both sides of the picture from cops and criminals as well

Women were not allowed to vote nor were they paid as much as men for completing the same job. In a 1889 payroll from Lyman Mills in Holyoke, MA we see that a man and a woman performing the same work for the same duration of time, could have a three dollar difference in their weekly wages. Three dollars may not seem like much but it is equivalent to $74.36 in today’s money! Suffragist Susan B. Anthony once said that the preamble of the Constitution says “’We the people of the United States…’ It was the people; not we the white male citizens; nor we, the male citizens; but we the whole people, who formed the union.” Women gained their right to vote in 1920 when the nineteenth amendment was passed.

1. What are the main themes, politically and socially, that are portrayed in the film?

The movie itself covers so many pivotal and defining moments in history and provides an intimate observation with a twist of humor and charm that is not often depicted in movies such as these. The movie itself gives an honest insight into situations of the time that are not often addressed. One moment early on in the movie depicts the strong relationship between a single mother and her child in the 1950s, as a rule of thumb television

Did the film reveal any form of RACISM or STEREOTYPING from any perspective? Please elaborate with details/examples (14.28 Possible Points). 100 word minimum between the two

As the years progressed from the 1700s into the 1800s, women started to see that they were not treated as equal as men even though they could do anything men could. During the late 1800s was when women first started to fight for more rights and equality. They started forming more and more women groups, and even went on labor strikes to protest the diversity. Although it seemed that as hard as they tried to gain this equality, the harder it was for them to obtain it. They were treated horribly and unequally to men. While African American men received the power to vote in 1870, women still did not have a chance at that right. Even though many people disagree that women were treated fairly, the studies show that they were discriminated against. The treatment of women in the late 1800s was discriminatory because they

The term “Southerner” tends to mean different things to different people. According to Webster dictionary, a southerner is a native or inhabitant of the south. If you ask someone that lives in the south, most will say that Southerners have a friendly, good mannered attitude, and are some of the best people in the world. To northerners the south has a reputation of being prejudice, dumb, and narrow minded but that's not always true. Southerns are actually nice good hearted people if you don’t judge them too quickly. Not all southerners are what you would say “rednecks” and “hillbillies”. The term “redneck” is different than the term “southerner”, southerners are actually intelligent, and southern slang is easy to understand.

Women didn’t have the right to vote yet as well as African American men of women. Voting privileges were mainly limited to white male property owners; in some rare cases, you could be either/or one of those requirements. Changes occurred when states – mainly the Western states – “adopted constitutions that guaranteed all white males – not just property owners or taxpayers – the right to vote.” (Brinkley, 198-199) This also permitted all voters the right to hold office. A lawyer and activist, Thomas L. Dorr and some of his friends created a “People’s party” (Brinkley, 199) This party drafted a new constitution that was approved and eventually used as a foundation of new government started by the Dorrites. One of the most important political trends during the 1800s was the change in the method of choosing presidential electors. In 1800, the legislatures had chosen the presidential electors in ten states. Only six of those states participated in the choosing of the electors. However, in 1828 the electors were chosen by popular vote in every state except South Carolina. With all the changes in the election process, came the rapid growth of the electorate and the emergence of political

Redneck this is a common word in the english language to and almost everyone in america, and whereas it may have the same dictionary definition “an uneducated white farm laborer, especially from the South.” no matter where you may travel in the country. Its social meaning can change drastically depending on where you are at. For example in some places it is a insult to be called a redneck, but then in other parts of the country people actually embrace the term.

Back in the day during the 19th Century, women were different. It was because of the different races such as black and white. The black women were treated treated differently because it was during slavory and at the time we were under white people. White women and black women rights were totally different with an exception of one. The white women were able to go to school and also able to keep their kids, while on the other hand it was a different story for the black women. Basically they treated black people like they were not humans. When it came down to voting, neither the black women nor was the white women allowed to vote. They also wasn't able to run for president.The men figured that the only thing the women should have to do is stay