No Reservations And River Monsters: Film Analysis

Food Inc. interviews notorious authors, farmers, and food advocates. Each interview’s credibility is gained by the movie maker because he acknowledges experts from both sides of the argument. The interviews demonstrate the individual’s knowledge of the food industry. The audience can now make an informed decision on the view after seeing both sides of the argument. Additionally the film makers include a depressing interview that depicts the

In the film “Hunt for the Wilder People” and the prologue of ‘Kafka on Shore ‘identity can change through hardship. In ‘hunt for the Wilder people ‘. Identity can change through hardship is evident when Ricky Baker changes into clothes that blend into the bush setting whilst he was getting chased by the child welfare. Nevertheless, Ricky’s identity changes towards the end of the film as he no longer conforms to the gangster style clothing hence he blends in with the environment. Similarly, in the prologue of ‘Kafka on Shore’, Identity changing through hardship is evident when Kafka plans to escape from his father to re-establish his life. Moreover, He creates a new imaginary friend called Crow whilst he was facing hardship with his father.

Through David Letterman, Rudy and Ron’s fear as well as Edilyn’s confusion, Wallace examines television’s role in American culture especially in making pop culture. In fact, this

Give a summary of the book/documentary. The documentary Diet for a New America explores and exposes all of the negative health and environmental consequences of the meat production-and-consumption cycle, as well as the cruel treatment and suffering of animals. (Robbins, Diet For A New America) The beginning point that was made in the documentary is that we should learn to be true to ourselves and our inner voice and be conscious of the food we eat. If we would listen to our inner voice we have the power to heal ourselves, to heal the environment and our planet.

Television executive Lauren Zalaznick, gave a presentation called “The conscience of television” for TED Talk which she discussed past five decades of the highest standing shows on air. Zalaznick runs studies which go to great lengths on how the topics of television shows changed from decade to decade and how viewers changed the reason of watching based on what was happening in the world. Television’s conscious effects our emotions, challenges our values, and influences our views on the world by what we choice to watch.

On television every night, there are countless late night talk shows. Many people watch these shows because the hosts refer to subjects that are not regularly discussed in public. Between interviews, the hosts often satirize new ideas or beliefs in the society. Because they address

“Indeed, so bombarded are most Americans with the unexamined ideology of “worthy” and “unworthy” victims . . .” (26) Genocides, such as that of the Amerindians, show this grotesque train of thought in human beings. The dehumanization and murder of the Native Americans was nothing more than an action made by the Europeans to show their superiority they believed they possessed. Throughout history, this behavior can be seen in many tyrannical communities, such as those that ruled over the “Armenians, Jews, Gypsies, Tbos, Bengalis, Timorese, Cambodians, Ugandans, and others.” (4) Although many people argue that a variety of diseases killed the unexposed Indians, it is proven that mass murders killed off a majority of native people. David E. Stannard defends this argument by giving samples of evidence that suggest that the carnage of the Indians reflects very similarly with the holocaust of the Jewish people in Nazi Germany.

The film, “The African- Americans: Many Rivers to cross, Episode 5: “Rise!” coves African American history from 1940 to 1968. This film was written by Henry Louis Gates which is composed of taking us down the road to civil rights. In the beginning of his film, he briefly mentions that even a century after emancipation things such as segregation would be contradictory. Gates is opposed to the thoughts of segregation; he views segregation as something that’ll never fade – even years after the freeing, there will always be that separation and injustice. He covers all historical people who left their marks and historical events through that time period. Throughout the 1940s, African Americans experienced a downfall. When it came to employment, the “Negroes,”

Postman says that, as a result, "all public understanding of these subjects is shaped by the biases of television" (78) and that in the absence of rational discourse, cultural decay is sure to follow.

“When you don’t know what your doing it’s best to do it quickly” and “I’ve decided to sacrifice my digital life to help give real life to millions of people affected by HIV and AIDS in Africa and India” are two quotes that come from very different people who live very different lives. One lives in the middle of nowhere out of the local spotlight and the other can’t seem to get out of the national spotlight. The first quote is said by Jase Robertson from the TV show Duck Dyansty and the second quote is said by Kim Kardashian from the show Keeping Up With The Kardashains. If anthropologists used reality TV shows to base their conclusions and studies on the past they would find out that we had a very chaotic and strange lifestyle.

Media has a strong impact on the way we perceive what is good or bad. In the end it is all about money and not about the welfare of people. The media will manipulate ideas around to persuade us to see only the good side but not the bad. Due to the patriarchal nature of our society, women aren’t in any leading media stories instead the appealing women are telling the stories. In the novel, My Year of Meats by Ruth L. Ozeki, features a Japanese-American documentary filmmaker Jane Takagi-little in the show “My American Wife,” sponsored by the BEEF-EX to promote meat consumption of the people in Japan. They show how the media want American to be seen as attractive white women cooking in their show. Jane tries to use the power of the media to show authentic American housewives by including different types of women. She also exploit BEEF-EX of their manipulative use of media to show the dark secret behind their meat and Using the media is how they promote their meat as healthy meat.

When flipping through the thousands of documentaries on the many streaming services there are three main criteria come to mind; one looks for the entertainment factor, credentials of the information the and lasting affect it leaves on the viewer. The documentary Soul Food Junkies directed and produced by the filmmaker Byron Hunt defiantly has an interesting take on these main criteria. The documentary holds ones attention with comedy and relatability with a family aspect, though interesting there’s plenty of experts and hard facts even though personal option is projected from the producer. The documentary does leave he viewer with questions about their own habits and that of the ones around them. Soul Food Junkies hits and misses the criteria

A documentary needs to convince you of what their “advertising” with the content within the film. The film uses diagrams, video, and written fact to get the point across that food is not food anymore. For example, an average regular chicken takes about three months to grow to full size, in the documentary to shows us the with the help of genetically modified food a chicken can be bred with more meat, bigger, and in a shorter amount of time. Is that a real chicken? I have no idea, in my eyes, it isn’t real food anymore. In addition to this finding, the documentary did a night vision shot of how our food is treated. The workers that went to go pick up the chicken threw them, kicked them, stepped on them, etc. Even if the animal is going off to be killed that is no way to treat it! The world is cruel, that is what the documentary shows us. We are shut behind closed doors, in the dark about what are food goes through. Truth needs to be put into not only a documentary, but some part of any movie to help fuel the imagination that anything good or evil is

Can T.V. shows be the reflection of our society or influence the behavior of the members of our community? Since 1936 when television broadcasting begin, it priority was to inform and to entertain our society; subsequently, a massive amount of rules and regulations were created to control the material presented in TV, which principal goal was to safeguard the moral and ethical standards of it time. Nevertheless, from its beginning to the present home entertainment television standards contents have change; likewise, the moral an ethics values of our society have change and continuing changing from generation to generation. TV shows from the 50’s, 80’s, and the present exposed many changes in the way human role are exposed, the language

When there is a mass communication takes in, it is easily connecting to few ethical theories used while the discussion heats. Part of people from the argument uses deontological views that one show is better than the other or vise verse. It tends to seem as this particular groups use of theory as in obligation towards the favorite show as somewhat of defendant position and