Religion And Film Analysis

Superintendent Noble contacted the schools district attorney, Donn Mixon, who advised him to have the decoration removed.

The United States law enforcement system is broken. Ridden with prejudice, racial bias, and misappropriation of resources, the law enforcement system has turned the nation into a carceral state that has disproportionately targeted minorities in America. One minority that is often overlooked in the analysis of this broken system is the Muslim-American population. In 2009, “New Muslim Cool," a movie produced by Jennifer Taylor, shed some light on the harsh realities of living in America while “being Muslim" by following the path of Hamza Perez, a man who found salvation by converting to Islam. Hamza is both a hip-hop artist and local hero who goes to different jails around his community to support the rehabilitation of convicts, both young and

Mooz-lum is a film that was written and directed in 2011 by Qasim “Q” Basir. It is about a young American black man, Tariq, who comes from a strict Muslim background and is new to college. The film takes place during the 9/11 attacks, including constant flashbacks of Tariq’s conflicted childhood. As Tariq enters college, he struggles with self-identity; just like many newly incoming freshman college students do, but his case is slightly different. He does not feel a clear connection to neither the Muslim community nor the “American” community. He changes his name from Tariq to “T” as a way to feel more connected to the people and environment around him. He tries to act as if everything is going ideally but in reality he still remains unconnected and confused. Tariq’s father implemented many of the strict Muslim morals and beliefs on Tariq during his childhood. His parents had many disagreements on how harsh the implementations of their beliefs should be brought upon both Tariq and his sister, Taqua. Those disagreements are what caused his parents to separate when Tariq was young. Tariq’s father gained custody of him and his mother gained custody of his sister. Although, Tariq’s mother did not agree, his father registered him in a harsh Islamic school where he struggled in following many of its standards. So, as he entered college and was exposed to the new college environment, he was tempted in becoming his own person and leaving his

Because Hollywood Movies portrayed Muslims negatively, Muslims are disliked in the society. Therefore, Hollywood Movies contributed in formatting of a negative reputation to Muslims, and it led to racism against them

Activist belief that people were not created to be the same. We were made to be unique and to embrace that something special that makes us different. They success in getting their voice heard, which made a lasting impression to the new generation. In the film, Mexican American lawyers stepped in and fight for their 14th Amendment rights, as a result they won in the state but still the society did not enforced it because the Hispanics and black people were still second class citizens. The key of deleting corruption is promoting the values of solidarity and tolerance, by breaking the cycle that has oppressing different races and social classes, so that we follow what the state highlights as “Justice for all” but also removing what silence them,

This dissertation fills a gap in the literature as well as corrects a mistake, but treads new ground, thus leaves some loose ends. Relatively few dissertations coming out of the discipline of religious studies pursue religion and popular culture, and fan studies maintains a tendency to repeat assumptions of the sedimentation of the literature, thus one important need is more studies of religion and fandom, with the benefit of empirical data.

You make an excellent point, Bethany. I had a hard time critiquing The Buddha documentary since I do not know much about the religion. All I could do was go by what they were presenting. I just finished watching the second part of the documentary and I found something really interesting. According to the documentary The Buddha knew that his followers would not always agree with him. In fact, he encouraged them debate and to challenge him. The Buddha said "None of my followers should accept my teachings out of faith, out of devotion, but rather through thorough investigation and experiment." It would have been interesting to see opposing views even from Buddhists themselves. That would have been a great lesson. It made me think about the atheist

Religious rituals are mostly passed down from tradition and are never really altered. Similar to the religious ritual in the beginning of the film, many other religious rituals include similar gestures and motion. Filming religious rituals in fast motion would defeat the whole purpose and it would just seem repetitive. Also, filming religious rituals in a faster motion would not display the practice as being as powerful as it actually is in normal motion. For example, the ritual in the beginning of the film seemed very intense due to it being filmed in normal motion. You can literally sense the power and connection of the individuals when it is in normal motion. You can also tell the amount of effort that was put into the ritual. When looking

Religion is a major force in human experience. Religion has influenced and continues to impact our daily life directly or indirectly, and is far bigger than most people realize.

On January 29, 3003, thousands of Americans were seated in front of their television screens, eagerly and somberly watching the man on the screen. During the man’s speech, the words “There’s power, wonder-working power” were brought forth, and it was those very words which have turned heads, and incurred opinions, articles, and editorials across the nation. Had this man been a preacher there is no doubt that his comments would have gone un-criticized. However, this man was not a preacher, but rather George Bush, the President of the United States of America. His comment did not escape notice nor criticism, and has become highlighted in the recent media focus on politics and religious faith.

“Left Behind” is a religious film about how people react when the end of the world came. Ray, an airline pilot, were on the plane while this happened. Children and many other adult passengers vanished suddenly on the plane, passenger left behind fell into panic. While he was looking for the truth to explain everything happened, he also struggled to land safely to save the lives of the remaining passengers.

The movie Passion of the Christ is a film that shows us what the final hours of Jesus’ life would have been like prior to His resurrection. This film is historically accurate on many counts. The attire worn by all of the people in the film; the Pharisees, the Romans, the general population of the Jewish people. True to history, Jesus was portrayed as a carpenter when he was shown making a table that his mother Mary thought was too high to be a table, and Jesus demonstrated to her how they would sit and eat at the table and informed her that it would have high chairs to go with the table. His mother was doubtful of the wisdom of such a design and let Him know by saying, “This will never catch on.” After that

One of the more common worldviews prevalent in today's society, is animism. This is also a great cause for concern to Christians because this worldview stands as a sizable threat to the one truth we know; which is that Jesus is the only God who has ultimate power over everything. Animism is the belief that any material or object can take on the attribute of a soul. This means that plants, animals, inanimate objects, and even natural occurrences can become alive, have personalities, and can control things. Throughout this paper, I will be analyzing the different scenes that exhibit the animistic worldview from some of movies directed by Hayao Miyazaki, a famous creator and director of over a dozen Japanese animated movies. Almost every one of Hayao Miyazaki's movies share the similar worldview of animism. The movies that will be specifically focused on include Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, and My Neighbor Totoro. Each film contains different

National and religious identity are two important identities that help make a country define itself among other countries. The religious identity is important because it determines what kind of belief structure a country’s government holds. This also help determines how a country functions as a society, what their culture and language is like, and what the country’s laws are. All of these aspects of religious identity help create this national identity among the citizens of each country. With a strong national identity, it helps create this sense of proudness or patriotism among countries’ citizens. Now what if both the religious and national identity suddenly shifts among the people in a country? What could happen to make this sudden shift? Well, in the film Earth, characters’ national and religious identity shift throughout the course of the film, because of the setting and events that happen, love and relationships, and fear of death.

There are a multitude of political ideologies distinctly expressed in the movie, mainly nazism and racism. This is quite clearly expressed as both Danny and Derek, and other characters in the movie portray a strong hatred for Jewish people, black people, and immigrants. They also appear to believe that white people (thereby, their own race) are superior to all other races, which is the literal definition of racism. Not only that, the crime which Derek goes to prison for (killing two black youths who attempted stealing his car) is a clear result of his racism. Furthermore, nazism is also a widespread ideology that is consistently expressed in the movie. Perhaps the most prominent characteristic is the swastika which can be seen hanging on Derek’s wall, and Derek even has a tattoo of it on his chest. Racism and xenophobia is as old as history itself. There’s no event that can truly pinpoint the beginning or start of xenophobia. As long as there have been different social and racial groups in society, an idea of “us against them” have existed. Xenophobia can be traced back to Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece. During the 16th century, where white slave owners started shipping black slaves to America, this was not a result of racism, it was a clear result of