Gender Roles In The Film Tracks

Based off Charles Webb’s 1963 novel by the same name, The Graduate is an American romantic comedy/drama released in the United States on December 21, 1967 starring Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross, and William Daniels. The film was directed by Mike Nichols, produced by Lawrence Turman and the screenplay written by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham. The film was produced by Lawrence Turman/Mike Nichols productions starting in March of 1967. Mike Nichols has also directed other well known films such as Catch-22 (1970), Working Girl (1988), and more recently Closer (2004). The film was distributed by AVCO Embassy Pictures nationally and United Artists internationally. AVCO Embassy Pictures studio, founded by Joseph E. Levine, the films executive producer, also claims production/distribution for other hit films such as Godzilla, King of Monsters! (1956), The Fog (1980), and Prom Night (1980). The movie was well received due to its $104 million dollar box office opening tab. The score was produced by Dave Grusin and the songs written by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel.

The film Drumline is about freshman, Devon Miles, where he is beginning his journey with college at the Historically Black College and University, Atlanta A&T. By earning a full ride to attend the college, his natural talents are noticed by many, but accepted by few. There, Dr. Lee, the musical director, focuses on teaching his students musicianship and character. With Devon noticing that his talents are beneficial, in the sense that it overlooks some of the mischief he does, he begins get into trouble with most of the band, Dr. Lee, and his girlfriend.With the reviews from SBNation.com, Roger Ebert, the Undefeated as support, the audience is shown Devon’s and the rest of the guys transformation into becoming young adults. In the film Drumline the level of the guys’ ego causes potential ripples in their life which then forces their maturity to increase. This adds to the ongoing conflict that men mature differently than women.

"Precious Knowledge," is a film which focuses on the successes of Tucson Unified School District’s ethnic studies. "Precious Knowledge" comes at a precipitous time as Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) faces a state-mandated deadline to dismantle the program, which has offered elective courses to students, primarily at the high school level, or face stiff financial punitive action. Students and teachers, fight to eliminate Arizona legislation banning ethnic studies programs in Tucson high School in Arizona. Because the bill of dismantle the program [Bill 2281] would remove/destroy curriculum in Tucson high school, which would otherwise provide innovative social-justice curriculum, students who become engaged, informed, and active in their

In contemporary film women's roles in films have varied quiet considerably between genres, geographical placement, and between

What does it mean to be a woman? In "So Much Water, So Close to Home", the narrator Claire is portrayed as an average woman. She has a hard working husband and a young son. All of the women in the story, excluding the dead one, are shown as very compassionate people. They are sensitive and caring to the needs of other people, even to those they do not personally know. When Claire's husband Stuart returns home from his annual fishing trip, he tells her about how he and his friends found the woman's body in the river. Not before having a cold beer, sex with Claire, and a good night's sleep, however. Claire cannot comprehend how in the world her husband could have done this. The fact that Stuart had found a body and waited several days to report it is bad enough, but for him to come home and carry on as if it had never happened is unimaginable to Claire. She even considers the possibility that it was her husband who raped and killed the innocent young woman. She later realizes, however, that her husband did not commit that particular crime. Claire thinks that her husband's inaction was a crime in itself. Claire sees this inability

Ordinarily, man is the provider and woman is the nurturer in a marriage. This is contrasted by the differences of Stuart and Claire’s roles as husband and wife. Man’s role in a home is to be a gatherer of not only physical labors but of answers. Claire is constantly seeking answers as to why her husband waited so long to report the corpse, but he contains no answers for her as he says “you’re going to get me riled,” (76) making her findings of the truth qualities as the protector of the household. Their minds as husband and wife functioned separately and in no way correlated to be a whole as Claire became more consumed by the idea of the dead child. This consumption is relevant in the way Claire demands her husband to tell her where their son by asking “where is he? Where is Dean?” (90) and how she has no trust over him concerning their son because of the idea of the dead girl. This leads to her

Through books, authors often try to communicate messages about society, or predict what will happen to it. Through their literature, they explore the different aspects of what their community is comprised of, and shed light on certain subjects that would otherwise be left untouched by the minds of readers. Similarly, movies share these messages with the masses, and make it more accessible to the community. Oftentimes, directors use the cinema to paint a picture of what life is like, or what life will be like. Through these two different fields, artists are able to share their knowledge with their audience, and audiences are able to soak up this knowledge, and relate to it. In Always Running, a memoir written by Luis Rodriguez, he shares an

The Atomic Cafe is a documentary film produced in 1982 exhibiting many archival films looped together to produce a collage of film clips creating a depiction of the reality of the Cold War. These film clips include advertisements, military training videos, government speeches, and similar recordings revolving around the atomic bomb. The atomic bomb became a genuine threat to many American lives during the late 1940s throughout the 1960s and the Cold War. Not much was known about the damage the atomic bomb could do to the population, especially to the citizens not involved with the science of it. The only information known to the public was that given by the government, who usually tried to produce freedom and liberty at the heart of American citizens and create serenity and composure amidst the threat of nuclear war.

The text, or more so the movie about the text, The Help by Kathryn Stockett, does a good job of portraying race, class and gender. During the setting of the book, many people looked at white Americans to be superior to the Black, African American race. With this being said, the successful white families hired in the African American women to cook, clean, and in most cases, take care of the children. They were known as the help. Throughout both the book and the movie, the African American women experienced many forms of gender, race and class inequality.

Claire almost a perfect woman, thin in the extreme, with small features and fair skin that the woman does not have who is in this village. The people seem to be rejecting her, cause the female finds the ugly side of them by contrast with Claire, in addition, men always would never lose their passion to talk about how amazing Claire is. In fact, Claire did not live in the village, she lives on a hillside that can make out Afra's house, and she would spend a half day to buy some living articles and food in the town by every Thursday. A number of a stronger visit this village who is perfect as Claire or even more rich since Claire comes here. Then the people slowly get used to the house fresh face and try to make money from them, for example, people build a tour route, more like hunting. Claire becomes more mysterious by that rich guy. The people start to create a story for Claire and most of the people thought and believe that she is come from an old, mysterious and noble family that has the power to control all the world. So they are fear of talking to Claire expect Afra, actually, Afra was fear too at first but she is so interesting about the outside world and she always thought Claire may know about her sister by

Finally, Newsom effectively convinces the audience of Miss Representation that the media causes the gender power imbalance in the society through the use of Toulmin System of Logic. All of the components are suitably organized into the Toulmin System of Logic. The filmmaker uses this system as the model to recognize, analyze, and construct her logical argument smoothly. Moreover, based on the guide of the system, the audience can easily break down the argument of the film into different aspects. There is a list of dissimilar aspects in the documentary, such as claim, reason, evidence, warrant, backing, and qualifier. The first facet is claim, which states that the media has impacts on the women’s values. The second part is reason, which means

She exists in a time when women are already given their roles and taught how to think in a singular manner (with no room for individuality) such as is displayed by her “finished” daughter as she (Elizabeth - Claire’s daughter) incessantly echoes the term “all the girls” (Glaspell, 1921, p. 24) as though the fact that she thinks in the same manner as the rest of her peers is something to be celebrated. Claire ceaselessly attempts to break away from this tradition but is unendingly held down by the various attachments in her life which forces her down a forlorn path. Claire shows the increasingly unsettling signs of insanity as the play progresses. She constantly has unfinished thoughts and is shown as displeased with everything from the knowledge that her dead son’s curiosity might have been snuffed out by the society – had he lived – to the failure of her daughter to be more than what society has ordained and to her own failure to properly break away from restraints on

The film "Shop 'Til You Drop..." presents the idea of consumerism and it's consequences when not regulated. It gives insight into how American culture has taken shopping to the extreme to fill this void created by the advertisement agencies.

Despite the cultural and sociological strides through history women are still considered a minority. Its numbers we do not lack but equality and respect. A minority means a smaller number but it also means a category of people that are distinguished either as apart or as subordinate. In the past and somewhat today depending on who you are talking to women were seen as lesser, unintelligent or just wanting to engage in important factors of society like voting. There are any sectors in life where women have experienced a lack of equality such as education, politics and military In this ever changing world women have come a long way but men for as long can anyone can remember have always had the upper hand but in the case of women we are still today fighting for equal rights in different aspects of life most frequently equal pay within certain industries.

Throughout this class, various discussions and blogs have been used to analyze the different elements of films such as theme, cinematic techniques and genre. It is time to bring all of these separate elements together in the analysis of one specific film, according to class text, “analyzing levels of meaning below the surface story can greatly enhance enjoyment as well as understanding of a film” (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2014. p. 10.03). There are several different approaches to film analysis including formalist, auteurist, and generic or any combination thereof. Utilizing a genre theory lens, the 1956 film The Searchers will be analyzed addressing contextual information, story/plot, aesthetic choices, social/personal impact and how these areas come together to develop the film.