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    to painting, to more importantly since its earliest floriation in cinema. The evolution of American cinema at times occurred parallel to the changing American society. Architecture can be connected to the cinema, in the representation, by the connection through culture. The twentieth century can be broken down into its decades to be examined further. The main argument that I would like to put forth is that architecture in the cinema remains more of a unique defining characteristic, working with the

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    Latinos, Politics, and American Cinema Essay

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    Latinos, Politics, and American Cinema Feature films in the United States influence American viewers' attitudes on a wide variety of topics. Americans attitudes toward politics are shaped by films, and specifically the politics of racial interaction. The history of modern feature films begins with Birth of a Nation (1915), a film that misrepresents the Black race by justifying the existence and role of the Ku Klux Klan in American society. From this racist precedent, producers and directors

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    believe. Hollywood Cinema has been a dominating force ever since its inception in the early 20th century. From Columbus, to California, and even Colombia; Hollywood cinema has had its impact on the market while displacing other types of cinema. I believe Latin American Cinema does not get as fairly distributed as it should and I feel we should appreciate it more because of this. Columbus is a fairly diverse city with Latinos making up about 6% of the population. However, it’s cinemas are not. AMC, Cinemark

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    American cinema seemingly dominates the movie industry globally and has developed a structure of its own that has influence visual storying telling every where, however, one can find a variation of this structure or even no structure at all when taking a closer look at certain foreign films and how they decide to tell a story. When viewing the critically acclaimed Three Colors: Red, a french movie that is apart of a larger anthology, I noticed that the film did not strictly follow the structure of

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    The Representation of Minorities in American Cinema As the semester progressed and we continued learning how Latinos have been misrepresented through American cinema during the twentieth century, I began to wonder about my own heritage and how Jews were portrayed in films of the same era. I grew up learning about the various stereotypes that have been associated with Jews throughout history, but never have I explored the portrayals of Jews through film history in the United States. My curiosity

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    generalization is an entire group of people who miss out on seeing a good film and instead see some sequel, prequel, reboot, spinoff, remake of a franchise film that only feeds into big studio cinema. At this point I would like to study race representation in American cinema

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    bigotry, and blatant discrimination. African American cinema is enshrouded in history that depicts these themes of racism, struggle, and deprivation. Yet, this same cinema also shows scenes of hope, artistic spirit, intellectual greatness, and joy. Black actresses, actors, directors, producers, and writers have been fighting for recognition and respect since the great Paul Robeson. The civil rights movement of the 1950's and 60's was fueled by black cinema through films like A Raisin in the Sun.

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    African American Cinema for many reasons. Black cinema is an important to me because it brought our stories to life.I love urban movies about growing up and surviving in the hood/ghetto/projects. Also, we get to show our live and out struggles and then you will see how we succeed and come out on top. Black Cinema made a name for themselves and stand out and it will never die. Black Cinema has a voice and a meaning and I love to hear it. We learn about our past and see it visually. Black Cinema brings

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    In A History of Asian-American Cinema Part I: Silent Era states, “In the early days of west coast film production, there were few roles for Asian actors, except as unflattering stereotypes or anonymous background work.” (Brightwell, Eric. A History of Asian-American Cinema Part I: Silent Era). During the early days of Silent films era, there were few roles opportunities for Asian-American actors. They often see them in roles like dragon ladies or china dolls

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    Donalson uses examples and evidence to back up major themes in his book “Hip-Hop in American Cinema”. In the first chapter “Representin’ the Beginnin’: the 1980’s”, he talks about how hip-hop during the 1980’s was booming and becoming well known nationwide. To describe this he argued “Hollywood seized upon the visual and aural dynamics of three expressions of the youth culture to showcase: graffiti writing, breakdancing and rapping” (7 Donalson). The goal was to avoid all the real problems going

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