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the 1970s Hollywood studios recognized the value of the exploitation cinema that were associated with low-budget companies like American International Pictures of the 1950s and 1960s. Many films such as William Friedkin’s The Exorcist (1973) and Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1975) are known for having rewriting what makes a sensational horror. Further, “exploitation” was a term applied to specific audiences as well as films. Melvin Van Peebles’ Sweet Sweetback’s Baadassss Song(1971) drew the attention

Schindler’s List is 1993 Oscar nominated movie directed by Steven Spielberg. This movie is based on the 1982 biographical novel published by the Australian author Thomas Keneally. It is an R rated movie with a 185 minutes running time. The main character of the movie, Oskar Schindler is played by Liam Neeson. The movie portrays the story of the German businessman who tried to preserve the lives of some Jewish refuges during the holocaust. In times past, the Jews have been victims of ethnic prosecutions

Analysis of Saving Private Ryan by Steven Spielberg Analyse he methods used to make the opening sequence of ‘Saving Private Ryan’ both shocking and realistic, and discuss its effectiveness as an opening to a film The film ‘Saving Private Ryan’ was released on September 11th 1998; the film was directed by Steven Spielberg, and was produced by Paramount pictures along with DreamWorks. Steven Spielberg has directed many films

Steven Allan Spielberg is known worldwide as a screenwriter, producer and one of America's most successful filmmakers. His 20 highest-grossing films grossed 8.45 billion. He is a three-time winner of the Oscar Award, twice as the best director of the year. Spielberg was born on December 18, 1946 in Cincinnati (Ohio, USA), the son of a Jewish family engineer Arnold Spielberg and professional pianist Leah Adler (nee Posner).The mother had to give up the idea of her career for education of four children

1. In the first chapter of Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, it talks about dealing with societal mores, economic incentives, and cheating. With schoolteachers, the possibility of getting a pay raise and the grades their students get on standardized tests are some of the incentives that derive them to cheat. In the book, Levitt explains how he examines sets of answers to these tests and tries to see a pattern if teachers were changing answers for their students. Dubner and

Warren Buffett once said “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you will do things differently.” The simplicity and accuracy of this quote may make a person deeply question how they decide to react to what life gives them. In the movie Harold and Maude, Harold is displayed as an odd boy who has a strange habit of enjoying to portray death, but only to get a reaction from his mother. Harold did not always have this desire to scare his mother

Concerning the Sufjan Stevens Concert in Brooklyn, New York On the train there we listen simultaneously, one bud in either ear, middle-school style, to a gingerly prepared selection of what I call “gateway indie”. Songs like “Rather Be” or “Somebody I Used to Know”, anything by Ed Sheeran or Ingrid Michaelson. Songs that could be considered traitors to the genre arguably built on eternal invisibility, or, more positively, songs that have broken free from the mostly underappreciated genre’s net of

The Color Purple is a 1985 film directed by Steven Spielberg and focuses on the life of Celie, an African American girl brought up around vigorous abuse. At a young age she is married off to her Mister and from then serves him, doing anything to meet his needs and pleasure him. She lives this life of slavery and assault, to one day be reunited with her sister, Nettie, in Africa. A novel in which focuses on similar themes to that of The Color Purple is a 1985 dystopian novel written by Canadian author

AP Macroeconomics Summer Homework Seohee Lee Period 5 I) Introduction Book Title: Freakonomics Author name: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner The author Steven Levitt studied economics at Harvard University and MIT. He is primarily known for his work in the field of crime. The title Freakonomics means a study of economics based on the principles of incentives. The title is related to the book since he emphasizes how incentives drive and affect people’s actions. Although this book does not have

Both Richard Donner’s 1985 adventure comedy The Goonies written by Steven Spielberg, and Rob Reiner’s 1986 coming-of-age drama Stand By Me based on Stephen King’s novella The Body, portray several characters to be misfits in society. The Goonies follows the story of a group of misfits on a treasure hunt to save their home from foreclosure and Stand By Me is a writer’s recount of the death of a friend and a boyhood journey to find the missing body of Ray Bowers. Narrative perspective, sound, characterisation