Central Station Film Analysis

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.

First Position follows five top dancers at the Youth America Grand Prix. The dancers that it focuses on are Michaela DePrince, Rebecca Houseknecht, Joan Sebastian Zamora, Aran Bell, and Miko Fogarty. It talks about the dancers lives and shows the stages of the competition, including when the dancers get awards and scholarships or contracts to dance schools and companies. Michaela DePrince, Rebecca Houseknecht, and Joan Sebastian Zamora were the older dancers. Michaela and Joan both earned scholarships to different dance schools. Aran Bell and Miko Fogarty were the younger dancers that the documentary focused on and they both got awards as well.

There are many layers of themes that are subtlety imbedded into the film. The political theme of the film is a truly intriguing portrayal of life in Spain during this tense time. The underlying message of the film is one of defending the freedom of expression. It explores the importance of gaining knowledge through one’s own personal experiences. Culture is used as a pathway to achieve personal freedom. In addition, the film attempts to break some of the taboos surrounding an adequate education, focusing instead on this education through experience. Observation is used as a way to awaken the senses. Another theme that was imbedded in the film was childhood with the inclusion of a vast number of topics. The film not only contains scenes that deal with war but it includes scenes that include family, love, and

The sound of a gunshot fills the eerie silence the runners face the starting line. Jim Whites heart is racing because everything his boys have trained for could be gone within a millisecond. His team starts running and now Jim is left to see if the hard work will pay off. This is the moment they have all been waiting for.

The new people of the United States negatively affected the various eastern and southern Native American tribes. Both regions of tribes were forced to be removed from their homeland and were deceived with various treaties. In the Ohio Valley, “through a series of battles and dubious treaties the new United States laid claim to Indian lands on the frontier.” This overall continuous push of Native Americans west contributed to the political and war uprising of Tecumseh. Tecumseh voiced to his people that the “white people would never stop,” they would keep pushing the Native American people off of their land. Tecumseh, unwilling to let this happen, rallied up as many alliances with other surrounding tribes, but the southern tribes would not join.

As I was watching the documentary, I learned so many things about this program called “ The Bracero Program”. I would never know that people would change their routine life to go through this horrible process to produce more money for their family such as wife and children to survive in Mexico. The reading that I choose for the assignment was “culture”, I saw the documentary “Harvest of loneliness“ and there was many connective point that were related points with culture and the documentary. In the reading “The Nexus of Language, Communication, and Culture” in the page 271 because in the reading it explains how culture differs people and make separating area or space for different type of people.( The Nexus of Language, Communication, and Culture,

It is not unexpected that shooting massive amounts of water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure into the earth to shatter shale and release natural gas might shake things up but earthquakes aren't the worst problem with fracking ( Suzuki 1). Hydraulic fracking is the process of breaking up rock to release the gas between them. The worst part about fracking is all of the problems that already occur, being blamed solely on fracking. There are many issues involving fracking but the positive outcomes outway the bad.

“Gasland,” is a film by Josh Fox about the dangers of hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking. America’s natural gas supply is so plentiful, there are trillions of cubic feet of natural gas in the states, almost like an ocean of natural gas. Concerns have been raised about the risks involved in fracking. It is environmental risky and poorly regulated. There are statements that there is more than a hundred thousand incidences of ground water pollution from just six states, that’s not even counting the other 44 states.

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.

There are three central sections within the film. Although they are consistent in character and often in circumstance, they should be seen as separate narratives. Each narrative represents the changing nature of the favela over a decade and contains its own visual style and mise-en-scene. It is through this structure that I

Film- Precious Knowledge Precious Knowledge is a documentary that takes place in Tucson, Arizona and focuses on how the Unified School district wants to completely ban the Mexican American Studies Program. In the film there were many scenes with examples of rhetorical appeal. I believe that the way the film was set up since the beginning had an impactful and direct emotional appeal on the audience. For instance, in the first scenes of the film we have the opportunity to get to know the main characters in a more intimate level.

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.

I remember watching this film for the first time back in 2001 when it was released and having not watched it in over a decade, I feel I can say that this film is still solid. The Others holds up so well due to the film relying on storytelling, atmosphere and sense of impending doom to create its tension. The Others is one of the rare big budget, well cast horror films that seem to pop up every couple of years and I love it when they do. I feel horror often gets the short end of the stick when it comes to Hollywood.

Many people expected order and progress to go relatively smooth, as long as the country was progressing in a manner they wanted it to. When women started to gain authority, whether it be in the public sphere or the private of their home, it sparked controversy. Many men did not agree with the way women were portraying themselves in society. For example, Hollywood portrayed the “modern” woman and many men did not like it. In a short time span we see the role of women rapidly change in Brazilian society.