Over the years, the media has become more sensational and less sensible leading to misrepresentation and exaggeration of information. Sensationalism refers to a form of bias in media whereby news events, stories, and the topic pieces are overhyped hence resulting to the presentation of subjective impersonation on issues, and this...
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The two companies have used different strategies in marketing their movies but the success of each industry is due to the cultural background with Hollywood being the largest producer by revenue enjoying 90% of movie revenue while Bollywood having only 3%. Nigeria’s Nollywood thrives on 2% of the revenues. Bollywood...
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Introduction "Boyz n the Hood" is a film produced in 1991 by John Singleton. It primarily captures the story and experiences of three black Americans from South Central Los Angeles. It explores the black culture in various dimensions (Singleton, 1990). Negative Portrayal of African Americans in Films For instance, it tells how the...
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There are many reasons why teens run away from their families. Most of the teens featured in the documentary have dysfunctional families. According to Thompson and Pillai (2006), poor communication, abuse and neglect, interfamily conflict, and dysfunction set the basis for runaway adolescents. Some of the teens are also forced...
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Hollywood is notorious for movies that stretch the laws of physics for the sake entertainment and commercial purposes. To illustrate how these laws are defied, for example in the fictional film The Matrix several scenes defied these laws especially the first law of Newton s motion. This is a science...
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In a bid to point out how Hollywood has gained notoriety in disregarding the laws of physics, we are going to analyze a scene in the popular American superhero film Guardians of the Galaxy, one of marvel studios productions released in 2014. I will single out one scene that takes place...
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The documentary Bitter Lake offers some of the compelling insights that get to the bottom of the mystery behind the never-ending war in the Middle East, particularly in Afghanistan. Contrary to the majority of narratives that have been in existence in elucidating the cause of constant wars in the middle...
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“White Like Me” - An Anti-Racist Film Exposing Racism in the United States “White Like Me” is an anti-racist film featuring Tim Wise. The theme of the film is to bring forward the matter of racism in the United States. Despite being a white and growing in comfortable places, Tim Wise...
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The movie, Tears of the Sun, was released in 2003 to the worldwide audience. The film depicts an elite team of Special Forces deployed in a war zone to extract American citizens. Lieutenant A. K. Walters led the Navy Seals in their mission to rescue Dr. Lena Fiore Kendricks and...
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Kurosawa Kiyoshi is one of the most celebrated directors in the film industry in Japan. Kiyoshi is famous for films known as the J-horror genre, for instance, the Pulse (2001), Retribution (2006) and Cure (1997). In all these films, Kiyoshi explores themes of anger, loneliness, hopelessness, and dissatisfaction that depict...
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Globalization and Development in "Burn!" Majority of scholars that have studied development as a topic agree on the fact that it is not easy for developing countries to jump from underdevelopment to the developed world, and that it goes hand in hand with civilization and globalization. It has also, for a...
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The documentary Bitter Lake offers some of the compelling insights that get to the bottom of the mystery behind the never-ending war in the Middle East, particularly in Afghanistan. Contrary to the majority of narrative that has been in existence in the elucidating the cause of constant wars in the...
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