Dialogue, plot/story, and action are key elements which have a profound effect on an audience’s cinematic experience, and ultimately sway the manner in which they may interpret and read into a film. Based on the true accounts of Solomon Northup life, and set in the … Continue reading Oppositional, Dominant, and Negotiated readings Within Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave (2013)
Political scientist and feminist Jo Freeman once said “ Women learn to see how social structures and attitudes have molded them from birth and limited their opportunities”. Based on Alice Walker’s 1982 novel of the same name, Steven Spielberg’s 1985 film, The Color Purple, is … Continue reading The Color Purple 30 Years Later: Gender Roles, Repressed Sexuality, Dominant, and Oppositional Readings of Steven Spielberg’s The Color Purple (1985)
It is my belief that most people would agree that from about mid-January, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, until the end of February, which is Black history month, there is an influx of black ethnic programming and observance around the nation. With director, … Continue reading 12 Years A Slave, The Book of Negroes, and Why These Stories are Still Significant
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