Barbara Mickens-Alajiki Night Catches Us
Night Catches US: Barbara Mickens-Alajiki This film is very powerful and moving to me. It displays the anger left over in the late 1970′s in the Philadelphia black community after the fight for...
View ArticleReaction Paper #3 – Gender and Maturation in Beast of the Southern Wild
Behn Zeitilin’s 2012 film Beast of the Southern Wild follows the lives of a Bayou community post Hurricane Katrina, the reality of their living conditions and the solidarity that underlines their...
View ArticleNight Catches Us-Loss of Identity, Marginalized Placement
Tanya Hamilton’s 2010 film Night Catches Us, follows the narrative of ex panthers after the dissovle of the Black panther Party, some of which are working towards reestablishing their lives others who...
View ArticleRachel Getting Married; Unconvential Hollywood Females
The 2008 film, Rachel Getting Married starring Anne Hathaway does not fit your typical Hollywood movie mold. This was not a film that strictly followed the cultural subconscious of making a film...
View ArticleMakeup Post- Rachel Getting Married: The Active Woman
In Jonathan Demme’s 2008 film, “Rachel Getting Married, the women presented in the film are not portrayed as objects of pleasure. Laura Mulvey asserts in her essay, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative...
View ArticleReaction Paper #3: The Importance of Nature in Hushpuppy’s Rhetoric
In the film Beasts of the Southern Wild, the main character, a tenacious little girl named Hushpuppy, constantly reiterates her reverence for nature. Her community thrives off the land, or rather, the...
View ArticleChildhood Dreams
Ben Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) depicts the lives of several characters living in the “Bathtub,” a subaltern outside of the Louisiana bayou. The “Bathtub” is a community where each...
View ArticleReaction Paper #3 Hardships of Hushpuppy
“Beasts Of The Southern Wild” was about a little girl named Hushpuppy who was being raised by her father named Wink on a bayou known as The bathtub. Hushpuppy’s mother passed away leaving her with her...
View ArticleReaction Paper #3- Beasts of the Southern Wild
The 2012 film, Beasts of the Southern Wild centers around the survival of a six year old girl named Hushpuppy, her father and other members of a self-made community in the bayous of the Gulf of Mexico...
View ArticleReaction Paper #3: Beauty and the Beast
Beast of the Southern Wild by Benh Zeitlin was a good movie that takes place deep in the South. Hushpuppy is a little girl, who is very independent but has to act in a very masculine way to be a...
View ArticleReaction paper 3: Beast It
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View ArticleReaction Paper 3: A Gender Fluid Child
Traditionally, femininity and masculinity are viewed as belonging to different gender roles. There is usually not a meshing of the two; boys are raised with an emphasis on masculinity, and girls are...
View ArticleMe and My Shadow
In Me and My Shadow, Tompkins discussed how women have a hard time sharing personal struggles. I have known women to be stronger when it comes to venting opposed to men. Men tend to keep things bottled...
View ArticleThe Battle of Algiers Reaction Paper #1
In the film, The Battle of Algiers, this was a graphic film involving a lot of violence. I judged this film by the title and did not think I would enjoy it, especially because it was in black and white...
View ArticleNight Catches Us “Fighting For What’s Right”
In “Night Catches Us”, This film focused on Black Power Movement with “Black Panther’s”. The Black Panthers were a group of African-American revolutionary organization involved in the Black Power...
View ArticleAn Education “Dishonest David”
The movie “An Education” was about a 16-year-old girl named Jenny who lived in London. She was torn between finalizing her decision in continuing her education to Oxford University with pressure from...
View ArticleLimitless by. Barbara Mickens-Alajiki
Although I am late with this I wanted to at least leave my two cents. The movie limitless was a very entertaining movie for me. Here we have a guy who is lazy, un inspired slacker who just sails...
View ArticleAn Education by: Barbara Mickens
This film is about a 16 yr. old girl who is at the peak of her academic life who struggles or is influenced by her father to make a choice that he is more excited over that ultimately could shape the...
View ArticleThis Is A Man’s World!
In the film, An Education we are introduced to Jenny, who is struggling to main both an emotional and professional life. Jenny is a 16 year old girl living in England on the verge of graduation and...
View ArticleThe Color Purple.
I have seen “The Color Purple” hundreds of times and I enjoyed watching it again. I am not sure if I have been desensitized to certain images of Black people but I did not think that the film...
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