Reaction 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- 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 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 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: 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 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 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 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 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 ArticleBarbara 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...
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