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| + | After reading "Slaves on Screen" I admit that I was put in a sense of contemplation. I had never really thought about poetry in the sense of fictional and nonfictional. It made me wonder more about movies, about movies I don't think are all that historically based, and just how much history from the time it was made is it the movie. For example, the gender roles played by women and men in the movie, are the roles based on what society expects at the time or is the director taking his or her own twist on what he or she believes the gender roles should be. Is the director taking a more radical or traditional approach to those roles. -- Ashley Wilkins | ||
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| + | In the second paragraph of "Movies and American Society" it mentions that movies show us "how to dress, how to look, or what to buy." Movies also tend to say how a person's body should be shaped, that women should wear makeup to be pretty, etc... Movies penetrate society on many levels of how we think about ourselves and other people, some times I wonder if its safe to watch them, but then I think of how much fun I have watching them and communicating with others about the movie which is also mentioned in "Movies and American Society." --Ashley Wilkins | ||
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| + | I had just a quick question about "Hollywood's America...." It mentions that some theaters were called nickelodeons at one point in time (page 10)because it cost a nickel to view the production. I was curious if the children's channel Nickelodeon was somehow a spinoff of those theaters, or just something completely unrelated. --Ashley Wilkins | ||
