Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Movie Review The movie was made to show how the Indians in the United States were treated so unfairly by the United States government. The Indians were the first on this land but the settlers were determined that they had more right to the land than the Indians did. The Story is of Charles Eastman who is half Sioux Indian and was taken from his tribe, by his father, at a young age to be Americanized in public schools. He went on to learn and to be very well educated and became a doctor. For a while he worked for the government trying to help with Indian right, and settlement separation.
Lindsay Barnard Jon Paul Henry English 1130:054 30 June 2013 Argument Analysis: Paul Stuewe’s “Better Dead Than Read” vs. Timothy Findley’s “Better Dead Than Read: An Opposing View” The invention of the VHS in that late 1970’s brought about the spread of more readily available pornography, and ever since, censorship vs. free speech has become a topic of frequent debate. Censorship evokes strong emotion in many people. In 1978, a group of self-appointed censors, calling themselves the Concerned Citizens of Huron County, Ontario, campaigned to have Margaret Laurence’s novel “The Diviners” banned from high schools in the area. Because the book contains strong language and sexual scenes, the Concerned Citizens insisted it was inappropriate to be taught in the Grade 13 curriculum. After his visit to Huron County, Journalist Paul Stuewe responds seemingly in favour of this instance of censorship in an article entitled, “Better Dead Than Read”, which broadcasts the opinions of two spokesmen for the Concerned Citizens group.
The House Un-American Activities committee (HUAC) was officially established on May 26th 1938. This special investigating committee was merely the latest incarnation of various other committees established since 1918. It was made to investigate suspected threats of subversion or propaganda within the United States that attacked “the form of government guaranteed by our Constitution” (Public Law 601 passed by the 79th Congress 1945-47). When HUAC became a standing committee in 1945, the committee focused on real and suspected communists in positions of actual or supposed influence. Having seen how important films could be used for propaganda purposes, the committee's attention turned to the Hollywood film industry.
Progressive attempted to eliminate all immoral facets of various sports of the time. They sought to eliminate gambling from horse racing and many states in the 1900s actually prohibited the sport because of the gambling that took place. They also sought to change the game of football. At the time is was viewed as a very violent and brutal sport and reformers tried to eliminate dangers of the sports by modifying the rules or getting rid of the sport all together. President Roosevelt, the viewed leader of the progressives, tried to maintain the integrity of the sport but was personally involved in both sides of the argument.
Propaganda was used in World War One as in any other war and the truth suffered. Propaganda ensured the government put out information that only the government wanted people to know about. The government wanted everyone to think the way they wanted them to think and controlled all forms of media.. Propaganda during the World Wars was used to increase support for the war and commitment to Allied victory. Using a wide variety of media, that included music, silent films, and radio, propagandists implied hatred for the enemy and support for America's allies.
To avoid war in the years 1935 to 1938, Britain and France turned a blind eye to small acts of aggression and expansion, the United States went along with this policy. Even though Roosevelt knew of the threat the Fascist proposed he was still worried about the majority of the isolationist throughout the country. Testing the waters in 1937 he spoke about the democracies teaming up and trying to “quarantine” the problem. The public did not take to well on this idea, and he quickly dropped the subject. Even though that speech failed Roosevelt somehow managed to argue for neutrality but at the same time convince Congress to start building up the arms and increase the military and naval budget by nearly two-thirds in 1938.
The Oklahoma City Bombing case was looked at as a sort of a theater to McVeigh and the other patriots. They wanted to convey a message to the government that would change the way things were being run and laws were being passed. To impose a powerful message there had to be grandeur, or in the words of McVeigh, a “body count”. If there were to be no body count, the terrible act would seem much less horrifying. People would have seen the explosion as the loss of a building, and not as the graphic act of terror that it is.
In the 1920s structured order meant filmmakers followed an unwritten set of rules that determined plots, protagonists and the genre of successful films. Vertov was part of a movement called the Kinoks who challenged original cinematic techniques that the extremely controlled cinema industry followed. The Man with the Movie Camera is a perfect example of a film that has broken free of conventions and challenged the walls of cinema. This essay will analyse the use of editing in creating meaning and how important it is. As well as assessing Vertov’s beliefs and drive to make such a film.
Though there still exists many restrictions on what one can depict on TV and in movies, many citizens argue that we need more regulations on what can and can not be seen in the theater or one's living room. However, these loosing of the bonds on television and cinema is, in actuality, a liberation of creative freedom that artists in America rightly deserve. That is not to say that sex and violence should always be considered creative expression, but in the battle to protect our morals, it is morally wrong to chain down our nation's artists with restrictions that hold back their ability to channel their creative vision and hold the mirror up to society and life. The primary purpose of the visual arts is to reflect, in one medium or another, our history as a society and the nature of our existence as human beings. This is the duty of filmmakers.
! In 1927 there was a call for a stricter censorship in movies, so it 1934 the world was introduced to the “Hays Code”. It was created to control the depiction of religious groups, foreign countries, foreigners, sexual and criminal activity and other repellent subjects. The Hays code consists of rules about what canʼt be seen in a movie, comprising of murder, profanity, vulgarity, obscenity, costumes, dances, religion, locations, and titles. Around 1950 they ditched the Hays code and decided to just rate all films.