The debate continues to spread to the Eastern European country of Turkey. Özgen Acar is a Turkish investigative worker who has slowly seen looted antiquities make their way back to Turkey. He has coined the phrase, “History is beautiful where it belongs” which was used in a statewide campaign to raise awareness about restitution. Acar’s most accomplished feat came from suing the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York over the Lydian treasures. The adventure began in 1970 when a British journalist teamed up with Acar to determine if one of the best museums in the world had in fact, knowingly purchased looted antiquities.
The Suez crisis caused great controversy within Britain and also did a lot to threaten Britain’s world relations, especially with the USA. The Crisis began as a result of Egypt’s Colonel Nasser failing to get funding from the USA for his high dam project which he believed would help Egypt to become a more powerful wealthy nation and bring its industry in line with that of other global powers. Nasser then turned to the Suez Canal for a source of national income. The canal was vital to Britain and France to allow for trade with many eastern countries. Britain had recently removed its troop from the area around the canal, so Nasser decided to nationalise the canal and impose a toll which he could use to fund the dam.
In Books II: Halifax to Hollywood, she (Rebecca Solnit) took a great deal of time looking at 20th Century explosion and wars, along with the reaction of the people to it. While also leading up to how Hollywood portrays that in their movies and how (in)Accurate it may be. Something as major as a war or an explosion could easily change someones views from being all about god, and how he protects all, to now believing Survival of the Fittest. Movies could portray someones motives as being a 180 of what they really were, and Solnit looks at this compare and contrast seemingly through the pages, culminating towards the end on how things change for people in disaster. EXPLOSION In the morning of Dec 6, 1917, Gertrude Pettipas decided to look
What had been unleashed in 1917 was a revolutionary wave corresponding with the rise of socialism, trade unionism and Marxism in otherwise “successful” capitalist societies. The ensuing chaos in many of these countries during their attempt to establish a new form of government appeared to be enough to convince many Americans that alien radicals (particularly Communists and Fascists) should be identified, arrested and deported. They feared they could potentially pose a threat to the “American” way of life and freedom. During this period in California, many of the larger studios were being built up by former refugees from Fascism (Paramount, Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Warner Bros). They tended to steer clear of politics and concentrate on entertainment.
In 2004 Paul directed the Oscar winning film Crash, urban drama tracks the volatile intersections of a mult-ethnic people in Los Angeles. Many of the elements delivered by the director in this film by portrayed in extreme match. The movie promotes racial awareness, most likely and conversation about race and the need to have close inspection white privilege. In the movie we will be mainly observing a three-category lens made up of culture, social class, and ethnicity. The movie incoporates many struggles face by today’s racial stereotypes.
Although “Goodfellas” was taken in a broad sense from a real event that happened in the 1970s: The Lufthansa heist at John F. Kennedy Airport, some of this cinematic giant was fictitious. “The Godfather” on the other hand was totally fictional with overtones of what life was and is like in the Mafia. The movie Goodfellas which was written by Martin Scorsese was filmed in 1990 and according to Dana Renga, author of the book Mafia Movies: A Reader, she wrote that, “Ultimately, my goal is to Demonstrate how Goodfellas represents a pivotal change in mafia film genre, paving the way for a new kind of gangster film”(142). In this film the main character, Henry Hill, was from a lower middle class Irish-Italian family. His father worked as a mailman and his mother was a stay a home mom.
Introduction- Bowling for Columbine *Moore’s documentary is well known therefore it must have some impact on society and therefore altering my personal perspective. *Perspective> gun laws are bad in America however guns should be allowed if they’re for protection. *After watching BFC> anti gun and feel as though the media is very manipulative and that the government is part of the influence on the gun culture. (Techniques used to convey this are archival footage & music, interviews and voice-over) First paragraph: Context > American history; Oklahoma bombing, 9/11, civil war, Ku Klux Klan. Source of opposition to Columbine massacre: devil, video games, violent movies, heavy metal music and Marilyn Manson and
Thompson’s pursuit fell under the ultimate rag to riches kind of story. Thompson’s pursuit of the American Dream is perhaps a distorted representation in which he finds Vegas as being the central place where the American Dream lies. Vegas ideally represents a fast paced, quick buck kind of American dream rather than working towards achieving something. Thompson’s pursuit for the American Dream alters throughout his journey in Vegas, the drugs somehow allow a more realistic perspective for Thompson on where the American Dream can be found. His constant state of drug induced realities focuses on the people that are in Vegas searching for the same thing he is which introduces the idea that maybe Vegas alludes to the American Dream without truly possessing it.
How do geography, location, and movement play major roles in the spread of the Chinese theaters? Rao focused her points on San Francisco Chinatown of the 20s and early 30s, but this alone cannot account for the public face of Chinatown in its entirety across America. However, Rao’s article is a great place to start in this research since other works on different perspectives of Chinatown all point us back to San Francisco, California. As history provides, in the mid-1840's, following defeat by Britain in the first Opium War, a series of natural catastrophes occurred across China resulting in famine, peasant uprisings and rebellions. Understandably, when the news of gold and opportunity in far away Gum San, (Golden Mountain – the Chinese name for America) reached China, many Chinese seized the opportunity to seek their fortune, and a majority ended up on the coasts of California.
The Vulgar, the Cheap, and the Tawdry: What was the Hays Code and how did Filmmakers get around it Film as an art form suffered what could have been a severe setback from the reign of the Motion Picture Production Code (more commonly referred to as the Hays Code.) Hollywood used the Hays Code from 1930 until 1968 as a way to sort of self police itself. The code protected the industry from government or other outside intervention but sacrificed the artists and their visions. Luckily for cinephiles these artists found numerous and ingenious ways around this. Filmmakers’ subverted the censorship of the hays code through story implications and film techniques.