Media and Lifestyle The art on the silver screens transcended onto the clothing that woman wore to personify a certain independence. Woman felt stylish and sophisticated even under the unstable economic climate. Technicolor, colored film, was also breaking through, allowing audiences to see the colors that are in style for the season. The color champagne became a red carpet classic for Hollywood favorites such as Jean Harlow and Loretta Young (figs 1-2). Children’s fashion was influenced by what Shirley Temple would wear in her films (Chancey, fig 9).
“Giant Candy Company (Giant) agrees to buy and Little Candy Company (Little) agrees to sell all of the candy coating that Giant requires for a period of five years. The candy coating shall be purchased at the current list price as determined by Little. Orders will be shipped ten days from the placement of order. Applicable taxes extra. Contingencies beyond the control of Little to be sufficient excuse for failure to comply with the contract.” Giant has placed 14 orders with Little over the past two years.
This to me undeniably mirrors the novel in both context and form. Fragmentation in the novel can be seen immediately after the first chapter where the story jumps from the upper class Filipina girl, Rio’s first person perspective narrative in Love Letters to the third person view of the financial giant, Severo Alacran in King of Coconuts. This continues as a multitude of colorful characters are introduced to the reader. The ill-fated politician Domingo Avila, his daughter, beauty queen turned rebel Daisy Avila, the male-prostitute Joey Sands, movie stars Lolita Luna and Nestor Noralez, movie star wannabe Romeo Rosales and many others, their stories continue to bombard the reader without showing any hint of connectivity. This fragmentation is further aggravated by the author’s use of different forms of communication, mass media or otherwise, in her writing.
Because of the power to shape emotions, their advertisements influenced in creating and maintaining specific gender norms. Review: True Colours tells the stories of two female copywriters Shirley Polykoff and Ilon Specht, who with short catchy taglines summarized the particular feminist sensibilities of their day. Their success highlights the importance focused advertising campaigns aimed to interpret with the consumer perception. Both of them understood the changing mindset of the American Women in the 1950s to the 1970s to successfully connect them personally as consumers to Clairol and L’Oreal. It was the expression of Polykoffs personal feelings and the understanding of the issues faced by average American women in the 1950s that led to the success of Miss Clairols “Does She or Doesn’t She” campaign.
Smith uses “Ms. Hip Hop, generic girl fan” to comment on music because New York is the “birthplace” of hip hop. She also uses it show the difference between New York and California by telling us what Ms. Hip Hop likes in California, “California has its glories, and it holds on tight to its trophies -- the Eagles, Sly and the Family Stone, Jefferson Airplane, Tower of Power” (para. 5). 3.
Throughout Sunset Boulevard, the mise-en-scene constantly plays with ideas of gender stereotypes offering a reflective look at a patriarchal Hollywood that disposes of stars as quickly as it makes them. The Mise-en-scene of the sequence beginning at 29mins and 30seconds is notably visually intriguing, and through it’s use of character placement and mise-en-scene the sequence helps to shape the films representation of gender. The sequence beings with Norma leading Joe into her private screening room, so the two can enjoy Desmonds film Queen Kelly together. An initial wide shot allows for full scope of the enormity of the room, with its towering ceiling and ornate columns like most of Norma’s mansion, giving an ambience that Sam Staggs in his book Close-up on
Mao Last Dancer Compare and Contrast the themes of freedom and oppression in the movie. Today I will be talking about the move “Mao’s Last Dancer” directed by Bruce Beresford. I’ll be focusing on the contrast of freedom and oppression and the themes throughout the movie, which highlight these to topics. Oppression (the exercise of power in an unjust and unfair manner.) the themes and examples I feel are necessary to the topic are; The freedoms and day to day live of the Americans in this movie, Then in contrast that of the Chinese citizens in the movie and finally at how the more people discovered about the battle with Li and China how it changed there previous opinion.
Event: Between the Sheets Location: MLC Room 214 Time: 12:20 pm During this event, the speakers presented a particular album collection. I found it intriguing how the album covers could be interpreted several ways and had significant symbolism. One of the speakers mentioned that rose imagery symbolized beauty and purity. I also found it interesting that blond women were considered pure, while brunettes symbolized sensuality and temptation. I learned that these songs represented courtship, loss, and World War I.
One of the many reasons is they have diverse tones. “The Bracelet” contains a negative tone. Ruri, the narrator, sends a confused and frightened message throughout the story while being sent to concentration camps. “Chinese Hot Pot” is positive in tone. The narrator feels America will embrace all differences from everyone.
This suggests that people reading the magazine should follow her healthy attitude towards her figure, and that it is desirable to be slim but not skinny. In terms of interests, Heat magazine believes that women are interested in a variety of different things such as celebrity lives, celebrity gossip, fashion, beauty care, music, films, books, and television. They are all quite stereotypical, for example the majority of film, book and television reviews they feature are for what are termed as ‘girly.’ Most of the film reviews in Heat magazine that are awarded their five star rating, for being something worth watching, are usually romantic comedies. ‘Chick-lit’ books such as