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    Kevin J. Anderson (born 1962)‚ American science fiction author Kevin T. Anderson‚ American musician Kevin Anderson (actor) (born 1960)‚ American actor Kevin Anderson (tennis) (born 1986)‚ South African tennis player Kevin Anderson (scientist)‚ climate scientist Kevin Appier‚ American baseball pitcher Kevin Archer (born 1958)‚ English musician and member of Dexy’s Midnight Runners Kevin Ayers (born 1944)‚ English songwriter Kevin Bacon (born 1958)‚ American actor Kevin Bermeister‚ Australian

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    In my attempt to remember the night‚ I’d discovered why some things were convenient to forget. My head was throbbing. But it wasn’t just from lack of hydration‚ it was also from excessive humiliation. And the question still remained: had I attacked **** with my tongue? In more ways than one? And did I ruin his shoes? No. F-ing. Way. I KISSED ****** ****! This was bad. This was bad bad. This was the Colossus of bad. They were going to build a giant freaking statue commemorating my horror

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    Analyse the relationship between African American Cinema and Hollywood exploring the effect on ethnic representation in 2 key films Today on the surface at least it is possible to say that black actors have reached stardom comparable to and in some instances well beyond their white counterparts. Will Smith is the current favourite for the blockbuster action movie moving away from his ethnic buddy movies such as Men in Black and Wild Wild West. There have been Academy awards for actress Halley

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    African American directors are not highly compensated for their work because some people consider some of their movies “too afrocentric”‚ which results in them not being able to get sponsors to help pay for their movies. Many Black directors are not highly sponsored by investors. According to The Washington Post‚ “Many sponsors are white and they are not interested in their movies or in the current black experience or the black culture” (Harwell). It isn’t just the Academy that votes for who wins

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    Horror films have been around since the 1920’s when Frankenstein and Dracula were created‚ Horror is a good genre to analysis because there are many sub-genre’‚ Slasher is a popular genre ‚ recent slasher films are popular amoungst a younger audience. The American slasher film has its roots in an Italian genre called giallo which usually combines elements of the crime thriller with stalk and slash style scares. John Carpenter got the sub-genre off the ground with Halloween in 1978‚ and pretty soon

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    Asian Americans only make up a small percent of the American population. Even more significant is that this percentage live mostly on the west and east coasts of mainland United States and Hawaii; leaving the rest of the American population to most likely get their exposures to Asians through television and movies. However the exposure they have receive throughout the history of cinematography has been hardly flattering. Throughout the course of history Asians in film have been portrayed as evil

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    American Tongues Film Commentary In the filmAmerican Tongues‚” enormous majority of American from different cities have different regional accents of English. Some people have positive attitude towards the different regional accents of English. They believe that the way people speak is always changing based on what they hear from their linguistic environment. There are a few scenes in the film where people share what they think about using certain dialects in positive attitude. In one scene

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    Jessica Burns 309164 Jmbf6b@mail.missouri.edu Film Studies 1800 Sequence Analysis/ Assignment No. 2 American Beauty -From when Carolyn arrives home until the end of the scene with Lester in their living room (Chapter 19: 1:14:35–1:17:40) The movie “American Beauty” literally is trying to express how much beauty there is in America but it is not always so easy to see. Often in the film objects normally thought of as ordinary are magnified to express deeper meaning and

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    Look closer. The chilling tag-line of multi award winning American Beauty has great relatability‚ from the lives of all of the characters to the hidden beauty on showcase throughout the film. It cannot simply be filed into one genre‚ instead being a drama‚ comedy‚ tragedy and more. Director Sam Mendes and screenwriter Alan Ball fine-tuned the film‚ resulting in a triumph of writing‚ acting and directing. The movie follows the last few months of everyman Lester Burnham’s (played by the seemingly ideal

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    In An Introduction to the American Horror Film‚ Robin Wood states that “The release of sexuality in the horror film is always presented as perverted‚ monstrous‚ and excessive‚ both the perversion and the excess being the logical outcome of repression.” (Wood 213). By Leatherface showcasing his transgendered identity‚ it is monstrous and is viewed as him being over the top. His scream is very loud and has similarities to that of a women‚ and this correlates with Wood and how he says when sexuality

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