Film Analysis

“Wanted” Control of Our Lives Back: 21st Century Financial Enslavement and Social Detachment of Modern American Workers

Author: 
Helen Situ

Helen Situ is a full-time student who is majoring in Sociology. She enjoys spending her days as an artist, a philosopher, a conversationalist, a friend, a lover, and a learner. One of her life’s simpler desires is to take a road trip full of favorite songs and unforgettable conversation up the California coast to explore each and every beach’s pier. Riveted by the charm of contradictions in all aspects of life, she is a lover of city lights and starry nights.

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Chandler, Daniel. "Introduction to Genre Theory." Prifysgol Aberystwyth / Aberystwyth University. 05 July 2000. Web. 03 Dec. 2009. .

"Fight Club (1999) - Memorable quotes."

The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). Web. 4 Dec. 2009. .

"Recapping 2008: Most Popular Movie Genre." Ddunlop. Web. 15 Dec. 2009. .

S., Zachary. "A Psychological Analysis of Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club -." Associated Content - associatedcontent.com. 3 May 2007. Web. 05 Dec. 2009. .

"The Great Train Robbery (1903)." Greatest Films - The Best Movies in Cinematic History. Web. 10 Dec. 2009. . "Wanted (2008)." The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). Web. 3 Dec. 2009. . Wanted. Dir. Timur Bekmambetov. Perf. James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, and Angelina Jolie. 2008.

Displacement and the Preconscious Other: A Psychoanalytic Approach to The Dark Knight

Author: 
Kevin Medina

Kevin Medina grew up and currently resides in Irvine, California. He has gone to public school in Irvine his entire life and is now attending Irvine Valley College. In an attempt to broaden his horizons, he will soon transfer to a four-year institution outside of his hometown. If all continues as planned, he will graduate with a BA in Psychology and minor in Communication. Graduate school is tentative, yet probable. Aside from school, Kevin works at Borders, this past May marking their two-year anniversary together.

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Dictionaries, Oxford. Concise Oxford English Dictionary: 11th Edition Revised 2008. Oxford University Press, USA, 2008.

Finke, Nikki . "UPDATED 'Dark Knight' Ticket Sales Info." Nikki Finke's Deadline

Hollywood Daily. 18 Jul. 2008. http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/updated-
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Hockenbury, Don, and Sandra Hockenbury. Psychology. New York: Worth Publishers, 2005.

Jourdain, William F. "History." The Golden Age Batman. 2000.
http://www.goldenagebatman.com/gabathistory.html.

Martin, Hallie D. "An unlikely sign of the times: superheroes." Medill Reports

Washington. 7 Aug. 2008 http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/washington/news.aspx?id=96777&print=1.

The Dark Knight (Widescreen Single-Disc Edition). Dir. Christopher Nolan. Perf. Christian Bale. DVD. Warner Home Video.

"The Dark Knight." The Box Office Mojo. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=darkknight.htm.

"The Dark Knight." The Internet Movie Database. 2009. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569.

Still Water Runs Deep: The Power of the Groupie in Almost Famous

Author: 
Mike Palmisciano

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Masculinity, Homosexuality, and Military Assimilation in Top Gun

Author: 
Charlie Engle

Top Gun delivered a high-octane injection into mid-1980s society at precisely the right historical moment. Geopolitically, the United States fought covertly against Communism's latest manifestations in Central America while its image still retained the scars of Vietnam. Recruitment, subsequently, remained stagnant through this time period as the Navy and other branches of the United States military grasped desperately for a striking image. Enter Maverick, the enigmatic embodiment of a range of desired American values.

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Family and Food in Munich

Author: 
Max Bindernagel

Steven Spielberg’s Munich (2005) is a tale of five Israeli men seeking vengeance. At the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, Palestinian terrorists have massacred eleven Israeli athletes. The Prime Minister of Israel, Golda Meir, and her generals find agent Avner Kaufman to seek retribution. Together with a team of four men, whose talents and specialties include forging documents, cleaning up crime scenes, and making bombs, Avner Kaufman is instructed to kill eleven men one by one. The Israeli secret intelligence agency, Mossad, has found each one guilty in some way with the Munich massacre.

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The Anti-Genre Genre: Analyzing the Female Lead Action Film

Author: 
Apphia Freeman
Works Cited: 

Grant, Barry. Film Genre: From Iconography to Ideology. Wallflower Press, 2007.

Tasker, Yvonne. Spectacular Bodies: Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema. Routledge, 1993.

Geller, Theresa. “Queering Hollywood's Tough Chick.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 25.3(2004): 8-34.

Bar-Tal, David. “Why Does Fear Override Hope in Societies Engulfed by Intractable Conflict, as It Does in the Israeli Society?” Political Psychology 22(3)(2001): 601-627.

Remote and Removed: Punch Drunk Love's Inherently Isolated Protagonist

Author: 
David Pulido

Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." - Francis Bacon

The solitude Bacon speaks of is an emotion collectively shared by all who''ve yearned for a relationship; a common bond of affection or respect, or an audience perhaps, and have yet been denied their desires by chance, or outside obstruction, or even by personal choice. Humans are social beings, requiring social interaction to develop inwardly.