The Media’s Idea of Beauty

Dove Ad
(The Olay ad would be here but I pulled it out of a magazine)
Dove’s “Real Beauty” ad campaign used to promote Dove products while redefining what society views as beautiful, has gained lots of popularity since the first ad appeared in September, 2004. The Dove ads are unique and unlike those [...]

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CNN vs. Al Jazeera

Picture by CNNPicture by Al Jazeera
The first image appears on the CNN website next to the lead “Turkish riot police attacked hundreds of workers with clubs, tear gas and water cannons to prevent them taking part in a May Day march in Istanbul that was banned by the government.”
Both stories explained that the Turkish police [...]

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That’s questionable #10

I think it’s questionable that the “Other” has a certain look or characteristic that makes it visually obvious that a person is the bad guy or “the other” I think movies can be narrated in a way where the viewer can tell who the director wanted the other to be just based on the story [...]

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“The Other”

Personal:
I chose the movie “Blow” because it’s a great movie and I like the way it depicts the life of cocaine-trafficking pioneer George Jung. The film illustrates the life of a drug trafficker as lively, exciting, and interesting. Watching “Blow” sort of makes you wish you lived during the cocaine-trafficking prime of the 70’s and early 80’s and that [...]

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That’s questionable #9

I think it’s questionable for us to attempt to define both Arab masculinity and femininity just by viewing various forms of media because as is commonly stated in class the media is so much of the time were we get our stereo types and learn to view and identify mass cultures of people so just because the media [...]

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Arab femininity

Personal:
After viewing various visuals and audio visuals of Arab women, specifically those of the Muslim religion, my personal definition of Arab femininity is of course one who is of the female gender, who while is intelligent and has the ability to be independent, must be submissive to [...]

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That’s questionable #8

I think it’s questionable that everything in a movie from the words, and lighting etc. to every camera frame and vector is done for a specific reason and has a meaning behind it. I think in amazingly good movies as well as award winning movies this might be the case, but I think it’s just impossible [...]

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Movie Scene analyzation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGDvy4rgNMA
 
Scene from the movie Crash
(the part of the scene I analyzed doesn’t appear until the sceene in the house of the couple that got robbed)
This film was released directed by Paul Haggis and released fall of 2005. It stars Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, William Fichtner, Brendan Fraser, Terrence Dashon Howard, Ludacris, Thandie [...]

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Album Cover (Assignment #5)

The album I chose to analize is the Maroon 5 “Songs About Jane album” which was released in June of 2004.
·  lighting and color This is definitely a painting/drawing, and because of the lack of shadow and dimension it appears to more so relate to that of an animated woman rather than a real woman. The color seems to [...]

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That’s questionable #7

In class you said something along the lines of, “There is always a psychological reason for why people listen to the music they listen to,” (not a direct quote, I just put it in quotes so you would know the theory I’m arguing) whether it be because they connect with it sub-consciously or consciously. For example, [...]

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