Essays on Entertainment

Real Women Have Curves is a film set in East Los Angeles in the year 1987. This film is from the viewpoint of Ana, a recent high school graduate, and her journey as she faces coming of age as a Latina in American society. This story outlines current issues Ana is facing such as wanting...

Rashomon is a Japanese movie which about a rape and murder in different versions in which it leads to the true meaning of the author, Akira Kurosawa, that wants to emphasize about the nature of truth and reality. This film creates the arguments of what the resolution or truth actually is, but is what makes...

Introduction Due to technological developments, people peek into cyberspace more than ever before. More people are using the online world to socialise and perform daily activities. Computer-literate individuals are shopping, socialising, dating, working and learning online. Internet speeds are rapidly growing, smartphones and smart devices have become a central component of daily activities. Digital tools...

The story is stared of the old and new changes of the troupe. The old-collar dance Beth is about to leave. The stage needs a new lead dance that can be decorated with two horns – white swan and black swan to perform the ballet ‘Swan Lake’. Nina, who was also a ballet dancer who...

The poem “Hip Hop” by Mos Def is an accurate representation of the highlights and downfalls to the challenges and embarked journeys that African American’s endure. As an individual from African American descent, I understand the path that a lot of the people in our community must face trying to fit in to a world...

I read Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson. The genre for this novel is realistic fiction and it is 128 pages in length. The year this book was published was October 21,1977. The book takes place in Lark Creek. The book starts in the late 1970s. In the book there is a kid named Jess,Jess...

In 1991, a young John Singleton, fresh out of college, wrote and directed his debut movie Boyz N the Hood, a drama/crime film that completely changed the course of his career (Kashner). Having a director who is also the scriptwriter gives a movie a more consistent vision (Barsam and Monahan 135). The movie stars Ice...

Leadership styles depend on every person in a leadership role. Depending on the mission or goal, each style can be helpful in its own diverse way. A transformational leader is a leader who works to inspire others to do more than they are most comfortable with. They must be able to realize change and know...

When the movie starts in 1978, Marjane is represented as a little girl who is intellectually awake and open to the world. She is already aware of her parents’ political convictions. However, she is not sure, she seems curious to test everything like the revolutionaries. Unsure of the end, they have the means. Transported by...

Activism is, by the definition of the Oxford English dictionary is, “the policy or action of using vigorous campaigning to bring about political or social change.” And so by extended definition activism done through the medium of documentary film making are films that through their making, campaign to bring political or social change. The questions...