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The Wizard of Odd
A look at the legacy of the Wizard of Oz – now celebrating the seventieth year of its release – in contemporary popular culture, captured through photography. Dorothy and her friends come together in a series of shots that may make you laugh until you stop.
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The Pink Panther
Most of the younger generation has watched the remake featuring Steve Martin and Beyonce Knowles, released in 2006, but for those who have been the fans of one of the funniest phenomena in the history of cinema, nothing compares to the original version.
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Baraka
This is a review of the movie Baraka. In the movie Baraka there are many cultures which are shown. Many of the cultures have different ways of living and also many things in common.
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Hancock Delivers Multi-Generational Reality
Films are becoming increasingly complex, no doubt reflecting the frustrations in today’s cross-cultural, multi-generational reality. Even so, it is possible to live in a chaotic world of differing cultural and generational agendas. Hancock did it. So can we.
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Mumbai: The Hollywood of India?
The terrorist attacks on Mumbai has brought worldwide attention to this city. But the terrorist attacks don’t define this interesting and culturally rich place.
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New Take on Old Boy
A critical review of the cult movie Oldboy, as western cinema looks increasingly towards the east for new ideas.
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The Ideology of Disney
Entertainment, including a child’s bedtime story, is never just entertainment. Cultural products always reinforce or resist (and sometimes both at once) a society’s collective social values and belief systems. A film’s ideological meanings refer to the ideas that the film conveys about its world’s social relations, economic structures, and political institutions. Disney classics are not as timeless as Walt Disney would have liked to think; they all carry the ideological baggage of their time.
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A Grown-up Guide to Disney Classics
Early Disney experimental shorts are prankish. Free of didacticism, they are about child’s play. The main goal of their production is to create laughter, for Walt Disney was hired by sponsors to produce a little humor of the day for the theater.
