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This paper analyzes the 1932 film "Blonde Venus" starring Marlene Dietrich and directed by Josef von Sternberg. It discusses the plot of film and its treatment of sexuality. The author mentions the Hollywood Code and censorship issue that impacted the film. The paper also expands on the film's narrative structure.

Tags:Blonde, Venus, Film, Marlene, Dietrich, Josef, von, Sternberg, Production, Code

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This paper compares two movies "Legally Blonde" and "Disappearing Acts" which on the surface seem to be totally unrelated to each other. One deals with a preppy college student and the other about an African American woman wishing to study music. The writer shows that despite these seemingly different plots, the movies both are about a woman?s quest to pursue her heart's desire in life. A brief synopsis of each movie is presented.

From the Paper
"All movies, whether a comedy, drama, suspense, mystery or any other genre seeks to invoke some type of reaction from the audience. A comedy can invoke empathy, compassion and suspense just as well as a drama. Usually audiences go into a movie theater not quite knowing what to expect, as clips do not reveal how the movie will ultimately unfold. Legally Blonde and Disappearing Acts are two movies that at first glance, one would think they are completely opposite of one another. Legally Blonde, a comedy is centered around a rich white college student from California, who embodies all of the characteristics of the typical valley sorority girl. Disappearing Acts, on the other hand focuses on an African-American female, living in Brooklyn, New York trying to earn a living by teaching during the day and pursuing her passion for music at night. "

Tags:film, music, passion, college, plot, genre, niche, zora, elle

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The 2003 movie "Legally Blonde II" (directed by C. Herman-Wurmfeld) tells the story of Elle Woods, a graduate of Harvard Law School who goes to Washington D.C. to work as a legislative aid in order to help push through legislation against animal testing. The paper shows how the movie gives a fairly accurate depiction of the modern political process, although its real flaw is that it overemphasizes the power of the people in the political process.

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"What the movie realistically captures is the committee atmosphere. Elle knows that she needs the support of Congresswoman Hauser, who is on the Energy and Commerce Committee. Initially, for no reason at all, Congresswoman Hauser is hostile to Elle, which greatly reduces the likelihood that Elle's bill will pass. Without Congresswoman Hauser's support, it was unlikely that the bill would receive the consideration that it needed in committee."

Tags:Hauser, Sidney, Post, Stanford, Marks

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This paper introduces the beginning of the Beat Generation and how it was influenced by the author Jack Kerouac as shown in his story: "The Good Blonde".

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"Expression of this need for individualism despite a conformity in society, expressed itself in the Beats with free association and jazz inspired language and improvisational literary techniques, in experimentation in drugs, sex, anything that would break free of the good soldier mold."

Tags:Ginsburg, free-, style, norm, jazz, narcotics, hitchhiking, free, love

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This paper compares and contrasts the protagonists of Anita Loos' "Gentleman Prefer Blondes" and Philip Roth's "Portnoy's Complaint" and focuses on sarcasm, Freudian commentary and the question of whether one or both is liberated. It concludes both Lorelei and Alex are liberated sexually and morally by following their own set of values and ethics.

From the Paper
"The nets of social convention and social respectability that often threaten to permanently entangle individual expression are the set of mainstream norms rejected by both Lorelei in Loos' Gentleman Prefer Blond .."

Tags:Freud, humor, sarcasm, Jews, jokes, blondes, liberation, ethics, values, norms

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This essay shall approach this challenge with reference to two of Hawks' films: Only Angels Have Wings and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Both films will be interpreted according to the critical schematics of Peter Wollen and Jacques Rivette. It will be argued that while Rivette's thematic analysis of the dichotomy of Hawks' films implies a bi-polar opposition between order and chaos, Wollen's focus on the characters as exemplifying the dramatic and the comic allows us to more closely perceive the workings of gender that underlies the comic/dramatic dichotomy in Hawks' work. In this analysis, it will be shown how Hawks' dramas are definitively male, with the masculine gender representing the dominant order, and the feminine a threat to that order. Conversely, it will be seen that in Hawks' comedies order has given way to chaos, and the landscape is dominated by women with males being - in general - figures of impotence and powerlessness.

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This essay compares "The Splendid Beast", an account of the intersections of money, institutions, and law that first allowed the Holocaust to take place and then let it go unpunished, with "Nuremberg Misremembered" an essay presenting an overview of the practical and political concerns that confront international law when it attempts to deal with the kinds of heinous acts recounted in Simpsons book. The author of this paper argues that although Simpsons' account is factually accurate, he draws many conclusions without considering some very important issues that Jeremy Rabkin brings to light.

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"To begin with, any discussion of international law concerning crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide is complicated by the blurred definitions that set each crime apart and by the paradoxically nitpicky attitude international lawyers take towards specifying each crime as such. Most people today know genocide when they see it and agree that the Young Turks' persecution of Turkey's Armenian population and the Nazi Holocaust were two such instances. Yet the term can only be used to describe the historical--not the legal--situation because genocide only entered the body of international law for the first time at the Genocide Convention of 1948.
"Because at the time of the Nuremberg proceedings the legal term "genocide" did not exist and "crimes against humanity" were vaguely defined, the prosecution focused on war crimes and crimes against peace. Although as Rabkin writes, "We now tend to think of the Nuremberg Trials as an accounting for the Holocaust" (Rabkin 83), the International Military Tribunal was chiefly an instance of "victor's justice" (86) despite the contemporaneous belief that the tribunal must hold the perpetrators of Nazi atrocities accountable. In accordance with Simpson's account of Henry Morgenthau's and Herbert Pell's failed campaign to bring crimes against humanity to the forefront of the proceedings, Rabkin acknowledges that this was "a distinctly secondary and subordinate concern. American lawyers...were most concerned to punish Nazi leaders for making war on so vast a scale that it finally engulfed the United States" (91). This constitutes one of the few points of agreement between Simpson and Rabkin."

Tags:holocaust nazi genocide ICC germany, international law

From the Paper
"Hypothesis
"Do blondes have more fun?" This pop culture question verging on the cliche of mantra by Madison Avenue advertising agencies actually does imply a questioning of cultural values within the American society that deserves to be addressed by serious research. Accordingly, working from the above proposition, it will be the hypothesis of this paper that, yes, blondes do have more fun.


DEFINITIONS
Key to understanding the cultural implications of the defining question of this study is the more specific delineation of the word "fun." Again, the pop cultural roots of the issue are evident in the choice of the word itself:
fun, n., 1. lively, gay play or playfulness;..."

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This paper compares the different female characters portrayed in three movies and looks at how each character goes against what is expected of women in society. The three movies, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", "All That Heaven Allows" and "Far From Heaven" show women acting against the conventions of society, looks at examples of female bonding in the film and discusses the French film "Choas" in terms of female bonding.

From the Paper
"The female protagonist in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" is quite different from those in "All That Heaven Allows" and "Far From Heaven", yet all three exemplify unruly women who go against the norms of their respective societies, especially the expected or proscribed behavior of women. The three women in these films choose to redefine their traditional roles and, in so doing, they break female stereotypes. The musical comedy, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", features Marilyn Monroe as the traditional, beautiful, sexy but dumb blonde, Lorelei Lee. Contrary to her innocent looks..."

Tags:Film, Female, Stereotypes, Bonding

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This paper examines the book, "A Scandalous History of the Roman Emperors" by Anthony Blond, who seems to have written a history of Rome for the current tabloid age. The paper illustrates the book as both a history of the Emperors and a characterization of the age. The paper describes the picture created by the author of the Roman era, and the stories he tells of the emperors, from Julius Caesar to Nero. This is followed by a discussion of Rome as a city and an empire. The paper claims that although the author of the book states that there is nothing original in his book, the paper shows that the approach he takes to the material is original.

From the Paper
"One monument that Blond gives special attention, as did the Romans, is the Colosseum, notable for the money, effort, materials, and time spent on construction. This space was central in Rome, providing an arena for the Games and so far watching the slaughter of men and beasts. The base of its pillars consist of blocks of seventy cubic feet of stone, each weighing five tons. Some 50,000 wagon loads of tavertine were brought to the site."

Tags:julius, caesar, nero, colosseum, augustus, cicero, paterfamilias, games, arena