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Sexual Politics in Film, 2007.
An analysis of the theme of sexual politics in the movies "Pulp Fiction" and "Swept Away".
1,354 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper discusses how media is particularly dependent on sexual politics as a thematic representation and as a guiding force for human emotion and how this is particularly true with regard to dramatic representations in film. It focuses on two movies, which pay particularly close attention to sexual politics, "Swept Away" (the original 1974 and the newer 2002 versions) and "Pulp Fiction". It looks at how "Swept Away" pays particular interest to social class with an emphasis on sadomasochism and how "Pulp Fiction" deals with the inner workings of the sexual politics in a complicated subculture of sex, drugs and crime.
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"The cinematography and setting of Swept Away in both film versions detail the loneliness of man in a world where individuals and whole societies express love and longing through materialism and end courting with violent and absurd expressions of pain and pleasure. The film, is similar in tenor to Nine 1/2 Weeks (1986) another cult classic film dedicated to the idea of sexual politics driving personal relationships and leading to not real love but love that is expressed through dominance and possession as well as objectified bodies. "
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Drama: Love, Marriage and Sexual Politics, 2008.
This paper compares themes of love, marriage and sexual politics in Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House" and in William Wycherley's "The Country Wife".
1,335 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper explains that, although "The Country Wife", a 1675 restoration comedy by William Wycherley, and "A Doll's House", an 1879 play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, were written at different times, both portray the sexual politics that existed between couples during those periods. The author point out that both stories involve possessive love, marriages fraught with deception and struggles between the sexes; however, these plays differ in several significant ways. The paper relates that Wycherley's Margery is unsophisticated at the beginning of the play while Ibsen's Nora maintains a level of city sophistication throughout the play. The author states that the primary conflict between the couples is sex for Wycherley but money for Ibsen. The paper reveals that, while both Nora and Margery hold the majority of the power by the end of each play, Nora uses her power to leave her husband while Margery stays and manipulates her husband.
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Love
Marriage
Sexual Politics
Conclusion
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"Both men also treat their wives as being stupid. In Act I, Torvald calls out to Nora from his study, asking if it was his "little lark twittering out there" (Ibsen Act 1). He goes on to ask if she is his "little squirrel bustling about" and, later, takes her by her ear and calls her his "little featherhead" (Act 1). Clearly, Torval is objectifying his wife, rather than identifying her as a thinking woman. Similarly, Pinchwife feels that Margery is too stupid to make any plans to deceive him, even when she proves herself to the audience to be very capable of doing just that."
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"Why Black Sexual Politics?", 2007.
A review of Patricia Hill Collins' essay "Why Black Sexual Politics?".
836 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 29.95
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This paper looks at how, in her essay, "Why Black Sexual Politics", Patricia Hill Colins analyzes portrayals of black sexuality in the white-dominated media and in a white-dominated culture. The paper discusses how Collins argues that black bodies and black sexuality have been appropriated and manipulated by the dominant culture to perpetuate cycles of oppression and how this oppression does not end with racism but extends through to gender-based oppression, heterosexism, and class inequities.
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"Collins shows how and why black sexuality continues to be presented as deviant, as wild, animalistic, primitive, and savage. When racism was overt, black sexuality was directly associated with animal perversion. Racism has gone underground in a sense; racism is now color-blind but continues to dictate ways black sexuality is portrayed in the mainstream media. Collins uses Beyonce, Destiny's Child, and Jennifer Lopez of icons of the new black sexuality and therefore, of the new racism. These artists and others like them have profited from the myth of black sexuality, capitalizing ironically on the new racism. Black sexuality is, however, an "invented discourse," notes Collins (p. 28). White media moguls and politicians have invented and wielded the discourse to maintain a position of domination and authority in society."
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Sexual Politics in Ancient Greece, 2000.
Explores the politics of sexuality in three ancient Greek works: the ?Iliad?, ?Antigone?, and ?Lysistrata?.
2,891 words (approx. 11.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 85.95
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This paper addresses the politics of sexuality and gender in three specific works from ancient Greece. These works are dramas, and are the ?Iliad?, ?Antigone?, and ?Lysistrata?.
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"The roles of men and women in Greek society are of particular interest, and demonstrate that a type of ?fued? seemed to exist between the genders in ancient Greece. "
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Sexual Politics in Ancient Greece, 2002.
Examines three memorable works from ancient Greek literature which illustrate the conflicts which existed between men and women.
2,650 words (approx. 10.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 97.95
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This paper will compare three works from the Grecian literature. These works span several centuries, yet all illustrate a type of feud between the genders. Two works are tragedies and the third is a comedy. Through examining these three works, the sexual politics of ancient Greece can be better understood. The first of these works is the "Iliad". The second piece of Grecian literature that will be examined in this paper is the play "Antigone", written by Sophocles. The third piece to be examined is the comedy "Lysistrata", by Aristophanes.
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Sexualization in Films, 2002.
A look at the sexualization of black females in films.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper focuses on the sexualization of black females in films. It specifically deals with the "Imitation of Life" film by John Stahl (1934) and Douglas Sirk (1959).
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Gender and Sexuality in Film, 2004.
An analysis of the issues cross dressing films raise about gender and transgendered identities.
3,384 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 18 sources, MLA, $ 96.95
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This paper examines how issues raised by cross-dressing and transgender identities in film are largely dependent on the way in which they are treated. It looks at how the mainstream cross-dressing comedy finds reasons to dismiss the potential danger of cross-dressing, while independent and foreign films such as "Ma Vie en Rose" and "All About My Mother" tend to offer a representation which is crude and possibly more accurate.
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"Tootsie also highlights the way in which women are treated in the workplace, as he learns submission as an actress who has to obey. He used to be hard to work with as an actor but as Dorothy Michaels, he has the door shut to his face by the director and is also refused a drink when the director just says 'no, no, she's fine'. Moreover, he says that he would hit the director if he wasn't dressed as a woman, which points out to the social boundaries and expectations of what a woman should do and should not do, mainly that women do not hit and men should not hit women."
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Sexual Harassment and Sexual Revictimization, 1992.
A proposal for a study to determine if there is a relationship between the experience of sexual harassment and the experience of sexual revictimization.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 31.95
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"Sexual Harassment and Sexual Revictimization
Background to the Study
Over the last two decades, research studies have documented significant rates of child sexual abuse among both female and male children. Estimates for female children under the age of 18 who have experienced at least one incident of abuse ranges from 1 in 4 to 1 in 2.5 among nonclinical samples (Kohn, 1987; Wyatt, 1985). Estimates for male children are approximately 1 in 8.
There are a number of effects that have been associated with childhood sexual abuse, including psychological, sexual, and interpersonal difficulties (Briere, 1992). One additional problem that has been associated with early abuse is sexual..."
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The Art Film and the Genre Film, 2004.
Art and genre criticism in four classic films.
3,048 words (approx. 12.2 pages), 48 sources, MLA, $ 89.95
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An analysis of two genre films and two art films - Antonioni's "Blow Up," Kelly/Donen's "Singin' in the Rain", Truffaut's "The 400 Blows", and Sirk's "All That Heaven Allows". The validity of both genre and art film criticism are examined.
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"By its failure to accommodate the excess generated by its subject matter, All That Heaven Allows is not only critiquing the genre of melodrama, it also exposes the contradictions and conflicts present in American bourgeois society (Bourget, 1995, 45). However the subversive excess and contradictions present in the film prevent it from being ?just another melodrama?. Sirk worked within yet against the constraints of the Hollywood studio system to subvert the genre, and although the film is superficially a generic 1950s Hollywood melodrama, Sirk?s characteristic stylistic technique marks him as an auteur, a position usually associated with the art rather than the genre film."
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A Review of Sexuality, 2005.
This paper studies the articles of 'Sexuality' and the 'Sexual Revolution', discusses the subject of sexuality and looks at its social and political aspects.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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Sexuality is a term that means different things to different people. The same can be stated for sexuality in politics, religion, and social relations. This paper discusses the articles of 'Sexuality' and the 'Sexual Revolution'. How is sexuality a political issue? How does sexuality affect the way people live? How has sexuality changed through the years? These questions are important in helping a person develop their own sexual identity and understand why a person believes the way he/she does about social politics or the social issues of sexuality.
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"Sexuality is a term that means different things to different people. The same can be stated for sexuality in politics, religion, and social relations. This paper discusses the articles of "Sexuality" and "The Sexual Revolution." How is sexuality a political issue? How does sexuality affect the way people live? How has sexuality changed through the years? These questions are important in helping a person develop their own sexual identity and understand why a person believes the way he/she does about social politics or the social issues of sexuality. The authors show how sexuality is affected by both religion and politically. Sexuality has changed over the years in many different ways. "Throughout the course of U.S. history, the meaning of sexuality has been continuously reshaped by changing economic and social institutions". At one time the word "sex" would get the attention of people because sexuality was not discussed in public."
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Women in Politics, 25.
A paper examining women?s needs for equal political representation.
1,270 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 43.95
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This paper argues that women must hold more political positions in their nations? governments. The paper describes that women are fifty percent of the population and therefore should have their fifty percent of their vote represented by women. It demonstrates that women representatives from industrialized countries demonstrated greater concern over issues, such as birth control and childcare, equal pay for casual work, affirmative action and sexual harassment measures, and those in developing countries, focused more on access to childhood immunization, clean and constant water supply, delivery of primary health care services and affordable food sources. The paper illustrates those ground breaking women who have held high political office.
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"The Second Global Congress of Women in Politics conducted a study on the presence of women in national parliaments throughout the world and discovered that, in the last 25 years, the participation of women in parliaments from 1975 to 1998 grew only slightly from 11% to 12.7% (Kyodo 1998). Women in Nordic countries have the highest rate of participation at a combined average of 36.7% in the two houses of Congress. Arab women have the lowest level of participation at only 3.3%. Asian figures rose from 3% to over 12% in the last 25 years, but there is nothing exciting about this, since Asia holds more than the total world population, half of which is female. (Kyodo)"
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Seventies Films Versus Today's Films, 2001.
A comparison between films from different periods in time, and the differences in their entertainment methods.
2,625 words (approx. 10.5 pages), 8 sources, $ 79.95
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A comparison of three honored films from the seventies, "Easy Rider", "Five Easy Pieces", and "The Godfather" and two films from the the year 2000, "The Gladiator" and "Erin Brokovich". The paper considers how they differ in the realm of providing distracting entertainment versus probing consideration of timely issues, concluding that seventies films left a more lasting vision.
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"What do we want from our movies? Do we seek simple escape or deeper understanding of our lives? Can a movie be both probing and entertaining? Are entertainment, eye candy and special effects enough, or do we seek something deeper? Do we want to look inside ourselves and ask questions, or to merely stay on the surface, distract ourselves, and deny that there is anything more to be considered? These questions arise when comparing three movies from the 1970s with two films nominated for Academy Awards in the 2000. The films considered are: from the seventies, Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, and The Godfather, and from 2000, Gladiator and, Erin Brokovich. Pauline Kael, the well-know New Yorker film critic, commenting on how she got hooked on films, agrees another critic, Paul Coates, that in its ideal form, ?Cinema is the dream of an afterlife from which to comprehend this one? (Kael 63). In light of this quote, the films from the seventies embody elements which through the focused vision of the director offer mythic qualities that provide not only entertainment but an opportunity for viewers to examine their lives. That in accomplishing this, they provide images that remain in the mind?s eye could be considered the tradition of the seventies. In contrast, recent films Gladiator and Erin Brokovich are entertaining distractions, providing no lasting vision."
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Film Studies: Analyzing Three Films within the Context of South East and Asian Historical Perspectives, 2005.
The Chinese Communist Party soon came to power after years of exile and puppet rule that Pu Yi had experienced in the ever changing political and gove...
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The Chinese Communist Party soon came to power after years of exile and puppet rule that Pu Yi had experienced in the ever changing political and governmental landscapes of China. In 1950 Pu Yi was forced to leave his Soviet township and soon became a prisoner of the new Communist Party politics.
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Film Studies: Analyzing Three Films within the Context of South East and Asian Historical Perspectives Essay 1: Understanding the Premise of Vietnamese Communism within the Film: Full Metal Jacket The film Full Metal Jacket (1987), directed by Stanley Kubrick, offers an American point of view of a Vietnamese conflict that depended heavily on the communist (NLF) National Liberation Front. The communist resistance to American pressure to abdicate to the puppet regimes of older leaders, such as Ngo Dinh Diem, resulted in the NLF being called the "Viet Cong" or a "Democratic Dictatorship" within military and governmental propaganda. The reason for this is reflected in the film, as the Tet Offensive becomes the symbolic part of the movie where the Americans begin to lose the war, marking the American military's last real ground-based initiative to take the country. In this manner, a historical perspective of the NLF can be analyzed, but
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Female Sexuality, 2002.
Examines many of the aspects of female sexuality including female sexual identity, sexuality and aging and female sexual dysfunction.
2,950 words (approx. 11.8 pages), 25 sources, MLA, $ 87.95
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This paper reviews several articles discussing female sexuality. It reviews articles on what female sexuality is, what is involved in the sexuality of females, what helps aide in feminine sexuality and what hinders a women's sexuality. The paper looks at some of the problems associated with women's sexuality and whether these are perceived, physical, or medical problems. Finally,it examine how women see their own sexuality.
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"Before the advent of the ?sexual revolution? in the 1960s the subject of female sexuality was considered taboo in so called polite society. Discussion of sexuality by females was viewed as an aberration. Women were taught and told that the normal reaction of women towards sexual intercourse was that they generally did not feel any physical or emotional pleasure from it. Sex was a means to an end; by performing their wifely duty to please their mates women were subjugated to the role of baby maker. This severe repression of female sexuality and its total submission to reproductive functions determined the limits of knowledge for untold generations of women (Gomex 1995)."
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Historical Roots of Gay Emancipation, 2002.
Uses John D'Emilio's book "Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities" to answer the question "What events and social changes between 1940 and 1970 made the Stonewall Riots possible?"
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The strength of the gay and lesbian community comes from a long history of organizations and leaders, as well as subtle social, economic and political factors that contributed to the identification of homosexuality as an identity. It is this identity around which a community has been built to disprove the notion that homosexuality is 'deviant', 'sick', or 'sinful'. The paper identifies two distinct philosophies in the gay liberation movement: one moving towards assimilation and discounting sexual preference as an identity-builder; the other promoting pride and acceptance of homosexuality as a viable identity.
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