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be more true about television in the nineteen sixties. Television sets were lit up by such old western shows like “Gunsmoke”, “Bonanza”, and “The Long Ranger”. However, all this changed when a man named Gene Roddenberry first pitched the idea of…

in comparison to Roman and Greek Mythologies tale of "Cupid and Psyche." Walt Disney said it best when he stated, "True beauty comes from within." Through precise design and articulation, the creators of the film Beauty and the Beast formed…

the struggle the Tibetans face in their everyday lives and their religion. This movie depicts the importance of the Dalai Lama to the Tibetans. The Tibetans refer to The Dalai Lama as “Kundun” meaning simply “The Presence.” This movie explained…

writer of prose fiction. He was born in New Albany, Mississippi, where he lived a life filled with good times as well as bad. However, despite bad times he would become known as a poet, a short story writer, and finally one of the greatest contemporary…

and Clyde: The Violence Arthur Penn’s “Bonnie and Clyde” influenced a new era of cinema with its gruesome and bold depictions of violence and crime. These depictions displayed violence with exaggerated blood and gore. These violent scenes…

know that the movie industry has been revolutionized since the use of computers has been added. Computers allow viewers to see images and places from the imaginations of the writers and directors that were never before possible to create. A recent…

to meet new people, explore worlds both imagined and real, it can show you the past and send you reeling into the future. A cinematic experience can be all encompassing; it can stimulate your senses through images that the director has created,…

movie True Romance was excellent. It presented real issues that some people are forced to deal with in their lives. The title of the movie is misleading. You would think this was going to be a love tory. Actually it is, but unlike any love story I've…

a "descent into hell" through society's acceptance of pornography, violence and loneliness. The characters of Travis, Betsy, Senator Palantine and Iris are all typical of real people, either surrounded by or living in a world of lies. After…

author and source unknown, is a review of the Orsen Wells’s, “War of the Worlds” phenomena, and the first mass communication study researching this event, Hadley Cantril’s (1940)The Invasion from Mars: A Study in the Psychology of Panic. The…