Subculture Movie Reviews Samples For Students

The documentary Erasing Hate offers an interesting perspective on the social reasons behind gang affiliation. Bryon Widner grew up in Albuquerque New Mexico and describes himself as a “street kid.” He was raised by an alcoholic grandmother who told him he was worthless. He was a chronic runaway. skinhead gangs provided the sense of belonging and family support he needed. He started in the White Power Movement when he was 14, and his evolution as a skinhead continued when he moved from New Mexico to Indiana. He was white and poor and was looking for answers in life. He was led to ...

For a movie to be classified as queer cinema, it has to follow under three main categories. The three main categories are: first the film maker has to be a gay or a lesbian. Secondly, the movie’s content has to portray issues related to lesbians or gays. Thirdly the movies’ audience should be mostly a queer audience that is characterized by gays or lesbians.
It has been conventionally known that only gays or lesbians should direct queer movies. Contrary, a director Ang Lee have been involved in production of gays and lesbian movies for over ten years and yet he is a straight ...

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Easy Rider is one of the hallmark films of Hollywood. It defines a cultural period as this important film established filmmaking styles and attitudes. Aside from its cinematography, it also launched a guerilla style of independent filmmaking with very controlled and smooth studio film cinematography. Principally, this film featured a very remarkable soundtrack. Easy Rider was one of the first films that used the popular music during that period. The film also featured musicians such as Steppenwolf, The Byrds and Jimi Hendrix. The rock and roll background gave a more enriched narration and storytelling. The musical pieces featured by the film also made ...

For many years, between 1964-1974 the people of the US were awakening by imaginations, this was when people started forming the movements so that they can protest against the injustices imposed to them by the whites. The following movements were formed, The Free Speech Movement, The Anti-War Movement, The Counter-Culture Movement (Hippies in SF) and Women's Movement. Each with its objectives and methods of achieving them for instance: The Free Speech Movement
The university students to protest against the abolishment of the no-campus political activities and allow free speech formed this movement. This movement had an impact on ...

‘This is the Beat Generation’ by J.C.Holmes is the first literary article ( was published in New York Times in 1952) that coined the phrase “Beat generation” for the hippies and yippies in the American society. The entire generation is remarked as the post-war drunk generation of young people who developed a sort of nudity in their mental and spiritual contexts to crave and demonstrate the newly defined version of freedom (Holmes 232). Their level of distrust and distress were augmented by the war scenarios and dwindling national economy. Their lifestyle was generally knitted around beachheads and planned as per ...

The story mainly focuses on the John Nash’s life. In the story we see John Nash earning his PhD in mathematics from the University of Princeton after writing a thrilling thesis. His thesis that earned him Ph.D had his foundational work on the theory of noncooperative games. This thesis was published in the year 1950. The beautiful mind can be described as the story which incorporates these biographical details and which omits other characters to tell its story using invented characters and plot. This paper will comprehensively and coherently provide a summary of the movie by the title beautiful mind.
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