Spike Lee’s 1989 film Do The Right Thing is an explicit narrative about race relations and racial tensions within the modern American city. But these themes are also communicated simultaneously on a deeper symbolic level, which accentuates the concept of race at the root of the film, while also opening...

The film Suicide Squad provides some cultural analysis, but falls into old traps that have long plagued movies that have attempted to mesh together characters from many different racial and ethnic backgrounds. The film features a diverse cast of actors and actresses, and even has a black man—Will Smith—playing the...

For this assignment it was required to watch one of the films chosen by the course instructor. The film that was chosen for this assignment was the 1984 critically acclaimed film: A Passage to India. The synopsis of the film is that it is about British rule over India in...

Movie posters make up a huge part of movie promotions. It gives the audience a foretaste of what the movie will actually be like and the positioning that the movie director/creator is promoting. Movie posters are full of signs and design theories to attract the audience’s attention, for example, hierarchy,...

Suzanne Collins’s important book The Hunger Games features some of the strongest characters in literature as well as one of the most compelling storylines. It is a story about a dystopia in which the leaders make children fight to the death as entertainment for the rest of society and a...