Movies and essays: This is for a humanities class.
Find examples or reply to something that happened, pretty much your best response, a good argument. Papers have to be written in MLA style, 2 pages, fonts 14,
1st movie: "The great gatsby" with Leonardo Dicaprio
Focus on: Modernism, Virtuous modernism, Vicious modernism, confusion, class wars, Mechanization of the mind.
2nd Movie: Now, voyager
Focus on: conceptual thinking, Sense of mystery, personal love, signs, symbols, metaphor, motif, symmetry, clarity, harmony and vivid color.
3rd movie: 12 O'clock High
Focus on: The worst of vicious modernism, totalitarian dictatorship, total war, dictatorship and war
4th Movie: All about Eve
Focus on: Alienation, The nature of withdrawal, The cold war, Capitalism vs. communism, Art vs. economy, existentialism and the antihero,
5th movie: Bagdad Café
Focus on: Liberation and communism, The cold war, other liberation movements, Methaphors and mysteries, magic of humans kindness.
6th movie: Lady in the water
Focus on: The development of postmodernism, The merging of art and advertising, science and postmodernism, Magic realism.
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