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Critical Summary Article: "Queer Cut Bodies" By Morgan Holmes Intersexuality can be understood as people who were born with both male and female organs. "Queer Cut Bodies" explains that intersexed bodies are actually "clear cut bodies", because these medico cultures have literally "cut" these b...
Time is tremendously important to those living in Western Society. Indeed multiple studies have shown that to drive a man truly insane you need only put him in a room with no access to know the passing of time. That room would have no clocks, no schedule, and no daylight to guide his way. In a matte...
Hoop Dreams " He whose face gives no light shall never become a star." Three filmmakers spent seven years in inner city Chicago to construct a documentary based on the lives and dreams of two boys, Arthur Agee and William Gates. The social institutions of education, sports, economics, and fami...
Imagine it's five hundred years ahead of the present time yet the technology is as advanced as it was in the middle ages and it's a collectivist social structure so out of reach that Joseph Stalin would roll over in his grave. Imagine the only source of light is a candle and that the only things kn...
New York City is being transformed right before our eyes. The places that we once called home are being transformed into places we can no longer afford. Many of us are just now recognizing the effects of "Gentrification" the term coined for the redevelopment or as some may call it "urban regeneratio...
Kobo Abe deals with the theme of "Escape and Imprisonment" in his novel, "The Woman in the Dunes." His existentialist style of writing begs the reader to look between the lines of the text, analyze the situations the novel portrays, and pay attention to the thoughts and ideas that the author convey...
There was a jumble of modernity an uproar of workers drilling holes in the pavement, knocking down trees to make room for telephone poles, knocking down telephone poles to make room for buildings, knocking down buildings to plant trees" (3.83) This contradicting idea is something that one never thinks about during their daily life, despite it still being true. ...
Psychological disorders are displayed throughout all genres of the film industry. For audiences, disturbances of psychological functioning and behavior are so commonplace in popular media that a disassociation of a serious problem, or, an exaggeration of facts can occur. In the familiar movie, PSYCH...