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...film looks at the ways in which males in hip-hop culture portray an exaggerated image of what masculinity is. Like many others, Hurt believes that the focus on misogyny and homophobia in hip-hop overwhelms its more creative aspects, but that the solution to this problem goes beyond merely creating more positive hip-hop. “That’s like saying, ‘I don’t like racism, but we just need more not racist things said,’” Hurt says...
...inspired the book “Bringing Down the House” and the movie “21,” and David A. Irvine, a former member of the team. “21” has received heavy media attention for using mostly Caucasian actors to portray a team that some say was mostly Asian, but neither instructor was critical of the decision. “The Asian controversy is an inaccuracy,” Kaplan says. “We got up to 80 players...
...funny and gratingly typical with his obnoxiously squeaky voice, but he provides a solid performance in the second act. Jakim plays both an energetic little boy and a conservative divorcee well. Rob D. Salas ’08 is almost aggravating in his colonizing patriarchal role yet manages to portray a young girl with wonderful liveliness and characterization. Alex R. Breaux ’09 provides an excellent anchor to the ridiculousness in the first act and continues to hold attention during his monologues about casual gay sex. The ensemble does its best, and while they manage to produce some...
...difference between Tibet and Xinjiang, though: Islam. China's critics say the Uighur's faith has allowed them to be demonized by Beijing since 9/11 in a way that is dangerous both to race relations at home and to their image abroad. "It's a systematic Chinese policy to portray Uighurs as splittists and terrorists," says Rebiya Kadeer, a businesswoman who now heads the Uyghur American Association and is the leader of an exile movement seeking greater rights for her roughly 9 million compatriots who live in Xinjiang. Kadeer was once a rich businesswoman in Xinjiang but fell afoul...
...movies is designed to call attention to this ambiguity of interpretation. Recordings from amateur home movies that Forgács discovered in archives across Europe are pieced together and juxtaposed with clips of Nazi brutality. Many of the scenes chosen are strikingly simple in the actions that they portray. “These banal everyday film recordings have something special to me,” he said. “They always ask a lot of questions: who, why, what, where?...Amateur film, to me, uses the language of ancient film, of Eisenstein, Griffith, of the great American avant-garde...