Harlan County, USA Essays

  • Objectivity of Documentary Film: Cinema Vérité

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    to consider the various possibilities of changing a section of a scene. There are innumerable po... ... middle of paper ... ...heila Curran. Documentary storytelling for video and filmmakers. USA: Focal Press Publications, 2004. Print. Das, Trisha. How to Write a Documentary Script: A Monograph. USA: Oxford University Press, 2007. Print. Livingstone, Paisley & Carl Plantinga. The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film. London: Routledge – Taylor & Francis Group. 2009. Print. Nichols, Bill

  • Employees and the Right to Strike

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    Employees and the Right to Strike There are many arguments about whether or not Employees should have the right to industrial action. I have looked at many different sources and have brought my research together into this essay. A reason supporting the point that workers should be allowed to strike is so they can fight against poor safety conditions. For instance, working in the nuclear power industry etc, any breaches of safety can have tragic consequences. Furthermore if the employees

  • Junior Doctors Strike Essay

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    The junior doctors strike actions is justified in the current political context This essay will explain what junior doctors are and what their role as junior doctor are, why the junior doctors strike action is justified in the current political context and will also debate whether Jeremy Hunt the Secretary of State of health is to blame for the strike or is the British medical association to blame. Junior doctors are qualified medical practitioners who work whilst training to become a consultant

  • Harlan County America Sparknotes

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    In Harlan County, USA by Barbara Kopple, the film explores the Brookside mining strike of 1973 in Harlan County and shares the history of the mining people of the area. Kopple follows the story of the strike as it turns from protests to residual violence, and provides input from the County people on their perspectives throughout the documentary. The narrative of Harlan County places the viewer as a looker through the lens of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) and specifically the strikers

  • Labor In Nothing Film Analysis

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    In order to understand how labor is invoked in film, it is imperative to provide context to how labor influenced the culture around filmmaking. Labor in itself refers to the act of work, especially hard physical work. There is a high propensity for labor to be exploited due to varying external factors like financial crises and Hollywood is no exception. With the onset of unionization, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences created by Louis B Meyer, which eventually gave way to the formation

  • Essay On The Last Seduction

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    by John Dahl, an ITC Entertainment Group production, and produced by Jonathan Shestack. The leading characters and actors are Bridget Gregory (Linda Fiorentino), Mike Swale (Peter Berg), Clay Gregory (Bill Pullman), Frank Griffith (J.T. Walsh), and Harlan (Bill Nunn). The film is rated R by the MPAA with a running time of 110 minutes. The budget for The Last Seduction was $2,500,000 and grossed $6,138,485 at the Box Office in the United States(IMDb). The Last Seduction is the ultimate Film Noir of

  • Cinema Verite's Fly On The Wall

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    Cinema verite is a “fly on the wall” documentary style that attempts to capture the essence of reality by holding to the tenet that actual situations produce a different kind of cinematic truth than contrived ones by being unobtrusive and watching the situation. Stephan Mamber describes the essential element of Cinema Verite as the act of filming people real people in uncontrolled situations. Here the people are not actors and the situations are not scripted. This leads to a situation in which, as

  • A DNA Bank Is Necessary

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    future, but presently it fights crime like nothing else. BIBLIOGRAPHY 1.      Javurek, Peter, "Canada2.     Frank, Laura, "Fingerprints from DNA not always on money" USA TODAY 7-15-94 3.       Levy, Harlan, AND THE BLOOD CRIED OUT, Basic Books, 1996 4.      Maharaj, Davan, "DNA Tests Becoming The Key out of Prison in Orange County" Los Angeles Times, 6-22-96 5.       DOJ RELEASES STUDY ON VALUE OF DNA TESTING TO ESTABLISH INNOCENCE; AWARDS $8.75 MILL www.elibrary.com/getdoc.cgi?id=5322482776. 6