Think of hazy summer days spent cruising on a bicycle, waves of heat rolling off the pavement as you make your way to a friend’s house. Breathe in the scent of summer sweetness, mixed with tobacco smoke and cheap beer, and the taste of cherry chapstick as a pair of soft lips meet yours in between giggles. Now open your mind as you become immersed in the world of Hayley Kiyoko’s Girls Like Girls. As one might suspect, the song itself is about girls liking girls, and the video is much the same, following the love story of characters Coley and Sonya as they overcome their own initial reservations about their feelings towards each other as well as the opposition of others. Though the narrative may appear self-contained, it serves to convey a much larger message, as Kiyoko attempts to normalize romantic relationships between women, subverting the opinions of those that seek to suppress or fetishize innocent expressions of love. We begin with an aerial shot of Coley, a girl who appears to be 18 or 19, riding a bike down an empty street lined with …show more content…
The transitions between shots are fairly rapid, switching from perspective to perspective, reminiscent of snapshot memories. Upon further observation, long shots also tend to correspond with the bridge, and are combined with moving frames and tracking shots to draw the viewer into the world of the main characters. Lighting is a key element in the world-building as well. The director makes use of three-point and diffused, natural lighting; there’s a sepia overlay which desaturates the colors and creates an almost dream-like effect, which when coupled with Kiyoko’s lyrics and voice, give the video an ethereal quality. Given the suburban setting and Californian aesthetic, Girls like Girls embodies the concept of a classic summer romance, albeit with a twist--which one might say is the point. In an interview with US Weekly, Kiyoko herself
Electrick Children is a film released in 2012, written and directed by Rebecca Thomas. Screened at film festivals including South By Southwest, this film tells the story of fifteen year old Rachel McKnight. Rachel is a member of a fundamentalist Mormon community. Rachel finds herself to be pregnant and believes that she was impregnated by a voice she heard on a cassette tape after listening to it for the first time. Although she firmly believes in this immaculate conception, her family and the rest of the community believes that she was raped by her brother Mr. Will, and so he is exiled from the community. Rachel’s father arranges a marriage for Rachel, but rather than go through with it, she runs away from the community, escaping to Las Vegas.
Although the nursing profession has emerged tremendously since the 19th centuries and many great accomplishments and changes has taken placed over the years, however there were presented issues from the film “Sentimental Women Need Not Apply” that were striking to me as they are still very relevant in both the nursing field and in our society.
In 1987, there was a Syphilis outbreak in a small town Alabama, Tuskegee. Ms. Evers went to seek out African Males that had this disease and did not. They were seeking treatment for this disease, but then the government ran out of money and the only way they can get treatment if they studied. They named this project “The Tuskegee Study of African American Man with Syphilis”, so they can find out where it originated and what will it do to them if go untreated for several months.
Sammy sets the scene of a sunny, summer beach day in which three young girls dressed in nothing but bathing suits enter the store to buy some snacks for their day in the sand. Sammy is deeply intrigued by the girls and watches every move they make while ringing in other customers at the store. The girls parade through the isles as if they are putting on a show, just for Sammy. This is Sammy’s first live “girlie show” and he doesn't want to miss one single detail. Sammy expresses his excitement and fondness of one particular girl as he conveys the details of the one scene:
From the reading, I was most interested in the section regarding ballet training. The text states the recommended age for ballet training is eight years old. I truly thought this was crazy because I started ballet at three years old. The text also explains that children who are preparing for ballet classes typically wear soft glove slippers on their feet to allow them to get used to the feeling of Pointe shoes. When I first began ballet class, my instructor encouraged us to purchase ballet shoes until we were ten years old. At the age of ten, we were given the option to begin using Pointe shoes. I remember I was so excited to get my first pair of Pointe shoes because I thought they were stunning and graceful, until my feet began to bleed.
The protagonists in the documentary, the bra boys' (surf gang), are presented by the antagonists (the media and the police) as a violent surfer gang. The filmmaker does this by using original news reports and police interviews highlighting that they are violent outlaws. However, from the Bra Boy’s perspective, their group is “brotherhood” who just love to surf.
Miss. Evers Boys is a movie based on the real life study called “The Tuskegee Study” that took place in Macon County, Alabama, where 400 black men who had syphilis and 200 black men without this disease participated on this study without knowing the terrible truth behind it. Also the participants were poor and uneducated sharecropper who fell for Miss. Evers persuasions and rewards that doctors were offering to participants. The main results that doctors were trying to obtain from this experiment was to gain information about how African Americans men’s bodies reacted to syphilis. During the 1930’s, society believed that black men were inferior to white men, so diseases were supposed to affect differently black men. This study in particular, the participants were not informed about the capacity that this disease could damage their human system and they were not viewed as a human being and they were used as lab rat. Furthermore, one of the doctors who were involved in this experiment Dr. Raymond Vonderlehr used the term “necropsy” that is an autopsy performed on animals when speaking about the participants of this experiment (Mananda R-G, 2012).
The 1991 movie My Girl tells the story of 11-year-old Vada Sultenfuss who, having lost her mother at birth , lives with her dementia-ridden grandmother and her job-oriented father in the funeral parlour that he owns and operates. The story follows Vada, an extreme hypochondriac who has many strange misconceptions about death, through a variety of life-changing experiences, including the engagement of her father and the devastating loss of her best friend, Thomas Jay. Through these experiences, the audience witnesses Vada’s social, emotional, and intellectual growth, as well as her changing views of death.
Girls Like Us is an intimate portrayal concerning four girls who grew up all with different ethnic backgrounds and various forms of parental guidence. Anna Chau is Vietnames with strict parents and good beliefs, Lisa Bronca is a Caucasion Catholic, De'Yonna Moore is African-American with strong goals who lives with her Grandma and Raelene Cox is a young white girl who comes from a broken home with little parental guidence. Girls Like Us shows examples of structural functionism, and conflict theory, as well as symbolic interactionalism. This movie really intersted me because I actually got to see each of these girls grow up. This film also contained implications for the science of sociology.
When it came time to pick a stage of development, I chose the stage of middle childhood. The movie that best depicted this stage of development to me was the 1991 movie “My Girl”. In this movie, you see a 11-year-old girl named Vada Sultenfuss going through a lot of psychosocial and cognitive changes in her life. She has grown up without her mother due to instant death when being born and she blames herself for her mother’s passing. Her dad is very absent in the upbringing of Vada, as he focuses most of his time and energy into his work as a mortician. Vada is surrounded by death due to the fact that they live in the house where her father constructs his business which is why her view on death is demented. When her dad becomes involved
“I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.” Steve Martin, American Actor, Comedian, Musician
Your skin pigment or the amount of melanin in you skin has the ability to change your whole outlook on life and determines if you will possibly have fewer or more challenges to face during your lifespan. The amount for melanin that an individual has according to society can determine if you are either the ugly duckling through societies eyes or if you are a beautiful swan. In this short paper I will be discussing the Dark Girls documentary.
My Mise-en-scene analysis is on American Beauty on page 217: number 1(The dinner scene). The frame itself is a very closed, tight shot; there is no way for the characters to escape and they're left with only confronting each other in this very little space. The shot of the camera isn't necessarily far away or close either. It's neutral, and we can see the full action of the family's dinner conversation happening right in front of us. My eyes were immediately attracted to the bright, white table and then my eyes focused on the faces of the family. The scene's texture is slightly fuzzy, and is not very detailed. But the character's faces are still recognizable. The foreground of this scene is the table with the man and woman sitting at each end; the middle is the girl-who is
Alice Munro’s “Boys and Girls” is a story about a girl that struggles against society’s ideas of how a girl should be, only to find her trapped in the ways of the world.
The world before her is a film of hope and dreams for Indian women. We examine two girls with different paths but one goal in common, empowerment. This term conveys a wide range of interpretations and definitions one of them being power over oneself. Both Prachi and Ruhi manifest a will for female empowerment but both have distinct views on how this is achieved. Prachi believes the way to achieve empowerment is through her mind and strength, while she still confines to tradition views of Indian culture. Ruhi desires to achieve female empowerment by exposing her beauty in a non-conservative way while maintaining her Indian identity.