Del Toro, a master of crossing genres, subtly turned his film into a commentary on
American social hierarchy, including reinventing the beast as a romantic hero.
Not exact matches
Mudbound — Set in the rural
American South during World War II, director Dee Rees tells an epic story of two families pitted against one another by a ruthless
social hierarchy, yet bound together by the shared farmland of the Mississippi Delta.
Set in the rural
American South during World War II, director Dee Rees tells an epic story of two families pitted against one another by a ruthless
social hierarchy, yet bound together by the shared farmland of the Mississippi Delta.
The latest feature from the
American writer / director behind Pariah and Bessie is set in the Deep South during World War Two, and follows two families pitted against one another by a ruthless
social hierarchy, yet bound together by the shared farmland of the Mississippi Delta.
Summary: When aspiring author Nick Carraway becomes captivated by the extravagant lifestyle of his new neighbour, playboy millionaire Jay Gatsby and his circle of high society friends, his experiences inspire him to write his own story of; power, greed, betrayal, hypocrisy, sacrifice and
social hierarchy wrapped in the great
American dream.
Set in the rural
American South at the end of World War II, Mudbound is an epic story of two families pitted against one another by a ruthless
social hierarchy, yet bound together by the shared farmland of the Mississippi Delta.
In a country where cultural competency and high academic performance are markers of success, and schools are the mediums through which
American children are socialized into their role as citizen, unequal education through racial segregation maintains a racial and
social hierarchy.
Subsequent series have sought to reveal marginalized or hidden histories; she has examined the
social invisibility of black
Americans in service - oriented jobs, the construction of racial
hierarchies based on skin tone within black communities, and the ways that objects can retain the memories and histories of their owners.
It is the first to explore how those key moments — coinciding with times of
American social, political, and cultural upheaval — challenged traditional
hierarchies and assumptions about creativity, artistic practice, and the role of the artist.
We regularly hear of the tribal lands, tribal customs, tribal
hierarchy as applied to the Arab and Muslim world, Africa, China, India, Southeast Asia, Pacific and Indian Ocean Island, as well as sections of North and South
American society with family as the focal point of
social and financial behavior.
Students will learn basic conceptual building blocks of
American law, including the
hierarchy of court systems, how lawyers and courts make distinctions between facts and law, the relationships among common, statutory, and constitutional law, the interactions between procedural and substantive law, legal precedent, the interactions between federal and state law, the adversarial process, and the ethics and
social norms that govern and shape the behavior of
American lawyers.