The Vegan Film Review

As a Film graduate, I still like to find time to review films that have impacted me in some way. I studied film for three years at university and one of my absolute highlights from the whole process, was writing film reviews. Although it was something I really enjoyed, I lost track of writing about...

Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen

British actress, Emilia Clarke is most famous for her role as Daenerys Targaryen in the hit HBO show, Game of Thrones (HBO, 2011). Through her role as Daenerys, Clarke has inspired modern age feminism in many ways, some specifically outlined in this chapter. Through researching Emilia Clarke’s career with specific focus on her role as...

Feminist comparison: Cersei Lannister and Brienne of Tarth

There are many manifestations of feminism and throughout this chapter, examples that highlight female representation within the TV series Game of Thrones will be researched in relation to two female characters. These textual samples will display separate ways that feminism is demonstrated and show that feminism is a much broader span of ideas than assumed....

Game of Thrones Rape Culture: A Feminist perspective

Throughout the entirety of its running period, HBO’s adaptation Game of Thrones has been criticised for its depiction of sex being consensual or non-consensual sex, otherwise known as ‘rape’. Rape is often a phrase that people are scared to vocalise, as it is never entirely clear whether or not a claim is seen as truth...

Pride Dossier.

Pride[1] is a gay and lesbian activist film based in Thatcher’s England, which focuses on the life of a miner support group LGSM (Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners) who raised money for mining families during the strike in 1984/1985.   On slides 5-7 I discovered an interview in The Guardian with the director of...

Nature, race, and class in The Lion King

The Lion King [1] is a story about growing up and becoming who you are supposed to be. Young Simba is to fight the fears and realities of losing something you care about and learning to move forward. Through the representation of the African animal kingdom, Disney has created a story which teaches children about loss,...

Black Fish

Black Fish (2013) is a documentary directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite, about the life of Tilikum the orca whale is held in captivity Sea World, Orlando. The film focuses on how Tilikum was trained to be a performing killer whale at different Sea World parks around America and how he reacted to being held captive his entire...

New Hollywood Cinema

Over the years, cinema in Hollywood has changed. Many eras have come and gone over the last century and have made an impact on the type of films we have today. One of the main eras of American cinema was the ‘New Hollywood’. The New Hollywood era started in 1967 and went on for just...

Amy

Amy (2015), the girl behind the name, is the new documentary directed by Asif Kapadia (director of Senna). With unseen archival footage and unheard songs, Amy Winehouse tells her story in her own words. If I was asked to sum up this film in three words, without a doubt it would be, heartbreaking, beautiful and...

Blockbuster films

The term blockbuster began to appear in the American press in the 1940s referring to a large bomb that could destroy masses. Later the term was linked to books but more frequently to movies. A blockbuster is something of great size or power. Over the last 30 years blockbuster films have become more popular in...