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James Cameron, writer and director of Avatar, at the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con. The 2009 American science fiction film Avatar has provoked vigorous discussion of a wide variety of cultural, social, political, and religious themes identified by critics and commentators, and the film's writer and director James Cameron has responded that he hoped to create an emotional reaction and to provoke ...
At a young age, an Indigenous child is sent to a residential school. There, she is renamed and grows up ignorant of her Māori culture, language, and family. Cry Freedom: 1986: The film centres on the real-life events involving black activist Steve Biko and his friend Donald Woods. Dispute in Valladolid: 1992
Films about Lithuanian-American culture (4 P) M. Films about Māori people (2 C, 42 P) P. Films about Polish-American culture (17 P) R. Race films (1 C, 91 P)
Telling the story of the New York City neighborhood of Washington Heights, the film is a celebration of community, family and Latin American culture. Actor Gregory Diaz IV: "Although we're ...
American Sociological Review (1991): 221-236. online; Tschachler, Heinz. George Washington and Political Fatherhood: The Endurance of a National Myth (McFarland, 2020) re "Father of his country" slogan. Young, Christopher J. "Memory by Consensus: Remembering the American Revolutionary War in Chicago." Journal of American Studies 50.4 (2016 ...
While popular print media would depict Italian Americans as inseparably connected to crime, socialism, and anarchy, the Italian American press worked to change the narrative. Italian language print media celebrated the work of Giuseppe Petrosino , who was the only Italian American detective with the NYPD, and popularized the archetype of the ...
These cinematic works served as a window into Mexican culture and traditions, offering insights that influenced subsequent generations of Chicano filmmakers. One significant outcome of the Chicano Movement was the emergence of Chicano cinema, which served as a powerful medium for expressing the experiences, struggles, and aspirations of the ...
The culture of the United States encompasses various social behaviors, institutions, and norms in the United States, including forms of speech, literature, music, visual arts, performing arts, food, sports, religion, law, technology, as well as other customs, beliefs, and forms of knowledge. American culture has been shaped by the history of ...