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A 10 page essay/research paper that offers commentary on modern society, the jumble of images that bombard us daily, and argues that filmmakers are at least one area of the media in which creative people are trying to sort out the jumble and offer some coherent messages. In discussing this theme, the writer analyzes three movies, The Truman Show, Pleasantville and American Beauty, discussing the prevalent themes from each film and how this relates to society in general. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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absolutely have to buy. Instead of building our individual identities on what we produce, which has been the pattern in Western society, advertising today urges people to identity themselves
according to what they consume (Williamson 13). One commercial, for example, goes through a list of personal characteristics that are indicated as insignificant only to inform the viewer that "Its
your watch," that is, it is the watch you wear that says what you are really like, not your behavior, not your interactions with people, but a consumer item. Simultaneously
with these messages of mass consumption, there are also images of sexuality and beauty that hammer away at us, particularly women, with the message that we are never attractive enough,
never perfect enough, to accept ourselves and our appearance (Wolf 3). As American society lives with this multiplicity of images from the media, there also is the reality of
a world that often seems to have gone mad. The news is full of images of war and terrorism. Newspapers and nightly news casts reflect a world that seems
to be constantly on the brink of chaos. As Mark Dery points out, it often seems as though the most dedicated people, the individuals most full of passion and conviction
are not our leaders, but terrorists, such as the Unabomber and Timothy McVeigh. Within this mass of confusing images and media messages, Andrew Cohen makes the point that the viewer
must sort through the illusion to find the truth. Which brings up the question as to whether or not media ever offers any guidelines as to what this truth
might be or where to find it. One area of the media that seems to offer coherent messages on a regular basis is cinema. While the messages that
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