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American Beauty
Media Institution
The institution to which American Beauty belongs is Dreamworks SKG. ...
It is very difficult to categorise American Beauty, it is a film which defies any typical niche created by widely recognised genres. ... American Beauty, although not classified as your typical thriller, still maintains some of the characters of the thriller. ... Produced by Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks, American Beauty serves to illustrate the typical rockwellean American family living in suburbia with a white picket fence. A mother and father both with high paying jobs and their teenage daughter, living together financially comfortable, living what could be termed as the ‘American Dream’. ... To put it another way, American Beauty highlights how all is not all what is seems, how one needs to look closer before classifying the typical generic American family. ... He attempts to communicate to jane, through the different scenarios he films, how life in all its forms, even the process of death, portray a beauty unlike any other.
An alternative way of filming American Beauty could have been to parrallel it with the main concerns of the film. ...
Audience
As a consequence of the difficulty of placing American beauty in a category, it is also somewhat difficult to determine a target audience for the film. ... The ideology behind American Beauty serves to challenge the given set of ruling values that is how Christian morals apply to generic family life.
Approximate Word count = 1136
Approximate Pages = 4.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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