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...division between wealthy and poor, Neapolitan and non-Neapolitan. This is especially important given that the main agent for change, the Italian government, has been unable to effectively combat crime or win allies in the extremely insular Neapolitan society. However, these are minor gripes. The movie’s themes??poverty, drugs, gang violence, immigration, pollution—are endemic in western society. If you do a bit of pre-viewing research into the current condition of Naples, “Gomorrah” rewards you with a cinematic experience that is chilling in its reality...
...everybody’s fingertips, and the specific community into which one is born is becoming increasingly incidental. Rather than be forced to study one or two nations, the way the program is set up now, students should be given the freedom to study larger “themes?? like the roots of revolution or the rhetoric of religion, subjects which are inherently interdisciplinary and transnational.To rebuke Hist and Lit too severely would be unfair, however. The program is largely dependent upon departmental course offerings, and “transnationalism” as a concept has not been...
...said if comedy writing fell through, he would be a “funny lawyer—the lawyer who gets all the laughs in court and then his client goes to the gas chamber for jaywalking.” Reiss said his show has “universal themes?? that garner it a wide audience, though he noted that, despite its popularity, The Simpsons is not a hit in Japan because the characters have four fingers—the sign of the Japanese mafia. But celebrities, said Reiss, love the show. Even Paris Hilton, who was called...
...much interwoven with the place,” says Costanzo. Locals were excited to see their city finally being portrayed as itself, he says: “The people on the crew went crazy over it.” Vancouver reflects one of the film’s central themes??not everything is as it seems. Several characters in the film mask their often shady means of earning money. “The city itself was selling the tone for the movie,” says Song. “Vancouver sells out to the highest bidder...
...come. Richardson is especially good at tracing particular James theories from their first gestations to their eventual appearance in published form. As Richardson puts it, while it may seem that James’ later philosophical framework was formulated far after his early interest in psychology, many of his later themes??religious experience, the meaning and use of “truth,” and the benefits of pluralism—are clearly indicated in James’ writing even before the publication of his major work, almost as if it “couldn?...