Archive for March, 2009
Research on Brazil
Usefull sights:
http://www.geographia.com/brazil/brazihistory.htm
http://www.pacificislandtravel.com/south_america/brazil/about_destin/culture.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Brazil
http://www.mapsofworld.com/brazil/capital.html
http://www.mapsofworld.com/country-profile/brazil1.html
Parts of Brazils Culture.
- Music: Samba
- Capital is Brasilia but was orginally Rio de Janeiro.
- Sports: Football and Vollyball.
| Distribution of the Brazilian population according to their religions and faiths[1] | ||
|---|---|---|
| Religion | Population (million) | Proportion (%) |
| Roman Catholicism | 130 | 74% |
| Protestantism | 25 | 15.4 |
| No religious affiliation, agnostics and atheists | 12 | 7.4% |
| Spiritism | 2.2 | 1.3% |
| Afro-Brazilian Religions | 0.3% | |
| Other religions | 1.7% | |
Due to the oil crisies in 1973 and 1979 the country was put into great debt.
Famous Brazilions.
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Gisele Bundchen
http://knowledgerush.com/kr/encyclopedia/List_of_famous_Brazilians/
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/famous-people-from-brazil.html
Add comment March 23, 2009
Focus Group for media Critical Research
This is the question that I will be asking all my focus groups; Question: How are the female roles represented in the original and the remake film genre film noir.
For my focus group I will get a few different age ranges, to compare the different generations that the genre film noir has effected. My first focus group was with middle aged women age ranging from 40-50 years of age. Also in the focus group I showed the women some scenes from “The Big Sleep” original and remake.
The Response that was common was that women in the original seemed to be very independent but is also second best to the male character. The focus group seemed to identify the typical female roles characteristics, The femme Fatale was “The Bitch”, There is a house wife role who is there to represent the typical 1930’s women.
My focus group talked about how the women are the support for the male characters in the film noir genre. And are in the films to look pretty. This was challenge by some of the women saying that the character like the femme fatale makes the film noir genre because of the typical story lines, where the male lead is always enticed by the femme fatale.
Add comment March 4, 2009