During the 1960s, America is tense with conflict due to the Vietnam war and the soon- emerging counter-culture of “hippies”.

The 2000s in America were a time of uncertainty and anxiety in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the wars and Iraq and Afghanistan, and the economic recession. The Coen brothers directed the 2008 film ‘Burn After Reading’ which captures the distinctive qualities of cinema in the 2000s.

This film is an example of the Italian Neorealism style of filmmaking that was created once Italy was liberated from the reign of fascism and dictator Benito Mussolini.

Marxist criticism argues that, “everything is shaped, ultimately, by the economic system of a society” as well as the idea that,

Sergei Eisenstein analyzed films with a main focus on the editing used in a film. In other words,

The Menu was released on November 18th, 2022 and stars Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Fiennes, and Nicholas Hoult. The film parodies a very particular type of

In a nation such as the United States, consumers are flooded with an assortment of industrialized food products made in abundance for low cost each time they step into a grocery store.

During the 1950s in America, Hollywood was producing films that were generated by a type of postwar disenchantment. Shaped by the