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	American dream: Just the facts... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The American dream was a driving factor not only in the Gold Rush (A large migration of people to a newly discovered gold field) of the mid to late 1800s, but also in the waves of immigration throughout that century and the following.
		Perhaps most notable here were the great American capitalists Andrew Carnegie (United States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts (1835-1919)) and John D. Rockefeller (United States industrialist who made a fortune in the oil business and gave half of it away (1839-1937)).
		In particular, in the US it is difficult for children of poor families to afford college; not attending college sets upper limits on their career success, and it is essentially impossible to earn a bachelors' degree — necessary for many fields — in one's free time once one begins working full-time.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/am/american_dream.htm (1159 words)

	American Beauty (1999 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		American Beauty is a 1999 drama film that explores themes of love, freedom, self-liberation, family, and the American Dream.
		American Beauty focuses on the themes of the disillusioned American dream by examining the materialistic nature of Americans and the emptiness of relationships.
		In addition to the Lolita subplot, the film also provoked some controversy at the time due to a nude scene from Thora Birch, who was sixteen at the time of filming.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Beauty_(1999_film) (1400 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| News \| My American dream
		The visual grandeur of the film was exaggerated not only because of the overwhelming size of the screen, but because it was the first time I ever saw colour in a moving image.
		Film cannot be seen as separated from life, just as architecture cannot be seen as a neutral object.
		The film series that I have suggested for the Barbican is made up of very personal choices and does not claim any universal validity.
	film.guardian.co.uk /News_Story/Guardian/0,4029,1303246,00.html (770 words)

	American Beauty review
		The English director, Sam Mendes, for whom this is his first film, is a theater renegade who made his mark with The Blue Room, the sulfurous play with Nicole Kidman, the play that inspired the film Little Voice, and the Broadway adaptation of Cabaret.
		In fact, the film denounces the hypocrisy of a society obsessed with an outer appearance of success but is eaten away by frustration on the inside, thus destroying a certain American Dream.
		The young girl incarnates this American beauty symbolized by fresh rose petals (in Spacey’s fantasies) contrasted with the planted rosebushes in his wife’s garden whose rigid beauty testifies to an absence of sexual desire for his wife.
	www.plume-noire.com /movies/reviews/america.html (1155 words)

	Film \| February 1963
		The film also suggests that this country was founded on a firm sense of something larger than one's self-as the "heroic" characters of the film all strive for the betterment of the nation.
		Obviously set in the past, this film did not have to deal with the ongoing struggle for the "American Dream" as it existed in 1963, but its depiction of an America to the contrary is perhaps an unintended acknowledgement that the agitation for change exists if it must be ignored.
		By setting a film in the past, the filmmakers could chose what to omit and what to include, letting the audience fill in their own judgments and prejudices when the film is deliberately neutral or where omissions of American history have been made.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~UG03/dumlao/feb1963/film.html (2402 words)

	Columnist confused Reaganism with American dream (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		However, if Thakur had paid closer attention to the film (I say this because of factual errors in the film synopsis), and had not seen it through the filter of a pre-formed political agenda, the conclusions about the film may have been different.
		Rather, he used the promise of the dream to lure Americans into voting for him so that he could use his policies to line the pockets of his military-industrial cronies.
		Furthermore, a film that favorably portrays this type of life is not "peddling" anything any more than a film which favorably portrays a different type of life is "peddling" anything.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V109/N28/lumsda.28o.html (367 words)

	The American Dream (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The families in The Graduate were a representation of so many other families of this era, who devoted their life to achieve the American Dream: having a perfect family, education, job, wealth, and ideal sexual morals.
		When striving to live the ideal American Dream, a good education seems to be the obvious key to success.
		Along with this dream came the expected principles of virtue and honor, including the ideal moral sexual life.
	www.unc.edu /courses/2004fall/engl/012/044/thepinkpanters.html (713 words)

	gangster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		He is a man whose dream of America and what America should be is colored by his experiences of a life in fascist Italy that he escaped.
		This dream is expressed partially and fully in many of the gangster films that our culture has produced since the 1930 film "Little Caes ar".
		The early films such as "Scarface" and "L ittle Caesar" were rooted deeply in the depression when prohibition made drinking illegal and produced a nation of criminals, most famously Al Capone, whose capitalist crimes were later made moot by the 19th amendment.
	cctr.umkc.edu /user/erikjamesldy/gangster.html (1913 words)

	The American dream dissected
		American Movie is as much about the American dream as it is about the filmmaking process.
		The film shows the obstacles Borchardt faces, ranging from the humorous (how to ram an extra’s head through a cabinet) to the serious (Borchardt’s own brother believed he would end up a serial killer).
		Perhaps the most poignant moment in the film is the image of Borchardt huddled with his mother on the couch, watching the 1996 Academy Awards, the so-called year of the independent film.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~gauntlet/eg/buzz/stories/20000217/buzz6.html (494 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Frank Capra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		This beloved film artist was driven as much by self-doubt as by his belief in the power of the "little man"
		Smith, and John Doe — as an Everyman whose sudden wealth and fame, those driving myths of the "American Dream" that was Capra’s eternal subject, nearly destroy him.
		This grim portrait of small-town America enslaved by its capitalist masters is as fl as any film noir, and redemption is no longer possible through the initiative of a single principled individual, as it had been in the earlier films.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /23/capra.html (537 words)

	American Dream (1991) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		the most obvious parallel is michael moore's "roger and me." both films look at one community dealing with a corporation's decision to either cut the work force (roger and me) or drastically cut its wages (american dream).
		american dream, on the other hand, attempts to appear objective by choosing to use intertitles and keeping the filmmakers behind the camera.
		the storytelling and pacing of this film isn't as good as that of "roger and me," but when it comes to documentaries there is room for error in these areas.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0099028 (315 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Film \| Morton finds her American dream
		Her most recent film, In America, is based on director Jim Sheridan's own life story about his family emigrating from Ireland to New York.
		Yet despite Oscar nominations, the film - and Morton - were ignored at this year's Bafta awards.
		In her view, it is ultimately the director's job to exert control on a film set.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/3500219.stm (598 words)

	One Good Thing
		Even as a young child, I remember being thrilled with the inclusion he enveloped me in, at his refusal to exclude me because I was just a girl and probably not interested in stomping off into the swamp with him and whatever snake happened to be nearby.
		In 1997, 15 years after my grandfather's death, I was sitting in Facet's Multimedia watching Anthem, a documentary by two young women who quit their jobs, loaded up their car with camera equipment, and took off down the road in search of the American Dream.
		Instead, they showed several minutes of film chronicling their three days with a man well-known to be violent and unpredictable.
	buggydoo.blogspot.com /2005/02/american-dream.html (767 words)

	PAL:Appendix S: The American Dream
		The American Dream is to be understood as an ethical doctrine that is symptomatic of a crisis in national identity during the thirties.
		Adams was fully aware that the "American Dream" was a new term and had argued that his editor, Ellery Sedgwick, allow him to use it in the book's title.
		HT167.C3 Carpenter, Frederic I. American literature and the dream.
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/append/axs.html (1411 words)

	Amazon.ca: American Dream [IMPORT]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		I am a high school teacher, and I use this film as a part of a unit entitled "The American Dream." Sure, this film is titled appropriately enough, but its significance runs much deeper.
		I found this film to be a candid glimpse into the tenacity of the union struggle as well as a highlight of decisions that impacted people's lives forever.
		Each year, while my class views the film, I wonder whatever happened to the two brothers she highlights in the film -- one who was pro-union, no matter what, and one who decided to cross the picket line to support his family.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000DZTKP (698 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on American Dream at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		But in any case, the film is able to show us the sorts of activities that go on when striking union workers take on the big, bad corporation.
		The one thing I find funny about this film, though, is that while the film obviously was made from a left-wing, pro-worker perspective, the actual events that occur sort of undercut the whole notion that there is something intrinsically noble and perfect about the labor movement.
		But certainly American Dream is a good examination of a labour dispute, abling to show us all sides of the story, showing us both the good and the bad points of the company and of the different union factions.
	www.epinions.com /content_70309154436 (1134 words)

	Sowing the American Dream - How Consumer Culture Took Root in the Rural Midwest
		rom 1840 to 1900, midwestern Americans experienced firsthand the profound economic, cultural, and structural changes that transformed the nation from a premodern, agrarian state to one that was urban, industrial, and economically interdependent.
		Their actions and reactions led to the formation of a distinctive and particularly democratic consumer ethos, which is still being played out today.
		By focusing on the consumer behavior of midwestern farmers, Sowing the American Dream provides illustrative examples of how Americans came to terms with the economic and ideological changes that swirled around them.
	www.ohiou.edu /oupress/sowingdream.htm (296 words)

	The American Dream
		How does one achieve the American Dream? The answer undoubtedly depends upon one’s definition of the Dream, and there are many from which to choose. John Winthrop envisioned a religious paradise in a "City upon a Hill." Martin Luther King, Jr.
		Injury is thus a unique component of achieving the American Dream through litigation and therefore begs the question, "who in their right mind would trade health for a financial bonanza?" There are, of course, those who do, or at least fake injury.
		Many Americans would agree that blatant negligence on the part of one party, resulting in injury to another should be reasonably compensated.
	www.americansc.org.uk /Online/American_Dream.htm (6883 words)

	`Simpatico': American Dream as a Rigged Game of Chance
		As his cowboys and city slickers lunge at each other in an American landscape that resembles a corrupted suburban province of Marlboro country, we have the sense that they are divided halves of the same soul groping for an impossible reconciliation in a blighted land.
		Shepard's metaphorically charged vision of the divided American spirit doesn't translate easily into the movies because language matters so much less in film than it does on the stage, and Shepard's writing is all about the raw American vernacular and its looming, shadowy resonances.
		As wielded by Shepard, horse-racing becomes a potent metaphor for his notion of the American dream as a rigged, adrenaline-hyped game of chance.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/film/020400simpatico-film-review.html (979 words)

	Variety.com - Oscar's 'American' dream
		The film, from El Deseo SA/Renn/France 2 Cinema, is a Sony Pictures ClassicsSony Pictures Classics release domestically; it was the biggest box office winner in its category, and some pundits predicted it was too popular -- and too quirky -- to take home the trophy.
		They won for "My Mother Dreams the Satan's Disciples in New York," which presenter Jude LawJude Law commented was the most interesting title in this year's Oscar derby, and their acceptance may mark the first time anyone has ever thanked "the bikers" in an Acad speech.
		However, the "American Beauty" momentum seemed to build in the past month, as the film took awards from various unions, including the Writers, Directors and Screen Actors guilds.
	www.variety.com /article/VR1117779909?categoryid=13&cs=1 (1607 words)

	African-American Art - Sloane Art Library - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
		The catalog of this rich collection includes a brief survey of African-American art of the 19th and 20th centuries, and is heavily illustrated (120 ills.); biographies of the artists.
		Edited by William Ferris, director of the Center for the Study of the American South at UNC-Chapel Hill.
		The first major exhibition of Blacks in American art, from the 18th century to the 20th, arranged chronologically.
	www.lib.unc.edu /art/africanamerican.html (3593 words)

	Film \| In brief: Bertolucci's American Dream slashed
		The Dreamers tells the tale of an incestuous menage-a-trois in a Paris apartment during the 1969 student uprisings and is inevitably drawing comparisons with the director's 1972 drama Last Tango in Paris.
		But several explicit scenes look likely to be stripped out in order to qualify the film for an R-rating in the States.
		"We must however hand over the film according to our contract, so there is a strong likelihood that it will come out in a different way than it will be seen in the rest of the world." The Dreamers will be distributed in America by Fox Searchlight.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Film/print/0,3858,4745387-3156,00.html (309 words)

	Fuller Theological Seminary
		The purpose of the City of the Angels Film Festival is to bring together spiritually charged filmmakers, media-savvy theologians, and passionate movie viewers eager to discuss films that raise ultimate questions.
		In addition to having the opportunity to see these films on the big screen for perhaps the first time, audiences can stay after the films to listen to -- and participate in -- discussions led by expert panels of filmmakers and members of the religious and academic communities in Southern California.
		The cost of admission to each film screening is $8 for general admission and $7 for seniors and students with ID. Ticket costs for groups of 10 are discounted by $1 per ticket.
	www.fuller.edu /alumni_ae/E-News/2002-10/festival.asp (688 words)

	Open Letters: American Dreams
		But I seem to move in circles where even that word has been replaced by "jingoistic." Like the other night at the Magnolia Bakery after dinner—I was with some friends and we stopped in for dessert—everyone went for the cookies or the banana cream pudding with 'Nilla wafers except for one guy, Andy.
		American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows about it, the quaggier the mire gets.
		If you're paying attention during "The Patriot" and you know your history and you have a stake in that history, not to mention a conscience, the movie is not an entirely cartoonish march to glory.
	www.openletters.net /000703/vowell000704.html (1073 words)

	sfweekly.com \| Film \| Reel World \| American Dream \| 2002-06-12
		With our prior films, the stories were more thought out from the get-go.
		This summer they're jetting to New York to film gay life for HBO, focusing on five guys who've shared the same Fire Island house for seven summers.
		The Roxie snagged the U.S. theatrical debut of Rivers and Tides for a two-week run beginning June 26 and is negotiating to distribute the exquisite study of landscape sculptor Andy Goldsworthy that was a surprise hit at the recent S.F. International Film Festival.
	www.sfweekly.com /Issues/2002-06-12/film/reelworld.html (695 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Americas \| Profile: Arnold Schwarzenegger
		He arrived in the US speaking no English, conquered the worlds of body building and film - becoming a millionaire property magnate along the way - and was elected governor of California in an extraordinary election in late 2003.
		George W Bush was quick to link himself with the politician nicknamed the Governator, in reference to one of his most famous film roles.
		The film spawned a sequel and led to his most influential role - as an emotionless killer robot in James Cameron's cult 1984 film The Terminator.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/3131155.stm (944 words)

	American Family Association - AgapePress news
		The new films draw on Marshall's best-selling novel as the basis for the mini-series, as it was for the 1994 series on CBS TV.
		The film was enthusiastically received, both by fans and movie critics alike.
		The May 13 film, A Change of Seasons, will focus on the testing of Christy's faith in God and, on the 14th, A New Beginning will culminate with Christy as a radiant bride, having finally chosen one of the two men she's long been torn between.
	headlines.agapepress.org /archive/4/afa/172001i.asp (1566 words)

	American Experience \| Las Vegas: An Unconventional History \| Film Description \| PBS
		Once shunned as "Sin City" and considered beyond the pale of respectable society, it is now the epicenter of mainstream leisure, attracting more visitors than the holy city of Mecca.
		American Experience steps into the world of bright lights and back-room deals to illuminate what makes Las Vegas perhaps the most American city in the country.
		From its incarnation as the favorite nightspot for the men who built the Hoover Dam, to its most recent re-invention as a post-modern desert fantasyland, the city has made its living by anticipating the desires of its visitors and then catering to them.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/lasvegas/filmmore/fd.html (512 words)

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