University Wire 10-01-1999 (The State News) (U-WIRE) EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Rarely does a movie come along that stuns critics and audiences the way "American Beauty" does. It is films like this that remind people of the magic of the cinema. "American Beauty" is...

University Wire 09-27-1999 (The Tech) (U-WIRE) CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- DreamWorks seems to be learning lessons -- but they're entirely the wrong kind of lessons. After some early good-to-middling films doing good-to-middling business, it seems that the strategy should be simple: make better movies. Instead,...

The Supreme Court explored Tuesday whether it could limit the reach of a child pornography law so that it would not apply to legitimate creative expression, vivid adolescent imaginations or innocent e-mails with provocative headings.The court took up a challenge to a provision of a...

Being named Playboy magazine's 2007 Playmate of the Year made Sara Jean Underwood feel sick."I thought I was going to puke," she told The Associated Press. "I thought I was going to faint. I thought I was going to cry. It was every emotion you...

Examines the film American Beauty, directed by Sam Mendes and starring Kevin Spacey. Discusses the features of the film which make it distinctive in terms of artistic and/or technical achievement. Reveals how those features enhanced the understanding of the film.

Discusses how the film American Beauty presents a dark, cynical side of the American Dream that is often not seen in modern films. Details how characterization, cinematography and color all contributed towards the depiction of turmoil brewing beneath the average suburban town.

Analyzes Peter Skrzynecki's immigrant chronicle, Sky High, Esther Hautzig's autobiographical novel The Endless Steppe and the Sam Mendes' film American Beauty. Examines how each source portrays change as a consequential concept. Details how each source portrays the consequences that come with change.