Criminology and Film Analysis

This study material from Desklib covers two topics: Criminology and Film Analysis. The Criminology section includes an essay on the movie King Kong, analyzing its themes and symbolism. The Film Analysis section includes a summary of the Battleground Brick Lane walk, a historical tour of the East End of London. The material includes references for further reading.

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Film: KING KONG
SUMMARY
King Kong is a thrilling movie as it is both intriguing and captivating by providing rich
thematic sceneries and presence. It was produced by Jan Blenkin, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and
Carolynne Cunningham. It was directed by Peter Jackson. It was an epic monster adventure
movie which became as a remake of the 1993 movie of similar name. The movie narrates the
story of the ambitious filmmaker that coerced his cast as well as hired ship crew for travelling to
mysterious Skull Island. In the Island, the crew encountered a legendary giant gorilla, Kong who
is then captured and taken to the NY City. The budget for the film was $273 million having
climbed from the original budget of $150 million. The target audiences include anti-colonialist,
racist and the rich white elites, Asian and Africans who are being misused and looked down
upon by the wealthy white elites.
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We can easily observe how the film has proven so enduring: as humans, affection for the
giant apes appears hard-wired into people’s DNA, and each person loves freaky mystery islands
complete of anachronistic dinosaurs as well as fantastical beats. Moreover, it shows how the
King Kong has never left us: as vampires, superheroes and zombies, the giant ape story from
Somewhere Else- a creature that was worshiped as a good in his individual world, who was
kidnapped and subsequently taken to US in shackles for serving as a plaything for the rich white
elite-has proven particularly metaphorically wealthy (Creed, 2016).
Further, a deeper symbolic importance of movie regarding a simian monster that climbs
phallic skyscrapers in search of sexy but unavailable actresses is represented. This is what the
monkey business entails. The film is a true reflection of tenor of times that remain very racist as

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King Kong occurs in an imperialist fever dream of the East. This is seen as the film ushers in the
fictional Skull Island, situated off Sumatra in Indian Ocean-albeit its inhabitants remain
generally codes as Africans and Asian at times. King Kong himself remains the dark, mysterious
East personified-a brutal, vicious beast that destroys adventures, dinosaurs, New Yorkers as well
as New York alike. The movie is also readable as anti-colonialist allegory whereby King Kong is
really a proud as well as untamed native warrior (Fang 2017). He is represented both as a king
and a free soul in his individual world that is captured, kidnapped, and subsequently transferred
to shackles across ocean, and compelled to wear a show for amusement of debauched white
elites thus rebelling so righteously. Kong remains a beast instead of increasingly
anthropomorphic creature that he would otherwise became over years.
THE BATTLEGROUND BRICK LANE WALK
The Battleground Brick Lane was created by David Rosenberg in 1970. During those
years Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts intensified started to campaign against the Jewish
community, specifically in London’ East. The campaign was more physical intimidating, this
made Jewish group to debate on ways on how they can prevent Fascist threats, and forging
alliance with other campaigners. This created tension which made 100,000 people, particularly
from the Irish communities and local Jewish to prevent Mosley’s troops from entering the East
End. In Battle for the East End, Rosenberg displayed the varying nature of the British union
thoughts regarding the Jewish and defines the actual enmity between those who were resistance
to the Fascist and the entire leaders of Jewish community. David is a leader for the tour walk. He

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is interestingly and massively well educated, giving people a combination of personal details and
historical concerning to the environment and what took place there that truly brought the age
30s- the politics and the people alive. He displayed love and respect for the streets of Brick Lane,
and explained in detail the important of Battle Lane walk. David separated his working time
between training teachers, educating adult, cultural projects, giving talks, working on education,
writing and providing guidance to people on the actual history walks. David participated in the
east end walk in the early 1970s and late 1970s. It was a year of a dramatic decade in history.
Brick lane encounter problems in a changing population, Decline on the docks, renewed fascist
activity, new immigrant, and streets were full of bloodshed. These were the new challenges on
the horizon, but then again desire for progress and a new energy (Brosnahan 2017)
Brick Lane and the environment that surround it turned out to be a battleground and a
center where many of these problems were fought out. The walk takes people through most of
the events that was performed locally in 1970s and the individuals involved thousands of people
(Pereira-Ares 2018)
Battleground Brick Lane was very interesting insight of modern history that many people
had certain peripheral involvement with but had little knowledge of David’s personal anecdotes
and community activist, and in which all of them was full of a lovely assisting of irrelevant.
Battleground Brick lane is a recent history that is thoroughly researched, and was brought to real
life in a thoughtful way and an engaging yet again by David (Singh 2017.)

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References
Brosnahan, T., 2017. Turkey: Bright Sun, Strong Tea: on the Road with a Travel Writer. Travel
Info Exchange, Inc.
Creed, B. (2016). Tropical Malady: Film & the Question of the Uncanny Human-
Animal. eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 10.
Fang, K., 2017. Arresting Cinema: Surveillance in Hong Kong Film. Stanford University Press.
Pereira-Ares, N., 2018. ‘She Had Her Hijab Pulled Off’: Dressed Bodies Do Matter in Monica
Ali’s Brick Lane. In Fashion, Dress and Identity in South Asian Diaspora Narratives (pp. 149-
194). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Singh, A., 2017. NUANCES OF CHETTIAR FINANCING AT BRITISH MALAYA, C. MID-
1870s TO EARLY 1890s. SEJARAH: Journal of the Department of History, 26(1).