An analytical essay critiquing Latino images in West Side Story

Film. It's a medium that showcases art to its highest potential. It creates emotion and storytelling by using pictures in rapid succession to create the illusion of movement. Some critics herald film as marvelous due to its innovativeness whereas others view film as propagating class differences by solely marketing it's product to a core target audience: Caucasians. Minorities in film have seldom been realistically portrayed thus creating outside groups to form opinions of the subordinate …

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