Wall Street best reflects the values of conspicuous consumption which came to define the 1980s. From a historical perspective, some of the most interesting works of art which fail to convey the artists’ message and become popular for reasons that...

The 1987 film Wall Street is an American financial drama displaying the life of a young and upcoming stockbroker, Bud Fox, as he learns to traverse the money-churning waters of Wall Street in New York City. Bud, the biological son of an airline...

Oliver Stone’s film Natural Born Killers is an exemplar of the 1990s. This is because of several reasons. First, the film utilizes editing techniques that are evocative of the heyday of MTV (itself a 1980s phenomenon, although that is a topic for...

During and after the Vietnam War, Hollywood studios produced several films depicting the realities of the war from different angles. The films exhibit variations in their aesthetics and even occasionally some have conflicting ideas about the war...