Lastly, I look at the scenes of Rocky training with dead animals, comparing these with the scenes where he trains with live dogs. The essay looks at the ways in which Rocky and Adrian regard animals differently than the other characters in the film as they refuse to injure them or regard them merely as food for consumption instead, Rocky keeps them as pets and Adrian works at a pet store. Adams work on women and meat as well as Haraway’s recent work on companion species. Analyzing the film’s engagement with capitalism, meat, and animals, the essay engages in discussion with Carol J. This essay examines the relationships between humans and animals in the first and last of the films in the Rocky series starring Sylvester Stallone. This movie, with a focus on Rocky IV, is a great example of how USA employed soft power through Hollywood industry, and the acceptance of the movie in the 1980s by the global mass is a great example of how influential soft power can truly be. One of those movies is Rocky saga, which are the movies about a boxing US hero, who is unbeatable, and poses as a symbol of US power. US movie industry focused on creating plots of the movies which would indirectly exert influence on the wider masses, in Europe, USSR, and other countries. One of the tools of soft power employed, was through pop culture of the 1980s, via Hollywood industry and creation of USA-themed big-grossing movies, with great actors and popular topics. USA, as a superpower, employed soft power as a mean of spreading their political and ideological influence, especially during the Cold War. Soft power is best described as imposing influence on the other states, through different canals like movies, student exchanges, media, etc. Since the world, after the World Wars, shifted from violence and wars, a new power remerged, called soft power, which now relies more on the global influence, and not on hard means of power like. International relations have mostly been about power, according to realism, amongst other shifts in the international politics, so it is crucial to understand it. Power has always been a concept around which many have been pondering, in a sense of trying to achieve it. The hypothesis of the study is that the films of Balboa series are reflecting the life of American low income class ‘realistic’ with Rocky Balboa’s character, and the hypothesis is going to want to verify it along the study. The life line of Balboa which we have begun to witness while he was living in a poor neighborhood leads us to the different faces of his life along the six films of series: firstly, the world championship that he got by defeating Apollo Creed, then keeping his belt for a long time and defeating Ivan Drago, then losing all his wealth and has to return to the neighborhood where he was living previously and the last fight that he did during his retirement. It will try to understand the mission which is given to Rocky along the film series by examining the concepts such as the values which Rocky represents, class standing, moving up in social ladder, etc. This study is aiming to scrutinize that how American low income class is represented in Rocky Balboa film series in regards of Rocky Balboa character.
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