http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/201/daniel-j-schneider Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:02:59 -0400 Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:02:59 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/267/ending-the-exceptional-defiance-of-conventions-in-dennis-hoppers-easy-rider By Daniel J. Schneider - This overarching assumption is more difficult to find in later Westerns; films like John Ford’s The Searchers, while not overtly condemning the actions of its mysterious protagonist, are certainly not exactly ecstatic about the Western White Man; both in his attempts to control a land and an indigenous people who never seemed to want him there in the first place.. In fact, that old teleological ethic - which kept America strong through a civil war, two world wars and two centuries of expansion - was beginning to erode. In 1969, after years of protests against institutional racism, the Vietnam... Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:05 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/267/ending-the-exceptional-defiance-of-conventions-in-dennis-hoppers-easy-rider http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/230/a-trip-through-peter-kubelkas-unsere-afrikareise-our-trip-to-africa By Daniel J. Schneider - Peter Kubelka’s 1966 film “Unsere Afrikareise” or “Our Trip to Africa” is a remarkably unique bit of filmmaking.  Despite a true story to go along with the film’s production (of Kubelka’s distaste for the bourgeois Europeans he was filming), it is very simplistic in its premise: a group of white Europeans go on a hunting trip in Africa; having fun, shooting wildlife, and interacting with the natives.  However, one might already tell that this is not so simple, as the thought of these middle-class whites coming into contact with the indigenous... Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:01 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/230/a-trip-through-peter-kubelkas-unsere-afrikareise-our-trip-to-africa