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Papers On Film & Television
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'The Thin Blue Line' vs. 'Brother's Keeper' / Filmmakers' Techniques
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This 7 page essay examines the documentary filmmakers' techniques and approach to their subjects in the films "The Thin Blue Line" (1988), "Brother's Keeper" (1992) and "Let's Get Lost" (1989). Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: Bluebro.wps
'The Usual Suspects' & 'The Odyssey'
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This 5 page essay discusses the 1995 movie 'The Usual Suspects' and compares Kevin Spacey's character 'Verbal Kint' with Odysseus of 'The Odyssey.' The premise the writer takes is that, in many ways, the stories are almost the same. The writer also shows that there has to be a bit of a scoundrel in every good guy and good in every scoundrel. No additional sources cited.
Filename: Suspody.wps
'Thousand Pieces of Gold' - Analyzed
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This 4 page research paper examines the 1991 film of nineteenth century Asian prejudice in America, Thousand Pieces of Gold. Specifically discussed are the film's opening and closing scenes, asks and answers five questions pertaining to the film, and considers a particularly thought-provoking aspect of the film.
Filename: Thousand.wps
'When Harry Met Sally' -- Social Penetration Theory
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The theory is discussed as exemplified by the lead characters in the movie When Harry Met Sally. The stages of development that Harry and Sally go through in their relationship are illustrated in this 7 page paper. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: Socpen.wps
“A Beautiful Mind”
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A 5 page paper discussing this story of the life of 1994 Nobel Prize winner John Forbes Nash, Jr. Nash is a mathematical genius whose promising career is nearly destroyed by the emergence of schizophrenia. The film instructs and informs, but it mostly conveys a message of hope. John maintains the hope that he will be able to construct and maintain a normal life for himself and his family; Alicia never truly loses the hope she has that the family will be healed of its stressors. All the while, the audience is held captive by the progress of John’s thoughts as we learn real facts about schizophrenia and about 1994’s Nobel Prize winner. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: KSbeautyMind.rtf
“A Chinese Ghost Story” as a Post Modern Artefact
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This 6 page paper considers how and why the well known film “A Chinese Ghost Story” directed by Ching Siu-Tung, based on a novel by Songling Pu, can be seen as a post-modern artefact. The paper examines the film and its’ make up and how the post modernist models can apply to the movie. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
Filename: TEchigst.rtf
“A critique of Sex in the City with reference to gender roles, humour and female characterisation in the series”
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A five page paper which looks at HBO’s Sex in the City in terms of the way in which the female characters are presented and the treatment of gender roles and humour in the series.
Filename: JLsexcity.wps
“A Raisin in the Sun”
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A 5 page overview of this play first performed on Broadway in 1959. The author emphasizes the familial relationships which unfold in the play. The contention is presented that a black female serves as the primary head of the fictional family presented in the film just as black females often serve as the heads of real life families today and yesterday. The lesson that eventually emerges, however, is that the love and strength of the family’s matriarch can ultimately pay off in the maturation of other family members.
Filename: PPraisin.rtf
“Affliction” and Adlerian Treatment
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A 4 page paper which examines the movie
“Affliction” and discusses psychological therapy using Adlerian theories. Bibliography
lists 1 sources.
Filename: RAafflct.rtf
“All About My Mother”
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A 7 page paper which examines a mis en scene from the Spanish film “All About My Mother.” Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: RAallmy.rtf
“American History X": Sociological Analysis
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A 4 page paper which analyzes the film “American History X” from a sociological perspective. No sources cited.
Filename: RAamx.rtf