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The Devil Wears Prada: Why Fashion Is Important
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This 4 page paper uses the movie “The Devil Wears Prada” as a “springboard” to consider the impact of fashion on young women, and why fashion is important. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: HVDvPrda.rtf

The Director’s “Spectator” and the Audience’s Guide -- Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window”
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This 3 page report discusses Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 classic, Rear Window, which starred the much-loved “Jimmy” Stewart as L.B. “Jeff” Jeffries, the man in the “rear window.” The argument is made that the character of Jeffries serves as the “eyes” of both the director and the audience and that what he sees is truly horrific. No sources listed.
Filename: BWjeffri.rtf

The Dissemination and Marketing of Music from Tin Pan Alley to the Modern Day
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This 8 page paper looks at the way music has been distributed and marketed from the latter part of the nineteenth century and the role of Tin Pan Alley up until the model day of the internet and the iPod. Included in the paper is consideration of the impact of technology including records, cassette tapes, CD's and MP3 files as well as the role of the media. The bibliography cites 4 sources.
Filename: TEtinpanmod.rtf

The Disturbing Worldview of Alfred Hitchcock
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This 5 page paper argues that Alfred Hitchcock's worldview is that evil lurks in mundane situations; that the evil can either be man-made or nature; and that its existence is illustrated by scenes from "North by Northwest" and "The Birds." Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: HVBrdNNW.rtf

The Doctor (1991)
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In six pages, the author gives a reaction to the movie, 'The Doctor,' which is based on the true story of Dr. Edward Rosenbaum, a surgeon who found himself with cancer of the throat. This movie was from the prospective of a doctor that becomes a patient. While a patient, Dr. McKee (actor William Hurt) was able to see the arrogance and total lack of sensitivity of his colleagues. No sources cited.
Filename: PCdoctor.doc

The Doomed Love Affair of “Annie Hall”
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This 5 page report discusses the 1977 movie “Annie Hall,” directed by and Woody Allen and starring Allen and Diane Keaton. The audience knows with a sad sense of finality (and cynicism) that the love affair of the story is doomed from its beginning but that does not mean that it need not be a very funny process to reach that ending. The movie also celebrates the neuroses that make people unique and that serve as the quirks that are first enchanting to a love interest and then painfully annoying. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: BWdoomAH.rtf

THE DRAMATIC IDIOM OF SHEPARD AND MAMET
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This 5 page paper discusses the new dramatic idiom of Sam Shepard and David Mamet compared to Arthur Miller Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams. Examples given from the plays and cited. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: MBscrnwrtr.rtf

The Drug Culture of the 1970s and its Relationship to Rock Music
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This 10 page report discusses the ways in which America's counterculture learned to turn to drugs, sex, and rock and roll to express their discontent with society in the late 1960s and early 1970s. As the rebellion grew, musicians turned to angry guitars and crashing drums to illustrate their frustration. Artists such as the Kinks, Jimi Hendrix and The Who turned up their amplifiers in order to reach out to the growing discontent of America's youth. And when the volume got turned down, it was to hear Eric Clapton's 1973 version of Bob Marley's I Shot the Sheriff and the JJ Cale classic Cocaine. Drugs and rock and roll were undeniably interrelated throughout the seventies. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: BWrock.wps

The Dual Conflicts Between Civilization and Savagery, Old and New, Appearance and Reality in Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire"
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An 8 page paper (7 pages + 1 page outline) which analyzes the dual conflicts between civilization and savagery, old and new, appearance and reality war in Tennessee Williams 1947 play, "A Streetcar Named Desire."
Filename: TGstrecar.wps

The Dynamics of Music in the Black Church
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A 10 page paper which offers a research proposal for studying the dynamics of music in the Black church. Bibliography lists 20 sources.
Filename: RAafmus.rtf