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Persian Gulf Crisis / A Fictional (Film) Account
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This 5 page report creatively discusses the possibility a fictional film about the Persian Gulf War entitled 'Forty-Three Days Later.' The writer creates a movie to illustrate the overriding technological superiority of the U.S. military and the bloodless means of devastation modern warfare is able to create. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: Gulffilm.wps

Basic Film Review / Chaplin's 'Modern Times'
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A 2 page review of the film 'Modern Times' starring Charlie Chaplin. The writer discusses the movie in the context of it being one that takes a stand against many issues (while satirizing the industrial system) and reflects the tensions of America during the latter years of the Great Depression. No Bibliography.
Filename: Modernti.wps

Identity Crisis in Fight Club
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The movie Fight Club is a study in the psychological underpinnings behind the amount of violence or pain, internal or external, a person will endure when trying to find a sense of identity within himself. Fight Club takes a group of people looking for their identities. They may be searching for identities to get over personal crises in their lives, but they will fail to find what they are looking for, in a true sense. Through its characters, the film epitomizes the psychological issues surrounding identity crises as they relate to issues such as trust vs. mistrust, autonomy vs. shame, intimacy vs. isolation, and integrity vs. despair. Bibliography lists 7 sources. JVfiteclu.rtf
Filename: JVfitecl.rtf

The Birds / Nature's Retribution
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A 5 page paper discussing the movie 'The Birds,' by Alfred Hitchcock. This movie, like most of Hitchcock's presents many disturbing images that seem to be aimed at some deviant behavior on the part of the characters. In 'The Birds' this deviant behavior is essentially the evil of man and his ignorance, and abuse, of nature. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: Thebirds.wps

How Pip Confuses Appearance For Reality in David Lean’s Film Adaptation of 'Great Expectations'
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A 5 page paper which considers how appearances are confused with reality by the main character of Pip in David Lean’s 1946 adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic novel, Great Expectations. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: TGgr8ex.rtf

Film vs. Prose: Cheever’s “The Swimmer”
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A five page paper comparing John Cheever’s short story with the 1968 Frank Perry film made from it. The paper concludes that the film suffers from an inability to transfer an interior work into a visual medium. No additional sources.
Filename: KBcheeve.wps

Bram Stoker's Dracula and F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu
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This 5 page paper compares and contrasts the film Nosferatu, with Stoker's novel Dracula, on which it is based. Mood, themes, plot and characterization are discussed as well as each work's contribution to the proliferation of the vampire myth. No additional sources cited.
Filename: SA008Vam.rtf

Family Survival in “To Live” and “Eat Drink Man Woman”
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This paper compares and contrasts the two films in terms of the favorable family aspects depicted in the films, the different ways the families are destroyed or threatened, the different styles of expressing intimacy and death, and the different ways of suggesting there is hope for the traditional family. Bibliography lists 4 sources. JVChinaf.rtf
Filename: JVChinaf.rtf

The Edge: Man Against Nature
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A 7-page review of The Edge, Lee Tamahori’s 1997 film, written by David Mamet and released by 20th Century Fox. Although the film promotes the man against man argument, that is a subtheme of man versus himself. The paper posits that Bob is the alter ego of Charles and that the authors use symbolism like wilderness, bear and rabbit to provide challenges so that a new Charles can emerge. Bibliography lists 7 sources. JVTheEdg.rtf.
Filename: JVTheEdg.rtf

I Know Where the Caged Bird Sings: Comparison Between the Novel and the Movie
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This 5 page paper provides a comparison between Maya Angelou's novel and the television movie that was based on her book. This paper outlines some of the major differences between the text of the book and the elements of the movie and determines the benefits/weaknesses as a result of these changes. No additional sources cited.
Filename: MHAngel2.wps