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Women in Film
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A 15 page paper tracing the role of women on screen. The writer describes the history of the portrayal of women from the 1930's to present day and concludes with a look at 'Waiting to Exhale.' Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: Womeni.rtf

Women in the Movies of Woody Allen
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This 5 page report discusses movie director/writer/actor Woody Allen, it has often appeared that Allen has had an on-again-off-again in terms of his attitudes and relationships about women. In one movie he may adore the quirky neurosis of Diane Keaton in the title role of “Annie Hall,” in another he may seem to be celebrating his own neurosis with an audience of an admiring 17 year-old as he did in “Manhattan.” Regardless of the setting, even the surrealistic realm of “The Purple Rose of Cairo” or “Bullets over Broadway,” Woody Allen is always bewildered by women. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Women's Roles in American Cinema Since 1967
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Many films are discussed—Little Children, The Graduate, To Kill a Mockingbird, Meet the Parents—in the context of this 8 page paper. This paper addresses changes in women's roles throughout the years as well as their negative portrayal by American filmmakers. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Woody Allen
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8 pages in length. Woody Allen has a long and illustrious movie making history of tapping into the insecurities harbored by every human being. The myriad psychoses and emotional traumas his characters typical experience speak to the way in which people are forced to deal – and often not deal – with the struggles of everyday life. One might even surmise that, upon reviewing Allen's entire filmography, that many of his filmatic creations parallel points in the writer/director's own life, serving to help him sort through issues he was forced to face as an everyday, normal human being. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: TLCWoody.rtf

Woody Allen & The Theme Of Love Short-lived
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In this 10 page paper, the writer argues that Woody Allen's films typically revolve around themes of love; particularly those that illustrate how this most hopeful emotion fades with time and is not the ever-lasting blessing that poets claim. Examples from many of his films are given to support this point. Some of the ones discussed include : 'Naked In New York,' 'A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy,' 'Love & Death,' 'Zelig,' and 'Play It Again, Sam.' Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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Woody Allen's "The Purple Rose of Cairo"
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This 6-page report discusses Woody Allen's 1985 movie starring Mia Farrow and Jeff Daniels. In “The Purple Rose of Cairo,” Allen presents the issues that revolve around escapism and the need to escape a world that one finds as far too mundane and the challenges of defining what is real and what is an illusion. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Woody Allen's Manhattan & American Culture
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An 8 page research paper/essay that analyzes Woody Allen's film Manhattan. The writer contrasts and compares this film's vision of American character and experience with the one presented in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life. The writer argues that Manhattan is informative of the problems of modernity in regards to relationships and what signifies the meaning of life in the modern age and American culture. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: khwaman.rtf

Woody Allen’s “Annie Hall” -- A Love Affair between Romance and Cynicism
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This 6 page report discusses the 1977 movie “Annie Hall” starring Diane Keaton and Woody Allen and directed by Allen. The ways that events and personal relationships unfold in the movie reflects the most deep-seated fears of the main characters, but touches everyone else, in the movie and the audience. Regardless of how well adjusted and self-confident a person may be, he or she is certain to have had some experience of the neurotic fearfulness, the nervousness, that is personified throughout “Annie Hall.” As a result, it is exceedingly easy to identify with the characters and their situations and to feel both sympathy and identify with the situations they face. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: BWannie.wps

Working Women in “Nine to Five”
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This 3 page paper critiques the film “Nine to Five” with regard to its portrayal of women (and men) in the workplace. Bibliography lists sources.
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X-Files
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This 7 page paper argues that the television series, the X-Files, provides viable social commentary within a number of genres, specifically science fiction, thrillers and adventure. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: KTxfiles.doc