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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
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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
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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
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