Million dollar baby : rope burns (AKA million dollar baby) / screenplay by Paul Haggis ; based on the short stories by F.X. Toole. by Haggis, Paul

Million dollar baby /...

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Agency in the margins : stories of outsider rhetoric / edited by Anne Meade Stockdell-Giesler.

Table of Contents: “…"Protect yourself at all times" : Million dollar baby, boxing, and feminine agency /…”

The 1930s : piano, vocal, guitar.

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African Americans and the Oscar : decades of struggle and achievement / Edward Mapp. by Mapp, Edward

Table of Contents: “…2004 Morgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby…”
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Cinema as therapy : grief and transformational film / John Izod and Joanna Dovalis. by Izod, John, 1940-, Dovalis, Joanna

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Birth -- Tsotsi -- Million dollar baby -- Trois couleurs: bleu -- Trois couleurs:blanc -- Trois couleurs: rouge -- The son's room -- Spring, summer, autumn, winter and spring -- Morvern callar -- Approaching the tree of life -- The tree of life -- Envoi.…”

Clint Eastwood's America / Sam B. Girgus. by Girgus, Sam B., 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Eastwood's America -- from the self to a world view -- The first twenty years: borderline states of mind -- Unforgiven: the search for redemption -- Mo Cuishle: a new religion in Million Dollar Baby -- Cries from Mystic River: god, transcendence, and a troubled humanity -- Flags of Our Fathers/Letters from Iwo Jima: history lessons on time and the stranger.…”

Affirmative reaction : new formations of white masculinity / Hamilton Carroll. by Carroll, Hamilton, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Jack Bauer's extraordinary rendition : neoliberal melodrama and the ethics of torture -- Future perfect : "everyday heroes" and the new exceptionalism -- Men's soaps : automotive television programming and contemporary working-class masculinities -- "My skin is it startin' to work to my benefit now" : Eminem's white trash aesthetic -- The fighting Irish : ethnic whiteness and million dollar baby -- Romancing the nation : family melodrama and the sentimental logics of neoliberalism.…”

Blue ribbon papers : interactionism : the emerging landscape / edited by Norman K. Denzin ; special issue editor, Lonnie Athens ; managing editor, Ted Faust.

Table of Contents: “…Puddephatt -- The coinage of the self : money, signs, and the social self / Robert Perinbanayagam -- Santayana : entering into the drama of his social thought / Natalia Ruiz-Junco -- Death becomes Mead : toward a radical interactionist reading of Million dollar baby / Michael A. Katovich -- A home in brick city / Jeffrey M. …”
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Women willing to fight : the fighting woman in film / edited by Silke Andris and Ursula Frederick.

Table of Contents: “…An introduction / Silke Andris and Ursula Frederick -- The neomyth in film : the woman warrior from Joan of Arc to Ellen Ripley / Barbara Creed -- Just a woman among the cyborgs : Sarah Connor in Terminator 2: judgement day / Catherine Summerhayes -- Past, present, future : finding treasure in the lives of Lara Croft / Ursula Frederick -- Violence, duty and choice : the military woman in contemporary Hollywood cinema / Yvonne Tasker -- Million dollar baby : the making and unmaking of the female boxer's body / Silke Andris -- Fighting to be seen : looking for women in the West, from The searchers to The missing / Martin Flanagan -- Belles with attitude : genealogies of the new Hollywood wisecracking action heroine / Polona Petek -- Zhang Ziyi, "Martial Arthouse" and the transnational Nuxia / Leon Hunt -- Superheroine : women as martial artists in early twenty-first century cinema / Catherine Driscoll.…”
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The problem body : projecting disability on film / edited by Sally Chivers and Nicole Markotić.

Table of Contents: “…: explicating the terminally ill body in Margaret Edson's W;t / Heath Diehl -- "A man, with the same feelings" : disability, humanity, and heterosexual apparatus in Breaking the waves, Born on the fourth of July, Breathing lessons, and Oasis / Eunjung Kim -- Neoliberal risks : Million dollar baby, Murderball, and anti-national sexual positions / Robert McRuer -- Body genres : an anatomy of disability in film / Sharon L. …”

Clint Eastwood, actor and director : new perspectives / edited by Leonard Engel.

Table of Contents: “…Tibbetts -- Clint Eastwood's western films and the evolving mythic hero / Fred Erisman -- Narrative pacing and the eye of the other in The Bridges of Madison County / Raymond Foery -- The old man and the C: masculinity and age in the films of Clint Eastwood / Walter Metz -- Mystical moral miasma in Mystic River / Dennis Rothermel -- Million dollar baby: the deep heart's core / John M. Gourlie.…”
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Agency in the margins : stories of outsider rhetoric / edited by Anne Meade Stockdell-Giesler.

Table of Contents: “…Newton in Common's rap music / Coretta Pittman -- Outsider rhetoric in Italian American immigrant autobiographies / Ilaria Serra -- "To live outside the law, you must be honest" : words, walls, and the rhetorical practices of the Angolite / Scott Whiddon -- "Protect yourself at all times" : Million dollar baby, boxing, and feminine agency / Ian Edwards -- (Still) calling out from the closet? …”
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The screenwriter activist : writing social issue movies / Marilyn Beker. by Beker, Marilyn

Table of Contents: “…On the shoulders of giants: -- Labor practices: Norma Rae -- Gay and discrimination issues: Philadelphia -- Censorship: Good Morning Vietnam -- Euthanasia: Million Dollar Baby -- Abortion: Vera Drake -- 6. True or false: -- Legal precautions -- 7. …”

Audition : a memoir / Barbara Walters. by Walters, Barbara, 1929-2022

Table of Contents: “…Victory in New York -- Fun and games in Washington -- Special men in my life -- Egypt, Israel, and ¡Hola, Castro! -- The million-dollar baby -- "Don't let the bastards get you down" -- Thank heaven! …”

Screenwriting That Matters. by Beker, Marilyn

Table of Contents: “…Issue Map/Biography of Main Character Angela-A Native American Rights Activist5 ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS; Labor Practices: Norma Rae; Gay and Discrimination Issues: Philadelphia; Censorship: Good Morning Vietnam; Euthanasia: Million Dollar Baby; Abortion: Vera Drake; 6 TRUE OR FALSE; Legal Precautions; 7 PLAN OF ATTACK; The Sherlock/Snitch: The Investigation/Whistleblower Model; The Lawyer-Up: The Trial Model; The Heart-Tugger: The Relationship Model; The Chuckle: The Satirical Model; The Life: The Biopic Model; The Yoda: The Mentor Model; The Shining Knight: The Hero/Rescuer Model.…”
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Now in theaters everywhere : a celebration of a certain kind of blockbuster / Kenneth Turan. by Turan, Kenneth

Table of Contents: “…Drama/Romance -- 8 mile -- The age of innocence -- Beloved -- Clockers -- Contact -- Courage under fire -- Erin Brockovich -- Hearts in Atlantis -- House of sand and fog -- The insider -- The joy luck club -- L.A. confidential -- Liberty Heights -- A little princess -- Malcolm X -- Michael Collins -- Million dollar baby -- Miracle -- Mystic river -- One true thing -- The people vs. …”

Year by year : 1953 / Arts and Entertainment Network.

Table of Contents: “…Orange Bowl (1:23) -- The President Meets the Press and is Host to Stevenson (1:11) -- Sports (2:25) -- Truce Hopes - India May be Key to Prisoner Dispute (1:01) -- News in Brief - Colorado Uranium Mining (0:35) -- News in Brief - New York Zoo Visit (0:53) -- News in Brief - New York Spaghetti Eating Contest (0:49) -- B-47 Sets Record for Jet Bombers (1:06) -- Seattle Washington - Miss Union Label Beauty Pageant (0:38) -- New Jersey (0:53) -- Spotlight on Aviation (1:58) -- Junior Miss California (0:42) -- Million Dollar Baby (1:24) -- Big Three - Capital Meet Plots 'Cold War' Strategy (0:39) -- Sports - 1953 Preakness Stakes (1:54) -- California (0:17) -- Miss Universe - World Beauties Seek Title in California (1:10) -- 'Big Ben' Hogan Wins Br. …”
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Awake in the dark : the best of Roger Ebert; forty years of reviews, essays, and interviews / Roger Ebert; foreword by David Bordwell. by Ebert, Roger

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / David Bordwell -- Introduction -- Prologue : death of a dream palace -- Review of La dolce vita -- Warren Beatty -- Part 1 : interviews and profiles -- James Stewart -- Robert Mitchum -- Mitch and Jimmy : some thoughts -- Lee Marvin -- Ingmar Bergman -- Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader -- Robert Altman -- Werner Herzog -- Meryl Streep -- Woody Allen -- Spike Lee -- Tom Hanks -- Errol Morris -- Steven Spielberg -- Part 2 : the best -- 1967 : Bonnie and Clyde -- 1968 : The battle of Algiers -- 1969 : Z -- 1970 : Five easy pieces -- 1971 : The last picture show -- 1972 : The godfather -- 1973 : Cries and whispers -- 1974 : Scenes from a marriage -- 1975 : Nashville -- 1976 : Small change -- 1977 : 3 women -- 1978 : An unmarried woman -- 1979 : Apocalypse now -- 1980 : The black stallion -- 1981 : My dinner with Andre -- 1982 : Sophie's choice -- 1983 : The right stuff -- 1984 : Amadeus -- 1985 : The color purple -- 1986 : Platoon -- 1987 : House of games -- 1988 : Mississippi burning -- 1989 : Do the right thing -- 1990 : Goodfellas -- 1991 : JFK -- 1992 : Malcolm X -- 1993 : Schindler's list -- 1994 : Hoop dreams -- 1995 : Leaving Las Vegas -- 1996 : Fargo -- 1997 : Eve's bayou -- 1998 : Dark city -- 1999 : Being John Malkovich -- 2000 : Almost famous -- 2001 : Monster's ball -- 2002 : Minority report -- 2003 : Million dollar baby -- 2005 : Crash -- Part 3 : Foreign films -- Tokyo story -- The music room -- Au hasard Balthazar -- Belle de jour -- The wild child -- Claire's knee -- Last tango in Paris -- Fellini's Roma -- Stroszek -- The marriage of Maria Braun -- Wings of desire -- Raise the red lantern -- The scent of green papaya -- Spirited away -- City of god -- Part 4 : documentaries -- Woodstock -- Harlan County, U.S.A. -- Gates of Heaven -- Say amen, somebody -- The 'up' movies -- Shoah -- Dear America : letters home from Vietnam -- Crumb -- Heidi Fleiss, Hollywood madam -- Microcosmos -- Part 5 : overlooked and underrated -- Thieves like us -- Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia -- Saint Jack -- El norte -- To live and die in L.A. -- Trouble in mind -- Housekeeping -- The rapture -- A soldier's daughter never cries -- The saddest music in the world -- Part 6 : essays and think pieces -- That's the way it is : The color purple and the Oscars -- Legacy of Star wars -- John Cassavetes : an appreciation -- Why I love black and white -- The case for an A rating -- Well, are movies better than ever? …”