Explores the prevalence of the gunfighter as mythic hero. Compares the depictions of Clint Eastwood's characters from the beginning of Eastwood's career ("A Fistful of Dollars" and "Pale Rider") to "Unforgiven," finding similarities and differences in each character. (PA)

Notes how the internal structure of Rudyard's "The Jungle Book,""Captains Courageous," and "Kim," are all the same, even though "Captains Courageous" is not as widely acclaimed as the other two books. (HOD)

Analyzes similarities and differences between Henry Fonda's character Colonel Thursday in John Ford's "Fort Apache" and the historical figure of General George Armstrong Custer. States that historical parallels between Thursday's military defeat and Custer's are, for the most part, fairly obvious. (PA)

Compares the character from popular medieval tales to that of Celie in Alice Walker's novel. (FL)

Explores the mythic and fairy tale parallels in Cynthia Voigt's "The Homecoming." (HOD)

Compares two illustrated retellings of the Anglo-Saxon epic "Beowulf" that show how the modern approach to myth has evolved over the past 20 years. (HOD)

The purpose of this study was to investigate how some ways of making sense of the world get privileged over others when teachers and students use specific educational films in specific learning environments. The methods of formalist and ideological film analysis are used to describe how educational films are distinct in their form and style from…

Compares and contrasts the two nineteenth-century domestic romances, "What Katy Did" and "Jack and Jill" and examines how the protagonists grow into mature and capable women. (CRH)

Compares characterization in Western and African novels. Observes that the characters in African novels are principally mediums for exposing the sociopolitical situation. (FMW)

The unreliability of first impressions and subjective judgments is the subject of both Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" and Lionel Trilling's "Of This Time, Of That Place"; consequently, the works are worthwhile parallel studies for high school students. Austen, by means of irony and subtle characterization, dramatizes the…