Onalee McGraw
Hello Bedford Falls! Rebuilding the Ethic of Community with Classic Movie Storytelling
Experiencing the artistic excellence of these great classic films, today's college and high school students can gain greater freedom to...
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Civic Education for the Rising Generation: Classic Movies Say Our Hearts Still Have Their Reasons
"The heart has its reasons which reason knows not" -Blaise Pascal These films shine a radiant light on one great perennial "Reason of...
Onalee McGraw
From "Me" to "We" in the Art of Classic Film: 15 Movies that Work to Depolarize Our Civil Society
Classic Movie Storytelling for Restoring the Ethic of Community in our Civil Society by Onalee McGraw, Director, Educational Guidance...
Onalee McGraw
The Heart Has Its Reasons: Romantic Love Revisited in 30 Great Films from the Classic Era
From Frank Capra's It Happened One Night (1934) to William Wyler's How to Steal a Million (1966) These 30 classic films bring to this...
Onalee McGraw
Loving Rightly in Community through the Art of Classic Film: Ten Case Studies
"To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way...for the object of education is to teach us...
Onalee McGraw
Taking the Higher Road to Civic Friendship with Classic Films in a Broken World
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge...
Onalee McGraw
Double Indemnity: Classic Realism in "Code-Sealed" Hollywood
The Definitive Film Noir about Love Gone Wrong Double Indemnity is famous for becoming the film that defined the Film Noir genre. In Film...
Onalee McGraw
The Best Years of Our Lives: Golden Age Storytelling in the Mode of Classic Realism
“Order, it has become clear, is a very fragile thing; And order is especially vulnerable under the cultural conditions of a postmodern...
Onalee McGraw
Elevating the Human Spirit with It’s A Wonderful Life
It’s a Wonderful Life in Film History In 2005, nearly 60 years after its release, It’s a Wonderful Life appeared in the #1 place on the...
Onalee McGraw
Men And Women In Love: The View From Classic Hollywood
Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable in the 1930s and Natalie Wood and Steve McQueen in the 1960s present a vivid cultural memory for...
Onalee McGraw
Roman Holiday: Unveiling the Beauty of Authentic Love in a Culture of Radical Individualism
“The beautiful stops us in our tracks, elects us, and then sends us on mission. This is true of something as simple as a beautiful book...
Onalee McGraw
No Way Out (1950): Seeking Moral Truth For Life's Hard Questions
“To understand the miracle of moral communities that grow beyond the bounds of kinship we must look not just at people, and not just at...
Onalee McGraw
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington:Rebuilding Moral Community and Overcoming Group Identity Politics
“Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private virtue, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics.” – John Adams...
Onalee McGraw
On the Waterfront: Conscience, Solidarity and Overcoming Tribal Indifference
“We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty” - G. K Chesterton Rebuilding the Bonds of...
Onalee McGraw
12 Angry Men; a conversation on things that matter most in a free society
“It is nonsense to imagine that a free political community can survive without citizens who purse lives of virtue.” - James Madison 12...
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