Onalee McGrawDec 12, 20239 min readHow Classic Movies Help to Renew Civic Engagement for Ourselves and the Rising Generation by Onalee McGraw, Director, Educational Guidance Institute Introducing a New Curriculm From Educational Guidance Institute Teaching and...
Onalee McGrawDec 11, 202212 min readHello 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...
Onalee McGrawSep 14, 202216 min readCivic 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 McGrawApr 8, 202214 min readFrom "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 McGrawMar 23, 20229 min readThe Heart Has Its Reasons: Romantic Love Revisited in 30 Great Films from the Classic EraFrom 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 McGrawJul 30, 202011 min readLoving 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 McGrawJul 27, 202010 min readTaking 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 McGrawNov 15, 20195 min readDouble Indemnity: Classic Realism in "Code-Sealed" HollywoodThe Definitive Film Noir about Love Gone Wrong Double Indemnity is famous for becoming the film that defined the Film Noir genre. In Film...
Onalee McGrawOct 26, 20194 min readThe 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 McGrawOct 23, 20195 min readElevating the Human Spirit with It’s A Wonderful LifeIt’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 McGrawOct 21, 20196 min readMen And Women In Love: The View From Classic HollywoodClaudette Colbert and Clark Gable in the 1930s and Natalie Wood and Steve McQueen in the 1960s present a vivid cultural memory for...
Onalee McGrawOct 18, 20194 min readRoman 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 McGrawOct 16, 20196 min readNo 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 McGrawOct 15, 201911 min readMr. 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 McGrawOct 11, 20195 min readOn 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 McGrawOct 9, 20192 min read12 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...
