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Mullins, Anthony. "Screenwriting with Stanislavsky : Augmenting a Screenwriting Process Using Stanislavsky’s ‘System’." Thesis, Griffith University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366510.

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When screenwriter and doctoral candidate, Anthony Mullins, first started studying Konstantin Stanislavsky’s ‘system’ of performance and script analysis, he hoped the well-known acting technique would be a useful tool for screenwriters. Mullins assumed that because Stanislavsky’s technique analysed all the characters of a story (not just the protagonist) it would naturally be a more detailed approach than conventional techniques like the ‘three-act structure’. It also appeared that Stanislavsky’s ‘system’ had the added advantage of being familiar to actors, the very people who would eventually

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Fernandes, Bahia Baer Carlos. "Screenwriting in the era of binge-watching." Master's thesis, Akademie múzických umění v Praze.Filmová a televizní fakulta. Knihovna, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-392833.

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Nástup VOD přinesl novou formu spotřeby obsahu: binge-watching. Tato práce zkoumá, jak tento posun začal ovlivňovat scénář seriálů, které jsou koncipovány tak, aby byly zhlédnuty hned po sobě (binge-watched).

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Ferrell, Rosemary Kaye. "Voice in Screenwriting: Discovering/Recovering an Australian Voice." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2017. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2004.

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This creative practice research explores the concept of an identifiable screenwriter’s voice from the perspective of screenwriting as craft, proposing that voice can be understood and described based on its particular characteristics. Voice is understood to be the authorial presence of the screenwriter, whose mind shapes every aspect of the text. This presence is inscribed in the text through the many choices the screenwriter makes. More than this, the research argues that the choices made inflect the text with a cultural-national worldview. This occurs because of the close association between

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Cake, Susan A. "Narrative comedy screenwriting: Facilitating self-directed, transformative learning." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2018. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/116355/8/__qut.edu.au_Documents_StaffHome_StaffGroupH%24_halla_Desktop_Susan_Cake_Thesis.pdf.

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This creative practice-led research examines the author's transformative learning experience that was facilitated by writing narrative comedy screenplays. Critical reflection on experiences of change management informed the themes and characters in the proposed television series titled Fighting Fit. Critical feedback from a professional script editor, as an industry mentor, was incorporated into the writing process as part of the action research cycle. The exegesis examines the self-directed, transformative learning journey which revealed how parody can perform creative resistance to the corpo

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Maxwell, Nicholas Elliott, and nmaxwel1@bigpond net au. "Black Comedy and the Principles of Screenwriting/The Actions." RMIT University. Creative Media, 2008. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20081212.123034.

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This exegesis will aim to research and analyse the conventions of writing a black comedy in a feature film script. As a screenwriter with a particular interest in black comedy, my aim is to explore the technical structures of black comedy in order to facilitate the writing of a tragicomic screenplay. We will attempt to define the components of black comedy and survey its origin in theatre and literature. The exegesis will aim to explore what components comprise the middle ground between drama and humour and position it in relation to the classical genres of tragedy and comedy. The ex

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Noble, Carol Susan. "'A people to come' : screenwriting the new social subject." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/4088.

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In this thesis I am going to investigate they ways in which characters in script texts might be re-written in order to move them away from being narrative objects and towards a sense of them as ‘different social subjects’. By this I mean characters that are capable of multiple telling and that are portrayed as self-aware, self-determining individuals. Why should I want to do this? The 3-Act structure and the associated formula for creating characters, to which most modern films adhere, compels the screenwriter to objectify all of the individuals portrayed. One reason for this is that the formu

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Curran, Stephen Charles. "Early screenwriting teachers 1910-1922 : origins, contribution and legacy." Thesis, Brunel University, 2015. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/13581.

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This thesis demonstrates the previously unacknowledged contribution made by early screenwriting teachers to the development of the Hollywood film industry from 1910 to 1922. Through a study of five key screenwriting teachers from the period, it shows the significant role played by such figures in the translation of playwriting theory and theatrical tradition into writing for film. Drawing on an extensive range of primary materials, including manuals and columns written for the fan and trade press, it demonstrates the role played by such teachers in the formation and codification of a set of wr

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McAulay, Alexander. "The western screenwriter in Japan : screenwriting considerations in transnational cinema." Thesis, Bournemouth University, 2018. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/30896/.

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This PhD investigates the writing of a feature film screenplay for mainstream Japanese-language cinema by a British screenwriter. As a long-term resident of Japan with production credits in Japanese cinema, I have for many years been interested in how to write stories set in Japan that will appeal to domestic and international audiences. The study examines the challenges I face as a Western screenwriter writing a screenplay for Japanese cinema, and how those challenges inform my creative practice, bringing into being a screenplay that is intended to enhance screenwriting craft in mainstream Ja

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Crittenden, Nicholas. "The generative image : visual screenwriting and the substance of screenplay structure." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.368359.

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Ajayi, Olugbenga Bamidele. "Transcending the oral roots of screenwriting practices in the Nigerian cinema." Thesis, Bournemouth University, 2017. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/29007/.

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Nigeria has no developed tradition of screenwriting and films tend to be built on principles and techniques derived from oral heritage. Thus the oral and the performative dominate Nigerian film language. The core research problems and questions of this project revolve around how screenwriting practices can be evolved, given the strong influence of oral traditions. The key aim of my practice led research is to improve the quality of Nigerian films by building on and transcending the oral traditions, through developing a more visual and cinematic approach to screenwriting in Nigeria. The researc

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Mullins, Anthony. "The plot against character : Towards a character-centred model of screenwriting." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2004. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/15942/1/Anthony_Mullins_-_The_Curlies.pdf.

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Summary of exegesis A review and critique of some of the most popular screenwriting concepts as well as a proposal for a screenplay model that seeks to conceptually synthesise character with structure. Summary of Screenplay When Andrew's infamous punk band is forced to earn extra money playing part-time as a children's act they unexpectedly discover a potentially lucrative market for their music. Unfortunately, playing to screaming three year olds is not the rock and roll lifestyle Andrew was hoping for as he approaches his thirtieth birthday. Tensions within the band grow and the old

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Mullins, Anthony. "The plot against character : Towards a character-centred model of screenwriting." Queensland University of Technology, 2004. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/15942/.

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Summary of exegesis A review and critique of some of the most popular screenwriting concepts as well as a proposal for a screenplay model that seeks to conceptually synthesise character with structure. Summary of Screenplay When Andrew's infamous punk band is forced to earn extra money playing part-time as a children's act they unexpectedly discover a potentially lucrative market for their music. Unfortunately, playing to screaming three year olds is not the rock and roll lifestyle Andrew was hoping for as he approaches his thirtieth birthday. Tensions within the band grow and the old

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Trevino, Ryan. "Packingtown." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2012. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/131.

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Warzak, Katheryn. "VelociRapture." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2015. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2113.

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Hunter, Catherine Jane. "The Transmogrification of St Bunnycrisp." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20716.

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Into the life of cowardly Poppy comes a scary 6 foot tall talking rabbit whose job it is to give bullies a taste of their own medicine. But Poppy is a good girl, it's Jessica who's mean, who makes Poppy's life miserable, who gave Poppy the stupid rabbit as a 10th birthday present in the first place! But then he was just a soft-toy; not this monster in her closet. Did St. Bunnycrisp get sent to the wrong girl? On the way to finding the answers to these questions Poppy and St. Bunnycrisp become best friends and go on adventures in a parallel fantasy realm. That is until St. Bunnycrisp's fate is

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Espost, Carla Inez. "Duiwelsdorp (2015): a Sangoma's story of South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20034.

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"I live my life with stories that came before me. I tell stories because of stories that were told before. I wrote a story, a screenplay, called Duiwelsdorp 'Devil Town' because of stories that were told before me, to me and now a story lives within me. I am a storyteller because I am a woman, born from woman, alive through story. I am a woman because I give birth - to story, who actually first gave birth to me…It is in this sense that I then take up my place next to this "new generation of post-apartheid South African filmmakers" (storytellers/historians) and assume the duty of reminding my s

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Jacey, Helen J. "Journey to nowhere : the writing of Loy and Christopher Vogler's screenwriting paradigm." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2010. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/5211/.

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This practice-based PhD comprises an original screenplay Loy, about the modernist poet and artist Mina Loy (1882-1966), and a thesis which reflects on the writing of the screenplay using The Writer's Journey by Christopher Vogler (2007) as a creative aid. Vogler presents a screenwriting paradigm called The Hero's Journey which is adapted from the mythological theories of Joseph Campbell (1949) and is influenced by Jungian psychology. The research question asks how the Hero's Journey is relevant to the development of Loy with two female protagonists and whether the paradigm is universal in term

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Conor, Bridget Elizabeth. "Screenwriting as creative labour : pedagogies, practices and livelihoods in the new cultural economy." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2010. http://research.gold.ac.uk/2642/.

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This thesis analyses screenwriting as an exemplary and idiosyncratic form of creative labour in the ‘new cultural economy’ and specifically, in the contemporary UK screen production industry. Using a critical sociological framework combined with a neo-Foucauldian understanding of work and subjectivity, a series of explicit analytical connections are made in this project, between screenwriting, creative labour and the new cultural economy. I contend that screenwriting, as a form of creative labour which in many ways eschews the term ‘creative’, is an instructive, timely case study precisely bec

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Gritten, Daniel John. "The profession and practice of screenwriting in British cinema, the 1920s and 1930s." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/19c45812-ac51-4daf-b5dc-a1a310b6475e.

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Millman, Eric B. "The Stars of David." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2015. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1987.

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The Stars of David is based on the true story of a woman whose love of baseball stood above all. Set in the midst of the Great Depression, Jackie Austin, disgusted by the chauvinistic expectations of her impoverished father, sets off on her own to play for whatever team that will have her. That team proves to be the barnstorming House of David Baseball Club, an ascetic religious commune struggling to regain past glory after a decade of tragedy and shame. Outsiders and freaks to the rest of the world, these new "Stars" of David must learn to work together on the field in order to prosper in lif

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Ford, Paisley Summer. "Re::Humanity." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2017. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/honors_theses/88.

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Likomanova, Yvonne. "The Dock." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1406.

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Buice, Susan E. "Soulmate." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2019. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2664.

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Green, Daniel R., and Daniel Read Green. "Darkness." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2019. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2693.

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During the long, dark night of a volcanic winter, a young man clashes with his father over the fate of five desperate survivors who have arrived outside the gates of the family compound. Yet he soon discovers true darkness lies within.

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Adams, Allison. "Woman Standing." TopSCHOLAR®, 2017. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2061.

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This is a feature-length screenplay following Farren Cane, a young woman living in a rural Appalachian town, as she struggles with the intersections of gender, class, and the tension between her own ambition and her familial obligation.

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Proudley, Craig William. "The way of the warrior: Realising the mythic warrior-hero in the action genre and in Australian cinema." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2018. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/116768/9/Craig%20Proudley%20Exegesis.pdf.

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The Way of the Warrior, Realising the Mythic Warrior-hero in the Action genre and in Australian Cinema, is Creative Practice research that pursues detailed analysis of the warrior-hero in Australian and, action genre cinema narratives. Warrior-hero archetypes are employed in the original Australian feature screenplay Behold a Pale Horse in order to address whether it is possible to synthesise the Warrior-hero archetype with the tropes, codes and conventions of the Action genre in an Australian context and create an original screenplay with the potential for both critical and commercial success

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Mathews, Phil. "It must be love : an exploration of the character arc model in screenwriting practice and theory." Thesis, Bournemouth University, 2018. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/31468/.

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This practice led research is a study into the contested screenwriting narrative form known as the ‘character arc’. The character arc is a term that refers to the motivational and emotional trajectory of a character through the totality of a given narrative. Through practice I developed an original cinematic screenplay It Must be Love, as a way of exploring the research questions and enabling me to critically reflect upon the creative development and writing process. The two areas that framed this practice led research were the character arc, and the romance genre. The study considers the deve

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Dauer, Cindy E. "Karmic Buyback: A Pilot Program." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2007. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2144.

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"Karmic Buyback: A Pilot Program", a screenplay, is the story of Oliver Harker, a water resources engineer in his early thirties, adrift in a world of lost social connections. Aside from this work, which he describes as "just a lot of redundant paperwork," his only connection to the outside world is his exuberant younger brother Van. With no father to speak of, and harboring long term resentment against his mother who ran away to Africa the day after Van's high school graduation, Oliver's defining tragic moment came three years earlier. It was then he discovered Eva, the woman he planned to ma

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McMillan, Bradley Ian. "Challenging the Safe Centre: An Exegesis to Support the Screenplay Shelf Life." Thesis, Griffith University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/368003.

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This exegesis examines the processes used to produce a body of studio work that investigates how screen-based narratives and aesthetics function in relation to, and are able to question, political and cultural hegemony. The final outcome of the studio work – a feature-length screenplay called Shelf Life – has at its thematic core a focus on neoliberal ideology and its cultural manifestations, an exploration of the social exclusion that is a by-product of that phenomenon, and an examination of the emancipatory potential of the cinema. It looks at how a work can engage with, yet also challenge,

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Williams, Karen L. "Life After Man." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2003. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1658.

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This thesis comprises two parts: a creative component consisting of a first-draft script for a feature film, -followed by an exegesis. The intention with the creative component was to work within parameters that would hopefully be appealing to the local film-making industry. Thus, the script is for a low-budget feature that is set in Perth and makes use of a character-driven narrative, The exegesis comprises a theoretical analysis of the 'Life After Man' screenplay, placing it within the context of an examination of multiple protagonist film structure, with particular reference to the developm

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Daneau, Daniel. "THE ATTIC DOOR: A FEATURE LENGTH MOTION PICTURE." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2224.

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THE ATTIC DOOR is the feature-length film co-written and directed by Danny Daneau while pursuing a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Central Florida. Many challenges had to be met to produce a feature-length motion picture utilizing digital technology on an ultra-low budget as part of a graduate education. Beyond gaining a profound understanding of the physical, financial, and emotional strength it takes to complete a feature-length motion picture, Daneau experienced the creative challenges that all filmmakers must meet when applying the principles of filmmaking theory to an actual work

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Amey, Justin. "Valentine Productions." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2013. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/4.

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Castrillo, Pablo Ignacio. "Angel Of War." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2013. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/9.

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Schmitter, Allison Marie. "Rise of the Elementals." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2013. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/11.

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Blanche, Justin. "Summons." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2012. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/130.

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Glennon, Christopher. "It's Just Pretend." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2012. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/126.

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Martin, Michael T. "Christian Crash Course." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2010. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/116.

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Castillo, Jenniffer. "Undocumented." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2011. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/74.

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Gordon, Derek, and David Rogoff. "Action Jacksons." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2011. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/72.

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Ortiz, Maria. "Brown Xmas." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2011. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/68.

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Sehk, Sallua. "Beautiful Monkey." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2011. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/67.

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Ulmer, Christopher. "Strike Price." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2011. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/66.

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Reid, Myles Hendry. "Sometimes the Wolf." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2014. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/46.

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Leveque, Holly N. "Final Curtain." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2014. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/45.

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Schlissel, Matthew Jay. "The Senator's Wife." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2015. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/161.

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Nigam, Rigvedita. "The Snoops." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2015. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/160.

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Henderson, Tasha Joi. "Blood Night." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2015. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/158.

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Thacker, Nicholas Jay. "Finders Keepers." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2015. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/157.

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Wellinger, Chad Edward. "Bad Romance." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2015. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/156.

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Lancaster, Aaron A. "Yasuke: The Black Samurai." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2016. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/287.

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