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The Silver Lining: Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

...gy of Environmentalism XI. The Invention of Lying: Fact and Truth XII. Hostel: The American Hostel XIII. Inceptions and Its Errors XIV. Aliens „R ... ... cultivates a False Self of a jazz giant in the making and the author of the Great American Novel but he is neither and he bitterly knows it. Even ... ...most heart rending smile when embarrassed or endangered. He is a caricature of the American dream: ambitious, driven, winsome, well versed in the m... .... As adults we are the objects – often the victims – of the decisions of corrupt politicians, mad scientists, megalomaniac media barons, gung-ho ... ... (The Alps: "monstrous excrescences of nature," in the words of one wholly typical 18th-century observer.)" Stephen Budiansky, "Nature? A bit over... ...s preordained to accommodate sentient beings - namely, us humans. Industrialists, politicians and economists have only recently begun paying lip s...

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