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Cast Away and survivor: The surviving castaway and the rebirth of empire

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Cast Away provides a useful example of the typical changes the films make to the traditional castaway tale. This shift to the castaway rejecting the island and its indigenes in Cast Away and other US-produced filmed island tales are explained as replicating a myth of noncolonization especially popular in the contemporary United States.

Criticism and interpretation, Film genres, Movie genres, Cast Away (Motion picture)

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Richard H. Osborne, retiring editor: an appreciation, 1977

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A reprint is presented on the contributions of Richard H. Osborne upon his retirement as editor of Social Biology in 1977. These included the emergence of the publication from its origins as Eugenics Quarterly, and expanding from a nationally to an internationally known science publication

Management, Appreciation, Reprint, Editors, Science publishing, Osborne, Richard H.

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Paul Wheatley, an appreciation. (includes bibliography)

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A profile of comparative urbanism and historical urban geography specialist Paul Wheatley is presented. Wheatley, who was a professor and chairman of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, died on Oct 31, 1999.

Obituary, Geographers, Wheatley, Paul

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