FORT BLISS

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Written and directed by

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Claudia Myers

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Maggie Swan

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Michelle Monaghan

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Richard

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Rob Livingston

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Alma

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Emmanuelle Chriqui

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Claudia Myers

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Yale grad, now a prof of film at American university, 2015-independent magazine named her top 10 film makers to watch, has made documentaries with military in it, made interactive military training videos

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“The Long Road Back”

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Soldiers injured in Iraq

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“Women at War”

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Role of women in US military

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Fort Bliss was made by…

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A series of discussions with a single dad in he military. Has to leave his son with neighbors when he leaves

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Claudia Myers will work on the screenplay for ____ years

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5

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Maggie Swan discovers that

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Richard is going to get married, her son doesn’t remember her, is deployed back to the states, and has to balance her career and family

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Fort Bliss is an _____ film

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Indie. Low budget, and the movie is true to “indie spirit”

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Fort Bliss is in

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Texas

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Who reviews the screenplay?

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The army

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Who plays extras?

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The army

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The army ____ _____ keep the original screenplay

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Let her

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Themes featured in the film..

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PTSD, sexual assault, survivors guilt, post employment, toll on family, and redeployment

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None of the actors are ______, in all indie films.

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Stars

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Wanted American public to see the _________ made in the army

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Sacrifices

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How is Maggie masculine?

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doesn’t cry, makes her own decisions, self sufficient, initiates sexual contact, no female friends, in Army, drinks Budweiser, takes motorcycle, gives Loise a hot dog w/ ketchup, doesn’t dance at bar, knows a lot about cars, only wears a dress on her date

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How is Maggie feminist?

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Her hair is down when she is not in uniform, motherly, neutering w/ Barrett, cooks meals

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What kind of mother is Maggie?

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She is very strict, but like “any other mother”

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Maggie went through phases, she is head of “_______ _______” not just women.

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Human beings

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Richard is not a typical dad because …

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He worried about his kid, and at the end he does not being the custody papers

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Richards girlfriend is _______ and….

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Neutering…. cares about Richards kid

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Claudia Meyers avoided a lot of

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Stereotypes

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Terms (obvious ones)

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Gender role reversal, cinematic rape, female and male gaze, emasculating cinema

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Other terms

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Feminist cinema, misogyny, patriarchy