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Narrative Paradigm & "Wall Street" ( Oliver Stone )


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Narrative Paradigm & "Wall Street" ( Oliver Stone )
Examines 1987 film, using sociologist Walter Fisher's strategic concept for decision making & action. Insider trading, ethics, characters' values and anti-materialism theme.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages) | 13 sources | 1997 United States


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"The purpose of this research is to examine Wall Street, a film directed by Oliver Stone, with reference to the narrative paradigm theory described by Walter R. Fisher. The plan of the research will be to set forth the principal elements of Fisher's explanation of the narrative paradigm as a strategy for decision and action, and then to discuss Wall Street in light of Fisher's theory, as well as with reference to the film's function vis-?-vis more general sociological perspective, in a manner that points in the direction of the manner in which the film as narrative might provide, as Fisher suggests, "a rationale for decision and action" in the business world.

Fisher's elaboration of what he terms the narrative paradigm is meant to give an account of the efficacy of persuasive moral argument in the context of literary and dramatic patterns of..."

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Narrative Paradigm & "Wall Street" ( Oliver Stone ) (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 13, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Essay-Narrative-Paradigm-Wall-Street-Oliver-Stone/13038

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"Narrative Paradigm & "Wall Street" ( Oliver Stone )" 15 January 2012. Web. 13 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Essay-Narrative-Paradigm-Wall-Street-Oliver-Stone/13038>




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