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	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie DVD - Michael Weise Productions
		Which is why the film begins with a shot of Miss Brodie on her way to the school and goes out on a shot of Sandy leaving the school, with a Brodie voice-over about her teaching philosophy.
		Brodie is too self-absorbed to pick up on Sandy's growing disenchantment just as she does not have the insight to realize that Mary McGregor's brother was fighting against (not for) Franco in Spain.
		In many ways Miss Brodie is a wonderful teacher and most young girls would have benefited from membership in the Brodie set, mostly because of her encouragement to openly explore the possibilities life offers.
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	Amazon.com: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Books: Muriel Spark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Miss Brodie is actually a dangerous influence on her pupils, and the novel shows how a position of privilege and trust can be abused in the most insidious ways.
		Miss Jean Brodie has her enemies in the school she works in because she is considered too "progressive" but she is too shrewd to get caught and she relies on the loyalty of her set to keep silent about what they know about her life, politics and beliefs.
		Miss Jean Brodie is certainly no ordinary teacher; she admires Mussolini, and can't see anything wrong in Hitler's socialism, and she sees no harm in telling her "gels" about the young lover she had who died on Flanders Fields in the First World War.
	www.amazon.com /Prime-Miss-Jean-Brodie/dp/0060923989 (3082 words)

	Jean Brodie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Miss Jean Brodie is a fictional character in the Muriel Spark novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; and in the play and film of the same name - both by Jay Presson Allen - which were based on the novel, but radically depart from it in the interest of theatre and poetic licence.
		Miss Brodie is a highly idealistic character with an exaggerated romantic view of the world, many of her catchphrases have become clichés in the English language.
		Miss Brodie is described as a ‘born-fascist’ by one of her girls and indeed, it is a perfectly justifiable statement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jean_Brodie (1418 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Essential.penguin): Books: Muriel Spark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Jean Brodie is a silly woman but not a mean or corrupt one and that, in a novel by Muriel Spark, is quite something not to be.
		TPOMJB is an exercise on how opinions and outlooks can change over time with a little help from a catalyst- in this case Jean Brodie who grooms her girls to think the way she does.
		Where TPOMJB disappoints is in the plot of Brodie’s “downfall” by one of her girls, which feels unlikely and superfluous in such a taut novel.
	amazon.co.uk /Prime-Miss-Jean-Brodie-Essential-penguin/dp/0140278710 (2282 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Miss Brodie has opponents: the "thrilling" senior science teacher, Miss Lockhart; Miss Gaunt, sister of a strict Calvinist minister; other members of the Marcia Blaine faculty; and the persevering headmistress, Miss Mackay.
		Miss Mackay, orthodox and traditionalist in her educational principles, is determined to rid her school of Miss Brodie, but is repeatedly stymied.
		And Miss Brodie, apparently unaware that many might find unacceptable her outspoken admiration for Mussolini and Hitler, revels in, exploits, and shares her prime, only to become a victim of her own irrepressible exuberance.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/prime_of_miss_jean_brodie.asp (685 words)

	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, motion picture about an inspiring teacher in a Scottish girl’s school, set in 1932.
		The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie : quotations
		Dark humor permeates the novels of Muriel Spark, who is best known for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), about a schoolteacher who turns out not...
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	English Project
		Miss Brodie is described as an average size woman with dark hair, flashing brown eyes, and a Roman profile.
		Miss Brodie claims that she is leading the knowledge out of her students.
		Miss Brodie shows she is a hypocrite at many different points during the novel.
	plato.acadiau.ca /courses/engl/young/e1106ce/Spark/group3/brodie.htm (1130 words)

	The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie: Fox Studio Classics (1969)
		As she engages in ongoing battles with the school's rigid heads and bewilders two men in love with her, Miss Brodie also faces the biggest trial of her life when her career and livelihood become threatened.
		Brodie declares herself to be in her prime and won’t let anyone stand in her way.
		Brodie immediately appears annoying and unlikable, which seems to be the point to a degree.
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	Amazon.de: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.: English Books: Muriel Spark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Jean Brodie is one of the immortals of English literature and if you don't know her and her type then you are missing out on something significant.
		Brodie is an egoist, that's true, but she is also a teacher, and a good one.
		Miss Jean Brodie is in the prime of her life but it slips away as she is removed from her vocation as a teacher.
	www.amazon.de /Prime-Miss-Jean-Brodie/dp/014002235X (1225 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie
		But Miss Jean Brodie and her "girls" are truly the crème de la crème, and the movie hits every note perfectly.
		Miss Mackay thinks Brodie's girls are spooky and mature, and do not adhere to hard wisdom and disciplines such as math and physical fitness.
		Miss Brodie and her girls are free to go into the world, as long as they don't follow the fascists.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/missjeanbrodie.php (1685 words)

	Aisle Say (Boston): "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"
		Jean Brodie is one of those extravagant and charismatic figures who loom very large in the restricted world of a school or a sport or a community theatre.
		Brodie flirts shamelessly, and she flirts with Fascism, too, because she admires Mussolini's Italian art show, the uniforms and the parades and the classical facades and allusions.
		Brodie sees herself, and presents herself to her students, as the momentary and imperfect embodiment of the romantic cult of beauty, beauty as muse, as inspiration.
	www.stagepage.info /reviews/brodie.html (1305 words)

	Amazon.com: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: DVD: Maggie Smith,Robert Stephens,Pamela Franklin,Gordon Jackson,Celia ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Miss Brodie is involved with two male teachers--the art teacher--who is married, and the music teacher who is single and very eligible.
		Miss Brodie is very strict about maintaining standards of behaviour, and she indulges a favoured group of girls with after hours outings and trips to the opera.
		Miss Brodie's lack of discretion leads to some serious consequences for her, and for some of her girls, and the film addresses many questions concerning the role of a teacher's responsibilities.
	www.amazon.com /Prime-Miss-Jean-Brodie/dp/B0001US78G (2325 words)

	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Miss Brodie is described as dark-haired and having a dramatic Roman profile.
		Miss Brodie repeatedly reminds Sandy that she has insight but no instinct.
		Each face he paints ultimately resembles Miss Brodie, details which her girls report to her and which she is thrilled to hear.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Prime_of_Miss_Jean_Brodie (2492 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
		The main interest of the plot centres on the question of who caused Miss Brodie to be dismissed from her post as a result of teaching right-wing politics.
		Miss Brodie is a teacher at the Marcia Blaine Junior School (based on Gillespie's) in Edinburgh during the 1930s.
		Miss Brodie is a sum of contradictions and self-deceptions, professing to educate her young pupils by drawing out of them what is already there, while seeking to shape their thoughts and actions to her own “stamp and cut” (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, p.97).
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	Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Jean Brodie (Maggie Smith), a teacher at a private girls' school in 1930s Edinburgh, exercises a tremendous influence upon her students.
		When, for instance, she becomes aware that Miss Brodie is trying to get her former lover, Teddy (Robert Stephens), the school's art teacher, to abandon his feelings for her by taking as his lover one of her students, Jenny (Diane Grayson), whose beauty Miss Brodie frequently lauds, Sandy becomes his lover instead.
		Her eventual animosity towards Miss Brodie is thus not merely motivated by an opposition to the very real harm her teacher has done and could do in the future, though that is certainly there as well, but also by indignant spitefulness.
	www.movierapture.com /primeofmissjeanbrodie.htm (725 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel Spark, Paperback
		A useful approach to analyzing The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (by Muriel Sparks) is to examine the school as a microcosm of civilization (much as William Golding intended his little island to be examined in Lord of the Flies), in this case a civilization with a particularly English culture.
		Brodie is very intelligent and very careful to cultivate an appreciation for 'the true, the good, and the beautiful' in her students initially.
		Although Brodie only gradually reveals this as the basis of her thought, her creation of a special class of students early on combined with the belittling of other hints at where she intends to lead her group.
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	Theatre Mirror Reviews - "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"
		Hers is the pivot-role as the one of her girls Brodie taught so well to think for herself she could see her teacher's self-absorbed, self-deluded lust for power and could act to put a stop to it.
		June Lewin as the headmistress, Brodie's arch-nemesis from the start, had a simple and unchanging role, and yet her refusal of any external tricks focused attention on a searching awareness and inner intelligence that most everyone else could not possess.
		Miss Jean Brodie's lectures are stream-of-consciousness self-indulgence wherein her opinions and prejudices are stated as fact.
	www.theatermirror.com /brodie.htm (926 words)

	Review of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
		But the commercial came on, and then an announcer said, "We now return to the Crime of Miss Jean Brodie." I asked Dad what the movie was about, and he said it was about a teacher who didn't believe in teaching the way the others did.
		The climactic scene was Miss Brodie yelling at one of the girls.
		I wish I was mature enough not to notice that the name of Brodie's nemesis, Miss Mackay, is the same as the name of the guidance counselor on the television show South Park.
	www.dougshaw.com /Reviews/review76.html (885 words)

	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Tagline: In the surprising world of Jean Brodie, there were two men and four girls.
		Jean Brodie's incredibly eccentric persona as a teacher until in the end one "girl" figures her out.
		Jean's insouciant insistance that she can teach any way she wants without any fundamental concern for her students.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0064840 (454 words)

	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
		Jay Allen's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is based on a novella by the Scottish writer Muriel Spark, whose uncanny--and strangely compassionate--observations of human frailty, along with her profound fascination with issues of good and evil, have made her one of the most renowned authors of the past half-century.
		"In her prime" when she wrote Brodie, she is now nearly 90--still writing, still baffling and delighting her readers with unexpected excursions into the outlands of the human soul.
		Miss Brodie is in fact a cult leader--a fascist, a romantic, whose gorgeous eccentricity and force of personality combine to lead her Little Girls into the realm of tragedy.
	www.ctgonline.org /productions/archive/prime.html (384 words)

	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Summary
		Muriel Sarah Spark (born 1918) wrote biography, literary criticism, poetry, and fiction, including the novel that was considered her masterpiece, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
		The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a novel by Muriel Spark, first published in 1962.
		The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Summary
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	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at Epinions.com
		Jean Brodie (Maggie Smith) is a history teacher at a private school for girls.
		Her romantic liaisons with passionate art teacher Teddy (Robert Stephens) and a well-intentioned music teacher (Gordon Jackson), as well as her radical pro-fascist political views, put her at odds with the formidable, conservative headmaster (Celia Johnson).
		But Brodie remains popular with the girls in her class, especially insightful Sandy (Pamela Franklin), stammering Mary (Jane Carr), and serene beauty Jenny (Diane Grayson).
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	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie News
		The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		Miss Jean Brodie's affair on Broadway extended in revival
		The New Group's revival of Jay Presson Allen's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, starring Tony winner and "Sex and the City" star Cynthia Nixon, has been fully cast.
	www.topix.net /movies/the-prime-of-miss-jean-brodie (730 words)

	Essay: Muriel Sparks The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Coursework.Info
		Essay: Muriel Spark’s ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’
		The film and novel pairing I have chosen is Muriel Spark's 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie'.
		I have chosen this because of the large number of references made in the text that can be compared to occurrences that were happening in that period, and that have happened in Sparks own life.
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	MMI Movie Review: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
		For a kid raised on the often baffling rules of Holy Rosary Convent School in Woodland, California, Jean Brodie seemed to me to be the coolest teacher in the universe.
		Charismatic, idiosyncratic, fearless and funny, Jean Brodie (Dame Maggie Smith, then 34) was worshipped by her students, adored by her very married lover Teddy Lloyd (Sir Robert Stephens, then 37 and Smith's real-life husband) and cordially hated by Headmistress Miss Mackay.
		Teddy Lloyd was a breeder whose "unfortunate affiliation with the Church of Rome" (Jean Brodie's words) led him to sire masses of kids with Mrs.Lloyd while not-so-secretly lusting after the radiant Jean Brodie.
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	The Setting of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The girls of the 'Brodie set' attend the Marcia Blaine School for Girls, where Miss Brodie is a teacher.
		For example, when the girls are on a walk with Miss Brodie, places such as the Old Town and the Grassmarket are mentioned, "They approached the Old Town which none of the girls had properly seen before" (p.
		This walk serves to further reveal the character of Miss Brodie and the theme of her control of the girls.
	plato.acadiau.ca /courses/engl/young/e1106ce/Spark/group5/edin.htm (427 words)

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