User:Classicfilms

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"Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives"

- Jean-François Lyotard

This user is an academic.

This user is a graduate student in English Literature.

MHC

This user attends or attended Mount Holyoke College.

This user is married to a wonderful husband.

This user is a member of the WikiProject Indian cinema.

"When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young."

- Maya Angelou

I have created or contributed to a number of articles on the Wikipedia. A few of my favorites are listed below (author listings indicate either that I worked on the author page or on texts/films related to the author):

Literature:Beowulf, Grendel's mother, Little Women, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Jean Rhys, George Eliot, Octavia Butler, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Anita Desai, Bapsi Sidhwa, Bharati Mukherjee, Jhumpa Lahiri, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Suzan-Lori Parks, Wendy Wasserstein, Danzy Senna, Maya Angelou, Mark Z. Danielewski, Joyce Carol Oates, Zora Neale Hurston, Parineeta, Nashtanir, Independent bookstore, Neal Stephenson, William Gibson, Philip Roth, Theodore Dreiser, Abraham Cahan, Stephen Crane, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Visual and performing arts:Lage Raho Munna Bhai, Chak De India, Taare Zameen Par, Parineeta (2005 film), Charulata, Bend It Like Beckham, Gracie, Two of Us (2000 television), Pirates of Silicon Valley, 1984 (television commercial), Shall We Dance? (1996 film), Deepa Mehta, Mira Nair, Gurinder Chadha, Sharmila Tagore, Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Jennifer Kendal, Shabana Azmi, Merchant Ivory Productions, Satyajit Ray, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Om Puri, Roshan Seth, Shashi Kapoor, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Katherine Dunham, Beatrice Wood
Additional biographies: Elizabeth Holloway Marston, Mahatma Gandhi, Al Gore and information technology, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571
Education: Mount Holyoke College, List of Mount Holyoke College people, Women's colleges in the United States, Timeline of women's colleges in the United States, Seven Sisters (colleges)
Popular Culture and Folklore: Thirtysomething (TV series), List of women warriors in literature and popular culture, List of women warriors in folklore, Girl Power

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		The Original Barnstar
		For working tirelessly on improving Beowulf-themed articles and dedicating herself to quality, I hereby award Classicfilms the Original Barnstar Erik the Red 2 (AVE·CAESAR) 21:48, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

		The Editor's Barnstar
		Classicfilms is hereby awarded the Editor's Barnstar for her terrific work expanding film articles (among others) and raising them to the highest standard possible, as well as being a nice editor who has an admirably positive approach on here. Your work is brilliant, and is greatly appreciated. Please keep it up. My best regards, Shahid • ^Talk2me 21:46, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

		The Valkyrie Award
		I don't know of anything more fitting to give you as an award for your great work on Beowulf related articles than a Valkyrie award.--Berig (talk) 20:37, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

		The Indian Cinema Barnstar
		I, Bhavesh.Chauhan, award Classicfilms with the Indian Cinema Barnstar for outstanding and countless information added to the Zee Cine Awards 2007 article. Keep up the great work! -- Bhavesh.Chauhan 22:50, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

		An Award
		The Bollywood Barnstar for Classicfilms for her contributions to Indian Cinema, particularly for her contributions to Lage Raho Munnabhai. Thanks a ton, mate! -- Awarded by Plumcouch ^Talk2Me and thunderboltz^(Deepu) 16:33, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

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