FILM LIST
(tentative)
(For class notes, for a specific week (which are posted AFTER that class), click on the "Week" below
WEEK ONE
Sept. 5
Anthropologists In
Films
FILM: The Haunting
1963 113 minutes
Additional
:anthropologists" films: Krippendorf's Tribe, Trog, Indiana Jones and
the...
Readings:Hammond, Dorothy and Alta Jablow 1970“Introduction” The Africa that Never Was Twayne Publishers, NY (pages 11-14 packet)
WEEK TWO
Sept.
12
Evolution
Films: King Kong
1933 105 minutes
Additional
Evolution Films: One Million B.C. 2001: A Space Odyssey, When Dinosaurs Ruled
the Earth, Caveman, Iceman, Clan of the Cave Bear, People Time
Forgot
Readings: Bascom, William R 1953 “Folklore and Anthropology” in Journal of American Folklore Vol 56 pp 283-290 (also in Dundes, Alan 1965 The Study of Folklore Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ pp 25-33) (Pages 1-5 in packet)
Taylor, Archer 1948 “Folklore and the Student of Literature” in The Pacific Spectator Vol. 2 pp. 216-223 (also in Dundes, Alan 1965 The Study of Folklore Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ pp 34-42) (pages 6-10 in packet)
WEEK THREE
Sept. 19
Science and
Religion
Film: Inherit the Wind
1960 128 minutes
Additional
Films: Frankenstein
Readings:Root-Bernstein, Robert and Donald L. McEachron 1982 “Teaching Theories: The Evolution-Creation Controversy” in The American Biology Teacher Oct. 1982 (Pages 24-32 in packet)
WEEK FOUR
Oct. 3
The Nature/Nurture
Controversy – Social Ills
Film: The Bad Seed
1952 129
minutes
Additional films: Cruising, Twilight of the Golds
Readings:
NOTE: On October 9th from 6:00pm-8:00pm there will be a showing of Morris Engel's Academy Award nominated classic film The Little Fugitive at the library in the new auditorium. Mr. Engel will be interviewed by Prof. Foster Hirsch.
WEEK FIVE
Oct. 10
Science and he
Supernatural
Films:Curse of the Demon
19657 96
minutes
Additional Films: Red Planet Mars, The Haunting of Hill House, The
Innocents
Readings:
WEEK SIX
Oct. 17
The Nature of Evil:
America and Serial Killers
Film: Silence of the Lambs
1991 118
minutes
Additional Films: Psycho, Seven, Bone Collector, Sea of Love
Readings: Tithecott, Richard 1997 Of Men and Monsters University of Wisconsin Press Madison pp 3-11 and 168-179 (pages 33-43 packet)
Lev: Chapters
2 and 3
WEEK SEVEN
Oct.24
Technology
Film: Terminator
1984 108 minutes
Additional
films: Metropolis, Blade Runner, Collosus: The Forbin Project, 2001 A Space
Odyssey, Total Recall, Robocop
Readings: Landsberg, Alison 1995 “Prosthetic Memory: Total Recall and Blade Runner” in Firestone, Mike and Roger Burrows (eds.) 1995 Cyberspace, Cyberbodies, Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technological Embodiment London (pages 44-50 in packet)
WEEK EIGHT
Oct. 31
Sex and Horror
(Return of the Repressed)
Film: Halloween
1978 90
minutes
Additional films: M, Psycho
Readings: Lev: Chapter 5;
Krasniewicz, Louise “Cinematic Gifts: The Moral and Social Exchange of Bodies in Horror Films” in Tattoo Torture Mutilation and Adornment (Pages 51-69 in packet)
WEEK NINE
Nov. 7
Depiction of Ethnic Groups in Films
Film: Charlie Chan in Honolulu
1938 67 minutes
Additional Films:
Charlie Chan &...; Tarzan (and the ...); Hurricane; Stagecoach; King and I;Fu Manchu
WEEK TEN
Nov. 14
Gender and Sexual
Orientation
Films: Cruising
1980 102 minutes
Additional films:
Clan of the Cave Bear, Turnabout, Thelma and Louise, Victor Victoria, Last
Tango in Paris, Lolita
Readings: Lev: Chapter 9
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19th, 3pm
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY ON THE BIG SCREEN WITH KEIR DULLEA Whitman Hall
"BC Goes to the Movies" presents Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece in 35mm! Hosted by Professor Foster Hirsch, this event is co-sponsored by the Department of Film, the Office of the Vice President of Finance and Administration, and Brooklyn Center Cinema. A Q&A will follow the screening with Keir Dullea.
Dullea attended Rutgers and San Francisco State, then launched his acting career in regional theater. He made a spectacular film debut in The Hoodlum Priest (1961), playing a born-to-hang juvenile delinquent. He was more sympathetic but no less emotionally disturbed in 1962's David and Lisa; as late as 1965, he was still playing mentally unstable youths in films like Bunny Lake is Missing. The biggest film hit with which Dullea was associated was 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) in which he played the time-and-space-travelling astronaut Bowman. He repeated this characterization (and answered several of the questions posed by 2001) in the 1984 sequel 2010. Though he'd been active on the New York stage in the 1950s, Keir Dullea did not appear on Broadway until 1970, when the 34-year-old actor portrayed a twentysomething blind man in "Butterflies are Free."
NOVEMBER 19th 6:30-8:30pm
2ND "BROOKLYN & FILM" EVENT Woody Tanger Auditorium
Pete Hamill, journalist and best-selling author, comes to campus to moderate a panel discussion about the new book "The Brooklyn Film: Essays in the History of Filmmaking" (John Manbeck and Robert Singer, eds., McFarland, 2003). Hamill will relate his experiences growing up in Brooklyn and seeing movies in the unique neighborhood cinemas around the borough.
John Manbeck, Professor Emeritus, Kingsborough Community College and former Brooklyn Historian, will explore Brooklyn's role in the early history of filmmaking.
Robert Singer, Professor of Film and English, Kingsborough Community College will analyze the ways in which Brooklyn neighborhoods have been depicted in film.
PAULA MASSOOD, Brooklyn College Professor of Film, will examine the works of Brooklyn film-maker Spike Lee.
Brooklyn College Professor of Film and Bernard H. Stern Professor of Humor DAN GURSKIS will show his humorous film compilation Hollywood on Flatbush.
A book signing will take place immediately following the screening
WEEK ELEVEN
Nov. 21
Time frame: The
‘50’s and Outsiders
Film:The Thing from Another World
1963 87
minutes
Additional films: It Came from Outer Space, The Day the Earth
Stood Still, Them!
Readings: Lev: Chapter 10
WEEK TWELVE
Nov. 26
The Depiction
of American Indians (a.k.a. Native Americans)
Film:Black Robe
1963
101 minutes
Additional Films: Last of the Mohegens, Dances with Wolves,
Geronimo, Broken Arrow
Readings: Friar, Ralph and Natasha Friar 1972 The Only Good Indian: The Hollywood Gospel Drama Book Specialist, NY (intro and chapter 1:pp. 1-29 and 49-75) (pages 15-23 in packet)
WEEK THIRTEEN
Dec. 5
Natural vs.
Human
Film: Shane
1963 118 minutes
Additional Films: Drums
Along the Mohawk, Outland
Readings: Lev: Chapter 1,4,8
WEEK FOURTEEN
Dec. 12
The Depiction
of Women: "The fantasy of the bedroom and a saint"
Film: Trapeze
1956 105 minutes
Additional films
Camelot, The Bible
WEEK FIFTEEN
Sept. 5
Political
Structures
Film: Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars
1931 225
minutes
Additional Films: Flash Gordon Space Soldier; Lord of the Rings; Star
Wars
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