COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
READINGS
Text Book:
Lev, Peter 2000 American Films of the 70’s: Conflicting Visions University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas
Articles: (Available as packets at Far Better Copy Center)
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)
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)
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)
Hammond, Dorothy and Alta Jablow 1970“Introduction” to The Africa that Never Was Twayne Publishers, NY (pages 11-14 packet)
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)
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)
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)
Tithecott, Richard 1997 Of Men and Monsters University of Wisconsin Press Madison pp 3-11 and 168-179 (pages 33-43 packet)
Additional Suggested Readings
Biskind, Peter 1989 Seeing is Believing. How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties Owl Books (Holt Rinehart and Winston) NY
Carnes, Mark C. (ed) 1995 Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies Henry Holt and Co.
Chadwick, Bruce 2001 The Reel Civil War: Mythmaking in American Film Vintage Books, Random House NY
Foner, Eric 2002 Who Owns History Hill and Wang, NY
Rogin, Michael 1998 Blackface, White Noise: Jewish Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot University of California Press, Berkeley
Rollins, Peter C. 1983 (editor) Hollywood as Historian. American Film in a Cultural Context University Press of Kentucky
Sklar, Robert 1972 Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies Random House NY
INFORMATION
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The first contains general information etc.
http://dewey.brooklyn.cuny.edu/johnbeatty
The second is
68.161.228.55/film/register
Please go to this web site and register.
GRADES
There are two papers and a final weighted 30%, 30% and 40%
(See "Papers" for further information