Texts and Films
Texts
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Director of Stanford's Writing and Critical Thinking
program, Andrea Lunsford is co-author of two of the course's texts:
1. The New St. Martin's Handbook (Bedford/St. Martin's), 1999 (co-author Robert Connors)An HTML link to The New St. Martin's Handbook can be found at: www.bedfordstmartins.com/nsmhandbook. |
Course readings in part are taken from the following two texts:
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Martin Norden's The Cinema of Isolation: A History of Physical
Disability in the Movies (New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers UP, 1994).
On reserve in Green Library. |
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Ann Pointon and Chris Davies (eds.) Framed: Interrogating
Disability in the Media (London: British Film Institute, 1997).
On reserve in Green Library. |
Included in the course reader:
Films Films will be shown on Monday nights at 7:30 in
Meyer 220. The number of guests (non-class members) will be restricted if there is
not
enough room available for everyone enrolled in the class. Be polite: please arrive on
time
and keep commentary to yourself while the film is in progress. NOTE: DOORS
CLOSE AT 7:40--those arriving after that time will not be
admitted. You must view at least four of the seven films in order to write your Final Argument due November 20th.
You should try to
view all seven. Also, you must view one of the first
three films because your second writing assignment, the "'Yes" & 'Yes'" pair of essays, requires that you comment
on at
least one of them. If you cannot attend the Monday-night group screenings, you
must go to the Green Media Center (basement of Green, south side of building) and view the
film on your own. The seven films have been placed on reserve. Back
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1. Nancy Mairs, "On Being a Cripple" (from The Horizon Reader Short
Edition, editors Harry Brent and William Lutz [New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992],
pp. 352-363).
2. Martin Norden, "Politics, Movies, and Physical Disability" in The
Cinema of Isolation, pp. 1-13.
3. Paul Darke, "Everywhere: Disability on Film" in Framed, pp.
10-14.
4. Allan Sutherland, "Black Hats and Twisted Bodies," in Framed,
pp. 16-20.
5. Jenny Morris, "A Feminist Perspective," in Framed, pp. 21-30.
Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Learned to
Love the Bomb (1964), starring Peter Sellers, Sterling Hayden, George C. Scott,
Slim Pickens, Keenan Wynn, James Earl Jones; directed by Stanley Kubrick
(1964)--October 2nd.
Born on the 4th of July, starring Tom Cruise, Kyra
Sedgwick, Willem Dafoe, Raymond J. Barry, Tom Berenger; directed by Oliver Stone
(1989) --October 9th
My Left Foot--The Story of Christy Brown, starring Daniel
Day-Lewis, Ray McAnally, Brenda Fricker, Fiona Shaw, Hugh O'Connor; directed by Jim
Sheridan (1989)--October 16th
The Waterdance, starring Eric Stoltz, Wesley Snipes, William
Forsythe, Helen Hunt, Elizabeth Pena; directed by Neal Jinenez and Michael Steinberg
(1992)--October 23rd
What's Eating Gilbert Grape, starring Johnny Depp, Leonardo
DiCaprio, Juliette Lewis, Mary Steenburgen, Kevin Tighe, John C. Reilly, Crispin Glover;
directed by Lasse Hallstrom (1994)--October 30th
The Other Sister, starring Juliette Lewis, Giovanni Ribisi,
Diane Keaton, and Tom Skerritt; directed by Garry Marshall (1999)--November 6th
Molly,starring Elisabeth Shue and Aaron
Eckhart; directed by John Duigan (2000)--November 13th
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