You might try "The War Game"--it's a staged documentary (one, if not
the first, of this sort) of a nuclear exchange in Britain and it's
aftermath. Just reissued. Whether NetFlix has it or not, I don't know.
JK
On Aug 1, 2006, at 6:16 PM, Lou Thompson wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am teaching a graduate course called Rhetoric of/and Film this
> fall. I'm looking for some suggestions for films. I'd like to
> cover about ten or so, at least half documentary. I'm so
> overwhelmed with the sheer number of options right now I'm having
> trouble settling on something, so I thought I'd send a request for
> any suggestions, ideas, etc. I'm looking for a variety of films
> that will offer us the opportunity to examine ideology and how it
> is presented in varying methods and degrees.
>
> There are a few restrictions:
>
> The students are graduate students in English and/or rhetoric, not
> film students. Some of them will have had other film classes with
> me, but most will not have. Though the list below may seem like
> films everyone has seen, the sad truth is that most of my students
> will have seen maybe one or two of them. Only one student will
> have seen them all, but she's one of my Netflix buddies.
>
> The class is an online class, so the films will have to be obtained
> through means such as Netflix or GreenCine. So no Nanook.
>
> Here's what I have so far: (It's very tentative)
>
> Documentaries
>
>
>
> Triumph of the Will (Netflix has it!!)
>
> Fog of War
>
> Bowling for Columbine
>
>
>
> Features:
>
>
>
> Rashomon
>
> Philadelphia
>
> The Quiet American
>
> The New World
>
> Three Kings
>
> Crash
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
>
>
> Lou
>
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> Professor of English
> Department of English, Speech, and Foreign Languages
> Texas Woman's University
> Denton, TX 76204
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