The Great Dictator
Donnie Darko
I'd suggest The Senator Was Indiscreet, but ti's not even out on DVD yet...
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From: Prof Steven P Hill <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: Film and TV Studies Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 02:32:18 -0500
>Dear colleagues & Prof Thompson:
>
>"Male Animal" (Warners 1942, with Henry Fonda) is an excellent comedy-drama
>about a fictional college professor of English literature (not yet tenured), who
>along with his English Dept. colleagues gets involved in a political controversy.
>Extremely interesting is the professor's attempt to use RHETORIC itself in that
>controversy.
>
>"Confessions of a Nazi Spy" (Warners 1939, with Edward G Robinson) is a striking
>early semi-documentary about Nazi propagandists' attempts to promote Hitler's
>ideology in the USA, and US counter-spies' attempts to infiltrate the
>propagandists' German-American organizations and to put a stop to their Nazi
>propaganda. Much political rhetoric, i.e., "propaganda," is presented and
>dissected in the film, recreated by professional actors as if they were real people.
>
>"Citizen Kane" (RKO 1941, by & with Orson Welles) hardly needs commentary.
>The life of a fictional publisher (inspired by a real publisher) who became a master
>and abuser of rhetoric (information and dis-information) in his own journalistic
>efforts.
>
>"Deadline USA" (MGM '52, with Humphrey Bogart) is the story of an old New
>York daily newspaper attempting to mainstain high journalistic standards in
>increasingly difficult competition with more commercially-oriented, less
>idealistic newspapers.
>
>P.S. Does anyone know why some postings on list-servers, like this one,
>mess up the text by sticking in "20" and/or " -- " at the end of many lines?
>Are those "insertions" really necessary?
>
>Best wishes to all,
>Steven P Hill,
>University of Illinois.
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>Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 00:00:14
>From: <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: SCREEN-L Digest - 1 Aug 2006 to 2 Aug 2006 (#2006-129)
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 17:16:17 -0500
>From: Lou Thompson <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Suggestions for rhetoric of/and film class
>
>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:(very tentative):
>Documentaries: Triumph of the Will (Netflix), Fog of War, Bowling for Columbine
>Features: Rashomon,Philadelphia,Quiet American,The New World,3Kings,Crash.
>
>Dr. Lou Ann Thompson, Department of English, Speech, and Foreign Languages
>Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX 76204.
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>Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 15:02:25 +0300
>From: Naomi Tirosh <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Suggestions for rhetoric of/and film class
>
>Mr. Smith goes to Washington 1939
>
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