I highly recommend Laurence Behrens and Leonard
Rosen's "Writing and Reading Across the
Curriculum"(Addison/Wesley/Longman)-- seventh edition.
There are very detailed chapters that cover writing,
quotation use, etc., as well as chapters that deal
with fairy tales/film and horror stories/film. I've
use this text for 2 years and have had great success.
The cinema articles are feminist readings about
Cinderella (including Toni Morrison's "Cinderella's
Stepsisters") and the horror articles are about
transformation (man/woman).

Debbie Olson
English dept.
Central Washington University

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> there is one course i teach regularly for which i
> have never
> found a text that really works well . . . so i
> approach the
> list one more time in the hopes of finding some
> helpful
> suggestions
>
> the course is an expository writing course, for
> first year
> students who have previously done little [if any]
> careful
> reading and serious writing . . . the course is
> designed to
> be built around a single topic and to culminate in a
> small
> scale research paper . . . the topic i have used
> with success
> in the past and want to use again is "Sexism in
> Hollywood"
> and considers the various ways sexism shapes
> hollywood
> practices both on the screen and behind the scenes .
> . .
>
> trouble is, i have never found a book that i can
> assign for
> this course . . . books i find most interesting [by
> kuhn, modleski,
> doane,  stacey, for example] are far far beyond
> their grasp--
> and more difficult writers -- doane, de lauretis,
> silverman,
> might as well be in a foreign language . . . in
> short the sort
> of stuff that comes out of duke, routledge, or BFI
> is almost
> by definition out of the question . . .
>
> on the other hand the books that they might have
> some success
> with -- i think offhand of susan douglas' WHERE THE
> GIRLS
> ARE--are hard to take credit as academic prose or as
> serious
> explorations of complex issues . . . .
>
> surely there MUST be writers who deal with issues of
> sexism
> and feminism in cinema using an approach and a
> language that
> are serious and sophisticated yet  available to what
> are, in
> fact, novice readers
>
> i suppose the level i'm looking for is best
> represented by gary
> wills JOHN WAYNE'S AMERICA or robin woods' work on
> hitchcock . . . i've assigned woods in a hitchcock
> class and while
> the students did not find it easy they were at least
> able to work
> through it more or less successfully, something i
> have not been
> able to achieve with any of the books i've used in
> the sexism
> in cinema class . . .
>
> so, if you know of any books at all that might lend
> themselves
> to these purposes i'd be grateful to learn of them
>
> thanks very much
>
> mike
>
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