Chris Eyre's _Smoke Signals_ is an excellent film about Native Amercians.  Errol
Morris's solo fiction film, _The Dark Wind_ is pretty good, but the filmmaker
himself is not of that ethnicity.

Scott

Robert Inglis wrote:

> Do you mean films/books/articles about OR by the various ethnic groups you
> mentioned?
>
> Some suggestions for films both by AND about African Americans - obviously,
> those directed by Spike Lee and Mario Van Peebles
>
> Films about Hispanic Americans - I can't resist suggesting Welles' "Touch of
> Evil"
>
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> >Subject: Course Ideas
> >Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 18:44:44 EDT
> >
> >I am teaching a class in American Ethnic cinema for the first time and I'm
> >looking for suggestions for both films to use and books/articles.  What do
> >you think the significant issues to cover are?  I am going to teach it in
> >four sections: one section on African American film, one on Hispanic
> >American
> >film and one on Native American film and the last section on a little bit
> >of
> >everything else.  The idea is too look at some ethnic groups in more depth
> >and try to cover a little bit of a lot of stuff -- not to marginalize any
> >group but just because of time restrictions.  I would appreciate any ideas
> >anyone has.
> >
> >Dr. Andrea Campbell
> >
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