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" > > >From: [log in to unmask] > >Reply-To: Film and TV Studies Discussion List <[log in to unmask]> > >To: [log in to unmask] > >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 > > > >---- > >For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: > >http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > ---- > For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: > http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu