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 --- [log in to unmask] wrote: > 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 > > ---- > For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: > http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals http://personals.yahoo.com ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html