Depending on how you determine the concept of eugenics, any of these may be relevant: Blade Runner (1982) The Boys from Brazil (1978) Alien: Resurrection (1997) The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996) The Island (2005) Able Edwards (2004) Humanoids from the Deep (1980) ...not much help with race/dis/sex pre-1945 though Tim Shary Clark University on 6/11/06 7:26 PM, Johnson Cheu at [log in to unmask] wrote: > Dear List: > > I'm planning a course about the Eugenics movement in America, covering, > race, disability, and sexuality. I'm trying to confine most of the readings > and screenings to pre-1945, except for a look at genetics, a la Gattaca, > and probably X-Men (if Last Stand's on DVD by late Fall). Besides Birth of > A Nation, and In The White Man's Image, can anyone think of good films to > use that have eugenics as theme either at forefront or as undercurrent, in > relation to race/dis/sex pre-1945? The course is a thematic freshman > composition course, not a film course, so I'm more interested in things > they can discuss more thematically, rather than within a trajectory of film > studies discourse. > > Thanks, > > Johnson Cheu ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu