Todd Browning's FREAKS (1932) could be especially useful, especially in light of its production and distribution history and various governmental and other reactions to it. A much more muted example, but interesting in its WWII context, is the circus caravan scene in Hitchcock's SABOTEUR (1942). Don Larsson ----------------------------------------------- "Oh! Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!" --Herman Melville Donald F. Larsson Department of English, AH 230 Minnesota State University Mankato, MN 56001 [log in to unmask] Office Phone: 507-389-2368 ________________________________ From: Film and TV Studies Discussion List on behalf of Johnson Cheu Sent: Sun 6/11/2006 6:26 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [SCREEN-L] Films about Eugenics (Early 20th Cent) inquiry 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 >[log in to unmask] Dr. Johnson Cheu Visiting Assistant Professor Dept. of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures Michigan State University 235 Bessey Hall East Lansing, MI 48824 (517) 432-2553 (Office) (517) 355-2400 (Dept.) (517) 353-5250 (Fax) Poetry/Fiction Editor Disability Studies Quarterly http://www.dsq-sds.org/ ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask] ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu