I'm not sure about availability on netflix; but in addition to some of the films already mentioned, I have used the following (mostly on DVD - although possibly region 2) and found them to be quite useful. *Man Bites Dog** *(R. Belvaux-A. Bonzel, 1992) *2 ou 3 Choses que je sais d'elle *(J.-L. Godard, 1966) *Battle of Algiers *(G. Pontecorvo, 1965) *Borom Sarret** *(O. Sembene, 1966) *Top Gun** *(T. Scott, 1986) *The Celluloid Closet* (R. Epstein-J. Friedman, 1995) for discussions of utopia / dystopia and ideology: *The Matrix** *(L. Wachowski-A. Wachowski, 1999) *Demolition Man *(M. Brambilla, 1993) *Fahrenheit 451 *(F. Truffaut, 1966) *Starship Troopers* (P. Verhoeven, 1997) Melis Behlil. On 8/3/06, Larsson, Donald F <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Your list suggests that you are looking for more contemporary > films. There are, as you suggest, a huge number of possibilities if you go > back further in time. It could be interesting to contrast changes in > rhetorical stances and appeals over time on different subjects. > > These suggestions are grouped more or less by topic. I'm not sure about > availability: > > Documentaries: Pare Lorentz's THE PLOW THAT BROKE THE PLAINS and THE > RIVER; Capra's WHY WE FIGHT series (especially PRELUDE TO WAR); Huston's LET > THERE BE LIGHT (veterans' PTSD); De Antonio's YEAR OF THE PIG (Vietnam) and > POINT OF ORDER (Joseph McCarthy); HEARTS AND MINDS (Vietnam); THE ATOMIC > CAFE (part of the "no nukes" debates of the 1980s); Barbara Koppel's HARLAN > COUNTY, USA and AMERICAN DREAM; AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH (if available on video > by the time on your syllabus) > > Race issues: BIRTH OF A NATION, GONE WITH THE WIND, BROKEN ARROW, FORT > APACHE, GENTLEMEN'S AGREEMENT; THE DEFIANT ONES; A RAISIN IN THE SUN; TO > KILL A MOCKINGBIRD; IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT; GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER; > LITTLE BIG MAN; DANCES WITH WOLVES; BOYZ 'N THE HOOD; THE GLASS SHIELD; DO > THE RIGHT THING; MALCOLM X; BETRAYED > > World War II and after: WATCH ON THE RHINE; THE GREAT DICTATOR; > CASABLANCA; CONFESSIONS OF A NAZI SPY; Hitchcock's FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT and > SABOTEUR; THE HITLER GANG; THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES; CROSSFIRE > > McCarthyism: MY SON JOHN, I WAS A COMMUNIST FOR THE FBI, BIG JIM MCCLAIN; > etc.; MISSION TO MOSCOW; THE NORTH STAR; ADVISE AND CONSENT; THE HOUSE ON > CARROLL STREET; GUILTY BY SUSPICION; THE FRONT, GOOD LUCK AND GOOD NIGHT > > Labor Relations: INTOLERANCE; SALT OF THE EARTH; ON THE WATERFRONT; THE > PAJAMA GAME; NORTHERN LIGHTS (about the Non-Partisan League movement in the > Dakotas); NORMA RAE; BLUE COLLAR; MATEWAN > > Nuclear War and/or Power: DR. STRANGELOVE; FAIL SAFE; SILKWOOD; THE CHINA > SYNDROME > > Gender and Sexuality: THE BOYS IN THE BAND; TOOTSIE; STONEWALL; BOYS DON'T > CRY > > Vietnam and After: Sam Fuller's CHINA GATE; THE GREEN BERETS; COMING HOME; > PLATOON; BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY; APOCALYPSE NOW; FULL METAL JACKET > > Middle East:, Africa, Latin America: SYRIANA; MUNICH; HOTEL RWANDA; THE > CONSTANT GARDENER; LORD OF WAR; MISSING; SALVADOR > > Drugs: TRAFFIC; BLOW > > Don Larsson > ----------------------------------------------- > "Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a > luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning > of consciousness to the end." --Virginia Woolf > > > 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 Jesse Kalin > Sent: Wed 8/2/2006 8:38 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [SCREEN-L] Suggestions for rhetoric of/and film class > > > > You might try "The War Game"--it's a staged documentary (one, if not > the first, of this sort) of a nuclear exchange in Britain and it's > aftermath. Just reissued. Whether NetFlix has it or not, I don't know. > > JK > > On Aug 1, 2006, at 6:16 PM, Lou Thompson wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > I am teaching a graduate course called Rhetoric of/and Film this > > fall. I'm looking for some suggestions for films. I'd like to > > cover about ten or so, at least half documentary. I'm so > > overwhelmed with the sheer number of options right now I'm having > > trouble settling on something, so I thought I'd send a request for > > any suggestions, ideas, etc. I'm looking for a variety of films > > that will offer us the opportunity to examine ideology and how it > > is presented in varying methods and degrees. > > > > There are a few restrictions: > > > > The students are graduate students in English and/or rhetoric, not > > film students. Some of them will have had other film classes with > > me, but most will not have. Though the list below may seem like > > films everyone has seen, the sad truth is that most of my students > > will have seen maybe one or two of them. Only one student will > > have seen them all, but she's one of my Netflix buddies. > > > > The class is an online class, so the films will have to be obtained > > through means such as Netflix or GreenCine. So no Nanook. > > > > Here's what I have so far: (It's very tentative) > > > > Documentaries > > > > > > > > Triumph of the Will (Netflix has it!!) > > > > Fog of War > > > > Bowling for Columbine > > > > > > > > Features: > > > > > > > > Rashomon > > > > Philadelphia > > > > The Quiet American > > > > The New World > > > > Three Kings > > > > Crash > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > > > > > > > Lou > > > > ___________________________________________ > > Dr. Lou Ann Thompson > > Professor of English > > Department of English, Speech, and Foreign Languages > > Texas Woman's University > > Denton, TX 76204 > > _________________________________________________ > > > > "One Law for the Lion and the Ox is Oppression"--William Blake > > > > _________________________________________ > > > > "It could be worse. 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