The Great Dictator Donnie Darko I'd suggest The Senator Was Indiscreet, but ti's not even out on DVD yet... ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Prof Steven P Hill <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: Film and TV Studies Discussion List <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 02:32:18 -0500 >Dear colleagues & Prof Thompson: > >"Male Animal" (Warners 1942, with Henry Fonda) is an excellent comedy-drama >about a fictional college professor of English literature (not yet tenured), who >along with his English Dept. colleagues gets involved in a political controversy. >Extremely interesting is the professor's attempt to use RHETORIC itself in that >controversy. > >"Confessions of a Nazi Spy" (Warners 1939, with Edward G Robinson) is a striking >early semi-documentary about Nazi propagandists' attempts to promote Hitler's >ideology in the USA, and US counter-spies' attempts to infiltrate the >propagandists' German-American organizations and to put a stop to their Nazi >propaganda. Much political rhetoric, i.e., "propaganda," is presented and >dissected in the film, recreated by professional actors as if they were real people. > >"Citizen Kane" (RKO 1941, by & with Orson Welles) hardly needs commentary. >The life of a fictional publisher (inspired by a real publisher) who became a master >and abuser of rhetoric (information and dis-information) in his own journalistic >efforts. > >"Deadline USA" (MGM '52, with Humphrey Bogart) is the story of an old New >York daily newspaper attempting to mainstain high journalistic standards in >increasingly difficult competition with more commercially-oriented, less >idealistic newspapers. > >P.S. Does anyone know why some postings on list-servers, like this one, >mess up the text by sticking in "20" and/or " -- " at the end of many lines? >Are those "insertions" really necessary? > >Best wishes to all, >Steven P Hill, >University of Illinois. >___ __ _ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ > >Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 00:00:14 >From: <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: SCREEN-L Digest - 1 Aug 2006 to 2 Aug 2006 (#2006-129) >To: [log in to unmask] >Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 17:16:17 -0500 >From: Lou Thompson <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Suggestions for rhetoric of/and film class > >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:(very tentative): >Documentaries: Triumph of the Will (Netflix), Fog of War, Bowling for Columbine >Features: Rashomon,Philadelphia,Quiet American,The New World,3Kings,Crash. > >Dr. Lou Ann Thompson, Department of English, Speech, and Foreign Languages >Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX 76204. >__ __ __ __ __ __ __ ___ __ _ > >Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 15:02:25 +0300 >From: Naomi Tirosh <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: Suggestions for rhetoric of/and film class > >Mr. Smith goes to Washington 1939 > >[log in to unmask] >__ __ __ __ __ ___ __ __ __ ___ __ ___ > > >---- >Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the >University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu > ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at cix.csi.cuny.edu ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org