> > On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, JOSHI wrote: > > > I am showing Minh-Ha's Surname Viet Given Name Nam in my intro to film > > class tomorrow. Bad decision, because I haven't watched the film and am > > curious myself. I am screening it to go with my lecture on non-narrative > > film. Can anyone help me with a brief intro to the film which would be > > better than just screening it without any context. > > > > SJ Why show a film by a director whose last name you can't decipher? :-) *Film Art* (5th ed.) has a very useful chapter on non narrative film with countless examples. For my Intro. class I used the following: *Blow-Job* *Marilyn Times Five* *Un Chien Andalou* *Anemic Cinema* *Ballet Mechanique* *Meshes of the Afternoon* It gives students an overview through time and space (from the 1940s in the US to the 1980s in the US via France in the 1920s). *Sur Name* is definitely over the head of an Intro. audience.... Gloria Monti ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama.