Stories around the World in Film

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 06.01.12

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Overview
  2. Objectives
  3. Strategies and Activities
  4. Introductory Film (Sweden)
  5. Notes
  6. Bibliography
  7. Filmography

Back to the Future: How Earlier Art Forms Have Influenced Contemporary Cinema in Ireland, Iran, and Africa

Laura Viviana Sturgeon

Published September 2006

Tools for this Unit:

Bibliography

Cahill, Christopher, ed. Gather Round Me: The Best of Irish Popular Poetry. Boston:

Beacon Press, 2004.

Chaudhuri, Shonini, and Howard Finn. "The Open Image: Poetic Realism and the New

Iranian Cinema." Screen. 44:1 Spring 2003. Pp 38-57.

Although I quote from it, I found this article confusing and of limited relevance to the overall goals of the teaching unit.

Corrigan, Timothy. A Short Guide to Writing about Film. NewYork:

Pearson/Longman, 2004.

This slim volume contains many good ideas for writing assignments of varying levels of difficulty.

Corrigan, Timothy, and Patricia White. The Film Experience: An Introduction. Boston:

Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004.

This text-book style reader is perfect for both teachers and students alike to familiarize themselves with the basic vocabulary of film studies.

Dabashi, Hamid. Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present, and Future. London: Verso,

2001.

I found this book to be very informative and readable; the author's straightforward prose style makes much of the content accessible to high school age readers, as well.

Fischer, Michael M.J. Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges;

Persian Poesis in the Transnational Circuitry. London: Duke University Press,

2004.

Fulton, Robin, trans. Preparations for Flight and Other Swedish Short Stories. London:

Forest Books, 1990.

Hempel, Amy and Jim Shepard, eds. Unleashed: Poems by Writer's Dogs. New York:

Three Rivers Press, 1995.

Niane, D.T., Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali. Longman, 1994.

Thackway, Melissa. Africa Shoots Back: Alternative Perspectives in Sub-Saharan

Francophone African Film. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003.

Voices and Poetry of Ireland. Naperville: Sourcebooks Inc., 2005

This book contains a CD featuring dramatic readings of the poems by Irish persons of national or international renown.

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