Resources
Teacher Resources
Corrigan, Timothy and Patricia White. The Film Experience. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2004. An accessible textbook providing the foundational ideas involved in film studies.
Dabashi, Hamid. Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present and Future. London: Verso, 2001. A comprehensive examination of the history of Iranian cinema, filmmakers, gender, and globalization.
D"nmez-Colin, Gönül. Women, Islam, and Cinema. London: Reaktion Books, 2004.
A slim, accessible book, providing a broad view of representations of women in Islamic societies.
Harrow, Kenneth W. ed. African Cinema: Post-Colonial and Feminist Readings. Trenton: African World Press, 1999. A good collection of essays on the many African films that explore imperialism and gender.
Hill, John and Pamela Church Gibson, eds. World Cinema: Critical Approaches. Oxford UP, 2000. A general reference on how to discuss, teach, and critically analyze world cinema.
Krueger, Ellen and Mary T. Christel. Seeing & Believing: How to Teach Media Literacy in the English Classroom. Portsmouth: Boynton/Cook, 2001. A guide to teaching all forms of media to students in a K-12 setting.
Saltzman, Devyani and Deepa Mehta. Shooting Water: A Memoir of Second Chances, Family, and Filmmaking. New York: Newmarket, 2006. A recent memoir by the director's daughter. Details the tumultuous four-year process of making the film after Hindu fundamentalists shut down production.
Student Resources
Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. New York: Anchor, 1959. The tragic story of Okonkwo and the transformation of an Ibo village in Nigeria. A popular novel with students.
Corrigan, Timothy. A Short Guide to Writing About Film. New York: Longman, 2003. An excellent guide to the most common ways to effectively write about film.
Hesse, Hermann, Siddhartha. New York, Bantam, 1951. The story of the Buddha and his spiritual journey in India.
Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis: A Story of a Childhood. Paris: Pantheon, 2003. A visually rich graphic memoir about the author as she comes of age during the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Poignant, funny, and informative. Good for struggling and more engaged readers.
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