Adaptation: Literature, Film and Society

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 18.03.04

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Demographics 
  3. Content Objectives
  4. Background
  5. Who is the Powhatan Tribe?
  6. Who is Pocahontas?
  7. Pocahontas as an Historical Character
  8. Pocahontas: Film Adaptation of a Literary Text
  9. Teaching Strategies
  10. Classroom Activities
  11. Appendices
  12. Teaching Resources
  13. Bibliography and Resources
  14. Notes

Stories Told through Literature, Film and How It Applies to Our Society

Elizabeth Jayne Isaac

Published September 2018

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Bibliography and Resources

Bazzini, Doris, Lisa Curtin, Serena Joslin, Shilpa Regan, and Denise Martz. "Do Animated Disney Characters Portray and Promote the Beauty–Goodness Stereotype?." Journal of Applied Social Psychology 40, no. 10 (2010): 2687-2709.

Bruchac, Joseph. Pocahontas. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005.

D'Aulaire, Ingri, D'Aulaire Edgar Parin, and Frances Sternhagen. Pocahontas. New York: Doubleday, 1946.

Golden, Margaret. "Pocahontas: Comparing the Disney Image with Historical Evidence." Social Studies and the Young Learner 18, no. 4 (2006).

Gourse, Leslie, “ Pocahontas: Young Peacemaker,” Childhood of Famous Americans. Simon and Schuster, 1996

Horse, Chief Roy Crazy. "The Pocahontas Myth." Rankokus Indian Reservation, NJ), www. powhatan. org/pocc. html(2004).

http://www.azed.gov/

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/06/pocahontas-feminism/397190

Mossiker, Frances. Pocahontas: the Life and the Legend. New York: Knopf, 1976.

Naremore, James, Film adaptation. Rutgers University Press, 2000.

Strong, Pauline Turner. "Animated Indians: Critique and contradiction in commodified children's culture." Cultural Anthropology 11, no. 3 (1996): 405-424.

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