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Required: The Class Reader for IDST 14; available at Cyber Copy and Design, 3128 16th Street, San Francisco, CA (415-863-9636). You can purchase the reader in person or by mail. Please call Cyber Copy to check for availability.
Recommended: A Larger Memory by Ronald Takaki (Little, Brown & Company, 1998). City College Book Store has this book.
Movie titles to choose from
In addition to the reading assignments, the course requires your viewing and analyzing some movies via brief journal entries. You will be viewing about one movie per week. Here are some titles you can choose from:
Feature films:"A Raisin in the Sun," "American History X," "Barn Burning" (based on a short story by William Faulkner), "Bartleby," "Brokeback Mountain," "La Ciudad ("The City")," "Crash," "Dances with Wolves," "Death of a Salesman," "Dim Sum, "Fancydancing," "The Great Gatsby," "Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay," "Harold and Kumar Go to the White Castle," "The House of Sand and Fog," "Joy Luck Club," "Malcolm X," "Mississippi Masala," "The Namesake," , "El Norte," "Pieces of April," "Quinceanera," "The Sky Is Gray" (based on a short story by Ernest Gaines), "Smoke Signals," "The Visitor," directed by Thomas McCarthy
Documentaries:
"We Shall Remain: America Through Native Eyes, PBS mini-series on Native history, directed by Chris Eyre (You can select any episode)
"Voices of A People's History of the United States"
"The Color of Fear," "Orientalism," based on Edward Said's book of the same title
"Leslie M. Silko" (Native American Novelists series by Films for the Humanities)
"Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies Arabs and Muslims" (or any film about racial stereotyping)
"Trudell" (directed hy Heather Rae)
"Half of Anything" (directed by Jon Tomhave)
"Scrubbed White" (directed by Frank Mitchell and Anna Geyer)
You can use any movie so long as it is relevant to the course content.
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