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Films
Film titles in bold are on reserve at the Odegaard Media Center.  Film titles followed by an asterisk are available on reserved compilation tapes of the individual directors’ works.  All links go to the Internet Movie Database page on the listed film or director.

Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life* (Mack Sennett, 1913, 15 min.)
Bataan (Tay Garnett, 1943, 113 min.)
The Crowd (King Vidor, 1928, 104 min.)
The Cheat (Cecil B. DeMille, 1915, 60 min.)
A Corner in Wheat* (D.W. Griffith, 1909, 14 min.)
The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino, 1978, 183 min.)
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989, 120 min.)
Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944, 107 min.)
Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, 1964, 93 min.)
Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper, 1969, 94 min.)
Easy Street* (Charlie Chaplin, 1917, 20 min.)
Face on the Barroom Floor* (Charlie Chaplin, 1915, 7 min.)
For His Son* (D.W. Griffith, 1912, 15 min.)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy, 1933, 96 min.)
The Immigrant* (Charlie Chaplin, 1917, 25 min.)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956, 80 min.)
The Jazz Singer (Alan Crosland, 1927, 88 min.)
Mantrap (Victor Fleming, 1926, 66 min.)
A Movie Star* (Fred Hibbard, 1916, 20 min.)   
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra, 1939, 125 min.)
Musketeers of Pig Alley* (D.W. Griffith, 1912, 17 min.)
Sergeant York (Howard Hawks, 1941, 134 min.)
What Shall We Do With Our Old?* (D.W. Griffith, 1911, 17 min.)

Textbooks
Corrigan, Timothy. A Short Guide to Writing About Film.  4th edition.
Gillis-Bridges, Kimberlee. Reading Packet for English 345. Available at Professional Copy N’ Print on the northeast corner of 42nd and University.

Available for check-out from Kimberlee:  Kolker, Robert.  Film, Form, and Culture (CD-ROM)

Reserve Books
The following texts have been placed on three-day reserve at Odegaard Undergraduate Library.  You may consult them while developing your presentation and Web project.  If you find additional books of interest as you research your projects, let me know, and I’ll add them to the list.

Belton, John.  American Cinema/American Culture.
Brinkley, Alan, and Ellen Fitzpatrick. America in Modern Times, Since 1890.
Morgan, Iwan W. and Neil A. Wynn. America's Century: Perspectives on U.S. History Since 1900.
Polenberg, Richard. One Nation Divisible: Class, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States Since 1938.
Reeves, Thomas. Twentieth-Century America: A Brief History.
Sklar, Robert. Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies.
Zinn, Howard. The Twentieth Century: A People's History.
 
 

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