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ICS 9 Extra Credit Movie ListYou may not turn in an essay about a movie unless it is on this list.
See instructions below for adding movies to the list.
ICS 9 movies may not be watched for extra credit for any other course that you may be taking from Mrs. Parker. These movies only count for extra credit for ICS 9.
Choose a movie to watch and then write an essay. DO NOT SUMMARIZE THE MOVIE PLOT. Instead highlight the ICS 9 concepts/events that you noted in the movie.(This can be from the textbook, class, movies, lectures etc.) Be sure to read the overview for the chapter and to clearly state which class week and which Chapter overview you are using. You need to underline selectively or highlight selectively where in the essay you included concepts for the week. If you fully follow the directions each movie essay can be worth 25 extra credit points.
For instance in the film Avalon it is the story of a Russian Jewish and Polish Jewish immigrant family through 3 generations. List the events for instance that are significant to the Americanization of the family members. Stereotypes that the immigrant family faced. Historical events that applied directly to the racial/ethnic group portrayed in the film. Your essay must be at least 2 pages typed and double-spaced for each movie. The essay should be thoughtful and you should provide the movie's characters' and your reactions to the concepts/events that you identify.
Movie extra credit essays are due by the last day of the course session. You may not watch a movie more than once. If you have films that you think should be added to the movie list send me an email at parkergerri@fhda.edu. If I agree, and that's not a challenge, just a request to help me understand why you think the movie is appropriate for this class, I will add the title to the list.
Week 1 concepts: Race/Ethnicity/Assimilation/Americanization/Immigration/Culture/race and ethnic relations in the United States/racial and ethnic identity, racial privilege/inequality/theories of race/racial ideology/pluralism/anti-racism/studying race and ethnicity in local contexts.
Here is a very preliminary list of movies you can watch for ICS 9:
8 Mile
A Moment in Time: Conversations with Legendary Women: African American Women of Achievement
A Time To Kill
African American Lives
African American War Heroes
Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery
Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery
America Beyond the Color Line
America Chai
American Aloha
American Blackout
American Desi
American Experience: The Mormons
American Experience: We Shall Remain: 5 films
American Family: Journey of Dreams
American Fusion
American Gangster
American History X
American Indian Homelands
American Me
American Mormon
American Mystery: Coyote Waits
American Pastime
AmericanEast
Americanese
Americanese
Amistadd
Avalon
Black Caeser
Black Indians: An American Story
Black Like Me
Borat
Brown Sugar
Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
Claudine
Crash
Crooklyn
Daddy’s Little Girls
Dance Me Outside
Dances with Wolves
Daughter from Danang: American Experience
Dirty Dancing
Do the Right Thing
Eve’s Bayou
Everything is Illuminated
Far and Away
Fringe Dwellers
George Lopez: America's Mexican
Geronimo
Ghosts of Mississippi
Grapes of Wrath
HBO documentary: Prom Night in Mississippi
Higher Learning
Hotel Ruwanda
I Love You, I Love You Not
I Remember Mama
In America
In America
Jungle Fever
Kite Runner
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
Louisiana Blues Musical Documentary
Malcolm X
Mr. & Mrs. Loving
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Native American Medicine
Nightwing
Once Upon a Time in America
Once Upon a Time in America
Out of Ireland: Story of Emigration into America
Pow Wow Highway
Pride
Red Doors
Remember the Titans
Rendition
Rosewood
Schindler's List
Scottsboro: An American Tragedy: American Experience
Searching for Asian America
Selena
Sitting Bull's History Lesson or Indians
Skins
Smoke Signals
Something the Lord Made
The Education of Little Tree
The Grace Lee Project
The Great Wall
The Green Mile
The Murder of Emmett Till: American Experience
To Kill a Mocking Bird
TransAmerica
West Side Story
Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary
Whale Rider
Yentl
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