Eldrich Carr's Webpage for the 2007-2008 School Year

THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

Syllabus:

2007-2008 Course Syllabus and Permission Slip

Fact Sheets:

Gangs of New York (1992)
Modern Times (1936)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Casablanca (1942)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Unforgiven (1992)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Hotel Rawanda (2004)


PowerPoint Presentations:

Vocabulary PowerPoint
Early History of Film PowerPoint


Secondary Source Readings:

James Nuremore's The Magician

Robert Greene's The 48 Laws of Power; Chapter 5: "So Much Depends on Reputation-Guard It With Your Life" and Chapter 6: "Court Attention at All Cost"

Robert Ray's A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1980; Chapter 3: "The Culmination of Classic Hollywood: Casablanca"

Paul Robeson's Testimony Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (June 12, 1956)

"Hollywood Moguls Enlisted to Bolster War Effort" (Nicholas Wapshott, Times of London, 11-10-2001)

Barack Obama's The Audacity of Hope; Chapter 4: Politics

Stephen Crane's The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky

Philip Gourevitch's We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rawanda; Chapters 1-3

Samantha Power's "A Problem From Hell": America and the Age of Genocide; Chapters 1, 2, and 3

Samantha Power's "A Problem From Hell": America and the Age of Genocide; Chapter 10 - First Half

Samantha Power's "A Problem From Hell": America and the Age of Genocide; Chapter 10 - Second Half