Niamh Bolton
Emily Hensley
Chelsea Toth
Ebony Nava
Kelly Battiato
Destini Wright
Eric Acton
Response from Kendra Rhinesmith
Response from Seth Gardner
Monday, March 31, 2014
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Resources for March 30, 2014
Bettinson, Gary and Richard Rushton. "Equality before the law in Spielberg’s Lincoln." Jump Cut #55 (Fall 2013)
Dialogic Cinephilia archives:
Top Films of 1950
Top Films of 1963
Top Films of 1964
Top Films of 1966
Top Films of 1969
Top Films of 1971
Top Films of 1972
Top Films of 1974
Top Films of 1977
Top Films of 1978
Top Films of 1979
Top Films of 1981
Top Gilms of 1982
Top Films of 1986
Top Films of 1987
Top Films of 1988
Top Films of 1989
Top Films of 1991
Top Films of 1992
Top Films of 1993
Top Fims of 1994
Top Films of 1996
Top Films of 1997
Top Films of 1998
Top Films of 2000
Top Films of 2001
Top Films of 2002
Top Films of 2003
Top Films of 2005
Top Films of 2010
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Resources for March 29, 2014
Dialogic Cinephilia archives:
Django: Unchained (USA: Quentin Tarantino, 2012)
Top Films of 1962
Top Films of 1993
Top Films of 1999
Top Films of 2009
Top Films of 2012
Daub, Adrian and Elisabeth Bronfren. "Broomhilda Unchained: Tarantino’s Wagner." Jump Cut #55 (Fall 2013)
Recommended film: "Reasons you should watch this film: 1) one of the best bluegrass/americana films I have seen (and it is Belgian!) -- a must for musicians and music fans 2) the powerful electricity between the two leads -- and all around great cast 3) Felix van Groeningen great directing/scriptwriting which includes varying timelines and dealing with powerful subject matter with the intensity and seriousness it deserves 4) the breathtaking touches of joy, comedy, wonder and eroticism that is sprinkled throughout this film."
Kaufman, Anthony. "The Occupied Soul of Ukraine." Keyframe (March 24, 2014) ["If there was ever a film that might metaphorically express the current political situation on the ground in Ukraine, Loznitsa’s narrative feature debut, MY JOY, might be it."]
Murray, Robin and Joseph Heumann. "Earth bites back: vampires and the ecological roots of home." Jump Cut #55 (Fall 2013)
Django: Unchained (USA: Quentin Tarantino, 2012)
Top Films of 1962
Top Films of 1993
Top Films of 1999
Top Films of 2009
Top Films of 2012
Daub, Adrian and Elisabeth Bronfren. "Broomhilda Unchained: Tarantino’s Wagner." Jump Cut #55 (Fall 2013)
Recommended film: "Reasons you should watch this film: 1) one of the best bluegrass/americana films I have seen (and it is Belgian!) -- a must for musicians and music fans 2) the powerful electricity between the two leads -- and all around great cast 3) Felix van Groeningen great directing/scriptwriting which includes varying timelines and dealing with powerful subject matter with the intensity and seriousness it deserves 4) the breathtaking touches of joy, comedy, wonder and eroticism that is sprinkled throughout this film."
Kaufman, Anthony. "The Occupied Soul of Ukraine." Keyframe (March 24, 2014) ["If there was ever a film that might metaphorically express the current political situation on the ground in Ukraine, Loznitsa’s narrative feature debut, MY JOY, might be it."]
Murray, Robin and Joseph Heumann. "Earth bites back: vampires and the ecological roots of home." Jump Cut #55 (Fall 2013)
Friday, March 28, 2014
Bottle Rocket (USA: Wes Anderson, 1996)
Bottle Rocket (USA: Wes Anderson, 1996: 91 mins)
Bennett, Alanna. "WES ANDERSON'S OBSESSED WITH SYMMETRY, WATCH THIS SUPERCUT OF PROOF." Bustle (March 19, 2014)
Bordwell, David. "The Grand Budapest Hotel: Wes Anderson takes the 4:3 challenge." Observations on Film Art (March 26, 2014)
Brubaker, Philip. "The Childhood Whimsy of Wes Anderson." Keyframe (May 5, 2017)
Reft, Ryan. "The Sexuality of “Whimsy”: Gender and Sex in the Films of Wes Anderson." Tropics of Meta (September 24, 2012)
Seitz, Matt Zoller. "The Substance of Style, Pts 1-5." Moving Image (March 30 - April 19, 2009)
---. "The Wes Anderson Collection Chapter 1: Bottle Rocket." (Posted on Vimeo: 2014)
Studio Binder. "The Wes Anderson Style Explained — The Complete Director's Guide to Wes Anderson's Aesthetic." (Posted on Youtube: April 26, 2021)
Tyree, J.M. "Unsafe Houses: Moonrise Kingdom and Wes Anderson's Conflicted Comedies of Escape." Film Quarterly 66.4 (Summer 2013)
Velenczei, David. "Wes Anderson's Violence." (Posted on Vimeo: April 22, 2015)
Wes Anderson Archives Critics Round Up (Ongoing Archive)
"Wes Anderson's Bottle Rocket." Criterion Cast (May 22, 2012)
Wes Anderson // Centered from kogonada on Vimeo.
Tyree, J.M. "Unsafe Houses: Moonrise Kingdom and Wes Anderson's Conflicted Comedies of Escape." Film Quarterly 66.4 (Summer 2013)
Velenczei, David. "Wes Anderson's Violence." (Posted on Vimeo: April 22, 2015)
Wes Anderson Archives Critics Round Up (Ongoing Archive)
"Wes Anderson's Bottle Rocket." Criterion Cast (May 22, 2012)
Wes Anderson // Centered from kogonada on Vimeo.
Resources for March 28, 2014
INTERSECTION, a videographic film study of In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
By Catherine Grant, Chiara Grizaffi and Denise Liege
Dialogic Cinephilia archives:
Hannah Arendt (Germany/Luxemborg/France: Margarethe von Trotta, 2012)
The Square (Egypt/USA: Jehane Noujaim, 2013)
My Top Films of 2011
Dialogic archives:
Resources for March 25, 2014
Resources for March 27, 2014
Resources for March 28, 2014
Morris, Earl. "The Unknown Known: Errol Morris’ New Doc Tackles Unrepentant Iraq War Architect Donald Rumsfeld." Democracy Now (March 27, 2014)
Seitz, Matt Zoller. "Please, critics, write about the filmmaking." MZS (March 24, 2014)
Dialogic Cinephilia archives:
Hannah Arendt (Germany/Luxemborg/France: Margarethe von Trotta, 2012)
The Square (Egypt/USA: Jehane Noujaim, 2013)
My Top Films of 2011
Dialogic archives:
Resources for March 25, 2014
Resources for March 27, 2014
Resources for March 28, 2014
Morris, Earl. "The Unknown Known: Errol Morris’ New Doc Tackles Unrepentant Iraq War Architect Donald Rumsfeld." Democracy Now (March 27, 2014)
Seitz, Matt Zoller. "Please, critics, write about the filmmaking." MZS (March 24, 2014)
Monday, March 24, 2014
Resources for March 24, 2014
Dialogic Cinephilia archives:
The Royal Tenenbaums (USA: Wes Anderson, 2001)
My Top Films of 1970
My Top Films of 2003
My Top Films of 2006
My Top Films of 2007
Murray, Robin and Joseph Heumann. "Limits and possibilities of ecocinema and ecocinema studies." Jump Cut #55 (Fall 2013)
Sánchez-Escalonilla, Antonio. "From Hoover to Bush Jr.: Home and Crisis Scripts in U.S. Social Cinema." Jump Cut #55 (Fall 2013)
Bennett, Alanna. "WES ANDERSON'S OBSESSED WITH SYMMETRY, WATCH THIS SUPERCUT OF PROOF." Bustle (March 19, 2014)
Dialogic: Resources for March 24, 2014
Luna, Diego. "Diego Luna on His Directorial Debut, Cesar Chavez." Uprising Radio (March 24, 2014)
The Royal Tenenbaums (USA: Wes Anderson, 2001)
My Top Films of 1970
My Top Films of 2003
My Top Films of 2006
My Top Films of 2007
Murray, Robin and Joseph Heumann. "Limits and possibilities of ecocinema and ecocinema studies." Jump Cut #55 (Fall 2013)
Sánchez-Escalonilla, Antonio. "From Hoover to Bush Jr.: Home and Crisis Scripts in U.S. Social Cinema." Jump Cut #55 (Fall 2013)
Bennett, Alanna. "WES ANDERSON'S OBSESSED WITH SYMMETRY, WATCH THIS SUPERCUT OF PROOF." Bustle (March 19, 2014)
Dialogic: Resources for March 24, 2014
Luna, Diego. "Diego Luna on His Directorial Debut, Cesar Chavez." Uprising Radio (March 24, 2014)
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Resources for March 20, 2014
Dialogic Cinephilia archives:
Beau Travail (France: Claire Denis, 1999)
Fight Club (USA: David Fincher, 1999)
The Lady Vanishes (UK: Alfred Hitchock, 1938)
My Top Films of 1973
Church, David. "“Propane is for pussies”: Bellflower’s bromance of retro technology and hip masculinity." Jump Cut #55 (Fall 2013)
Popova, Maria. "Obey: How the Rise of Mass Propaganda Killed Populism." Brain Pickings (February 6, 2013)
Dialogic: Resources for March 19, 2014
Alpert, Robert. "Skyfall: A Mother and Her Twin Boys." Jump Cut #55 (Fall 2013)
Cineaste: "The Cineaste Editors' Votes For the Ten Best Political Films, 1967-2007"
Beau Travail (France: Claire Denis, 1999)
Fight Club (USA: David Fincher, 1999)
The Lady Vanishes (UK: Alfred Hitchock, 1938)
My Top Films of 1973
Church, David. "“Propane is for pussies”: Bellflower’s bromance of retro technology and hip masculinity." Jump Cut #55 (Fall 2013)
Popova, Maria. "Obey: How the Rise of Mass Propaganda Killed Populism." Brain Pickings (February 6, 2013)
Dialogic: Resources for March 19, 2014
Alpert, Robert. "Skyfall: A Mother and Her Twin Boys." Jump Cut #55 (Fall 2013)
Cineaste: "The Cineaste Editors' Votes For the Ten Best Political Films, 1967-2007"
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
The Lady Vanishes (UK: Alfred Hitchock, 1938)
The Lady Vanishes (UK: Alfred Hitchock, 1938: 96 mins)
Barr, Charles. "The Lady Vanishes: Tea and Treachery." Current (November 19, 2007)
O'Brien, Geoffrey. "The Lady Vanishes: All Aboard!." Current (November 19, 2007)
Wilmington, Michael. "The Lady Vanishes Current (March 26, 1998)
Resources for March 18, 2014
Kapica, Stephen S. "The multivalent feminism of The Notorious Bettie Page." Jump Cut #55 (Fall 2013)
Vanderwees, Chris. "Sartorial signifiers, masculinity, and the global recession in HBO's Hung." Jump Cut #55 (Fall 2013)
Greven, David. "Ida Lupino’s American Psycho: The Hitch-Hiker (1953)." Bright Lights After Dark (February 27, 2014)
McFarland, Kevin. "True Detective ends its first season as it began: with two indelible performances." Boing Boing (March 10, 2014)
Greven, David. "Bringing Out Baby Jane: Camp, Sympathy, and the 1960s Horror-Woman’s Film." Jump Cut #55 (Fall 2013)
Lapekas, Jenny. "Descent — 'Everything’s okay now.': Race, vengeance, and watching the modern rape-revenge narrative." Jump Cut #55 (Fall 2013)
Kreider, Timothy. "The End of Everything: Apocalyptic Films." Jump Cuts #55 (Fall 2013)
Dialogic Cinephilia archives:
The Turin Horse (Hungary/Germany/France/Switzerland/USA: Bela Tarr, 2011)
Triumph of the Will (Germany: Leni Riefenstahl, 1935)
The Universal Clock - The Resistance of Peter WatkinsbyGeoff Bowie, National Film Board of Canada
Vanderwees, Chris. "Sartorial signifiers, masculinity, and the global recession in HBO's Hung." Jump Cut #55 (Fall 2013)
Greven, David. "Ida Lupino’s American Psycho: The Hitch-Hiker (1953)." Bright Lights After Dark (February 27, 2014)
McFarland, Kevin. "True Detective ends its first season as it began: with two indelible performances." Boing Boing (March 10, 2014)
Greven, David. "Bringing Out Baby Jane: Camp, Sympathy, and the 1960s Horror-Woman’s Film." Jump Cut #55 (Fall 2013)
Lapekas, Jenny. "Descent — 'Everything’s okay now.': Race, vengeance, and watching the modern rape-revenge narrative." Jump Cut #55 (Fall 2013)
Kreider, Timothy. "The End of Everything: Apocalyptic Films." Jump Cuts #55 (Fall 2013)
Dialogic Cinephilia archives:
The Turin Horse (Hungary/Germany/France/Switzerland/USA: Bela Tarr, 2011)
Triumph of the Will (Germany: Leni Riefenstahl, 1935)
Triumph of the Will (Germany: Leni Riefenstahl, 1935)
Triumph of the Will (Germany: Leni Riefenstahl, 1935: 110 mins)
Barker, Jennifer Lynne. The Aesthetics of Antifascist Film: Radical Projection. Routledge, 2013. [Get through interlibrary loan]
Brockmann, Stephen. "Triumph des Will (1935): Documentary and Propaganda." A Critical History of German Film Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2010: 151-165. [Professor has copy of the book]
Olson, Dan. "Triumph of the Will and the Cinematic Language of Propaganda." Folding Ideas (Posted on Youtube: February 10, 2017)
One Hundred Years of Cinema. "1935: Triumph of the Will - The Power of Propaganda." (Posted on Youtube: January 21, 2018) ["Triumph of the Will is regarded as one of the most powerful propaganda pieces ever made, but how did the film advance the racist and anti-Semitic ideology of the Nazi party? What is the history of cinema as a tool of propaganda? Triumph of the Will is one of the most famous propaganda movies ever made. The films is a semi-documentary take on sixth annual National Socialist conference in Nuremberg in 1934, by director Leni Riefenstahl. It covers 4 days worth of speeches, parades and city wide celebration. It’s edited together out of hundreds of hours of footage, and it unveils the core message of the conference without commentary or inter title. Although it’s often praised as revolutionising the art of film propaganda, it actually adds very few techniques of its own, instead drawing on the decades of development in propaganda that came before. So lets take a look at the history of the propaganda film and how theses techniques were used by Riefenstahl to advance the Nazi Ideology."]
Rivas, T.J. "Cinematic Responses to Fascism." Film History and Aesthetics Wiki (A Project of Film 110: Introduction to Film History and Aesthetics at Westminster College)
Sontag, Susan. "Fascinating Fascism." Under the Sign of Saturn Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux: 1980.
Sontag, Susan. "Fascinating Fascism." Under the Sign of Saturn Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux: 1980.
The Turin Horse (Hungary/Germany/France/Switzerland/USA: Bela Tarr, 2011)
The Turin Horse (Hungary/Germany/France/Switzerland/USA: Bela Tarr, 2011: 146 mins)
Cutler, Aaron. "Multiple Vision: Deciphering the isolated gazes in the films of Béla Tarr." Multiple Image Source (February 2012)
Handley, David. "The Turin Horse and the End of Civilization As We Know It." Offscreen (April 30, 2012)
Kreider, Timothy. "The End of Everything: Apocalyptic Films." Jump Cuts #55 (Fall 2013)
Monday, March 17, 2014
Red River (USA: Howard Hawks, 1948)
Red River (USA: Howard Hawks, 1948: 133 mins)
Blakeslee, David. "Howard Hawk's Red River." Criterion Cast #149 (September 24, 2014)
Freedman, Carl. "Post-Hetrosexuality: John Wayne and the Construction of American Masculinity." Film International 5.1 (2007 [Professor has copy])
McGee, Patrick. From Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the Western. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007.[Professor has copy]
Hudson, David. "Sex in the Movies." Green Cine (2005)
Casablanca (USA: Michael Curtiz, 1942)
Casablanca (USA: Michael Curtiz, 1942: 102 mins)
Daseler, Graham. "The Fall of the House of Warner: The Warner Brothers." Bright Lights Film Journal #82 (November 2013)
"The immortal ‘Casablanca’: Why the Old Hollywood’s Everlasting Masterpiece Is Still Beloved." Cinephilia & Beyond (ND)
LoBrutto, Vincent. "Classical Hollywood Film Style: Casablanca." Becoming Film Literate: The Art and Craft of Motion Pictures. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005: 67-76. [BCTC Library: PN1994 L595 2005]
Rivas, T.J. "Cinematic Responses to Fascism." Film History and Aesthetics Wiki (A Project of Film 110: Introduction to Film History and Aesthetics at Westminster College)
Stephens, Kyle. "Teaching Casablanca: Clay, Ink, Documentary, Set." The Cine-Files #9 (2016)
Friday, March 14, 2014
Resources for March 14, 2014
via Criterion: "We directors have a very large responsibility. We have it in our hands to lift the film from industry to art… We must want something, we must dare something, and we must not jump over where the fence is lowest." — Carl Theodore Dreyer
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Dialogic Cinephilia:
Top Films of 1989
Top Films of 2011
McCahill. Mike. "21st Century Directors You Need to Know About: Andrea Arnold." Movie Mail (February 27, 2014)
Dialogic: Resources for March 13, 2014
Inside Job from dunyagercekleri on Vimeo.
Samer, Roxanne. "New Queer Cinema." Jump Cut #55 (Fall 2013)
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
David Hudson: Věra Chytilová, 1929 – 2014 Best known for Daisies (1966), Chytilová was a major figure in Czech cinema.
Věra Chytilová, 1929 – 2014
Best known for DAISIES (1966), Chytilová was a major figure in Czech cinema.
by David Hudson Keyframe
“The director and screenwriter Věra Chytilová, the first lady of Czech film, died today in Prague at the age of 85,” reports the Prague Post. “As a filmmaker, Chytilová already made news with her student films, Ceiling (Strop, 1961) and A Bagful of Fleas (Pytel blech, 1962), but it was her provocative 1966 film Daisies (Sedmikrásky) that made her a household name in then-Czechoslovakia, even at the height of the otherwise male-dominated Czech New Wave that included such luminary figures as Miloš Forman and Jiří Menzel.”
“She was unique in the history of Czech cinema as a high-profile director during the New Wave, Normalization, and post-Communism periods who did not pursue a filmmaking career outside the country,” notes Kevin McFarland at the AV Club. “Chytilová didn’t simply represent a female presence in a male-dominated cinematic movement; she stood out as the most vocally political and aesthetically experimental filmmaker of the bunch.”
The AP notes that Daisies “proved her reputation as a provocateur and helped establish her as an artistic force at home and abroad. Like the movies of other new Czech directors of the time, it represented a radical departure from socialist realism, a typical communist-era genre focusing on realistically depicting the working class’ troubles. The heroes of Daisies—two teenage girls—decide to get spoiled because the entire world is spoiled, and they want to have some fun. It was immediately banned before winning the Grand Prix at the Bergamo Film Festival in Italy in 1967…. Of her 20 feature movies, her major works include Fruit of Paradise, Calamity, Panelstory, The Very Late Afternoon of the Faun and The Inheritance.”
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Resources for March 12, 2014
Ferguson, Susan. "Capitalist Childhood in Film: Modes of Critique." Jump Cut #55 (Fall 2013)
Dialogic Cinephilia archives:
Beasts of the Southern Wild (USA: Benh Zeitlin, 2012)
La Vie de Bohème (Finland: Aki Kaurismäki, 1992)
Slumdog Millionaire (UK: Danny Boyle, 2008)
Top Films of 1992
Top Films of 2000
Top Films of 2011
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Dialogic Cinephilia archives:
Beasts of the Southern Wild (USA: Benh Zeitlin, 2012)
La Vie de Bohème (Finland: Aki Kaurismäki, 1992)
Slumdog Millionaire (UK: Danny Boyle, 2008)
Top Films of 1992
Top Films of 2000
Top Films of 2011
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La Vie de Bohème (Finland: Aki Kaurismäki, 1992)
La Vie de Bohème (Finland: Aki Kaurismäki, 1992: 100 mins)
Wikipedia entry on Henry Murger's 1851 La Vie de Bohème and the many adaptations of it
Murger, Henri. Bohemians of the Latin Quarter (Available on Project Gutenberg)
"Adapting La vie de bohème." The Current (January 24, 2013)
Sante, Luc. "La vie de bohème: The Seacoast of Bohemia." The Current (January 20, 2014)
Wilms, Andre. "On La Vie de Bohème." The Current (January 28, 2014)
Le Havre, Aki Kaurismäki's 2011 film features many of the characters from La Vie de Bohème
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Monday, March 10, 2014
Spring 2014 ENG 102 Students Brainstorming for Research-Argument Essay
[Don't forget we are meeting at William T. Young for Wed/Thur classes at the front entrance. Show up on time because we will be leaving that space as soon as class starts.]
Check out the subject archives on the right hand side of Dialogic
Check out Resources for Re-Thinking the World
Check out film studies resources at Dialogic Cinephilia
Student suggestions for possible topics:
Abortion (for/against) 7
Animals (testing; cruelty; treatment of animals in zoos) 6
Civil/Human Rights (Women's Rights; Gay Rights; Freedom of Speech; Native American; same-sex marriages; nanny culture; airport security; Civil Rights Movement; human trafficking) 11
Class in America (Raising the Minimum Wage; Inequality) 4
Cloning
Culture (mythology; rituals; comics; Stonehenge) 4
Death Penalty 5
Drugs (Marijuana Legalization; Drunk Driving; Chemicals in Cigarettes; Lower Drinking Age to 18; medical marijuana) 12
Economics/Business (small businesses; sales tactics) 2
Education (Bullying; Study Abroad; Music Education; Home Schooling; Costs/Tuition; Is a College Degree Necessary?; Public Education; G.E.D.; Elementary; High School College Preparation; common core standards; teacher salaries; art education; pledge of allegiance) 21
Elections (campaign funding)
Energy (corn ethanol; offshore oil drilling; alternative energy) 3
Environment (Pollution; overpopulation; green politics; green architecture) 4
Evolution 2
Family (alternative families; violence; working mothers; divorce) 4
Food Politics (Growth Hormones; eating disorders; GMOs; vegetarianism) 5
Gender (stereotypes; men's rights groups; women's studies; 2nd/3rd wave feminism) 4
Geopolitics (Western Intervention in Africa; should the USA help countries facing poverty/abusive governments) 2
Government (general funding; welfare; govt. subsidized agriculture; drug testing; democracy; socialism) 8
Healthcare (Alzheimers & Dementia; Costs; Malpractice Laws; Obesity; Right to Die/Euthanasia; Vaccines; microbe research; genomics; sleep deprivation; history of mental illness; fitness; diets; obamacare payment for birth control) 19
Immigration (immigrants as positive force; illegal immigration) 2
Language (English Language Origins)
Media Issues (Social Media; Media Consolidation; Politics & Media; Creativity vs Business; Representation of "bad behavior"; representation/meaning of mermaids in different cultures/media; advertising; public relations; propaganda; representation of unrealistic body types; Wikileaks; censorship) 17
Prisons/Punishment (rehabilitation over punishment; punishment over rehabilitation; corporal punishment; loss of rights due to a felony conviction; funding) 6
Psychology (Violence)
Public Transportation in Lexington
Religion (Christianity; creationsim) 2
Sexuality (Queer Culture; polamory) 2
Sports (should high school athletes be forced to got to university before turning pro; stereotypes of women athletes; paying college athletes; concussions; steroids in baseball; racism in sports) 7
Stem Cell Research 6
Technology (physical effects of electronic devices; reliance on computers; over-reliance in general; privacy issues; google glasses; cell phones; internet) 9
Violence (rape culture)
War/Conflicts (Soviet Era Politics; Vietnam War-effects on soldiers; American Interventions; PTSD; Iraq/Afghanistan; child victims, NAZI society and history; WW II) 9
Weapons (Gun Control Laws - for/against) 5
Youth (troubled childhood; beauty contests for children; child abuse; generation Y/millennials; youth offenders; pedophiles) 7
Check out the subject archives on the right hand side of Dialogic
Check out Resources for Re-Thinking the World
Check out film studies resources at Dialogic Cinephilia
Student suggestions for possible topics:
Abortion (for/against) 7
Animals (testing; cruelty; treatment of animals in zoos) 6
Civil/Human Rights (Women's Rights; Gay Rights; Freedom of Speech; Native American; same-sex marriages; nanny culture; airport security; Civil Rights Movement; human trafficking) 11
Class in America (Raising the Minimum Wage; Inequality) 4
Cloning
Culture (mythology; rituals; comics; Stonehenge) 4
Death Penalty 5
Drugs (Marijuana Legalization; Drunk Driving; Chemicals in Cigarettes; Lower Drinking Age to 18; medical marijuana) 12
Economics/Business (small businesses; sales tactics) 2
Education (Bullying; Study Abroad; Music Education; Home Schooling; Costs/Tuition; Is a College Degree Necessary?; Public Education; G.E.D.; Elementary; High School College Preparation; common core standards; teacher salaries; art education; pledge of allegiance) 21
Elections (campaign funding)
Energy (corn ethanol; offshore oil drilling; alternative energy) 3
Environment (Pollution; overpopulation; green politics; green architecture) 4
Evolution 2
Family (alternative families; violence; working mothers; divorce) 4
Food Politics (Growth Hormones; eating disorders; GMOs; vegetarianism) 5
Gender (stereotypes; men's rights groups; women's studies; 2nd/3rd wave feminism) 4
Geopolitics (Western Intervention in Africa; should the USA help countries facing poverty/abusive governments) 2
Government (general funding; welfare; govt. subsidized agriculture; drug testing; democracy; socialism) 8
Healthcare (Alzheimers & Dementia; Costs; Malpractice Laws; Obesity; Right to Die/Euthanasia; Vaccines; microbe research; genomics; sleep deprivation; history of mental illness; fitness; diets; obamacare payment for birth control) 19
Immigration (immigrants as positive force; illegal immigration) 2
Language (English Language Origins)
Media Issues (Social Media; Media Consolidation; Politics & Media; Creativity vs Business; Representation of "bad behavior"; representation/meaning of mermaids in different cultures/media; advertising; public relations; propaganda; representation of unrealistic body types; Wikileaks; censorship) 17
Prisons/Punishment (rehabilitation over punishment; punishment over rehabilitation; corporal punishment; loss of rights due to a felony conviction; funding) 6
Psychology (Violence)
Public Transportation in Lexington
Religion (Christianity; creationsim) 2
Sexuality (Queer Culture; polamory) 2
Sports (should high school athletes be forced to got to university before turning pro; stereotypes of women athletes; paying college athletes; concussions; steroids in baseball; racism in sports) 7
Stem Cell Research 6
Technology (physical effects of electronic devices; reliance on computers; over-reliance in general; privacy issues; google glasses; cell phones; internet) 9
Violence (rape culture)
War/Conflicts (Soviet Era Politics; Vietnam War-effects on soldiers; American Interventions; PTSD; Iraq/Afghanistan; child victims, NAZI society and history; WW II) 9
Weapons (Gun Control Laws - for/against) 5
Youth (troubled childhood; beauty contests for children; child abuse; generation Y/millennials; youth offenders; pedophiles) 7
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