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Ezgoing

Monday, October 06, 2003 - 02:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Some of these movies could be used for more than one topic. Adolescence is predominantly themed in the following, but meaningful significance to gender/sex differences and how it impacts relationships, also some family/parenthood ties. Good luck, Spygirl! Let us know what you decide and more importantly, what your classes' views were--thanks.

The Man in the Moon (adolescence/gender roles/family)
Stand by Me PLUS Now and Then (highlight gender differences/similarities for adolescents)
The Outsiders (adolescence/gender roles)
The Breakfast Club (adolescence/gender roles/family)
American Graffiti (adolescence/gender roles)
The Summer of '42 (adolescence/gender roles)
To Kill a Mockingbird (parenthood/family/gender roles)

Max

Monday, October 06, 2003 - 03:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I was thinking of The Breakfast Club, too. Great movie. :)

Pretty Woman is one of my favorite movies. There are so many things in there that I quote on a regular basis. Yes, it's basically a modern-day Cinderella kind of story, but there are a lot of other things there, too. I like how she develops from a person who has very little self-confidence and self-respect to someone who says (paraphrase), "a week ago, that would have been enough. But now I want more," when Richard Gere offers to set her up in a condo and pay for everything. She evolves. She learns that she is someone with "a lot of special gifts" and that she should be treasured.

How about Risky Business? Ferris Bueller's Day Off?

Another good movie for sex/gender roles is Addicted to Love (Meg Ryan and Matthew Broderick). Great messages about hanging on to toxic relationships and almost missing something really special that's right in front of your face.

Oh, and how about Ever After (Drew Barrymore)? The telling of Cinderella with the woman being the strong character instead of a wimp.

Another great movie is Bye Bye Love. It's got all kinds of statements about relationships, adolescence (especially in dealing with divorce), and blended families.

Mware

Monday, October 06, 2003 - 03:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
One more to add - Never Been Kissed

Drew Barrymore as a twentysomething journalist assigned to go back to high school to get a story.

Hamsterlady

Monday, October 06, 2003 - 03:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
For #2 - 'American History X'

While this movie may be a little 'too' hardcore, I think it would be perfect and I've loved this movie ever since it came out. I always recommend it to friends and I'm amazed at how many have never seen it but never shocked that they come back to me thanking me for heading them towards that movie.

Here's a link to it at IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120586/

Another good movie choice for #2 would also be 'Pump Up The Volume' with Christian Slater.

Here's its link at IMDB: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0100436/


For #3 - 'Urban Cowboy'

Now, while you may laugh at my choice for #3, it would be a great movie for that topic. And just in case you're still laughing, Knock It Off! hehehe j/k Come on guys, give it a chance and think about it.

Here's a link to it at IMDB: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0081696/

Hamsterlady

Monday, October 06, 2003 - 03:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Just thought of one for Topic #1.

How about 'Boys On The Side'?

Here's it's link at IMDB as well: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112571/

Hippyt

Monday, October 06, 2003 - 04:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Oooohhhhh,I don't know about American History X. Unless you want a room of extremely shocked,crying people,I'd skip that one.

Kstme

Monday, October 06, 2003 - 04:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The Graduate

Hamsterlady

Monday, October 06, 2003 - 04:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hippy, the students are all 20+ so I think it would be OK. :) But then, I did cry when I saw the movie for the first time when it came out.

Kimmo

Monday, October 06, 2003 - 04:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
1). The impact of sex and gender on relationships: Normal, Tootsie

2). Adolescence: Manny and Lo, Welcome to the Dollhouse

3). Early adulthood (single adults and young marrieds): Reality Bites, Kicking and Screaming

Grooch

Monday, October 06, 2003 - 05:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Sex, lies and videotapes?

What Women Want w/ Mel Gibson?

Jmm

Monday, October 06, 2003 - 05:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Spy, what about the movie "Switched" for the impact of sex and gender on relationships? Maybe "The Diner" for Early adulthood?

Hamsterlady

Monday, October 06, 2003 - 05:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Jmm, 'Switched' would be a good movie :)....wish I'd thought of it....

Halfunit

Monday, October 06, 2003 - 05:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
A Christmas Story?

I love how Ralphie grows up in that movie, and deals with bullies, disappointment, and elation, lol.

And Hamsterlady - I LOVE American History X, but everytime I think of it, my teeth hurt from that scene at the curb!

Tabbyking

Monday, October 06, 2003 - 05:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
francois truffaut's 'man who loved women'--NOT the burt reynolds remake.

'carrie', for teenage angst.....

'my cousin vinny' because it's my favorite movie and it portrays new yorkers, attorneys and southerners in a humorous view of how many people view these groups.

Twiggyish

Monday, October 06, 2003 - 06:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The Breakfast Club and American Graffiti
Good choices!! (IMO)

Tishala

Monday, October 06, 2003 - 07:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Now that I think of it, there is probably not another film that deals so effectively with issues of masculinity and homoeeroticism as Fight Club. It is also an important film for discussing postmodern ideas of subjectivity (i.e., the fragmented subject, etc.), and the scene where Brad Pitt is walking by the marquee of a theater playing a film starring Brad Pitt provides an excellent, and appropriately postmodern, example of this.

Spygirl

Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 09:18 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Tishala, this course I'm teaching isn't a course on postmodernism, only on the family life span/development issues, so Fight Club wouldn't quite fit the bill (though I love the movie). It is, however, a great movie for a psychopathology course since it depicts someone suffering from DID...or even just a severely fragmented sense of reality.

Thanks to everyone for all of your suggestions! I have been struggling for over a week to come up with ideas on my own and within 24 hours, you guys list dozens! Why did I wait so long to ask?

This is what I decided on for the course....there is one additional topic (culture):


Culture - Avalon
Impact of Sex and Gender - Boys Don't Cry
Adolescence - Now and Then
Young Adulthood - American Graffiti
Family life - Parenthood