Images of America

Grundforløb engelsk 2008 G2

Lewis Hine: Icarus atop Empire State Bldg. 1931

Lewis Hine: Icaros

Tekster

 

The American Dream

From Studs Terkel, American Dreams Lost and Found, "Interview with Arnold Schwarzenegger" (1980)

Bruce Springsteen, "The Promised Land" from Darkness on the Edge of Town" (1978)

Kirsten Fisher: Asbury Park 2001

My City of Ruins, Asbury Park 2001

Andre Dubus, "Leslie in California" from Selected Stories (1989)

 

The Melting Pot

From John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer (1925)

Bruce Springsteen, "American Land" (2006)

Immigrants entering New York harbor

Robert Olen Butler, "Relic" from A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain (1993)

Written assignment to be delivered on sept. 5th 2008

The American Dilemma

Abel Meeropol, "Strange Fruit" (1939)

The lynching of Rubin Stacey in FortLauderdale 1935

Parker (dir.) Mississippi Burning (1988)

Studs Terkel: "Ben Hensley" from Race. How Blacks and Whites Think about the American Obsession (1992)

Written assignment to be delivered on sept. 26th.

Rural America and the West

Annie Proulx, "Job History" from Close Range. Wyoming Stories (2000)

Emmylou Harris: "Red Dirt Girl" (2000)

 

Metropolis

Subway Stories Tales from the Underground (1997): "Sax Cantor Riff, "The Red Shoes"  "Manhattan Miracle"(short films)

Work sheet.

Review

Paul Haggis (dir.) Crash (2005)

 

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