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GES 398

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Films and Articles

Assigned Articles

The following journal and magazine articles are required readings for the course. 
You are expected to read the articles before we view the associated film.

All the articles can be accessed from campus computers by clicking on the links following each article below.
 
For instructions about how to access the articles from off-campus, follow the link 
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Where indicated, the .pdf files for certain articles are directly linked below.


For a copy of the reading list in Word format: GES 3980 Reading List Fall 2011


Articles for week 2:

Pierce Lewis. 1979. Axioms for Reading the Landscape, pp. 11-32 in The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes, D.W. Meinig (ed). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

D.W. Meinig. 1979. The Beholding Eye, pp. 33-48 in The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes, D.W. Meinig (ed). Oxford: Oxford University Press.



Europe ~ "When We Leave"

Taylor, Ella. 2011. "Faith, family, immigration and homicide." New York Times, 23 Jan: 11(L).

http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CA247259303&v=2.1&u=colosprings&it=r&p=AONE&sw=w

 

de Wenden, Catherine Wihtol. 2006. "Europe: immigration unwanted." European Affairs, Fall-Winter: 19+.
http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CA160030830&v=2.1&u=colosprings&it=r&p=AONE&sw=w

 

Lalwani, Sheila B. 2008. "The family name: honor killings in Germany." Kennedy School Review,  8: 109+.
http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CA192590988&v=2.1&u=colosprings&it=r&p=AONE&sw=w

 





North America ~ "Real Women Have Curves"

“The Americano Dream.” 2005. Economist, Vol. 376, Issue 8435. Jul 16.

http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=17641581&site=ehost-live

 

Lewis. Jenny. 2005. “Body Image and the American Popular Culture Landscape: The Shifting Identity of Your Latinas in Real Women Have Curves.” Americana: The Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture.  

http://www.americanpopularculture.com/archive/film/young_latinas.htm

 

Shorris, Earl. 2004. A Nation of WASPs? Nation, Vol. 278, Issue 21, p. 21, 2p.

http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&an=13128695



Middle/South America ~ "The Colors of the Mountain"

 

“The Colors of the Mountain.” 2011. Covering Media.

http://www.coveringmedia.com/movie/2011/04/the-colors-of-the-mountain.html

 

Ceaser, Mike. 2005. “Caught in the Crossfire of Colombia’s Civil War.” thelancet.com, Jan 29.

 

Romero, Simon. 2008. "Despite rebel losses, cocaine sustains war in rural Colombia." New York Times, 27 July.
http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CA181870129&v=2.1&u=colosprings&it=r&p=AONE&sw=w

 



North Africa/Southwest Asia ~ "Lemon Tree"

 
Holden, Stephen. 2009. "In a grove, a war of wills and words." New York Times, 17 Apr.
http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CA197896148&v=2.1&u=colosprings&it=r&p=AONE&sw=w

 

Burleigh, Nina, Klein, Aaron, and Hamad, Jamil. 2009. “Two Views of the Land.” Time, Vol. 174, Issue 3, Jul 27.

http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=43281981&site=ehost-live

 

Redwine, John. "Peace talks or no, Lebanon's Palestinian refugees in limbo." Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Dec. 2010: 14+.

http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CA252968042&v=2.1&u=colosprings&it=r&p=AONE&sw=w
 

 


Sub-Saharan Africa ~ "Hotel Rwanda"

Torchin, Leshu. 2005. Hotel Rwanda. Cineaste, Vol. 30, Issue 2, p. 46, 3p.

http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&an=16394889

 

Destexhe, Alain. 1994-95. The Third Genocide. Foreign Policy, Issue 97, p. 3, 15p.

http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&an=9502204754

 

Purvis, Andrew. 1996. Roots of Genocide. Time, Vol. 148, Issue 7, p. 57, 1p.

http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&an=9607307539

 

 


South Asia 1 ~ "Monsoon Wedding"

 

Geller, Conrad. 2002. Monsoon Wedding. Cineaste, Vol. 27, Issue 4, p. 43, 2p.

http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&an=7559559

 

Lall, Rashmee Roshan. 2006. Waiting for a Sexual Revolution. New Statesman, 30 Jan. p. 28, 2p.

in .pdf format

http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=1f05c4f3-f2d6-4e9f-bd80-9c332f6b69bd%40sessionmgr11&vid=2&hid=11

 

Regnier, Pat. 2002. Local is the New Global. Time Europe, Vol. 159, Issue 9. p.65,1p. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=6267377&site=ehost-live

 





East Asia ~ "Grave of the Fireflies"


Ebert, Roger. 2000. Grave of the Fireflies. rogerebert.suntimes.com. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20000319/REVIEWS08/3190301/1023


Rauch, Jonathan. 2002.  The Firebombs over Tokyo: America's 1945 attack on Japan's Capital Remains Undeservedly Obscure Alongside Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Atlantic Monthly, July-August, p. 22.                                  Atlantic Monthly Electronic Article


Ross, Sherwood. 2005. How the United States Reversed Its Policy on Bombing Civilians. Humanist, Vol. 65, Issue 4. p. 14-22.

  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=17393553&site=ehost-live

 

 


  Oceania ~ "Rabbit-Proof Fence"

 

McGregor, Russell. 2002. 'Breed out the Colour' or the Importance of Being White. Australian Historical Studies, Vol. 33, Issue 120, p286, 17p.

Article in .pdf format.

http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=5d9b754d-067d-4c1a-b6f5-05bb507a6c3f%40sessionmgr10&vid=2&hid=11

 

Olsen, Danielle. 2001. Dividing Australia: The story of the rabbit-proof fence. thingsmagazine.net, Issue 14.

http://www.thingsmagazine.net/text/t14/rabbits.htm

 

Robertson, Geoffrey. 2002. The Great Socialist Shame. New Statesman, Vol. 131, Issue 4613, p. 28, 1p.

http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&an=7822802