Anthracite (continued), then film and photography
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Announcements:
(1) The handout today: Dead River Rough Cut
(2) The theme for this week: art, literature, and film. Read “The Ledge”
(3) Term paper proposals due the Friday after break: April 1
I. Modern day environmental consequences of anthracite, conclusion:
1.) Centralia mine fire history
Centralia Pennsylvania, Columbia County.
2.) Acid mine drainage
3.) Bat conservation
II. Art, literature, film, and term papers
It’s never too early . . . .
1.) Literature:
John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath
William Faulkner, Big Woods
Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
2.) Interactions with film and/or photography:
Alan Huffman, Ten Point: Deer Camp in the Mississippi Delta
Glenda Riley, The Female Frontier: A Comparative View of Women on the Prarie and the Plains
3.) Women and hunting:
Carol Adams, The Sexual Politics of Meat
Pam Houston, ed., Women on Hunting
Mary Zeiss Stange, Woman the Hunter
4.) Other possibilities:
Annie Oakley
Annie Get Your Gun
III. Is there a single, right interpretation?
Michael Krausz, Is There a Single Right Interpretation? (Penn State U. Pr., 2002).
IV. The interpretation of film
Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi, and Naqoyqatsi by Godfrey Reggio
Native Inhabitants by Nathan Barnhart, 2003 [FILM]