Lecture 22 Monday March 14, 2005

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]