HUM 122,140, & 142
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Approved Extra Credit Films
**You cannot submit an extra credit paper for a film you have previously watched. Clearly, the idea is to consume a new film and relate it to the course topics/discussion. Follow the extra credit handout for writing your reflection.
A Blooming Business
A Day Without A Mexican
American Violet
Bangkok Girl
Trading Women
Bend it Like Beckham
Bordertown
Born Into Brothels
Boy’s Don’t Cry
Boys On The Side
Brokeback Mountain
Changeling
Crash
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Erin Brockovich
Far From Heaven
Fire
Fish Out of Water
Frida
Fried Green Tomatoes
Food, Inc.
For Colored Girls
For The Bible Tells Me So
Girlhood
Girlfight
G.I. Jane
Girl Interrupted
Girl Wrestler
Good Hair
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Human Trafficking
If These Walls Could Talk
If These Walls Could Talk 2
I Can’t Think Straight
Kinsey
Lana’s Rain
Made in Dagenham
Me and the Mosque
Middle Sexes
Milk
Million Dollar Baby
Mona Lisa Smile
Monster
Mrs. Dalloway
North Country
Silent Choices
Sleeping With The Enemy
Soldier’s Girl
Sophie’s Choice
The Color Purple
The Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood
The First Wives Club
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
The Help
The Hours
The Rosa Parks Story
The Stoning of Soraya M.
The Virgin Suicides
The Women
The World Unseen
Thelma & Louise
Thin
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar
Trade
Transgeneration
V-Day Until The Violence Stops
Winter’s Bone
Women Without Men
Other films with description (courtesy of V-Day)
The Day I Became a Woman
This film has won many international prizes at Toronto, Venice, and Chicago film festivals and was heralded as one of the most brilliant works of art by director Ms. Marziyeh Meshkini. It is a series of three vignettes and portrays Iranian women at three distinct phases in their lives. The stories are very poignant and powerful representations of the cultural biases against women in Iran.
Jasmila Zbanic's debut movie focuses on the Balkan War's painful aftermath on a Bosnian woman and her daughter.
Knives in My Throat
A 54 minute documentary tells the story of a self-abusive manic depressive young woman who seeks to escape through hip hop poetry. Abiola Abrams aims to give a voice to the voiceless and discuss the un-discussable using film as a vehicle. Contact Abiola [abiola@evesmagic.tv] (212) 426-0056
Letter to My Mother
A short film made on digital video about the transformative effect that the women's march had on young feminists. The story of 4 friends (women shortly out of college and hungry to understand the real world and their place in it) as a template for looking at how the energy and inclusion of direct action made young women, finally, feel like a part of the feminist movement, not a byproduct. Contact Courtneye Martin [courtneyemartin@yahoo.com]
Screen this powerful film by filmmaker Digvijay Singh that depicts community silence around violence against young girls – and the power of a young boy’s questioning. The film is based on a newspaper story the filmmaker saw that told of the unlawful ritualistic rape of a prepubescent girl by a village Hindu priest, and the acceptance — bordering on pride — of her family in the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh as they and the village encouraged the abuse to continue. It has won many festival awards around the world.
Ophelia's Opera
Presented in two versions (15 minutes & 28 minutes), this is an experimental film about a woman who uses voodoo to take revenge escape and an abusive relationship.
Rape Is...
A documentary about a human rights outrage that leaves millions of women, children and men in a state of terror and pain.
Real Women Have Curves
The story of a first generation Mexican-American girl balancing her mainstream ambitions and her cultural heritage.
Warrior Marks
A poetic and political film about female genital mutilation.
A one night stand far from home goes terribly wrong. As the filmmaker unravels her experience, she decides to confront her attacker. Told through a “sex-positive” lens, THE LINE is a 24 minute documentary about a young woman – the filmmaker- who is raped, but her story isn’t cut and dry. Not a “perfect victim,” the filmmaker confronts her attacker, recording the conversation with a hidden camera. Sex workers, survivors and activists discuss justice, accountability and today’s “rape culture.” The film asks the question: where is the line defining consent?