| History and Films of New York City Class | ||||
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Class Overview New York City has developed rapidly since the mid-1800s into a modern city. We will examine the history of the city and see how some key events and time periods have been portrayed in film. Along with selected readings, we will view films based on real events or depict a time, a period or an era in the city's history. |
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| Unit I: The Five Points | ||||
| Gangs of New York | ||||
| Unit II: Immigration, Prohibition & Organized Crime | ||||
| Once Upon a Time in America | ||||
| Unit III: The City and the Modern Age | ||||
| The City and the World - Episode Seven of New York A Documentary Film | ||||
| The City and the World - Episode Seven of New York A Documentary Film | ||||
| Unit IV: People and a City In Decline |
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| ¡Palente Siempre Palente! | ||||
| Pinero | ||||
| Serpico | ||||
| Saturday Night Fever | ||||
| Summer Of Sam | ||||
| Brining Out the Dead | ||||
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V: Our City Today |
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| Kids | ||||
| 9|11 | ||||
| Raising Victor Vargas | ||||
| For Extra Credit | ||||
| Lead-Based Paint Project Citizens have complained for decades that the paint on the walls of apartments and under the bridges throughout the city is poisoning children. Learn about how citizens have taken action. | ||||
| The Crowd (seen at the American Museum of the Moving Image) | ||||
| 10/26/04 | A Bronx Tale | |||
| West Side Story | ||||
| 11/18/04 | French Connection | |||
| Extra Credit | Mean Streets | |||
| 11/30/04 | Shaft | |||
| 12/02/04 | ¡Palente Siempre Palente! | |||
| Extra Credit | Taxi Driver | |||
| Extra Credit | Pinero | |||
| Joe's Apartment | ||||
| Extra Credit | Smoke | |||
| Extra Credit | Bad Lieutenant | |||
| Midnight Cowboy | ||||
| Annie Hall | ||||
| Requiem for a Dream | ||||
| Fort Apache The Bronx (Seen in the Spring 2003 class at Pacific High School) | ||||
| Basquiat (Seen in the Spring 2003 class at Pacific High School) | ||||
| Oedipus Wrecks | ||||
| Panic in Needle Park | ||||
| La Ciudad | ||||
| 7 Train | ||||
| Startup.Com | ||||
| Soylent Green | ||||
| Resources | ||||
| What are the rules for journal writing? The link at the top of this page does not work, but if you scroll down the page you will find a good guide for journal writing. |
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| 01/29/05 | ||||