Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 01:11:59 -0400
From: Andrea Campbell <andreacampbell-AT-CompuServe.COM>
Subject: Re: culture class films


Both of Peter Wier's films Witness and The Last Wave.  Jill Robinson of BYU
just did a master's thesis addressing these films and arguing that a
recurrent theme in Peter Weir's films is cultural clashes.

For some more mainstream variations on this subject try Elvis Presley's
Flaming Star which deals with the class between Native American and White
cultures.  Ninotchka wich addresses communist Russia and American values
(later remade as Silk Stockings and practically bypassing and definitely
trivializing the issue) and Angel and the Badman, with John Wayne and Gail
Russell dealing with Quaker culture.  (Brought to mind by someone's earlier
suggestion of Stranger Among Us)  And the recent movie with Matthew Perry,
I think it was called Why Do Fools Fall In Love or something like that,
which dealswith the effect of Anglo and Latin cultural differences in a
romantic relationship.

Andrea Campbell
PhD without a home  


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