“Movies as Teaching Tools” is the focus on November’s Word By Word: Conversations With Writers on North Bay Public Media, KRCB-FM. Today’s guest is SRJC media studies instructor and interdisciplinary scholar Tony Kashani, author of Movies Change Lives: A Pedagogy of Humanistic Transformation, and since host Gil Mansergh is a syndicated film columnist who uses film clips in his seminars, the discussion quickly becomes a knowledgeable interchange of how really good movies can be transformational.
As an aid to listeners, here is a list of the movies exploring “who and what we are” that Tony and Gil discuss during the show:
1. Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity (1944) starring Barbara Stanwick Fred McMurray, Edward G. Robinson
2. Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982) starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Darryl Hannah, Edward James Olmos
3. Andrew Niccol’s Gattaca (1997) starring Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law
4. Peter Wier’s The Truman Show (1998) Written by Andrew Niccol and starring Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Ed Harris
5. The Waschowski Brothers’ The Matrix (1999) starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Ann Moss, Hugo Weaving
6. Spike Jonze’s Her (2015) starring Joaquin Phoenix, Rooney Mara, Olivia Wilde, Amy Adams, Scarlett Johansson
7. Mira Nair’s Mississippi Masala (1991) starring Sarita Choudhury, Denzel Washington, Roshan Seth, Sharmila Tagore
8. Mira Nair’s Queen of Katwe (2016) starring Madina Nalwanga, David Oyelowo, Lupita Nyong’o
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