I have a few to add to the list as well --
Miracle -- about the US 1980 Hockey team-- there is clip I like to show
that speaks to superordinate goals-- that the coach, Herb Brooks, is
trying to get the team united in hating him so that they don't have time
to hate each other (most team players are from MN and Boston, Mass.)
Then there is "Something the Lord Made" (HBO film) with Alan Rickman and
Mos Def. The film is about Dr. Alfred Blalock arrived and his surgical
research technician Vivien Thomas, an African American. Though in part
the film deals with their collaboration to surgically treat 'blue-baby-
syndrome', the film also focuses on their relationship and how it
evolved. I use it to provoke discussion about the factors critical in
the evolution of their friendship.
In addition to social psychology, I also teach adolescence, and the
Arnett instructor guide has a decent list of films that can be used to
discuss various aspects of that developmental period-- Billy Elliot is a
favorite of mine for highlighting gender stereotypes (ballet is not for
boys) among other things. And for the general stereotypes of adolescence
-- the cliques and the crowds and the peer pressure, the drama -- etc. I
love Mean Girls (Lindsay Lohan).
Annette Kujawski Taylor wrote:
/I would very much appreciate some ideas posted for films for _other_
areas--there are already plenty for every aspect of clinical. /
First, off I want to thank you for sharing your wonderful list. I
always look forward to your posts because they exude so much creativity.
I wanted to add a couple that seem to work well for me.
*Social Psychology-* I use clips from *Remember the Titans* to show:
compliance, the contact hypothesis, possible brainwashing, and the
power of one individual to help make a difference (the heavy set
white player who sat with the African American table). I focus on the
coaches dogmatic style and we talk about how it may have been
necessary to evoke the change that he did.
I then directly follow this with a discussion on Cult behavior and
show the last 10-15 minutes of the *Guyana Tragedy*- which again shows
a dogmatic style, compliance, obedience, conformity and how one
individual can help to sway things (the woman who stood up for Jim
Jones and publicly supported his desires when he was facing dissention)
Using clips from these two films back to back seems to be a good
illustration on how social psychology practices can be used for good
or bad.
**
*Lifespan Development*- I talk about John Gottman's 4 behaviors that
lead to divorce and I show clips from the movie- *The Story of Us*.
I also remember a great suggestion posted by list member Steven
Specht who uses *New Jack City- his post is presented below.*
/I show the opening scene from the movie New Jack City, in this scene
the focal point is a man being held over the side of a bridge about to
be dropped into the river below as a result of a drug deal gone bad. I
then distribute a short questionnaire (4 questions) asking students
about their recall of facts of the movie scene. For the third
question, I ask, "What is your estimate of the age of the woman who
was screaming in the video?" However, for half of the class, the word
"Woman" is replaced by the word "girl". /
/This exercise may show the effect of language and questioning style
on memory retrieval. Students tend to guess an average of age 23 when
the female is referred to as a girl and 29 when the female is referred
to as a woman. /
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Los Angeles City College
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