Reversing the Lens Eric O. Springsted

Reversing the Lens Eric O. SpringstedReversing the Lens brings together noted scholars in history, anthropology, sociology, ethnic studies and film studies to promote film as a powerful classroom tool that can be used to foster cross cultural communication with respect to race and ethnicity. Through such films as Skin Deep, Slaying the Dragon, and Mississippi Masala, contributors demonstrate why and how visual media help delineate various forms of "critical visual thinking" and examine

it takes into account that social relationships outside the composition classroom can affect the relationships of students within it

spanning from French

In The Thirty Years' War and the European Crisis of the Seventeenth Century and Napoleon and the Heart of Europe

A literary and historical analysis of the structure and meaning of recurrent symbols

the History of Keoua Kalanikupuapa-i-kalani-nui

and farm practices

scientific ecology

and Tutankhamen

brainstorming tips

to document their experience of a program designed to help students surmount the “obstacle” that ethnolinguistic diversity is perceived to be

On top of the personal drama involving three generations of people

the text examines the physical and psychosocial principles of growth and development with a focus on health promotion and wellness