The Northern Highlands mission statement emphasizes a commitment to provide an intellectual and cultural environment that is optimum for learning, creativity, and independent thinking. The mission statement also states a philosophy of perpetually evaluating and adjusting the educational process to ensure its relevance to current and future needs. In the pursuit of these goals, teachers may select media arts classroom materials that could seem to be controversial or to represent a point-of-view not that of everyone in the community. The selection of videos, films, TV shows, slides, compact discs, photographs, and artwork is never made lightly. These choices are designed to encourage students to explore ideas and issues in a safe environment. Through the exposure to issues from a variety of perspectives, with the teacher serving in loco parentis, students hone critical tools necessary to develop a personal philosophy.

It is this dedication to education, not indoctrination, that underlies all decisions about media arts. Since the media exert an almost constant influence in our lives, it is essential that students be encouraged to develop both critical and aesthetic appreciation of these images/texts. Materials chosen for study meet course objectives, deal with problems of style, texture, tone, and theme, and the ways in which media shape student’s perceptions of themselves and others.

There may be rare circumstances when an alternative assignment is made by the classroom teacher to accommodate an individual’s special sensitivities.

Casablanca

Visions of Light

American Cinema: The Studio System

North by Northwest

Spellbound

Notorious

Citizen Kane

American Cinema

A Journey through American Film with Martin Scorcese

Psycho

Hitchcock Interview & Documentary

Rear Window

DOA

Mildred Pierce

The Big Heat

Gilda

The Lady from Shanghai

Metropolis

Double Indemnity

Chinatown

L.A. Confidential

Sin City

Stagecoach

High Noon

The Searchers

The Outlaw Josey Wales

Unforgiven

Thelma and Louise

It’s a Wonderful Life

Rocky

Forest Gump

The Gods must be Crazy

Manhattan Murder Mystery

Jaws

The Breakfast Club

12 Angry Men

It Happened One Night

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Silence of the Lambs

Gone with the Wind

Last of the Mohicans

Braveheart

Saving Private Ryan

Nueve Reinas

Run Lola Run

Don’t Look Back

Life is Beautiful

Shawshank Redemption

Usual Suspects

Das Boot

Memento

The Shining

Edward Scissorhands

Goodfellas

The Sixth Sense

Sleepy Hollow

Raging Bull

Annie Hall

The Godfather

The Help

Gladiator

Back to the Future

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Star Wars

______has my permission to view and critique the above mentioned films during the course of the year in Film Studies. I have read the list and give my permission evidenced by my signature.

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