Change - Related Texts (4 Viewers)

[anti]

I've noticed that there are a lot of texts devoted to related texts, so this is just a general list of the most commonly mentioned texts.

Feel free to add to it, I compiled it after about ten seconds searching

Thanks to those of you who have contributed!


Film
American Beauty
American History X
Bend it Like Beckham
Born on the Fourth of July
Chocolat (also a novel)
Dangerous Minds
Lantana
Life is Beautiful
Malcolm X
Pleasantville
Remember the Titans
Secrets and Lies
Sliding Doors
The Body
The Joy Luck Club
The Matrix
The Truman Show
The Wog Boy
Wag the Dog

Stage
Educating Rita
Summer of the 17th Doll

Novels
Allende, Isabelle - Paula
Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice
Ballard, J.G. - Empire Of The Sun
Bowles, Colin - Going Off
Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
Carmody, Isobelle - Greylands
Chopin, Kate - The Awakening
Clarke, Judith - Angels Passing By
Coetzee, J. M. - Disgrace
de Goldi, Kate - Sanctuary
Desai, Anita - Village By The Sea
Earls, Nick - 48 Shades of Brown
Elliot, S.L. - Careful, He Might Hear You
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
Forrestal, Elaine - Leaving No Footprints
Foster, Margaret - Hidden Lives
Fusillo - Sparring With Shadows
Hathorne, Libby - The Climb
Hardy, Thomas - Tess of D'Urbervilles
Harris, Joanne - Chocolat
Hungerford, G. L. - Stories From Suburban Road
James, Clive - Unreliable Memoirs
Mahmood, Betty - Not Without My Daughter
Mandela, Nelson - Long Walk To Freedom
Marchetta, Melina (sp?) - Looking for Alibrandi
Marsden, John - So Much To Tell You
McCarthy, Maureen - Chain of Hearts
McCourt, Frank - Angela's Ashes
McCrum, Robert - My Year Off
McLachlan, Patricia - Sarah Plain and Tall
Munroe, Alice - Lives of Girls and Women
Reeve, Christopher - Silly Me
Salinger, JD - Catcher in the Rye
Sartre, J. P. - Nausea
Shepherd, Janine - Never Tell Me Never
Stevenson, R. L. - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Tan, Amy - The Joy Luck Club
Wallace, J. - Memoirs of A Country Childhood

Songs
Father and Son
The Times, They Are A-Changing
With Arms Wide Open

Speeches
Ronald Reagan

 

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[nightblooming]

Reading List on Change that my class was given:

Fiction

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Emma - Jane Austen
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
Chain of Hearts - Maureen Mc Carthy
Jane Eyre - Charllottle Bronte
Disgrace - J.M Coetzee
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
The Awakening - Kate CHopin
Carefull He Might Hear You - S.L Elliot
The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith - T. Keneally
So Much To Tell You - John Marsden
48 Shades of Brown - Nick Earls
Angels Passing By - Judith Clarke
Going Off - Colin Bowles
Greylands - Isobelle Carmody
Leaving No Footprints - Elaine Forrestal
Sanctuary - Kate de Goldi
Sparring With Shadows - Archimede Fusillo
The Climb - Libby Hathorne
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - R.L Stevenson
THe Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
Nausea - J.P Sartre
Sarah Plain and Tall - Patricia McLachlan
Empire of the Sun - J.G ballard
Village by the Sea - Anita Desai
Lives of Girls and Women - Alice Munroe


Non - Fiction
Paula - Isabelle Allende
Not Without My Daughter - Betty Mahmood
Hidden lives - Margaret Foster
Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela
Memoirs of a Country Childhood - J. Wallace
Never Tell Me Never - Janine Shepherd
Sill Me - Christopher Reeve
My Year Off - Robert McCrum
Angelas Ashes - Frank McCourt
Unreliable Memoirs - Clive James
Stories from Suburban Road - G.L Hungerford

(Almost any biography would be suitable.

 

[Generator]

A song by the Pumpkins.
Learn to Fly - Fooies

 

[loziscool:D]

non fiction
survival - stuart diver

fiction
dr jeckyll and mr hyde- stevenson
harry potter and the philosophers stone- jk rowling

film
remember the titans
good will hunting
fight club

poetry
suicide in the trenches- siegfried sassoon

 

[anti]

Originally posted by Capulet
noticed that was in your list, its one of the set texts for module A already, you wont get very high marks if you choose that.

True, however I'll just point out that it's not AGAINST any rules to use texts from the prescribed list.. however it is frowned on.

 

[kini mini]

Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451 - Changing Worlds

 

[damodamo]

films:
a clockwork orange
boogie nights
as good as it gets
28 days
billy elliot (unfortunately it relates)
europa europa
missing

songs:
you are sixteen going on seventeen - rodgers and hammerstein
at seventeen - janis ian
just the way you are - billy joel
summer of 69 - bryan adams

 

[d3adgurL]

Bridget Jone's Diary is a good one for changing perspective, easy too.

 

[Lou B]

More Materials

k . The movie ''Focus">it was originally a play written by Authur Miller. im a dumb ass and i can't remember whos in it but it is perfect, for C persp.
its about a couple living during WW2 and everyone thinks this guy is jewish coz of the glasses he wears. and ...yes he experiences a change in perspective. its a mad movie. watch or read it.

 

[princesse]

Hey, does anyone know any other texts for Changing Worlds? I was thinking Kate & Leopold (you know, the movie) and the film clip for smashing pumpkins 'tonight, tonight'...but I'm not too sure if i've quite got the idea.

 

[helzi]

thanx ppl for placing info on these pages - it realli helps alot esp, anti

anyways other texts may include:

- shrek - self change
- king lear - esp. in relation to the change in self that is manifested and can parrallel to that of gwen harwoods poem i.e. father and child
- broken column - frida kahlo image - relation to glass jar for the religious themes explored
- big yellow taxi - last yrs paper - changing world??

 

[s2ophie]

Film - About a Boy
- Bend it like Beckham
- Monsoon Wedding

Book - About a boy by nick hornby

Song - Cats in the Cradle
- I was only 19 - Red Gum

 

[funkychickie]

hey changing self?

hey i was wonderin does nayone know anymore texts fro changin self. i so far have
american beauty- film
a song about changin self
umm possibly the novel olive and the willow tree or maybe briget jones diary or chocalat
umm for short story- katherine mansfields garden tea party
i need a few more anyone got anymore ideas??
thanks dudes

 

[manta]

If u can use another song, Drive by Incubus is a really good one for changing self..
Pleasantville is a great easy movie to use.
The book we are doing is My Place by Sally Morgan.
If that helps.. if not sorry...

 

[2003HSCstudent]

can someone suggest some related texts for changing worlds besdes pleasantville and matrix, since a lot of poeple would do those?

 

[pri]

good songs for changing worlds

-A whole new world (Alladin theme)

-"Nothings going to change my world" (it was a song in pleasantville)

movies

pleasantville
matrix
kate and leopald
Just visitin

 

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movie for changing world can be matirx, or star wars movie...(obiviously i am doing Star Wars as a module, but if u aren't...why not use another ep??)

hmm, i got this artice from times a few yrs back that got quotes from famous ppl that predicted stuff ranging from yr 1900- 1980s....if anyone wants one, PM me...but theres only about 10-15 quotes in that artice

 

[ripbong11]

Songs
Cats in The Craddle - harry chapin

Film
What women want

 

[Courtenay]

saving francesca----melina marchetta
beautiful book so very relevant for change