The Hamline Review: Part II

And now here’s an overview of my homework. Specifically, it’s just half of my homework: I’m not listing all of the work I produced – the papers I wrote, the tests I took, or the online ‘discussions’ I was involved in. Instead, I’m only going to list the half I consumed.

First, the books. Here’s every book assigned in my classes, along with notes, where applicable:

#	Class	Book Title	Author	Notes
1	American History 1607-1860	American Slavery, American Freedom	Morgan, Edmund S.
2	American History 1607-1860	Letters from an American Farmer	St. John De Crevecoeur, J. Hector	Only assigned to read the Introduction and chapters 2,3,4,5,9, and 12
3	American History 1607-1860	American Revolution: A History, the	Wood, Gordon S.
4	American History 1607-1860	Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars	Remini, Robert V.
5	American History 1607-1860	American Reformers, 1815-1860	Walters, Ronald G.
6	American History 1607-1860	Lincoln at Gettysburg	Wills, Gary
8	Textual Studies and Criticism	Thomas and Beulah	Dove, Rita	Despite being <100 pages, I didn't finish this one. I don't really like poetry. Still got an A- on the paper, though.
7	Textual Studies and Criticism	Almost an Evening	Coen, Ethan
9	Textual Studies and Criticism	Raisin in the Sun, a	Hansberry, Lorraine
10	Textual Studies and Criticism	Lovely Bones, the	Sebold, Alice
11	Textual Studies and Criticism	Best American Short Stories of 2009, the	compilation
12	American Literatures (to 1860)	Heath Anthology of American Literature, Vol. A, the	compilation	Didn't have to read the whole thing, but big chunks
13	American Literatures (to 1860)	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass	Douglass, Frederick	I read this years earlier, and decided to reread it for class
14	American Literatures (to 1860)	Heath Anthology of American Literature, Vol. B, the	compilation	See Volume A's note, above
15	American Literatures (to 1860)	Bartleby, the Scrivener	Melville, Herman
16	Women and Literature	Pride and Prejudice	Austen, Jane	Of the books I completed reading, this was my least favorite.
17	Women and Literature	Wuthering Heights	Brontë, Emily
18	Women and Literature	Brokeback Mountain	Proulx, Anna	At 56 pages, this is the shortest book on this list.
19	Introduction to US History	Pivotal Decades	Cooper, Jr., John Milton
20	Introduction to US History	Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974	Patterson, James T.	At 830 pages, this is the longest book on the list that I read in its entirety
21	Introduction to US History	Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore	Patterson, James T.
22	Literary and Cultural Theory	Theory Toolbox, the	Nealon, Jeffrey / Searles Giroux, Susan
23	Literary and Cultural Theory	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the	Twain, Mark	I read this years earlier, and didn't reread it for class
24	Literary and Cultural Theory	Piano Lesson, the	Wilson, August
25	Literary and Cultural Theory	Diving Into the Wreck	Rich, Adrienne
26	Introduction to African American Studies	Making of African America, the	Berlin, Ira
27	Introduction to African American Studies	Mercy, a	Morrison, Toni
28	Introduction to African American Studies	Twelve Years a Slave	Northup, Solomon
29	Introduction to African American Studies	Women, Race, and Class	Davis, Angela Y.
30	Introduction to African American Studies	Brothers and Keepers	Wideman, John Edgar
31	Introduction to African American Studies	From Black Power to Hip Hop	Collins, Patricia	I decided not to finish this one.
32	Night the Hogs Ate Willie, the	Dead Until Dark	Harris, Charlaine	Only assigned chapters 1 and 2, but I read the whole thing.
33	Cults in America	Revivalism, Social Conscience, and Community in the Burned-Over District	Altschuler, Glenn C. / Saltzgaber, Jan M.
34	Cults in America	Seventh-Day Adventists and the Civil Rights Movement	London, Samuel G.
35	Cults in America	How the Millennium Comes Violently: From Jonestown to Heaven's Gate	Wessinger, Catherine
36	Cults in America	Why Waco?: Cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in America	Tabor, James D. / Gallagher, Eugene V.
37	History of Jehovah's Witnesses	Jehovah's Witnesses: Portrait of a Contemporary Religious Movement	Holden, Andrew
38	History of Jehovah's Witnesses	Captives of a Concept	Cameron, Don
39	Horror Film	Horror	Cherry, Bridgid
40	Horror Film	Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture	Newitz, Annalee
41	Censorship in Films	Wages of Sin: Censorship and the Fallen Woman Film, 1928-1942, the	Jacobs, Lea
42	Censorship in Films	Hollywood v. Hard Core: How the Struggle over Censorship Saved the Modern Film Industry	Lewis, Jon
43	Censorship in Films	Has Hollywood Lost Its Mind?: A Parent's Guide to Movie Ratings	Hicks, Chris
44	Censorship in Films	Naked Truth: Why Hollywood Doesn't Make X-Rated Movies, the	Sandler, Kevin S.
45	Historical Methods	Return of Martin Guerre, the	Davis, Natalie Zemon
46	Historical Methods	Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story From Early America, the	Demos, John
47	Historical Methods	Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations	Turabian, Kate	Only had to read chapters 1,9-14
48	Historical Methods	Pursuit of History, the	Tosh, John
49	World Literatures	Home and the World, the	Tagore, Rabindranath
50	World Literatures	Cracking India	Sidhwa, Bapsi
51	World Literatures	Anil's Ghost	Ondaatje, Michael
52	World Literatures	Red Azalea	Min, Anchee
53	World Literatures	Artist of the Floating World, an	Ishiguro, Kazuo
54	World Literatures	Obasan	Kogawa, Joy
55	World Literatures	Postman (Il Postino), the	Skarmeta, Antonio	This technically wasn't assigned, but my group had to divide up the work of presenting about the film Il Postino, and I opted to compare it with the novel.
56	Reform Movements in American History	American Reformers, 1815-1860	Walters, Ronald G.	I had to read this before (see #5), so I didn't reread it for this class.
57	Reform Movements in American History	American Heroine: The Life and Legend of Jane Addams	Davis, Allen F.	I didn't finish this one.
58	Reform Movements in American History	Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal	Leuchtenburg, William E.
59	Reform Movements in American History	Mad Among Us: A History of the Care of America's Mentally Ill, the	Grob, Gerald N.
60	Reform Movements in American History	Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s, the	Farber, David
61	Senior Seminar	Blind Assassin, the	Atwood, Margaret
62	Senior Seminar	Secret Life of Stories: From Don Quixote to Harry Potter	Bérubé, Michael	Only had to read chapters 1 and 2.
63	Senior Seminar	Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network	Levine, Caroline
64	Senior Seminar	Crying of Lot 49, the	Pynchon, Thomas
65	Senior Seminar	Osama: A Novel	Tidhar, Lavie	I didn't finish this one.
66	Senior Seminar	Tales of the Metric System	Coovadia, Imraan	I didn't finish this one.

As you can see, I didn’t read everything that was assigned. But I read most of the books and, even those I didn’t finish, I still read large swaths of them. Every class assigned critical essays, articles, or short stories, too, and I usually read those. All together, my readings represented around 15,000 pages.

And here are the films – including a couple TV miniseries – that I was assigned to watch for class:

#	Class	Movie Title	Movie Release Year	Notes
1	Textual Studies and Criticism	Limbo	1999
2	Textual Studies and Criticism	Lovely Bones, the	2009
3	Textual Studies and Criticism	Raisin in the Sun, a	1961
4	Textual Studies and Criticism	Raisin in the Sun, a	2008
5	Women and Literature	Bridget Jones's Diary	2001	Already seen; watched it again.
6	Women and Literature	Piano, the	1993
7	Women and Literature	Brokeback Mountain	2005
8	Literary and Cultural Theory	Piano Lesson, the	1995
9	Introduction to African-American Studies	Daughters of the Dust	1991
10	Night the Hogs Ate Willie, the	Nosferatu	1922
11	Night the Hogs Ate Willie, the	Beloved	1998
12	Night the Hogs Ate Willie, the	Night of the Hunter, the	1955	Already seen; watched it again.
13	Night the Hogs Ate Willie, the	Eve's Bayou	1997
14	Night the Hogs Ate Willie, the	Deliverance	1972	Already seen; watched it again.
15	Night the Hogs Ate Willie, the	Night of the Living Dead	1968
16	Night the Hogs Ate Willie, the	Sugar Hill	1974
17	Night the Hogs Ate Willie, the	Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the	1974
18	Night the Hogs Ate Willie, the	Pumpkinhead	1988
19	Night the Hogs Ate Willie, the	Near Dark	1987
20	Night the Hogs Ate Willie, the	Silence of the Lambs, the	1991	Already seen; watched it again.
21	Night the Hogs Ate Willie, the	Wild at Heart	1990
22	Night the Hogs Ate Willie, the	Doe Boy, the	2001
23	Night the Hogs Ate Willie, the	Beast of the Southern Wild	2012	Already seen; didn't watch it again
24	Cults in America	Jonestown: The Life and Death of People's Temple	2006
25	Cults in America	American Experience: God in America (parts 1-6), the	2010	This was a PBS miniseries, so technically not a movie, but still pretty long.
26	Horror Film	Safe Haven	2006	Short film - still counts
27	Horror Film	Haunting, the	1963
28	Horror Film	Shining, the	1980
29	Horror Film	Blair Witch Project, the	1999
30	Horror Film	Halloween	1978
31	Horror Film	Zodiac	2007
32	Horror Film	Woman, the	2011
33	Horror Film	Thing, the	1951
34	Horror Film	Thing, the	1982	Already seen; watched it again
35	Horror Film	Ganja and Hess	1973
36	Horror Film	White Zombie	1932
37	Horror Film	Dawn of the Dead	1978
38	Horror Film	American Zombie	2007
39	Horror Film	Cabin in the Woods, the	2012
40	Horror Film	Låt den Rätte Komma In (Let the Right One In)	2008
41	Horror Film	There Will Be Blood	2007	Already seen; didn't watch it again.
42	Horror Film	Twelve Years a Slave	2013	Already seen; didn't watch it again
43	Censorship in Films	This Film is Not Yet Rated	2006	Already seen; didn't watch it again.
44	Historical Methods	Retour de Martin Guerre, le (The Return of Martin Guerre)	1982
45	World Literatures	Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World)	1984
46	World Literatures	In the Time of the Butterflies	2001
47	World Literatures	Diarios de Motocicleta (The Motorcycle Diaries)	2004
48	World Literatures	Postino, Il	1994	Already seen; watched it again.
49	Senior Seminar	After Hours	1985
50	Senior Seminar	Magnolia	1999	Already seen; watched it again.
51	Senior Seminar	When the Levees Broke	2006	TV miniseries, still counts.
52	Senior Seminar	Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control	1997

A few were viewed in class, there was one I saw at the theater (The Lovely Bones), two of them I had to show up on campus at special times to watch an out-of-class viewing, and the rest I watched at home. Of the four films on the list here that were assigned and that I had seen before, but that I didn’t watch again, two of them I had seen so recently that I felt I didn’t need to take time out for a second viewing (Twelve Years a Slave and This Film is Not Yet Rated), and two I didn’t like enough to want to sit through again (There Will be Blood and Beasts of the Southern Wild).

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