AM ST 105: British Roots of American Popular Culture

•  Click on the video title to see the CAT record; use the I WANT IT button to request a copy. 
  

• You will be notified by email when your video is available for pick-up.  Bring your ID card to the Library Service Desk for check-out.

• Trip videos circulate for 1 week with no renewals.

• If you need help ordering a video "not at Penn State," please contact a librarian.

• Contact Dr. Kelley (kak7@psu.edu) to obtain quizzes.
  

TOUR VIDEOS:

London, City of Majesty

Touring England (Wales is included)

FEATURE FILM:

My Fair Lady (feature film)

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Legends of the Ireland: 
v.1 Fairies and leprechauns (The Little People)
v.2. Saint Patrick -- Brendan the Navigator
v.3 The Warrior Queen -- The Pirate Queen


Legends of the Isles:
v.1 Richard -- Bonnie Prince Charlie
v.2 Stonehenge -- holy grail
v.3 King Arthur -- Robin Hood
v.4 Brendan -- Saint Patrick
v.5 Pirate queen -- warrior queen
v.6 Fairies -- Merlin

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See at least one British TV program, (on PBS or cable or available on CDs in local public libraries). If your  campus library doesn't have what you would like to see ask if they can get it on inter-library loan, or try the public library  If you can't locate any  of the programs listed below check with your teacher (kak7@psu.edu)

Choose from :
The Benny Hill Show (not at Penn State)
Are you Being Served?
The Red Dwarf (not at Penn State)
Monty Python's Flying Circus 
Black Adder
Mr Bean (not at Penn State)
The thin blue line (not at Penn State)
Chef  (not at Penn State)
Absolutely Fabulous (not at Penn State)
Yes Minister (not at Penn State) 

The favorite English soap opera is  East Enders, or  you can see a  “whodunit” such as an Hercule Poirot, an, Inspector Lewis, a Pasco and Dalziel, or Rosemary and Thyme. Popular cartoons are the Wallace and Grommet series of which there are several - also Chicken Run  (there are several – google them)  

Answer the questions on the quiz sheet entitled "BRITISH TV SHOW"

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Feature films:  See 6 films.  Choose films from the following: 

Billy Elliot
The Full Monty (highly recommended)
Brassed Off
Bend it like Beckham 
Lock stock and two smoking barrels
Trainspotting
The History Boys (highly recommended)
Atonement

Any film based on a Jane Austen novel (Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Persuasion)

or  

Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, or on Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre

or

any Dickens novel (available are David Copperfield,  Great Expectations, Nicholas Nickleby, Bleak House, The Old Curiosity Shop, A tale of two cities, A Christmas Carol

or

any Thomas Hardy novel (Tess of the Durbervilles,  Far from the Madding Crowd, Under the Greenwood Tree),

Any George Eliot novel (Silas Marner, Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss, Adam Bede),

Any adaptation of a Shakespearean Play. (Much ado about nothing, Hamlet, Henry V, MacBeth)

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