An American Studies: Media

How does this piece differ from Terkel's oral history?

Please start reading, "An A-B-C Guideline for Non-Chicagoans" then finish with "Florence Scala, 47". Go no further than the Scala piece.

Click here for an interview with Sarah Polley:

"I think I was always aware from the beginning that I wanted to include the construction of the film in the film, because that was an important part of what we were talking about. This idea of wanting to tell stories and how we are telling the stories. I thought to leave my own process of making this story out of it would have been dishonest in some ways, so I think in its inception it was really important to include that and for that to take the form of re-creations and then showing the mechanics and those re-creations."

"Women and minorities systematically less likely to get responses from the professors and also less likely to get positive responses from the professors. Now remember, these are top faculty at the top schools in the United States and the letters were all impeccably written."