In a fit of mercenary greed, I recently agreed to take over a summer
British literature survey (Anglo-Saxon through Restoration) for a
colleague. It's one of those wonderful 3 1/2 hour compressed courses
that meets three times a week, so I started scaring up appropriate films
and documentaries to avoid lecturing for so long a period. The person I
took the course over from told me he had a wonderful film on the
Christianization of England that he used the first night of class to get
things underway. But, he has discovered that the film has been lost,
and since it was a film he had made himself on location back in the
1970s (when there was money for such endeavors), it cannot be replaced.
Can anyone help me with the title of a documentary that will cover much
the same ground as the Christianization of England and perhaps shed some
insight into Anglo-Saxon culture in a way that will be visually
stimulating to the 6 PM after work student crowd (perhaps with some
Sutton Hoo footage, in anticipation of Beowulf)? If not, I must spend
the weekend composing a lecture for Monday evening that is sure to drop
my enrollment, and, hence, as we are paid in the summer by head count,
my salary. Not that I do this for anything other than the pure joy of
teaching, mind you.
Incidentally--it needs to be something I could conceivably obtain a copy
of before Monday. Nothing like waiting 'til the last minute.
Many thanks,
Ron Ganze
C.S.U., Long Beach
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