A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story (1989)
general article writing
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1. Select a film that depicts domestic violence. Alternatively, you may select a book or television show instead of a movie. Some film suggestions follow:
A Cry for Help: The Tracy Thurman Story (1989)
Affliction (1999)
American Beauty (1999)
Bastard Out of California (1996)
Black and Blue (1999)
Burning Bed, The (1984)
Carousel (1956)
Color Purple, The (1985)
Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story (1993)
Crimes of the Heart (1986)
Dangerous Intentions (1995)
Dead by Sunset (1995)
Deadly Matrimony (1991)
Defending Our Lives (1983)
Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970)
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)
Enough (2002)
Escape from Terror: The Teresa Stamper Story (1995)
Fatal Vows: The Alexandra O’Hara Story (1994)
Final Appeal (1993)
For Colored Girls (2010)
Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
Gaslight (1944)
Independence Day (1983) – (not the movie about aliens!)
Getting Out (1994)
Goodnight, Sweet Wife: A Murder in Boston (1990)
Great Santini, The (1979)
If Someone Had Known (1995)
In a Child’s Name (1991)
In My Sister’s Shadow (1996)
La Strada (1954)
Lies of the Heart: The Story of Laurie Kellogg (1994)
Men Don’t Tell (1993)
Oliver! (1968)
Once Were Warriors (1994)
Perfect Guy, The (2015)
Petulia (1968)
Promise, The (1999)
Provoked (2006)
Shattered Dreams (1990)
Sleeping with the Devil (1997)
Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)
Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Unspoken Truth, The (1995)
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
What’s Love Got to Do With It? (1993)
When No One Would Listen (1992)
Identify one character (victim of domestic violence) who will be the focus of your paper.
Compose a 6-8 page paper (not including title or reference page) which addresses the items listed in the following rubric:
