{"id":1505,"date":"2012-01-17T11:22:32","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T16:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2013-08-16T10:14:03","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T15:14:03","slug":"i-recommend-five-films-on-death-and-dying-for-the-society-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/2012\/01\/17\/i-recommend-five-films-on-death-and-dying-for-the-society-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"I recommend five films on death and dying for &#8220;The Society Pages&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong> Letta Page 12:07 pm on January 16, 2012 | # | Reply <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The third additional set of films to hit our inboxes comes from the incomparable Monte Bute, of Metro State, who is well-known for his approach to teaching about death and dying while, well, experiencing these ultimately social phenomena. Monte pointed out that he generally has not found documentary to be a particularly good way to help students enter into the world of death and dying, but was readily able to supply five fictional films that work beautifully in a classroom\u2014even one approaching a sometimes too-close topic.<\/p>\n<p>1. \u201cIkiru,\u201d directed by Akira Kurosawa<\/p>\n<p>2. \u201cThe Seventh Seal,\u201d directed Ingmar Bergman<\/p>\n<p>3. \u201cOf Gods and Men,\u201d directed by Xavier Beauvoix<\/p>\n<p>4. \u201cTell Me a Riddle,\u201d directed by Lee Grant<\/p>\n<p>5. \u201cDead Man,\u201d Jim Jarmusch<\/p>\n<p>To hear more about Monte\u2019s approach in the classroom, listen to his episode of the Office Hours podcast here on The Society Pages or check out his own TSP blog, A Backstage Sociologist.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letta Page 12:07 pm on January 16, 2012 | # | Reply The third additional set of films to hit our inboxes comes from the incomparable Monte Bute, of Metro State, who is well-known for his approach to teaching about death and dying while, well, experiencing these ultimately social phenomena. Monte pointed out that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12319,963,144],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dying","tag-films","tag-teaching"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1894,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions\/1894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}