Films You Can Dig: "Scientific" Cinema on the Rocks

Disaster movies. They evoke love/hate responses from many who watch them, relying on action rather than science to move the story along. If you want to explore the science behind the action, then this class is for you. We’ll watch a series of movies, most with geological themes, over the course of the semester. More recent films like The Core and The Day After Tomorrow plus classics like Them! and Earthquake will be examined.

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Them! (1954)

Ants are attacking
In the 1950's. Eek!
Get out your bug spray.


This week's film: Them!. Not to bias anyone, but this is probably the best film that we will be watching this semester (and film reviewers at IMDB would probably agree).

Here are some articles for some background:

The Biology of B-Movie Monsters No dissections are planned at this time.

A collection of articles about Them!

Wikipedia: Resizing Fiction Because you want to connect the dots between Them! and Honey I Blew Up the Kid.

Improtant Note: There will be some tweeking of the schedule/syllabus for the second half of the semester. We'll talk about it in class on Thursday.

See ya!

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