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Film choices for screening literacy: the ‘Pygmalion template’ in the curriculum as contact zone

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Pages 519-538 | Published online: 19 Oct 2009

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Filmography

  • Allen , W. (dir.) . 2000 . Small Time Crooks [Film] , (Dreamworks SKG) .
  • Besson , L. (dir.) . 1990 . Nikita [Film] , (Les Films du Loup) .
  • Columbus , C. (dir.) . 1999 . Bicentennial Man [Film] , (Columbia Pictures) .
  • Cukor , G. Born Yesterday [Film] , (Sony Pictures) .
  • Cukor , G. (dir.) . 1964 . My Fair Lady [Film] , (Warner Bros. Pictures) .
  • Daldry , S. (dir.) . 2000 . Billy Elliot [Film] , (Studio Canal) .
  • Gilbert , L. (dir.) . 1983 . Educating Rita [Film] , (Columbia Pictures) .
  • Hudson , H. (dir.) . 1984 . Greystoke, The Legend of Tarzan [Film] , (Warner Bros. Pictures) .
  • Iscove , R. (dir.) . 1999 . She’s All That [Film] , (All That Productions) .
  • LaBute , N. (dir.) . 2003 . The Shape of Things [Film] , (Mepris Films) .
  • Marshall , G. (dir.) . 1990 . Pretty Woman [Film] , (Touchstone Pictures) .
  • Menéndez , R. (dir.) . 1988 . Stand and Deliver [Film] , (Warner Bros. Pictures) .
  • Niccol , A. (dir.) . 2002 . S1m0ne [Film] , (New Line Cinema) .
  • Petrie , D. (dir.) . 2000 . Miss Congeniality [Film] , (Castle Rock Entertainment) .
  • Schepisi , F. (dir.) . 1993 . Six Degrees of Separation [Film] , (MGM) .
  • Smith , J. N. (dir.) . 1995 . Dangerous Minds [Film] , (Buena Vista Pictures) .
  • Spielberg , S. (dir.) . 2001 . Artificial Intelligence [Film] , (Warner Bros. Pictures) .
  • Tran , A. H. (dir.) . 1993 . The Scent of the Green Papaya [Film] , (Les Productions Lazennec) .
  • Truffaut , F. (dir.) . 1970 . L’Enfant Sauvage [Film] , (Les Films du Carrosse) .
  • Weir , P. (dir.) . 1989 . Dead Poets Society [Film] , (Touchstone Pictures) .

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