Lecture 9

“They call me Mister Tibbs”

For Class watch the movie In the Heat of the Night. It’s available on Amazon Instant Video and on iTunes for $3.

Take notes as follows:

Make a digest of key characters, memorable lines and focal scenes from your central text.

Then, in a separate section, discuss a key theme of the work, something which might serve as a starting point for answering the question, “What is this movie about?”

In class How to take notes on a movie.

Also, preliminary analysis of how our understanding of this movie changes when we consider it in light of 1960’s American culture and society.

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