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Recommended Movie and Novel Choices

For the Co-Cultures in a Multicultural Society Paper, choose either a film or a book from the list below. This list of films and novels with intercultural themes is not comprehensive but is presented as a guide to assist you in making an appropriate selection for the assignment.

Films With Intercultural Themes

I Remember Mama (1948)

South Pacific (1958)

In the Heat of the Night (1967)

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)

Stand and Deliver (1988)

Bend It like Beckham (2002)

House of Sand and Fog (2003)

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)

Spanglish (2004)

Crash (2004)

A Day without Mexicans (2004)

Gran Torino (2008)

Joy Luck Club (1993)

Imitation of Life (1959)

Salt of the Earth (1954)

Mississippi Masala (1991)

Jungle Fever (1991)

The Milagro Beanfield War (1988)

Orlando (1992)

Do the Right Thing (1989)

School Daze (1988)

Save the Last Dance (2001)

Avalon (1990)

Hairspray (1988, or the 2007 musical version)

Maryam (2002)

America So Beautiful (2001)

Dances with Wolves (1990)

Fools Rush In (1997)

Boyz n the Hood (1991)

Transamerica (2005)

Novels With Intercultural Themes

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpha Lahiri

The Tortilla Curtain by T. C. Boyle

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Light in August by William Faulkner

House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Ask the Dust by John Fante

Drown by Junot Diaz

The Boat by Nam Le

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

The Human Stain by Phillip Roth

Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank

Night by Elie Wiesel

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

Luna’s California Poppies by Alma Luz Villanueva

Like Son by Felicia Luna Lemus

Vida by Patricia Engel

Herzog by Saul Bellow

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