Witness, 1985

Kingpin, 1996
   Kingpin Poster

A Review of Cultural Geography

Witness is about a young Amish boy who is the sole witness to a murder.  Policeman John Book goes into hiding in Amish country to protect him until the trial.  Kingpin is a comedy about a star bowler whose career was prematurely "cut off" (as in - his bowling hand), and hopes to ride a new prodigy to success and riches.  Each movie highlights the culture and prevailing attitudes of the Amish people, however, each one accomplishes this in a vastly different way. 

Optional assignment:

After going over the online reading “The Amish and Mennonites”, watching the selected scenes from the films, and after your own research, define and give a specific examples from the films for FIVE of the following ten cultural vocabulary terms.  Do not use the same example twice and use full sentences.

Acculturation

Assimilation

Culture region

Cultural landscape

Ethnicity

Folk culture

Popular culture

Gender

Globalization

Syncretism