WEEK 14- Last Train Home
BLOG:
Find a question from the POV interviews or the Documentary.org interview that interests you and expand on the reasons for asking this question. How does the question help a viewer understand the subject more thoroughly? Additionally, pose your own question for Fan, the production team, or any of the characters. This question does not need to be answerable, unless it has a clear answer from within the interviews.
International Documentary Association Interview:
http://www.documentary.org/magazine/made-china-last-train-home-documents-life-migrant-worker
POV Interview:
http://www.pbs.org/pov/lasttrainhome/video_interview.php
WEEK 13- THANKSGIVING BREAK + ASSIGNMENT
2. Choose 2 to 3 films from the semester to engage with this theme. (If you’d like to use the final film of the semester, Last Train Home, you may adjust your topic accordingly after class on Tuesday.)
3. Form your concept into a short, 150 word thesis topic/abstract. What are the specific ideas that you want to explore with this research topic?
4. Compile 10 sources to discuss your topic, 5 of which can come from course material or other media/online (non-scholarly) sources, and 5 of which must be researched academic sources from outside of the course material.
Make sure that you have access to all of your listed sources, as you will be asked to investigate them further for annotation.
5. Prepare your sources in MLA, APA, or Chicago citation style. You can choose one, whichever you are most comfortable using.
For more information on annotated bibliographies, research tips, and citation information, check the sources below (or run your own Google search):
http://guides.library.cornell.edu/annotatedbibliography
http://library.buffalo.edu/help/research-tips/–
http://www.citationmachine.net/
Bring your concept and source list to class on Thursday, as we will be using class time to discuss and review topics. You can bring a digital or physical copy to class, but know that you will be asked to send me a revised version after class on Thursday via email, so digital might be best. You are not expected to post this assignment to the blog.
NOTE: If you do not have this assignment for Thursday’s class, you will not be marked present.
WEEK 12- Black Girl
Rahul Hamid, “Introduction to Black Girl“, Senses of Cinema, 2002.
Tribal Scares (Sembene’s Black Girl), Movies as Politics, 1997.
WEEK 11- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Fassbinder and Spectatorship– Judith Mayne
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul- One Love, Two Oppressions-Chris Fujiwara
WEEK 10- Persepolis
BLOG ASSIGNMENT:
Isolate a specific event from the film and discuss the ways that it addresses a larger social implication. You may use references listed below, including the Timeline of Events, to focus your point. You will need to find at least one additional outside source and cite it in your Works Cited list below your post.
READ:
Timeline of Events from Film Education
Interview with Satrapi: http://www.today.com/id/22346716#.VjuUfI9Vikp
LISTEN:
Interview with Dr. Lina Khatib from Film Education
WEEK 9- The Ensemble of Rules, Performing the Border
BLOG:
Using at least one of the films from this week, one film from the unit as a whole, and one piece of media/text of your own choosing, discuss the relationship between labor and the Mexican-U.S. border. You may use Ursula Biemann’s essay on her film and Eliseo Ortiz’s website in your analysis. Please proof read and include a Works Cited list at the bottom of your post.
READ: Performing the Border– Ursula Biemann
LINKS:
WEEK 8- The Other Side of Immigration, Immigrants for Sale
BLOG: Find common threads between the two documentaries screened in class and a third short documentary or audio clip, see below. Make sure to include a direct connection to Roy Germano’s thesis on Analytic Filmmaking, also listed below.
READ:
Roy Germano, AnalyticFilmmaking – A New Approach to Research and Publication in the Social Sciences. Read pages 1-8 and Conclusion
LISTEN:
This American Life- The One Thing You’re Not Supposed to Do , ACT I
WATCH:
The Dream is Now- Davis Guggenheim documentary
WEEK 7-
READ:
Bill Nichols, “Documentary Reenactments: A Paradoxical Temporality That is Not One”
EXPLORE:
http://whoisdayanicristal.com/learn
Thoroughly investigate at least two of the six sections (feel free to look further if interested)
WEEK 6- Cultural Production, Information Production
Appropriation, Appreciation, and Ambivalence
ASSIGNMENT FOR THURSDAY:
Use your own method of research to explore the Syrian Refugee Crisis. Research this topic until you feel as though you understand the situation. Map your process.
BLOG ASSIGNMENT:
- Use the documentary and supplementary materials from class on Tuesday (http://www.lookdifferent.org/videos/113-white-people) to discuss another piece of media from this course. You may use outside references, including critique, though this is not an opinion piece.
- Post your Syrian refugee research list. Explain how you got from point A to point B, etc. Reference Waiting at the Door, the documentary screened on Thursday- did it discredit or reinforce your sources? What were your take aways from this quick research process + exposure to the documentary?
++ EXPLORE:
Waiting at the Door (DO NOT SHARE)
Ashley Powell’s Artwork Responses:
Appropriation:
Cornrows and Cultural Appropriation – Time Magazine
WEEK 5- The Namesake
LINKS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjI2mfWKd4w -Mira Nair interview
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7784461 -interview with both M.R. and K.P. on NPR
THE CANARY EFFECT:
Buffalo, It is time to do away with Columbus – Buffalo Rising Article
SALT OF THIS SEA:
WEEK 3- Salt of This Sea
Watch:
Edward Said- On Orientalism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVC8EYd_Z_g
Links:
Annemarie Jacir- auteur-in-exile
Annemarie Jacir + Raed Andoni- Interview
9/11 discussions:
Transcript- Obama’s strategy to defeat ISIL 9/10/14
Paley Center 9/11 Special Collection
Media from/around Palestine:
Palestine : Cartography of an Occupation: http://creativetimereports.org/2013/09/16/palestine-mtl-cartography-occupation/
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Hari Kondabolu – Why You Can’t Be Obsessed with Race in America
Prison Culture teach in- Key Questions and Resources about Police Violence
Who benefits?
Who suffers?
Whose interests are advanced?
Who pays the costs?
Who/What is protected and served?
Who is bullied and brutalized?
How has policing evolved over the years?
Can you envision a world without police?
What might be some alternatives to policing?
Spike Lee interview: http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/fight-the-power-spike-lee-on-do-the-right-thing-20140620
Lauryn Hill’s tribute to Ferguson – Black Rage
John Stewart on news bias and Ferguson
Growing up in Ferguson and Palestine- Naomi Shihab Nye, Washington Post
Assignment: Blog post due SUNDAY by 5PM -topic to be discussed in class
–BLACK LIVES MATTER LINK LIST–
1. All #BlackLivesMatter. This is Not a Moment, but a Movement:http://blacklivesmatter.com/about/
2. A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement:http://www.thefeministwire.com/2014/10/blacklivesmatter-2/
3. #BlackLivesMatter: the birth of a new civil rights movement:http://www.theguardian.com/…/blacklivesmatter-birth-civil-r…
4. Black Lives Matter / Black Life Matters: A Conversation with Patrisse Cullors and Darnell L. Moore: http://www.truth-out.org/…/27775-black-lives-matter-black-l…
5. Black Lives Matter Co-Founder: “We Are In a State of Emergency:http://www.newrepublic.com/…/blacklivesmatter-co-founder-we…
6. Disruptors: http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2015/08/us/disruptors/
7. Our Demand is Simple: Stop Killing Us: http://www.nytimes.com/…/our-demand-is-simple-stop-killing-…
RENISHA MCBRIDE
8. The White Gaze Kills (Again): Renisha McBride was Shot in the Head by a Shotgun Because Black Americans Do Not Have the Luxury of Being Strangers in Need of Help: http://www.chaunceydevega.com/…/the-white-gaze-kills-again-…
9. In Cold Blood: The Murder of Renisha McBride:http://www.thefeministwire.com/…/in-cold-blood-the-murder-…/
10. Asking for help while black: How it became a capital offense:http://www.salon.com/…/asking_for_help_while_black_how_it_…/
TAMIR RICE
11. Killing Black Children is an American Tradition:http://www.forharriet.com/…/killing-black-children-is-ameri…
12. The Dehumanization of Black Children: Tamir Rice, Kalief Browder and Dajerria Becton: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…/the-dehumanization-of-black…
13. Tamir Rice, Age Twelve: http://www.nancyleong.com/race-2/tamar-rice-age-twelve/
14. The Killing of Tamir Rice: Cleveland Police Criticized for Shooting 12-Year-Old Holding Toy Gun: http://www.truth-out.org/…/27865-the-killing-of-tamir-rice-…
15. Police Killed Tamir Rice At a Playground: Do Safe Spaces for Black Children Exist?: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…/police-killed-tamir-rice-_b…
FERGUSON
16. When I Close My Eyes at Night, I See People Running From Tear Gas:http://www.ebony.com/…/ferguson-forward-when-i-close-my-eye…
17. The ‘Lost Voices’ of Ferguson: http://www.urbancusp.com/2014/09/lost-voices-ferguson/
18. An Open Letter From Ferguson Protestors and Allies:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…/an-open-letter-from-fergu_b…
19. Ferguson on Fire: http://www.ebony.com/news-views/ferguson-on-fire-032…
20. In defense of black rage: Michael Brown, police and the American dream: http://www.salon.com/…/in_defense_of_black_rage_michael_br…/
21. Why We Won’t Wait: http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/11/25/why-we-wont-wait/
22. Why are white people scared of black people’s rage at Mike Brown’s death?: http://www.theguardian.com/…/white-people-black-people-mich…
23. When Rioting is Rational: https://www.jacobinmag.com/…/when-rioting-is-rational-ferg…/
24. In Ferguson the violence of the state created the violence of the street:http://www.theguardian.com/…/ferguson-violence-martin-luthe…
25. #IfTheyGunnedMeDown Attacks Portrayals of Black Men Killed by Police: http://thesocietypages.org/…/iftheygunnedmedown-a-scathing…/
26. America is not for Black People:http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/america-is-not-for-black-p…
ERIC GARNER
27. No Indictment in Eric Garner Case: http://www.racismreview.com/…/no-indictment-eric-garner-ca…/
28. The Black Body is Always a Threat: White Racial Paranoia Killed Eric Garner: http://www.chaunceydevega.com/…/the-black-body-is-always-th…
29. White Terror in the Era of Covert Racism:http://www.thesociologicalcinema.com/…/white-terror-in-the-…
30. The Perfect Victim Pitfall: http://mobile.nytimes.com/…/charles-blow-first-michael-brow…
31. State Terrorism and Racist Violence in the Age of Disposability: From Emmett Till to Eric Garner: http://www.truth-out.org/…/27832-state-terrorism-and-racist…
BALTIMORE
32. Nonviolence as Compliance: http://www.theatlantic.com/…/nonviolence-as-complia…/391640/
33. The Brutality of Police Culture on Baltimore: http://www.theatlantic.com/…/the-brutality-of-polic…/391158/
34. Baltimore Uprising in Context: http://www.racismreview.com/…/baltimore-uprising-in-context/
35. Baltimore Been Burning: http://www.ebony.com/news-views/baltimore-been-burning-503…
36. Baltimore’s disgrace is its history of police violence:http://america.aljazeera.com/…/baltimores-disgrace-is-its-h…
37. A Bloody History of Police Brutality in Baltimore:http://www.theroot.com/…/a_bloody_history_of_police_brutali…
38. The Dominant White Response to Baltimore Shows Why Black Residents Are Justified in Their Anger: http://www.dailykos.com/…/-The-Dominant-White-Response-to-B…#
39. Riots work: Wolf Blitzer and the Washington Post completely missed the real lesson from Baltimore: http://www.salon.com/…/riots_work_wolf_blitzer_and_the_wash…
MCKINNEY
40. Police Criminals and the Brutalization of Black Girls:http://www.thefeministwire.com/…/police-criminals-and-the-…/
41. America’s war on Black girls: Why McKinney police violence isn’t about “one bad apple: http://www.salon.com/…/americas_war_on_black_girls_why_mck…/
42. McKinney and the History of Policing Black Women’s Bodies:http://msmagazine.com/…/mckinney-and-the-history-of-polici…/
43. McKinney, Texas: Rage Is Our Rightful Response to Anti-Black Racism:http://newamericamedia.org/…/mckinney-texas-rage-is-our-rig…
44. On The Incident In McKinney, Texas, And The Black Girls Who Survive:http://www.rolereboot.org/…/2015-06-on-the-incident-in-mck…/
45. Black children are not even safe from police violence at a pool party:http://www.theguardian.com/…/mckinney-texas-black-children-…
SANDRA BLAND
46. #SayHerName: #SandraBland is Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman and Fannie Lou Hamer: http://www.thefeministwire.com/…/sayhername-sandrabland-is…/
47. The Racist Killing Fields in the US: The Death of Sandra Bland:http://www.truth-out.org/…/31945-the-racist-killing-fields-…#
48. On the Death of Sandra Bland and Our Vulnerable Bodies:http://www.nytimes.com/…/on-the-death-of-sandra-bland-and-o…
49. I could have been Sandra Bland: Black America’s terrifying truth:http://www.salon.com/…/black_americas_terrifying_truth_any…/
Immigration and Film 