Sunday, February 22, 2009

Battle of Algiers/Battaglia di Algeri, La (Algeria/Italy: Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966



(For my ENG 282: International Film Studies students. In class film: Battle of Algiers. Outside viewing: Taxi to the Dark Side and/or Standard Operating Procedure. Thematic readings on Critical Theory, Documentary Films and Political Films)

Battle of Algiers/Battaglia di Algeri, La (Algeria/Italy: Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966: 121 mins)









Criterion Collection: Battle of Algiers

Jean Martin: 1922-2009 (played Matthieu: Criterion)

Peter Matthews: Battle of Algiers--Bombs and Boomerangs (Criterion)

Battle of Algiers: Clips (Google Video)

Sheila K. Johnson: The Battle of Algiers and Its Lessons (Common Dreams)

Charles Paul Freund: The Pentagon Film Festival--A Primer for The Battle of Algiers (Slate Magazine)

Democracy Now: The Battle of Algiers—1966 Film Depicting Algerian War of Independence Against French Occupation Parallels Brutal U.S. Occupation of Iraq

Alexander Billet: A Marxist Poet--The Legacy of Gillo Pontecorvo (Monthly Review)

Kevin Berry on The Battle of Algiers

Critical Theory:

Frantz Fanon (Post-Colonial psychoanalyst/activist/theorist)

Postcolonial Texts

Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature: An Overview

Ideology

Hegemony

Cultural Hegemony


Optional Outside-of-Class Response Viewings:

Taxi to the Dark Side (USA: Alex Gibney, 2007: 106 minutes)



Alex Gibney’s latest film Gonzo

NOW on PBS: Torture Tactics—An Interview with Alex Gibney

Taxi to the Dark Side and the Bush Administration’s Torture Policies

Film School: Alex Gibney on Taxi to the Dark Side

Trailer for Alex Gibney’s Gonzo

Why Democracy: Notes, Context and Resources for Taxi to the Dark Side


Standard Operating Procedure (USA: Errol Morris, 2008: 116 mins)



Errol Morris: The Photographs Actually Hide Things From Us

Studio 360: Errol Morris on Standard Operating Procedure

Marilyn Ferdinand: Response to Standard Operating Procedure

Errol Morris: Will the Real Hooded Man Stand Up

Laurie Calhoun: Death and Contradiction--Errol Morris’ Tragic View of Techno Killers

Official Website for Standard Operating Procedure

Errol Morris’ website



Documentary Films:

Cineaste: Extreme Makeover--The Changing Face of the Documentary

In the Battle for Social Reality: Social Documentaries in the U.S.

Jon Bang Carlsen: How to Invent Reality

Morris Dickstein: Through the Documentary Looking Glass

American Cinematographer: The Art of Filming Dangerously

Offscreen: The Gap--Documentary Truth Between Reality and Perception

Christian Science Monitor: Documentary or Propaganda?

Center for Social Media: Changing the World One Documentary at a Time

Media Rights: Using Grassroots Documentary Films for Political Change

Confessions of a Documentary Film Teacher

Witness: See It, Film It, Change It (Human Rights Videos From Around the World)

Green Cine Primer: Documentary

Photographic Truth in the Digital Age (archive)

Representation in the Arts

DocumentaryFilms.net

International Documentary Association


Politics and Filmmaking:

Cineaste: The Art and Politics of Cinema

Julie Hilden: Free Speech and the Concept of “Torture Porn”

Filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron and activist/author Naomi Klein: The CIA’s Love Affair with Shock Therapy

Road to Guantanamo Actors Questioned Under Terror Act After Film Festival

Bright Lights Film Journal: The Altered State of War

David Crawford: Realism vs Reality TV in the War on Terror

Political Film Society

Green Cine Primer: Political Thrillers

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