peer review posts

I'm posting this here pending a vote. If a majority of the students in film history would rather post peer review responses to presentations here, then we'll switch to this location for the remaining weeks. All students can post their presentations here on the blog to solicit comments, or to compensate for weeks of missing journal entries before week 8.

Welcome to Film History Fall 2009

CRASH COURSE LINK & EXAM

HERE IS THE LINK for the background crash course you should look at before the final screenings of The Mosquito Coast and the Exam. I'd say try to get to about clip 14 or go all the way to 20.

http://www.chrismartenson.com Exam Date is Tuesday December 16 from 1-3 in GBTC 114

SAVE THE DATE

Monday December 1

6-9pm Alumni Auditorium

filmmakers Tim Bennett and Sally Erickson present a

free screening of their film

What a Way to Go (life at the end of empire)

http://www.whatawaytogomovie.com/

A middle class white guy comes to grips with Peak Oil, Climate Change, Mass Extinction, Population Overshoot and the demise of the American Lifestyle.

 

 

You are invited to this special

screening and dialogue with the filmmakers!

 

What a Way to Go:  Life at the End of Empire, a feature-length documentary by Tim Bennett and Sally Erickson, will screen at:

Champlain College's Alumni Auditorium

Monday December first 6-9 pm 

MARK YOUR CALENDAR NOW!

 

This is what reviewers are saying:

 

“Nothing less than a 123-minute cat scan of the planet and its twenty-first century human and non-human condition.”

Carolyn Baker, www.carolynbaker.org

 

 “Perhaps the most important media message of our time.”

Jan Lundberg at CultureChange.org

 

“Hundreds of my readers have told me that my novel Ishmael should be read in every high school classroom in the world. Naturally I’d be delighted to see this happen, but I really think it would be more to the point to have What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire seen in every high school classroom in the world! The two hours of this documentary are two hours that bring hope for the future of humanity by awakening and informing in the most profound yet lucid way imaginable.”

Daniel Quinn, author of Ishmael and Tales of Adam

 

What a Way to Go, features interviews with Daniel Quinn, Derrick Jensen, Jerry Mander, Richard Heinberg, William Catton, Paul Roberts, Chellis Glendinning, Thomas Berry, Richard Manning and Ran Prieur. 

 

Contact (insert local contact name and info here) for more information about the screening.

 

For more information about What a Way to Go,

or to contact the producers, visit their website at www.whatawaytogomovie.com or email producer@whatawaytogomovie.com.

Week 15 Contemporary Issues (who has seen?....)

Who has seen-

American Beauty (1999) Alan Ball

American Psycho (2000) Mary Harron

V for Vendetta (2005) James McTeigue

Week 14 Subverting the Dominant Paridigm

The Mosquito Coast (1986) Peter Weir

Week 13 Colonialism-Undermining Cultural Norms (consumerism)

In Lumet's Network (1976)-

do you think Beale is right? have we run out of bullshit?

How do you think 1976 network news and television culture plays against where we have arrived and where we may be going. How was it prescient?

In light of the guest filmmakers' presentation of What a Way to Go,

what do you think is still worth saying in film.