Thursday, November 6, 2008

Smarts—Readings on Film & Society

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Readings: Film & Society

Your film project examines both how your selected movie frames your topic—with awareness of what is included and what is excluded—and how the film may try to “rewrite” history by comparing the cinema version with the historical record.

These readings address many of these and related issues.

Can a Film Change The World? Time

Can Movies Change Our Minds?

Debating Iwo Jima Time

Do Movies Shape Your Opinions? USA Today

In Election Movies, Playing by the Rule of Three National Public Radio

James Matt: ‘Sicko’ Illustrates Power of ‘Advomentaries’

An Oscar Crop with an Instinct for Change National Public Radio

Top Gun versus Sergeant Bilko? No contest, says the Pentagon
Scripts can often be the first casualty in Hollywood’s theatre of war

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