An old friend of mine who teaches at a public high school in Minnesota just got word that he’s inherited a 12-week elective course on film, and he’s reached out to me, asking if I might help him design the curriculum. All that he’s been given to work with thus far is a list of […]
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Designing the Curriculum for an Awesome High School Film Class: Part One
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged 1957, 1974, A Face in the Crowd, Algerian War of Independence, Andy Griffith, Billy Wilder, Blade Runner, bugging, celebrity culture, curriculum, Dan Richardson, documentary film, Donald Trump, Double Indemnity, drifters, Elia Kazan, Eugene McCarthy, film criticism, film history, film school, films, folksy, foreign film, France, Francis Ford Coppola, Gene Hackman, Gillo Pontecorvo, Glenn Beck, great films, Harrison Ford, Harry Caul, high school, Hot Channels, House Committee on Un-American Activities, Italy, Lonesome Rhodes, M, Martin Stett, Mildred Pierce, neorealist, populism, privacy, red scare, simple truths, small town America, social media, Sunset Boulevard, surveillance, surveillance culture, terrorism, The Battle of Algiers, The Conversation, The Killing, The Night of the Hunter, torture 26 Comments
Former Gitmo prisoner Lakhdar Boumediene provides a glimpse of what the NDAA might mean for American citizens
The following letter appeared in the New York Times this weekend. It’s author, a man named Lakhdar Boumediene, was held in U.S. military custody for seven years without an opportunity to defend himself in court, or for that matter, even being told why he’d been kidnapped from his workplace by armed men and shipped off […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized Also tagged Belkacem Bensayah, Bill of Rights, Bosnia, Boumediene v. Bush, due process, GITMO, GTMO, Guantánamo Bay, hunger strikes, Lakhdar Boumediene, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, NDAA, Red Crescent Society, Richard J. Leon, Sarajevo, Supreme Court, wrongly accused 34 Comments