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67: People Watching
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A monthly(?) film-screening series with the goal of approaching movies for their anthropological significance, rather than their contribution to film history and academia. The title of each film will be a mystery until the night of the screening. aitchsee has offered to teach this course [ offer to teach this ] |
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This class is now in the planning stage, after deliberation at The Public School committee meeting 01. The person who proposed the class has been emailed to finalize details.
The first film screening will be on Thursday, July 3 at 8pm at TELIC Arts Exchange (975 Chung King Rd.)
It is being organized by Helen Cahng, who has written the following:
The inaugural session of People Watching will feature a classic Film Noir thriller about a serial killer. The aim of this screening is not to figure out “whodunnit”, but to ponder the notion that in 1931, in a city with a population of over 4,000,000, all its residents (though often working separately) might share the unified objective of apprehending a single criminal.
I’m sorry, I forgot to mention a couple details!
#1. This will be an outdoor screening so dress appropriately
#2. It is free, but chairs will be provided for 5 dollars.
Second screening:
Friday, August 1 at 8pm
$5 suggested donation
Although World War II is most highly represented within the war film genre, the Vietnam War is arguably the most prominently featured in films of the past 30 years. Unlike their propagandistic counterparts of WWII, Vietnam War flicks tend to represent the disillusion of the American people towards the war and what it represented. Films such as Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket shocked audiences with their graphic and horrific depictions from the battlefield.
Our next screening will address the effects of war in a different light, with a film commonly categorized as a romantic comedy. This evening’s selection from 1968 is set in middle class Los Angeles where the war in Vietnam and the latent cultural anxiety it produced at home are seen not as the subject, but part of the backdrop for another story….