August 19, 2005
Resistance: Fall 2005 Documentaries in the Library
PRESS RELEASE
August 16, 2005
For Immediate Release
Contact: Sandy Leach
865.974.7922
leach@email.lib.utk.edu
http://www.lib.utk.edu
University of Tennessee Libraries to host RESISTANCE Film and Discussion Series
The Fall 2005 Documentaries in the Library series, Resistance, will focus on documentary films that address the theme of resistance.
The University of Tennessee Libraries invites the University and Knoxville community to discuss and discover how filmmakers have contributed to the diversity of resistance discourses through the documentary form. The first film, Battle of Algiers, will be screened on Wednesday, September 21, 2005, at 7:00 p.m. in Hodges Library's Lindsay Young Auditorium. Although technically speaking not a documentary, but rather a “recreation,” this film vividly recreates a key year in the tumultuous struggle for independence from the occupying French in the 1950’s. Used as a training film for the Black Panthers and other proponents of guerilla warfare throughout the world, screened by the Pentagon prior to the U. S. occupation of Iraq, Gillo Pontecorvo's timeless film addresses not only the problem of resistance, torture and terrorism, but also the problems inherent in their representation. There will be a discussion of the film with Michael Kaplan, Professor of Architecture Emeritus.
Other showings will include
(Oct. 5) LA CUECA SOLA (2003) & NOW! (1965), discussion with Chris Holmlund, Lindsay Young Professor, Chair of Cinema Studies, Department of MFLL, author of Impossible Bodies: Femininity and Masculinity at the Movies;
(Oct. 19) PUBLIC ENEMY (1999), discussion with Cynthia Fleming, Professor of History and author of Soon We Will Not Cry: The Liberation of Ruby Doris Smith Robinson;
(Nov. 2) EDWARD SAID: THE LAST INTERVIEW (2004), discussion with Abdi Hussein, author of Edward Said: Criticism and Society;
(Nov. 16) THUNDER IN GUYANA (2003), discussion with Dawn Duke, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese.
All films will be screened at 7 p.m. in the Lindsay Young Auditorium of Hodges Library on the UT Knoxville campus. Free and open to the public. For more information please visit http://www.lib.utk.edu/mediacenter/docs or contact Sandy Leach leach@email.lib.utk.edu / 974-7922.
Documentaries in the Library continues to build awareness of how independently-produced documentaries can comment on and contribute to the most important historical, artistic, social and scientific conversations of our time," said Troy Davis, Media Services Librarian. "By tackling the theme of resistance, we are also addressing the larger issue of how we talk about political struggles, racial and sexual politics, and the legitimacy, or not, of the uses of violence in the course of a struggle for ‘rights.’ At what point does resistance resemble terrorism? Is all resistance terrorism? Who decides? Am I a terrorist? Are you? These films seek to frame these questions within the context of particular struggles and within differing styles of representation.
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